Less democracy, more meritocracy at this point please. It's now almost 1 month since the proposal hit general@incubator, and as Danese suggested, it's time to let go of the idea that getting diverse representation from key geographical locations is going to lead to a more productive working group at the ASF.
There is a lot to do here, and all I see is very sketchy starts at getting any of it done. If leaders are to be born here we need them to step up and start tackling this massive set of problems a little bit at a time. I'm not saying not to go out and invite more people to the project. I am saying be careful how you do it because the community is watching for favoritism or any other unfair methods of advancement. ----- Original Message ---- > From: Donald Harbison <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wed, June 29, 2011 6:58:35 PM > Subject: Re: OpenOffice project interest in South Africa? > > Let's ask Aslam Raffee. He used to be on the OASIS ODF Adoption TC. > > On Jun 29, 2011 5:58 PM, "Marcus (OOo)" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 06/29/2011 11:08 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> Just noticed that we had project members from North America, South > >> America, Europe, Asia and Australia. So 5 of 7 continents. > >> > >> I have doubts that we'll get anyone from Antarctica. > > > > Come on, don't exclude them before they had a chance to spoke up via > > their connection by bell wire. :-P > > > >> But I thought there was strong interest in OpenOffice in South Africa, > >> especially with their many official languages. Does anyone have any > >> contacts there? We should reach out and make sure that they are > >> included in our community. > > > > The offical contact for en-ZA is "Dwayne Bailey". At least he is still > > listed here: > > > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Languages > > > > Furthermore, we had contact to Friedel Wolff from "translate.org.za" who > > has helped us to setup a new pootle server for our "Continuous L10N > > Integration" project: > > > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/NewPootleServer > > > > Maybe it's worth to restart the contacts. > > > > Marcus >
