Hi Ross, Have you left for the 6th ODF Plugfest, Berlin Germany, July 14th - 15th 2011?
If you read this, please tell the public at the ODF Plugfest, "We will find a way." :) My favorite part of the movie Jurassic Park is that Dr. Ian Malcolm says, "Life finds a way." The ODF is about the document freedom, freedom of expression and something like that, right? :) It is about people with a computer, electricity and Internet connection, anywhere on the earth or in the space, they can download an ODF editor, irrespective of their platform or their language, they can install it on their machine and use it in their language to create documents, which can be sent and recieved and read by anyone on the earth or in the space with a computer and electricity and Internet connection, even 1000 years later, unless we extinct around that future. I suggest that, if you got really important documents which you want people in 3000s to read, you should save them in ODF and at the same time you should write them on a piece of Washi (Japanese paper) with Sumi (black ink) and Fude (brush), and you should carve them on a piece of stone or granite, because we have to be prepared for no electricity and no Internet connection at the time of disaster. :) OOo and LO do not provide Calligraphy Tools or Stone Carving Tools but ODF editor which we call Office Suite and we share the same purpose for the document freedom. We don't have to fuse into something like OpenLibreOffice.org and its community but we can collaborate. http://s.apache.org/Bqj I share his dream. Many here share the dream. Because we[1][2][3] together had been working very well and reaching the very good stage of the continuous L10N[4], TCM@QUASTE[5], Renaissance[6] and many others. Actually several contribute to both OOo and LO. I do[7]. It is important for both OOo and LO to listen to its users, developers and community members and get feedback from them and put everything on the table and talk. We can talk anytime, we have got several channels to talk. :) So "we will find a way" for collaboration between LO and OOo. Have a good meeting and presentation at the plugfest. Thanks, khirano [1] http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_poster.html#OOo2008 [2] http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_poster.html#l10n_1 [3] http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_poster.html#l10n_2 [4] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ContinuousL10n [5] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/TCM_Integration_to_QUASTe_Documentation [6] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance [7] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/JA/Main_Page .
