On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 11:17 +1000, Gavin McDonald wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jean Hollis Weber [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Sunday, 14 August 2011 10:44 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Fundraising > <snip> > > > > > > Profits from sales of printed copies of ODFAuthors (formerly OOoAuthors) > > books are held by the not-for-profit organisation[1] that publishes those > > books. The money from OpenOffice.org user guide sales is designated to "be > > used to benefit the community". This could include things like costs of > > conference attendance, > > Did you have any community members apply to go this year's ApacheCon; > and were they accepted? > > If any AOOo community folks applied for Apache Travel Assistance funds to > go to ApacheCon this year, should we have refused and sent them to you > instead and should we continue this segregation in the future? Shall all the > committers and community members all able to apply to the ASF for > Apache Travel Assistance with the sole exception of the AOOo community > and committers, because the funds will be covered as you mentioned by > the friendsofopendocument.org ?
That is not what I said, suggested, or implied. You are either misreading or being deliberately provocative; from your tone, I suspect the latter. Why? I said funds *could be* used for purposes like those examples I gave. I made no suggestion that these funds *should be* used in place of any money available from Apache or elsewhere, and certainly not that they *would be* so used... just that they existed and *could be* used in ways that benefit the community. Also, I made no reference to ApacheCon nor mentioned any specific conference. I was thinking, in fact, of people who attend conferences for librarians or technical writers or educators (as examples) to promote (Apache) OpenOffice.org -- more of a marketing function. --Jean > > > Thanks > > Gav... > > > > copies of books for display at conferences, copies of > > books (including translations) for distribution where cost is an issue for > > the > > recipient, possibly payment to writers of docs on specific topics... and > > other > > things I haven't thought of while writing this note. > > > > As Simon suggests, any such disbursement of funds is between us and the > > recipient, as the money does not go to or through any OpenOffice.org > > account, assuming such a thing exists. > > > > [1] Friends of OpenDocument, Inc., http://friendsofopendocument.org/ > > > > --Jean > >
