> -----Original Message----- > From: Jean Hollis Weber [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, 14 August 2011 11:46 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Fundraising > > 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 am constantly hearing an us vs them attitude, old vs new, our funds not your funds and I got fed up with up, sorry you got the brunt. Truth is the ASF gets money donated for all projects to benefit including OOo. > > 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. You made no reference to ApacheCon no, but Simon did, then I read your mail right after and assumed you meant the same, sorry. The above sounds great. Gav... > > --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 > > > > > >
