Hi,
Le 14 août 11 à 12:24, Andrea Pescetti a écrit :
On 14/08/2011 eric b wrote:
Le 13 août 11 à 17:44, Andrea Pescetti a écrit :
PLIO, the association corresponding to the Italian Native-Lang
Project, has been a registered charity in Italy since 2005 and
receives contributions from Italian taxpayers, that we invest
back in
OpenOffice.org-related activities.
Is it still the case ? Was an action for OpenOffice.org made since
last
year (e.g.) ?
We localized and released OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 in Italian, we kept
the Italian Dictionary extension up-to-date with regular releases,
we made some QA on OpenOffice.org 3.4 beta, we held our regular
annual assembly at the end of April 2011 and we approved projects
that are still inherently fuzzy due the obviously unstable
situation that has persisted from April until now.
(But, especially as we are on this mailing list, I have to state
that, while I am a Board Member of PLIO, I cannot speak on behalf
of PLIO; head to http://www.plio.it/ if you want to officially
contact PLIO).
Ok.
However, on our OpenOffice.org pages http://it.openoffice.org/ we
don't mention this: we only use http://www.plio.it/ for advertising
and fundraising. So we are not affected by the OpenOffice.org
fundraising policy.
I read the content of the site you mentionned aboce, and it looks
abandoned : the last articles are not recent IMHO.
Both sites have been in minimal maintenance for years, but not
abandoned at all.
On http://it.openoffice.org/ we had to wait years for the
infrastructure migration to Kenai, that came in February 2011 when
the future of OpenOffice.org and of that infrastructure became less
and less certain (and I'm now glad that we didn't waste time on
updating a web infrastructure that is not going to last).
On http://www.plio.it/ we publish 4-5 articles per year, mostly
coincident with OpenOffice.org releases and conference. So I'd say
it's normal that the latest article is about OOo 3.3.0: we would
have more recent articles, had there been new releases or a
conference.
Wasn't there something about 3.4.0 ? I remember there was an rc ?
More recently, PLIO members posted that :
http://punto-informatico.it/3018399/PI/Lettere/lettere-openoffice-
libreoffice-plio.aspx
(I found other PR about PLIO)
I don't understand this. Anyway, the facts stated there are correct
(basically, PLIO goes on in spite of whatever arguments
corporations or groups have, and we give community support to
everyone). If you find this relevant, Italo Vignoli is no longer
President of PLIO.
I was not aware about Italo Vignoli, thanks for the info.
educoo.us and educoo.de are .. I'd say not correctly maintained
(because owned by pro-LO people). As you understood, my concern is
EducOO.it : Marina Latini does a fantastic work and helps us a lot.
I'm simply colllecting information in fact :-)
Can you please explain us more what is the current PLIO goal ?
Our statute is online at http://www.plio.it/ and it dates back to
2005; especially on this mailing list, it suffices to say that PLIO
is a charity that, through (unpaid) volunteer activity by its
members, aims at improving and promoting OpenOffice.org, related
software, auxiliary tools, open formats and free software in general.
I'd like to understand who PLIO does support exactly.
What I read told me PLIO has choosen LibreOffice, and that's why I
ask. Please think I limit my analyze to just facts, and there is no
statement from my part.
(Again, if someone missed it: I'm not entitled to speak officially
on behalf of PLIO, but as long as it may be relevant to this
mailing list I'll provide information about how it works).
I understand, thanks for your frank answer :-)
Last but not least, I'll attend Milano Linux Days (22 October). Maybe
we could discuss more about that ?
Regards,
Eric Bachard
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