Hi Ross, thanks for you quick answer on/to some questions
2011/8/31 Ross Gardler <[email protected]>: > 2011/8/31 Manfred A. Reiter <[email protected]>: >> Hi, >> >> sorry for posting the excerpt of an email in a foreign language ... >> maybe http://translate.google.de/ helps to understand the content. > > [Snip and invite to present at a LInux Day event] > >> Questions to the Apache way: > > I can't answer all your questions as some are community related, but > from an ASF point of view... > >> I was asked to speak in this small event in Landau / Germany. >> 1. Question: it is allowed to go there? ---> I have a sponsor for the >> costs: family budget >> or do we don't "pay peanuts, get monkeys" > > The ASF does not sponsor such costs for individual projects. > Unfortunately it cannot do so due to the 501c(s) rules. You need to > find a private sponsor if you wish to attend. > That is more or less the situation, which led to frodev. http://www.frodev.org/ but, as you could read, I have a private sponsor - familiy budget, notwithstanding that I know, that this is not a professional behavior. ;-) I'm nearby, so it's ok for me. and ... believe me, the penetration of the German "office market", as it stands now, has a lot to do with the many activities of many members of the community. >> 3. there will be someone speaking about LibO >> 3.1 Question: it is allowed for me to speak about ApacheOOo? > > Absolutely. > >> 3.2 Question: it is allowed to ask [bhv publishing GmbH] >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/**8268859/PI-OpenOfficeV33Pro.**odt<http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8268859/PI-OpenOfficeV33Pro.odt> >> >> to sponsor some books > > I'm not sure what you mean "sponsor some books" I hope that the above mentioned book from BHV will be printed in October, and if they could send some as give aways, that would be great. It makes a difference if I ask as me, or as someone how in the broadest sense has something to do with the AOOo. I will get some books because it was my publisher in former times, so BHV is only an example for the problemes I see in other cases. ;-) M.
