2011/9/28 Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@googlemail.com> > Hi, > > i am not really new here and be one of the initial committers but i would > take the opportunity to let you know that i got the chance to work fulltime > on the project in the future as an IBM employee. >
Hi Jurgen, great to see you coming back into the project and learning about your new career. > > After 14 years with Sun and Oracle and working on the OOo project since the > beginning i was affected by the announcement of Oracle earlier this year in > several ways. The project where i has spent a lot of work and energy into > it > was dropped in a somewhat unclear future including the team in HH. And i > had > to confess that i felt in some kind of a hole and thought it would be time > for a longer break. But with the grant of the source code to the Apache > foundation it rose at least the chance for the project to continue and > become an independent project under the well accepted Apache foundation. I > thought ok, Apache not TDF or any other institution but it's Oracles > decision and it's now up to the community to continue the project. That was > the reason why i joined the AOO project early without knowing what i will > do > tomorrow from a professional perspective. I spent a lot of time in the > summer to relax and thinking about the future of the project, my > occupational career etc. In the end i accepted the offerig by IBM and i am > really happy that i can now continue the work on the project. > > I will focus on making the project Apache conform first and to make a > binary > release available asap. I will help by the integration of changes made for > Symphony that will definitely bring the project forward (e.g. > IAccessiblity2) and of course i will continue with all the other work that > i > have done in the past for the project. > > There are a lot of things to do where we need a lot of volunteers helping > the project to grow in the future. I really hope that over time we can > reunify the 2 projects AOO and LibreOffice from a technical perspective and > can share at least a common code base. From my point of view the reasons > for > the fork are not longer valid and it should be possible to continue one > project, one office together. That doesn't mean that the TDF should stop > their work, i really respect it and they achieved a lot in the short time. > But from a technical perspective it doesn't make sense to split the > resources in 2 groups working on more or less the same thing. It is still > early enough to reunify the code base and use the well known brand > OpenOffice for a binary release. It would be the best choice for our users. > > The good thing at Apache is that all contributors are more or less equal > and > it is important what they do. A good chance for all who simply want to > bring > the project forward without too much politic in the background. The focus > should be our users and an easy to use office productivity suite for all. > > Juergen > -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org fingerprint: E62B CF77 1BEA 0749 C0B8 50B9 3DE6 A84A 68D0 72E6
