Shane, just to clarify a bit. As far as I know, the PPMC does not have the keys, as it were, to the live OpenOffice.org site. Apparently someone does, and some touch ups are made, but it is all sort of behind the scenes and, um, not very transparent, especially since there is no archive or repository that the PPMC has visibility into.
However, there does need to be some lofting around what is a roadmap here, and how does the existing live site be staged (and users informed) for transition of the properties under OpenOffice.org. I'm thinking on it. I am trusting that others with their hands on the knobs and dials will also speak up on what they can do by way of preparation for staging, and then staging. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Shane Curcuru [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 13:55 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Status of migration of OOo domains? Heh, indeed, while I so completely disagree with Rob's style here that I don't even know where to start, he does have a point in that things get done in projects by people who actually do them. Wearing my mentor hat, my primary job is to encourage the community around this project to grow in a healthy manner and do the things themselves. So from my mentor hat perspective, I'm really not a very good example in what I do. As a mentor, there are things where you should "do as I say, not as I do", because part of the point of being a mentor is to help *you* (as in the community) actually start doing things. ---- On the other hand, wearing my VP, Brand hat, I strongly urge the PPMC to take action on my email, especially the points about ensuring some sort of branding updates are done on existing openoffice.org websites. In particular, I'm concerned about the non-code areas - fundraising, leadership, marketing, and the like. I'd really like to see the PPMC taking ownership and working out how they want to manage the transition in ownership from all those web properties, but starting to at least make some updates in place reflecting the future plans for the sites. If not, then yes, I will eventually get to it, and I will do the work myself, unilaterally, as VP, Brand (i.e. not as a mentor on this project). It's inappropriate for the project to spend so long with so much "orphan" content on oo.o sites, wherein it's kinda Oracle's (and is perceived as dead by more people each day), and it's kinda ours (since we have a transfer of the domains and marks). We need action on showing the rest of the world where we're planning to go with this great big brand and chunk of content we've inherited. - Shane
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