On Oct 14, 2011 7:28 PM, "Jim Jagielski" <[email protected]> wrote: > > My only wish is that we had someone at the conference who > was supportive of the ASF and the AOOo podling in this > matter who was able to explain this in a positive light…
Well, Doug Heintzman and I are sitting together here and both willing to pass on Apache's goodwill. All we really need is a statement saying "that PR wasn't an attack, sorry if it seemed that way". Here's Doug to explain: "Hi Jim this is Doug Heintzman here (IBM). We are actually having some very good constructive conversations here. We did about a 3 hour dialogue with a very large group on the OpenOffice project and its status, aspirations and opportunities for cooperation, which the LibreOffice conference graciously put on their agenda along with presentations from other AOOo participants. It went very well and was well received. I am hopeful that we're making good progress towards a construtive detente. The question that Simon is asking is simple. Some have read the "best wishes to TDF and LibreOffice" as being sarcastic and mean spirited. I certainly didn't read it that way. The issue seems to be that the paragraph expressing this wish was within the flow of a different story about people not giving AOOo its due. All that he was asking was for an official clarification that you were being sincere and not sarcastic because of course sarcasm isn't going to help the politics. I assume the blog was on the up and up and am representing it as such. Hope you can clarify..." Greetings from Paris from us both :-) S.
