Hi Louis, I found this email in my drafts today, and I want to ask for further clarification if you can provide it.
On Nov 10, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > During the last year of OOo @ Oracle, a lot of rather good material > was created to help/train users fresh (or forgetful) to OpenOffice.org > and Oracle Open Office. This material as created by Oracle was > proprietary: O owned it. > > So, my query. What has become of it? It has little value, as far as I > can tell, for Oracle, at this point. But it would prove immensely > useful for many constituting the OOo (now AOO, I'd guess) ecosystem. > (Building that ecosystem was one of my primary tasks, and I like to > think I did fairly well at it.) > > Does anyone know what happened to the material? And, if Apache now has > it, can we license it or simply permit it for ecosystem use under the > appropriate conditions and license? My preference would be to make all > training and educational material free (in all senses) and to > recuperate costs with actual services provided. Where did this material get placed? Was it in Kenai or some other system? Can you give enough information so that we can do a search of what we have? Filenames? Where was it located when you left Oracle? Best Regards, Dave
