HI,
On 12 December 2011 18:24, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote: > forum for >> ecosystem activity. >> >> Q: Would Apache be the site for that? > > That all depends on what you mean by "ecosystem activity". Apache > exists to produce open source software for the public good. How nice. :-) I mean civil as well as governmental commercial (and not) activity utilising and normalising within the warp and woof of the everyday the work produced by the commons-based peer network. In short, the stuff that earns the keep of those who keep the urn: but without burn or churn. (sorry, dinnertime) At OOo we had a simple policy that sought to promote disinterested ecosystem activity. I'd be a lot more inclined to relax the strictures, as the situation here is quite different. But there were some provisions that made sense, and which I long advocated for. These included promoting sponsors of work via regulated icons (not garish or distracting from the thing of value produced itself), as well as unedited listings of service/support providers. I had started a list but the DE group under André did a much better job, though it was rather unwieldy, as they were the first to admit. Better technology now would make for better listing. The extant list: http://bizdev.openoffice.org/ (The history of posting sponsors' ads is tedious but the risk is always one of bleeding volunteers of that which moves them in the pursuit of the lucre that moves others. But we can manage that. And Ian and I have had historical discussions on this point, though we now pretty much agree on the what's what of it.) louis > > > Ross
