On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> I jest,of course.
>
> But seriously, there are some claiming that "all" of the
> OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache
> has zero experience with this code base. I know this sounds crazy,
> but how can we best refute that statement?
>
> Here's my idea: Respond to this note and tell me how many years
> experience you have working with OpenOffice. This could be in any
> capacity, as a coder, tester, documentation, marketing, forum
> volunteer, whatever. Please count relevant work with related
> projects, such as Symphony, BSD ports, OOo4Kids, ODF, etc. as well.
> How many years were you doing this before the project came to Apache?
>
I have been working with OpenOffice since early 2001, probably slightly
before the 1.0 release. Initially, as a beginning Linux devotee, this was
as a user only. I was actually using a "trial" version of StarOffice
*right* before OpenOffice came into existence.
After complaining about some aspects of the web site, I was asked to "help"
change/fix things. :}
And, so, I did. Primarily from that point on, I have contributed to web
development of the site, and to a lesser extent, fine tuning the download
efforts.
>
> If I get a good number of responses I'll put together an infographic on
> this.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Rob
>
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