just a few spelling errors that you pobably have addressed already On 6/6/12 2:26 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Kay Schenk <[email protected]> wrote: >> OK, here's a draft -- Dennis is working on getting me actual "people" >> numbers later today, so what I have here in terms of new committers is just >> a (bad) guess. And, duh -- we only report in March, June, September, >> December, so what I have here in terms of what we've been doing since March >> is probably way, way off... Please update as you see fit! >> >> I now have an incubator wiki account so I will happily post when we're done >> >> >> == proposed June AOO report == >> >> *Project Name and Brief Description* >> >> OpenOffice (was OpenOffice.org) >> >> * OpenOffice entered incubation 2011-06-13 >> >> OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity suite providing >> six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format (ODF). >> OpenOffice is released on multiple platforms. Its localizations have >> supported 110 languages worldwide. >> >> * Most Important Items To Address Toward Graduation * >> >> 1. Review of distributed articles to ensure compliance with ASF policy >> 2. Given the size and scope of OpenOffice, continue work on "community >> readiness" espeically with refgard to >> organization and communication style. >> 3. Increase size and diversity of the active development community >> > > It seems odd to have a list that large and say that we're about to > start a graduation vote. My impression was we're really only working > on #1, and Andre and Pedro seem to have those under control. #2 and > #3 are ongoing activities, before and after graduation, for us and any > other Apache project. But I don't think we have any graduation > blocking issues there. > > >> We have started preliminary discussion concerning graduation, and are >> putting renewed emphasis on the above items >> as we would like to propose graduation within the next month. >> >> * Issues for IPMC or ASF Board Awareness * >> >> - None >> >> * Community Development Progress * >> >> - Since our last report we have voted in 5 (?) new Committers/PPMC members. >> - Since our last report, one committer/PPMC member has resigned >> - We have improved to act more as a self organized project to address >> and solve project related topics (eg. budget transfer from SPI, forum >> moderation). >> - We accepted an offer from SourceForge to host our older 3.3 version and >> provide client installs of our latest release 3.4. >> This decision was arrived after much discussion among members and >> consulation with mentors. >> - Due to heightened interest, we are putting more resources (services, >> volunteers) into translation efforts >> - We are putting more effort into addressing trademark and third-party >> distributin requests. Ongoing emphasis as to
distributing >> how to accomodate and track these requests is becoming an important >> concern. accommodate >> - We are putting renewed emphasis on recruitment to assist with maintaiing maintaining >> now abandoned former native-language project web sites. >> > > I'd word that as, 'We are increasing our global reach by recruiting > volunteers to help update and maintain the large set of legacy native > language home pages" > >> * Project Development Progress * >> >> - We released Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on May 8, 2012. > > Over three million downloads in the first month. > >> This release included: >> Five different client platform install versions in 15 languages >> Source tarbalss in Engligh Source tarballs >> Software development kit packaging for 5 platforms Software Development Kit (SDK) >> Language packs for 15 languages >> >> A summary of downloads for the installs can be found at: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/timeline >> >> We would like to publicly acknowledge the efforts of our mentors, the >> Apache infrastructure team, and the wonderful folks at SourceForge in making >> this release a success! >> >> >> - We are currently working on an alternate repository for category-B code >> to comply with graduation requirements >> - Prepartion was made in May for importing IBM Symphony changes into the Preparation >> OpenOffice repository > > Maybe first say an SGA was received from IBM for IBM Lotus Symphony, > and now are preparing to import... > >> This should be complete by the time of the June board meeting. >> - Work is continuing on making translation processes easier for volunteers. >> Currently, only committers can access the Pootel server. Pootle >> - Testing and implementation of old update service for OpenOffice has been >> accomplished. This service is for older OpenOffice clients to identify >> updates and, optionally, install an update if available. >> - !!!! need and update on this one and the mailing list numbers!!: > > For ooo-dev we have 409 subscribers ! > >> Community support forums remain popular with users, hitting a new >> concurrency record (296) >> >> > > Very good report. I see you have some other suggestions as well. > Once those are included, and maybe a run through a spell checker, it > should be "ready to go". a good report Juergen > > Thanks for volunteering to draft this! > > -Rob > > >> >> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> MzK >> >> "So let it rock, let it roll >> Let the bible belt come and save my soul >> Hold on to sixteen as long as you can >> Changes come around real soon make us woman and men." >> -- "Jack and Diane", John Mellencamp
