On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/1/12 5:38 PM, jan iversen wrote: >> Please excuse me, I think I know the difference between hooligans and >> people who are just blowing hot air. >> >> To be honest, at the moment AOO does NOT have a great deal of momentum, and >> have (I think) lost a quite a lot of reputation among developers. That is >> something we have to remedy, not by glittering folders, or smart marketing, >> but by showing the developers, that we really care about their >> contributions. >> >> If I may say so, some developers might see "the apache way" as a >> limitation, which my experience during the last month somewhat confirms, I >> think we really need to focus on "the community" instead of telling people >> about legal issues, but about getting a product that still can out beat the >> big (costly) products out there. Do NOT forget some state institutions in >> EU choose OpenOffice against other, but today I would not be so sure !!! >> >> Sorry for the outburst, but I am used to say what I think, and I really >> really want AOO to be the opensource project, as it was in the past. Lets >> not forget why we are all here..... >> > > well spoken, I can only agree. > > I think it was important to make it public that strange things are going > on and that we don't support such a style. More important is that we > focus on our project and that we welcome everybody who is interested to > work on one of most important and biggest open source projects. > > Come and ask -> we the community will answer > Come and do something -> we the community will guide you and will help you > Come and have fun with us -> the pay for your work/contribution is the > assurance that you help to make a product better that is used by > millions of people all over the world. More than 22 million downloads, > ~1 million per week. That is motivation from my point of view and we can > do better in the future ;-) >
I like that last part! We should put that on the home page as a "news story" some time. As for me, I apologize for the distraction. I don't intend to make a big thing about this. My intention was only to make it publicly known that these things are happening. I think that likelihood of a public "outing", if this behavior is repeated, is a sufficient deterrent to repetition. If so, my note has served its purpose. -Rob > Let us have fun and let us continue our way. > > Juergen >
