Re: [board-discuss] Discussion about options available with marketing plan draft and timetable
Dear board, dear community, Abstract: I request the board to: - provide software in accordance with the statues. - remove parts of the software that are of no use for the intended audience, hereby meaning the support key "feature" of LOOL. - undo the "Personal" edition branding. I am very concerned about the recent developments regarding the strategic future of LibreOffice and The Document Foundation. As this concern is shared by many no quick decision should be taken. I want to remind all of you what The Document Foundation is all about, as stated in the *unalterable* statutes (https://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/statutes/): "The objective of the foundation is the promotion and development of office software available for use by anyone free of charge." - this does not restrict the target audience. "This software will be openly available for free use by anyone for their own files, including companies and public authorities, ensuring full participation in a digital society and without detriment to intellectual property." I would like to remind all members of the board of directors that first and foremost you are obliged to pursue these statutes. As a consequence you must not restrict the target audience of LibreOffice to a specific user group in any way. But this already happens for quite some time and is now getting worse: 1. LibreOffice Online - Unsupported Warning The website for LibreOffice Online states: "The Document Foundation will not be maintaining binaries for enterprise use". This is clearly in violation of the statutes. (https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/) The website also includes a picture of a warning message that often appears (https://www.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/LibreOffice-Online-limit.png), and it is also stated: "... is designed for personal and/or development use ..." This is not only in violation of the statues, but also very questionable behaviour for Free/Libre and Open Source Software. **I hereby request the board to take action to provide the software in accordance with the statutes.** 2. LibreOffice Online - Containing Support Keys Looking through the source code of LibreOffice Online, it can be easily found, that there is a build option for support keys, this makes absolutely no sense in our software product. (https://git.libreoffice.org/online/+/refs/heads/master/wsd/LOOLWSD.cpp#1259) **I hereby request the board to take action to remove parts of the software that are of no use for the intended audience.** 3. LibreOffice "Personal Edition" As I have already mentionend in my comment to the Bug Report (https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134486#c23), I see any restriction or even suggested restriction of the intended audience in violation of the statutes. I would also like to remind, that there are still and fresh versions existing right now (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan), and that the still versions are intended for "conservative, corporate deployments". Will the "still" "Personal Edition" then be recommended for "corporate deployments"? I don't believe that this is understood by our audience in any way. Also: I don't see the reason for the "Personal Edition" tag, as this means that TDF must also provide another edition that is then targeted for all other use cases. **I hereby request the board to take action that this change be undone to gain time for the community to find a consensus.** My personal opinion is to keep the Brand LibreOffice as a name, and certified vendors are able to provide support and services as "LibreOffice Enterprise" partners. If you change the product, the name is to be changed. As this topic already gained significant public interest, it is now the time for the board to re-evaluate the Marketing Plan and its hopefully unintended side-effects. The primary goal of The Document Foundation is to fulfill its statutes, and the secondary goal is to cater for ecosystem vendors needs. Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[board-discuss] Support of the askbot translation process
Hello everyone, as it was missed during the yesterdays BoD-call to constitute the quorum, I hereby ask the BoD to decide on the following topic: Should the translation of the askbot project be supported by creating a project on our pootle server and permitting the developers of askbot access to the project. Our l10n teams are then asked to contribute to the translation of aksbot. Cu, Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to board-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] Re: Gerrit migration
Hi, Bjoern Michaelsen bjoern.michael...@canonical.com schrieb: @Alexander: As shortly discussed at the Libreoffice conference, I need your help for some of the action items. Could you have a look at the action items where I perkily put your name behind it and protest very loud and fast if you want to reject one of them? As I'm currently at a trade fair, I will be only able to have a deep look at it at the weekend, but as I saw from a short look it seems good. Cu, Alex -- This mail was send from my mobile phone. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[steering-discuss] Candidacy for BoD seat
Hello everyone, hereby I would like to announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat at the Document Foundation. My name is Alexander Werner, I'm 24 years old and live only a few hundred meters away from Florian, who convinced me to run for for a seat. I'm a physics student and run a small company on the side. I'm also member of FroDev for years and auditor of a German registered association that is active in the electronic sports area. So I have quite an experience regarding German laws. I was part of the OpenOffice.org community since fall 2007 when Florian convinced me to join him at the Systems booth in Munich. Soon after that I became member of OOoDev e.V. and was at one more Systems (unfortunately the last one) and at every LinuxDay since then. I was involved in LibreOffice and the Document Foundation from the very beginning and helped to set up the infrastructure and wrote a little tool for the mailinglists that parses mails and strips html content and attachments and called it pymime.py. Now I am member of the admin-team and the little tool PyMIME has grown steadily. A complete rewrite is in the works and will provide enhanced scalability as well as a webservice where attachments are available after being striped from the original mail. I run for a seat at the BoD because I strongly believe in the success of FOSS, and the Document Foundation with its open and meritocratic structure is the right place to support one of the largest and most imporant FOSS-projects. I think that both my technological as well as legal background will help the Document Foundation. I am experienced with the sometimes restrictive and rigorous German laws, but also understand the needs of a free software developer. I hope that I will be able to mediate between these to worlds. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. Thank you, Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] Candidacy for BoD seat
Hello everyone, hereby I would like to announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat at the Document Foundation. My name is Alexander Werner, I'm 24 years old and live only a few hundred meters away from Florian, who convinced me to run for for a seat. I'm a physics student and run a small company on the side. I'm also member of FroDev for years and auditor of a German registered association that is active in the electronic sports area. So I have quite an experience regarding German laws. I was part of the OpenOffice.org community since fall 2007 when Florian convinced me to join him at the Systems booth in Munich. Soon after that I became member of OOoDev e.V. and was at one more Systems (unfortunately the last one) and at every LinuxDay since then. I was involved in LibreOffice and the Document Foundation from the very beginning and helped to set up the infrastructure and wrote a little tool for the mailinglists that parses mails and strips html content and attachments and called it pymime.py. Now I am member of the admin-team and the little tool PyMIME has grown steadily. A complete rewrite is in the works and will provide enhanced scalability as well as a webservice where attachments are available after being striped from the original mail. I run for a seat at the BoD because I strongly believe in the success of FOSS, and the Document Foundation with its open and meritocratic structure is the right place to support one of the largest and most imporant FOSS-projects. I think that both my technological as well as legal background will help the Document Foundation. I am experienced with the sometimes restrictive and rigorous German laws, but also understand the needs of a free software developer. I hope that I will be able to mediate between these to worlds. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. Thank you, Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
