[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-29 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi *, WorldLabel.com wrote (26-05-11 13:50) We will protect past investments by building on the solid achievements of our first decade I can not help reading that line and thinking the fact is, the only way we all can protect past investments and build on them is to forge a way for both

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-27 Thread Allen Pulsifer
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: My point is not that having a good discussion about OpenOffice.org is out of the question here, on OOo lists. I find that fine, and the location quite proper. But such a discussion ought to be-must be-about OOo, its NLCs, its contributors, its goals, its options. Such

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-26 Thread WorldLabel.com
We will protect past investments by building on the solid achievements of our first decade I can not help reading that line and thinking the fact is, the only way we all can protect past investments and build on them is to forge a way for both communities to come together! On Thu, May 26, 2011

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-26 Thread Roman H. Gelbort
El 25/05/11 17:42, Sophie Gautier escribió: Alexandro, please, fact and realty, you understand that after all what has been written and said about the Spanish speaking community we can't trust you any more or only backup your says. We know that you are not representative of it and the we you

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-26 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello, Le Thu, 26 May 2011 09:50:27 -0300, Roman H. Gelbort ro...@piensalibre.com.ar a écrit : El 25/05/11 17:42, Sophie Gautier escribió: Alexandro, please, fact and realty, you understand that after all what has been written and said about the Spanish speaking community we can't trust

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-26 Thread Roman H. Gelbort
El 26/05/11 13:09, Charles-H. Schulz escribió: But it's perhaps not very important at that stage. +1 I'm sorry by mistake the focus. Is better build the new idea for OOo comunity. :-) -- --- Prof. Román H.

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-26 Thread Ian Lynch
On 26 May 2011 15:18, Roman H. Gelbort ro...@piensalibre.com.ar wrote: El 26/05/11 13:09, Charles-H. Schulz escribió: But it's perhaps not very important at that stage. +1 I'm sorry by mistake the focus. Is better build the new idea for OOo comunity. :-) How about gaining agreement on

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-26 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Thu, 26 May 2011 11:18:48 -0300, Roman H. Gelbort ro...@piensalibre.com.ar a écrit : El 26/05/11 13:09, Charles-H. Schulz escribió: But it's perhaps not very important at that stage. +1 I'm sorry by mistake the focus. Is better build the new idea for OOo comunity. :-) That wasn't

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-26 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Ian, Le Thu, 26 May 2011 15:32:22 +0100, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com a écrit : On 26 May 2011 15:18, Roman H. Gelbort ro...@piensalibre.com.ar wrote: El 26/05/11 13:09, Charles-H. Schulz escribió: But it's perhaps not very important at that stage. +1 I'm sorry by mistake

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-26 Thread Ian Lynch
On 26 May 2011 17:39, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hello Ian, Le Thu, 26 May 2011 15:32:22 +0100, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com a écrit : On 26 May 2011 15:18, Roman H. Gelbort ro...@piensalibre.com.ar wrote: El 26/05/11 13:09, Charles-H. Schulz

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-26 Thread Cor Nouws
Ian Lynch wrote (26-05-11 16:52) 1. TDF governance is adopted by all - in that case OOo community Council etc is absorbed into TDF 2. OOo CC is adopted by all - in that case TDF is absorbed into OOo CC 3. A new organisation is created with a new constitution and governance for both communities

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-26 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Thu, 26 May 2011 15:52:35 +0100, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com a écrit : On 26 May 2011 17:39, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hello Ian, Le Thu, 26 May 2011 15:32:22 +0100, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com a écrit : On 26 May 2011 15:18, Roman H.

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-26 Thread Ian Lynch
1. TDF governance is adopted by all - in that case OOo community Council etc is absorbed into TDF 2. OOo CC is adopted by all - in that case TDF is absorbed into OOo CC 3. A new organisation is created with a new constitution and governance for both communities 4. Either governance

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-26 Thread Ramon Sole
Hi Roman, Alexandro, * you may say you're the only people involved in OOo from the Spanish Community, but you know perfectly that's not true. Sophie is right, you don't represent the Spanish Community at all. But here's not the place for such a discussion. Best Greetings, Ramon Roman H.

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks, Florian for the long message :-) But, can I request that we have such advocations (not sure that's a word) presented in a more neutral space? My reasoning, besides the obvious, that this is OOo-land, has to do with simply having a suitable forum for what is likely to be a protracted and

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Louis, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote on 2011-05-25 14.33: Thanks, Florian for the long message :-) But, can I request that we have such advocations (not sure that's a word) presented in a more neutral space? My reasoning, besides the obvious, that this is OOo-land, has to do with simply having

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Sophie
Hi Florian, all, On 25/05/2011 17:00, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Louis, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote on 2011-05-25 14.33: Thanks, Florian for the long message :-) But, can I request that we have such advocations (not sure that's a word) presented in a more neutral space? My reasoning, besides

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
There are many good reasons to have any discussion as proposed by the TDF—Florian and Sophie—on a neutral ground. I've mentioned the compelling ones. And I also think we need to proceed very carefully here. Not only for community reasons but also because a lot is at stake beyond our narrow

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Gianvittorio
Guys, I am sure that a discussion in neutral territory can still mean a very transparent and productive conversation too. Louis, Which forum did you have in mind? Gian On Wed 25/05/11 16:55 , Louis Suarez-Potts lsuarezpo...@gmail.com sent: There are many good reasons to have any discussion

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote on 2011-05-25 16.55: There are many good reasons to have any discussion as proposed by the TDF—Florian and Sophie—on a neutral ground. I've mentioned the compelling ones. And I also think we need to proceed very carefully here. Not only for community reasons but

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello everyone, 2011/5/25 Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Hi, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote on 2011-05-25 16.55: There are many good reasons to have any discussion as proposed by the TDF—Florian and Sophie—on a neutral ground. I've mentioned the compelling ones. And I also

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Allen Pulsifer
Hello Louis, As a member of the community, I'm trying to understand the situation here, especially the situation from your point of view. The Document Foundation has made it clear that if there are no negotiations with OpenOffice.org, they will continue to develop and release the codebase under

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Luiz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Em 25-05-2011 12:08, Gianvittorio escreveu: Guys, I am sure that a discussion in neutral territory can still mean a very transparent and productive conversation too. Louis, Which forum did you have in mind? As Florian said, I don't

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Davide Dozza
Il 25/05/2011 16:55, Louis Suarez-Potts ha scritto: There are many good reasons to have any discussion as proposed by the TDF—Florian and Sophie—on a neutral ground. I've mentioned the compelling ones. And I also think we need to proceed very carefully here. Not only for community

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Andy Brown
Davide Dozza wrote: Time is come. As still member of OOo community I *strongly* believe that such discussion should be made in public. Otherwise we (the community) still fall into our narrow concers as it was during last ten years. It is to bad that the Community does not have anything to do

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Davide Dozza dav...@flossconsulting.itwrote: Il 25/05/2011 16:55, Louis Suarez-Potts ha scritto: There are many good reasons to have any discussion as proposed by the TDF—Florian and Sophie—on a neutral ground. I've mentioned the compelling ones. And I

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Volker Merschmann
Hi Alexandro, 2011/5/25 Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.org: OOo is certainly not death and to a point we've seen more developers coming through in the project which have legitimate concerns about this community to keep working. This is not true and you know it. Can you name any new core

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Volker Merschmann merschm...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Alexandro, 2011/5/25 Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.org: OOo is certainly not death and to a point we've seen more developers coming through in the project which have legitimate concerns about this

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Roman H. Gelbort
El 25/05/11 16:58, Volker Merschmann escribió: This is not true and you know it. Can you name any new core developer which has started to work on the project in the last six months? Volker... the core developers aren't the only VIP in the project! --

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Sophie
[resent and amended with the good address, my apologize to the moderators] Hi Alexandro, On 25/05/2011 23:02, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Volker Merschmann merschm...@gmail.com mailto:merschm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alexandro, 2011/5/25 Alexandro

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Goran Rakic
У сре, 25. 05 2011. у 15:02 -0500, Alexandro Colorado пише: We have added some new people in the past few weeks. Also chatted with other developers that I hang out on IRC. That is great, I am looking forward for patches and code for all new features! As user and integrator I do not care where

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi Florian, Did TDF change its mission, from the evolution of the OpenOffice.org Community[1] to the evolution of the LibreOffice Community[2]? [1] http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/ Our Mission Our mission is to facilitate the evolution of the OpenOffice.org Community into a new

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Alexandro, On 25/05/2011 23:02, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Volker Merschmann merschm...@gmail.com mailto:merschm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alexandro, 2011/5/25 Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.org mailto:j...@openoffice.org: OOo is

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Gozarks
For what it's worth, I think it is good that this discussion is being held here. What I see happening is that perspectives and ideas and difficulties are being openly discussed in a 'public' forum that is open to all who wish to be involved... and that this 'concept of openness' is what got me,