First crowdfunding for Apache OpenOffice

2013-10-23 Thread Raphael Bircher
Hi all I prepared a proposal for a testbot, and now I'm searching about 3000 Swiss Francs to turn it in to reality. The testbot is the first step of my quality efforts. Companies who are interested in a height quality Apache OpenOffice can now contact me via email: r...@raphaelbircher.ch

Re: Crowdfunding for Apache OpenOffice

2013-10-07 Thread Ian Lynch
Probably best to choose a specific feature or aspect of AOO that would be a popular benefit to a lot of people. That is the difficult bit. What is likely to be possible? Maybe further improvements to Word import/export or something? Abilty to fully edit pdf files? Whatever is chosen needs wide

Re: Crowdfunding for Apache OpenOffice

2013-10-07 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Raphael, 2013/10/7 Raphael Bircher r.birc...@gmx.ch Hi all Am 05.10.13 13:30, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Jörg Schmidt wrote: Apache could for example give hints/weblinks how to encrypt emails (that would help people in dictatorships), but that is not the real object of Apache That

Re: Crowdfunding for Apache OpenOffice

2013-10-06 Thread Raphael Bircher
Hi all Am 05.10.13 13:30, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Jörg Schmidt wrote: Apache could for example give hints/weblinks how to encrypt emails (that would help people in dictatorships), but that is not the real object of Apache That would not be relevant to the project. But if someone has a

Re: Crowdfunding for Apache OpenOffice

2013-10-05 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] There's an ongoing discussion at http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/community-dev/201310. mbox/date that may offer some useful information even if the issue is slightly different (a committer, in another Apache project,

Re: Crowdfunding for Apache OpenOffice

2013-10-05 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, From: Guy Waterval [mailto:waterval@gmail.com] I think it is dangerous when public funds support a developper in a free project in which companies are associated. Just today I had a discussion with a Windows user saying he did not like the free projects because he

Re: Crowdfunding for Apache OpenOffice

2013-10-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jörg Schmidt wrote: Apache could for example give hints/weblinks how to encrypt emails (that would help people in dictatorships), but that is not the real object of Apache That would not be relevant to the project. But if someone has a budget to spend in improving Apache OpenOffice, this

Re: Crowdfunding for Apache OpenOffice

2013-10-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jörg Schmidt wrote: From: Raphael Bircher [mailto:r.birc...@gmx.ch] outside ASF. But maybe we should create a guidline how Crowdfunding could work on our community, and how we can support such activity. There's an ongoing discussion at

Re: Crowdfunding for Apache OpenOffice

2013-10-04 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Andrea, I think it is dangerous when public funds support a developper in a free project in which companies are associated. Just today I had a discussion with a Windows user saying he did not like the free projects because he considered that in these models, the volunteers are the losers and

Crowdfunding for Apache OpenOffice

2013-10-03 Thread Raphael Bircher
Hi at all I beleve this is a realy important topic. If we want to grow, we need more professional ressource. We all know, founding for development most going on outside ASF. But maybe we should create a guidline how Crowdfunding could work on our community, and how we can support such

Re: Crowdfunding for Apache OpenOffice

2013-10-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Raphael Bircher r.birc...@gmx.ch wrote: Hi at all I beleve this is a realy important topic. If we want to grow, we need more professional ressource. We all know, founding for development most going on outside ASF. But maybe we should create a guidline how

Re: Crowdfunding for Apache OpenOffice

2013-10-03 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello Raphael, *, From: Raphael Bircher [mailto:r.birc...@gmx.ch] I beleve this is a realy important topic. If we want to grow, we need more professional ressource. We all know, founding for development most going on outside ASF. But maybe we should create a guidline how Crowdfunding