Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-05 Thread Italo Vignoli
as possible. Sorry, but - as an end user not too fond of corporations predating open source projects in order to produce their proprietary SW, I do not see this as an historic opportunity but as a huge mistake. -- Italo Vignoli - The Document Foundation email italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org phone

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-05 Thread Italo Vignoli
the outcome of my work. I know that ASF has a different view on this subject, but I have just expressed my personal opinion. -- Italo Vignoli - The Document Foundation email italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org phone +39.348.5653829 - VoIP +39.02.320621813 skype italovignoli - italo.vign

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-05 Thread Italo Vignoli
, but only a tiny fraction will show up on mailing lists (and most discussion will happen outside ASF mailing lists, because there are newsgroups and user groups and forums scattered around the net). Community development is slightly different at OOo, and definitely more challenging. -- Italo

End Users ?

2011-06-05 Thread Italo Vignoli
has been able to reach that size of user base, while the OOo community - not Sun, not Oracle - has been able to grow and nurture it. Just a heads up, not to forget the end users. -- Italo Vignoli - The Document Foundation email italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org phone +39.348.5653829 - VoIP