Re: Have you been contacted via private email and discouraged from participating on the OpenOffice project?

2012-11-02 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, The DocFou guys choose to split from the OO.o project. The communities are now separate. And users of LO are better served in LO forums, like AOO users are better served on the AOO forums and lists, and not the other way around. I guess you´re not implying that we should start

Re: Have you been contacted via private email and discouraged from participating on the OpenOffice project?

2012-11-01 Thread jan iversen
+1, what can I say apart from I am still here, and I mean to stay with AOO for a long time. Jan. On 1 November 2012 15:18, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I'm hearing that some project volunteers, especially new ones, are being contacted by certain external parties, who then try to

Re: Have you been contacted via private email and discouraged from participating on the OpenOffice project?

2012-11-01 Thread Alexandro Colorado
This should be a wake up call for the weak marketing effort it has been going. Lack of connection with major information providers and overal lack of PR. I hope this could change as we move forward. It also puts new light on the discussion on marketing efforts/support, funding and such. On

Re: Have you been contacted via private email and discouraged from participating on the OpenOffice project?

2012-11-01 Thread RGB ES
2012/11/1 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org I'm hearing that some project volunteers, especially new ones, are being contacted by certain external parties, who then try to discourage them from contributing to the Apache OpenOffice project. I'm hearing that similar notes have been sent out to those

Re: Have you been contacted via private email and discouraged from participating on the OpenOffice project?

2012-11-01 Thread jan iversen
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

Re: Have you been contacted via private email and discouraged from participating on the OpenOffice project?

2012-11-01 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Jan, We are all here as individuals with various and different amounts of time and energy. Many are employed to work on OpenOffice, but many like me are volunteers who have demanding day jobs. The key part of the Apache Way is that leadership comes from DOING and COMMUNICATING. You are new

Re: Have you been contacted via private email and discouraged from participating on the OpenOffice project?

2012-11-01 Thread jan iversen
Hi Dave. Even though I have stopped my companies, I still have many other things to do than working on AOO, and when I had my companies I had limited time, so I can for sure follow you. Today I am just trying to help open source as such, because it has helped me a lot in my career. And to answer