On 2011-05-26 12:25 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > the Community is all of us, the people engaging on the lists, > contributing. We received many requests like "can I have a > @libreoffic.org address like it was at OpenOffice.org", and during one > of the public calls, the steering committee agreed in doing so, help > people identify with the project. The limitation to members -- anyone > active can apply as a member -- is solely because of bad experiences we > had at OpenOffice.org, where people simply could register an > @openoffice.org address and pretend they speak on behalf of the project. > We ran into problems indeed with that.
As has been stated, it would have been MUCH better to have simply made these addresses be something like [email protected], rather than disturbing the existing community... This would have also made it clear that these people were simply *members*, not actual *reps* of TDF or LibreOffice... -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
