Re: When disaster strikes :-( - WAS: [marcon] Temporarily suspending my role as OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead

Graham Lauder wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 Oct 2010 21:30:14 Peter Junge wrote:
>> Hi Florian, everyone,
>>
>> I will not be able to take the role as Acting OpenOffice.org Marketing
>> Project Lead. Unfortunately, I have been injuring one of my fingers
>> recently and will have an operation by tomorrow morning. Consequently, I
>> will be on a "sick leave" for several weeks, as I will be strongly
>> handicapped to write e-mails etc.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Peter
> 
> What?  Peter, no email ok that's a stressor, :)  We'll miss your words of 
> wisdom, I'll resist the temptation to send any mails requiring long involved 
> replies.  Only those with +1 or -1 replies.  :)

+1 ;-)

> 
> Cheers
> GL
>  
> 
>> Florian Effenberger wrote:
>>> Dear OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Members,
>>> Dear OpenOffice.org Marketing Contacts,
>>> Dear Community Members,
>>>
>>> all of you have heard the news about the announcement of The Document
>>> Foundation. You might have also seen the discussion about this
>>> announcement, and a few raised concerns on the public OpenOffice.org
>>> mailing lists especially about the role of the OpenOffice.org Marketing
>>> Project Lead.
>>>
>>> The feedback that we as group on the one side, and I as individual on
>>> the other side have received, has been extremely positive, encouraging
>>> this so very important step for our Community. Not only our users and
>>> lots of enterprises and public entities worldwide reacted enormously
>>> positive, but, most important to me, especially many Community Members
>>> show their strong support for the way to a Foundation -- and so I very
>>> much feel that with this I am speaking for the Community that voted me
>>> as OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead.
>>>
>>> In order to help things settle down, I hereby, effective immediately,
>>> announce that I will temporarily suspend my role as OpenOffice.org
>>> Marketing Project Lead until version 3.3 of OpenOffice.org has been
>>> released. I will hand over all daily tasks to Peter Junge. As Co-Lead,
>>> he is the one to step in during times when I'm not available, so he will
>>> be the main contact for marketing and press during this time.
>>>
>>> To avoid conflicts of interest, when I have to market LibreOffice and
>>> OpenOffice.org at the same time, I will focus my work on the marketing
>>> mailing list of The Document Foundation during this time.
>>>
>>> As I am sure that things will have been sorted out after that period. By
>>> temporarily suspending my role as OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead,
>>> I hope I can help in contributing to the success of what we as Community
>>> built up during the past decade, and will shape during the next.
>>>
>>> I very much look forward to our future collaboration and cooperation.
>>>
>>> Florian
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