[marketing-dev] Re: Fwd: Fwd: Re: ping

Louis Suarez-Potts <[email protected]> Mon, 23 May 2011 08:14:41 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.devel.marketing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Andr=E9,=20
I wrote, "to put into place those things that need to be done to move ahead=
". That means, to learn what we have to do. You identified one of them: Tru=
st. We need to trust you and vice versa.=20=20

So, I am not, as you seem to think I am saying, jumping to conclusions and =
making this a fait accompli. That's hardly my or anyone's intention. I, we,=
 all recognize that there's a lot to go over. I am rather stating that I wa=
nt to start, and am doing this publicly.=20

Louis


On 2011-05-23, at 05:01 , Andre Schnabel wrote:

> Hi Louis, *
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> sorry for posting out of the thread, but I'm not subscribet do the list=
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> (following the discussion via mail-archive .com)
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>> From: Louis Suarez-Potts
>> Date: 2011/5/23
>> Subject: [marketing-dev] Re: ping
>> To: [email protected]
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>> Let me start by stating that we, Stefan Taxhet, Andr=E9 Schnabel,
>> Florian Effenberger, and I, will be holding a teleconference later
>> this week to further put into place those things that need to be done
>> to move ahead.
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> Let me have some words on this propsed conferece, as you seem to put
> much more in this than there actually ist.
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> The reason for me to suggest (or agree) to such a conference is that
> I want to see some common ground in our community. Unfortunately there
> seems to be non common voice among those who decided not to join TDF.
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> As other people already mentioned - your position as Community Manager
> is currently self-claimed (it does in no case fit to the definitions
> according to the OOo gudelines). The Community Council did not see
> elections and is missing several members. So it is hard to see you or
> the current CC as "representative of the project".
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> Anyway - I know, that several people are still engouraged to deliver
> a free Office Suite for all of our users and do this within a=20
> community of contributors (no matter if they are volunteers, companies,
> developers, translators, designers ...). So - I want to speak to those
> engaged people, based on trust.
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> Unfortunately - you worked hard to establish distrust. Already in March
> we had a talk what could be done to work on common tasks. But instead
> of trying to collaborate, contact me or TDF and establish trust, you
> published some rather FUDish blogs - and even continued with that after
> after some clear inidcation, that this will be a problem for further=20
> discussion. You did not even seem to understand or read my mails.
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> But now you publically state that we are going to "put into place
> those things"? Sorry Louis - we are not there yet. First you need to=20
> establish trust again. Either in a phone call (that was my intention to
> join the call) - or by proving you have the backing of the people you
> claim to represent (means hold an election or at least get an endorsement
> from those who had been elected to the CC).
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> regards,
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> Andr=E9
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