[marketing-dev] Re: OpenOffice.org to become an Apache Foundation Incubator Project

Hi Simon, all,

Simon Brouwer schrieb:
>   Op 1-6-2011 23:21, eric b schreef:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Le 1 juin 11 =C3=A0 22:55, Ariel Constenla-Haile a =C3=A9crit :
>>>
>>> it does not surprise me how fast you were to set up your wiki page
>>> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/JZA
>>
>> Feel free to contribute and to create yor page too !
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> I also, following Alexandro's example, boldly added myself to the list
> of initial committers, if only to indicate my support for the transfer
> of OpenOffice.org to the ASF (if my contributions are somehow deemed
> insufficient to merit inclusion in the list, my name can always be
> removed afterwards :) ).

Please make sure that Apache Software Foundation gets notice about the=20
large area of non-coding community in our projects.

As far as I know, their meritocratic system is only based on code=20
contribution, so none of the other community members will be able to=20
become part of the OpenOffice Apache project or the Apache community, if=20
they don't change the way they handle contributions.

So if you start to be involved in their decision making process, please=20
describe them the broadness of our community.

While Rob Weir (IBM) seems to have an interest in dividing the community=20
in a Apache based coding community and a different supporting one=20
(outside Apache, no mention about their infrastructure), I don't think=20
that this should be the way to go.

The question of giving up LGPL for the Apache license might be a=20
marketing topic too:

As this would allow companies to just take the code and include their=20
patches in their own commercial product only, support of the common code=20
basis might be reduced in future.

... Especially as open source enthusiastic developers (mostly=20
independent or related to Linux distributions) have told us over and=20
over again that they feel exploited by such commercial interests without=20
getting something back...

Best regards

Bernhard
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