Hi Jean, I'll try to answer some of your questions now. Some others will of cause remain unanswered - thus we can not see into the future ;-)
One very important and interesting 'future' is if Oracle will join us. We don't know that yet. Den 28-09-2010 11:46, Jean Hollis Weber skrev: > Hello, team! > > You've probably already heard about this by now: > http://www.documentfoundation.org > > I was unaware of this planned fork, so the announcement came as a > complete surprise to me. I knew that OOo had been talking about setting > up a foundation for some years now, but had no idea this would happen. > Perhaps I just don't pay enough attention! > The topic has in fact been open for about - lets say ten years. It was a part of the original plan ten years ago to hand over stuff to an independant foundation. http://www.openoffice.org/white_papers/OOo_project/openofficefoundation.html For the last few years the topic has been raised in the CC several times but without any actual willingness from the main contributor to even discuss the matter. > At this point I have questions, but no answers. For example: where does > the effort from OOoAuthors go now and in the future? to OOo or > LibreOffice or both? What relation will the OOoAuthors docs have with > LibreOffice? What impact will this have on OOo documentation generally? > Thats an easy one: To the community. You are - as far as I know already - independant and self governed. There has for several years been different 'flavors' of the application. Now there is another one. Hopefully a big and healthy one. I expect your work will be covering LibreOffice close to 100% for some time. > Indeed, what will happen with OOo generally (a bigger question, one > that's been around since Oracle bought Sun)? > See thats one of the questions that I can not answer. But *you* can have an impact on it. > Some of the answers are probably up to us to decide, and some depend on > others: what happens with OOo, and whether the LibreOffice team want to > reuse or adapt our docs and what relationship they might like with us. I > have not yet checked to see what, if any, licensing issues might get in > the way. > Still, LibreOffice is not a fork but just another flavor. We will still support the 'open office idea' and concider our selves as OpenOffice.org supporters. > I've got some reading to do on the Document Foundation's website (and > some of the OOo lists, including Marketing), and you may wish to do so > as well. I know that some of the Document Foundation's committee members > and deputies participate on this and the d...@docs list, so perhaps they > can offer some thoughts that are less speculation than anything I can > say. > We indeed will. And if you have any other wuestions don't hesitate to contact us directly. We are - as we say - an independant organisation and we have room for all diversities, shapes and flavors. If you join us you will have an impact on whats going on. If you don't, well then you don't. (I guess that one endend up rather clumsy, sorry I'm not native English speaking) > We live in interesting times! > Look, we already agree on some important issues here ;-) > --Jean > Cheers, Leif Lodahl --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
