Andrew Douglas Pitonyak, on 18 Dec 2010: > Do you have any insight into future plans for a new name for OOoDev? > My opinion is that we should not choose a new name until after OOoDev > has chosen their name (unless we have reason that they will follow > suit). > > I have no objections to moving to OOoDev, nor do I object to a name > change (especially if this secures help from OOoDev). > > My concern here is consistency.
When I read the initial proposal from Jean, it all seemed absolutely sensible and acceptable. Then again, my brain is not accustomed to strategic thinking, so Andrew's views have really resonated with me. He has made two very important points that I think are strong enough to make us hesitate: Firstly, we are doing documentation on OOo, not ODF in general. That would be misleading to new visitors to the website - unless we include in big writing in paragraph one on the home page that we write OOo documentation despite our name. Seems a bit silly. If LibreOffice is intending to be an essentially renamed and 99%- similar OpenOffice, then perhaps we could try to find a name which covers both, but this is no easy task and if the greatest fear is actually the reaction of Oracle, that is a big reason to stop and think. Secondly, I do think that it's important to know what OOoDev intend to do with their name. Although it might not be obvious when visiting the site that we'd be hosted by them, I think consistency is important, especially if we (and other organisation) intend to work more closely in future. Like Andrew, I have no objection to the stated plan but I think we should have a firmer idea of the plans of other groups before we do anything. -- James --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
