Hello, * >> That is to say, that including Erwin, who has the skills and the >> contacts and the experience and the desire, will benefit this >> project. Things will get done. > >Experience and skills is great. And I like Erwin. I was hoping you >would address the concerns about including more of the non-Sun portion >of the community in running OOo projects. This seems like a desirable >goal, it would seem to benefit everyone.
I'll clarify some points. OOo certainly benefits from having the full community participate in getting things done, provided that participation is organized. Most of the projects in Incubator were initiated by non-Sun people, fwiw, though not at all. It doesn't make much of a difference in terms of the logic of the project whether the lead is a Sun person or not; or whether the project was initiated by someone from Sun or not. It is not the goal of the project to replace leads of projects who happen to be Sun employees with those who are not; nor to drive the leadership of the project to non-Sun employees. It is the goal of the project to ensure that collaboration between all parties takes place. BizDev has a somewhat uncertain portfolio, as the distinction between BizDev and Marketing is not that clear. That's one reason why this project tends to be rather low key. However, we do have some things we need to work on that are of real importance. I refer to the case studies, ISV integration, and so on (see the to-dos on the BizDev homepage, <http://bizdev.openoffice.org/>). I hope I have addressed your query. Best, Louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
