Hi, On 1/7/06 5:43 AM Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > Hello Louis > > Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > > >> Hi >> I created a preliminary page on the OOo Wiki to track derivatives based >> on OOo. These can include StarOffice, Jambo Office. The URL: >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/DerivedWorks >> >> Feel free to add to this page, edit it for readability, etc. We also >> track some of these on our development page, >> http://development.openoffice.org/, but I'd like to lower the bar to >> maintain this page. If you know of something, add it, please! >> >> >> > This is a very interesting task. Actually, I was about to ask the > distribution project and the Marketing project leads if an official page > listing our distributors (in the broad sense) could be useful.
It could... By "distributor" we can mean just about any implementation, yes? We've discussed this before, of course.... there are a couple of issues, as you recall. For free distributors (free as in speech), it's easy and good to list them. For those of the less free persuasion, it can become problematical: free advertising, using OOo at our expense for their gain, issues like that. > I know > that the BizDev project hosts the Consultants page. But this list has > mainly services providers and a small (and I think rather incomplete) > list of OEMs. > Do you think that this wiki page you just opened could give birth to > such a list that could be later on used for communicatio and marketing > tasks? > Sure. It depends if people want to use the data collected there. I think that we do have to agree, as we more or less have, on the rule for listing non-free implementations, and that rule is (probably) to list them without comment. With the new license, LGPL, their number will drop by quite a lot, and they will want to work with us, so I see the problem as ultimately temporary. My reason for posting this wiki is that though the development page also lists implementations of OOo, it is a pain to manage, as a committer has to add the new data, meaning that unless he knows it, several steps are involved. The wiki reduces those steps and thus makes it easy to record things. > Thanks, > Charles. > > Cheers, louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
