On 11/17/06, Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does that answer your point?
Yes thanks. But, I have a different view. Of course, I am new to the project, so FWIW ...
On 2006-11-16, at 14:44 , Peter Vandenabeele wrote: > On 11/16/06, Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> No, not at all. The changeover to a for-fee wiki (or equiv or not) > ^^^^^^^^ > Could you please indicate if you could agree that there also > continues to > exist a *non-paying* page that lists a number of consultants on the > openoffice.org website ? That page is right now the consultants page, which I want to turn into a paying page. There is no quick yes/no answer. Rather, I would want the default listing to be for fee with exceptions made to those who significantly contribute to the project. They would be listed on the page, along with everyone else and not be slotted to a ghetto (to make it melodramatic).
My proposal was that there could continue to be a "default" listing on a non-paying page that would require minimal technical conditions (web site up, some wording that is relevant to OO.o). If I understand your proposal correctly, any non-paying entry would have to go through an "exception" step for being accepted. That could involve a lot of work of a human or a committee, and more problematic, lead to difficult discussions about who deserves to be listed non-paying and who needs to pay for the listing. In my proposal, next to that non-paying page and actually independent from it, there could be a paying sponsors page, with a relatively high fee, which makes it economical to go through the pain of collecting and administering the money. My estimate is that only 20%of the entries would also be listed on the paying sponsors page, so the non-paying page would not be a ghetto of outcast, but rather the majority of small consultants, but with a better quality of that list, because of improved policy and enforcement of that policy. How high would you see the fee to be listed on the page as you envision ?
Hm. The policy I tend to think should be really simple, and it could apply as well to other areas of OOo where we will be listing things for fee, eg, extensions.
Also there (for extensions), it could be usefull to allow a large group of non-paying extension projects and also open up to sponsors if they want to pay to get a more prominent position on the web site. Thanks, Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
