Hi Raphael, Not sure why you aren't trying this conversation on the OpenOffice Developer list.
It is true there is a lack of c++ devs and QA. We were too dependent on IBM. You had volunteered to do Windows builds, but had other considerations? Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 19, 2017, at 1:19 PM, Raphael Bircher <rbircherapa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi people > > I want to raise a question here. I know, we have to solve our problems our > self, but maybe here are people with ideas. OpenOffice has a big community > problem. The community was simply melted away in the last year. We have at > the moment no Company who offer devs. And the rest of the community fights > the absolutely urgent issues. There was already a discussion about > retirement, it was refused. But this doesn't mean we are out of the danger > zone. > > The sweet part of this story is our user base. We have 100'000 Downloads > EVERY single DAY. I mean, this is crazy. We have really loyal users. We get > also frequently messages from user who just want to say "thank you". > > The sad thing about this is, they have actually no chance to do something for > the program. They are looked out. Remember, they are normal users, they are > no developers. They are typically private users or small companies. But > imagine what happened if only a small part of our users pay 20$. > > We really need devs and we need skilled one, because OpenOffice is > challenging for programmers. Companies with a load of money has a easy way to > influence an Apache project. Simply pay a developer, that's it. But people > without big pocket are simply looked out. (if they have no programmer skills) > That's not fair! > > How to solve this problem? Thanks a load. > > Regards Raphael > > -- > My introduction https://youtu.be/Ln4vly5sxYU > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
