Hi all,
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote (17-06-10 16:42)
On 2010-06-17, at 03:26 , Peter Junge wrote:
Hi Maho,
Maho NAKATA wrote:
Hello, Florian, John, Cor and Italo, (Cc: Terada-san) I'm the
project lead of ja.oo.o, and I'd like to request 1000 Euro for
Terada-san's top page renewal work for http://ja.openoffice.org/
.
I see one really big issue here. OOo has about 100 sub-domains for
language projects, which were all maintained on a volunteer basis
so far. If we would now start to subsidize one project, it would
create precedence with the consequence, that we have to subsidize
every language project, which then means we will need an extra
budget of 100,000 Euros for web design. I'm not sure how these
funds should be raised.
I sort of disagree, as I think the notion of "subsidize" can be
clarified fruitfully.
Independent of how good the page and sympathetic the NLC/contributor is,
I think we need a very good reason to be able to say yes to such a request.
Maybe that reason is there, then we need to know.
For instance, I'd like to think about the idea
of having a "slush" or "reserve" fund that can be usefully deployed
according to need.
I agree with that as general approach.
Adjudication of such disbursals could be managed
by the CC, under the guidance of the NLC leads—Charles and me—with
the CC holding not just a rubber stamp but actual discretionary
ability, ie, it could say, "no."
An example of what is needed could relate to events that lead to the
expansion of the productive (contributory) community. It could also
lead to new and useful localizations. I suggested something like
this—the protocol, procedures—at the Hamburg F2F meeting last
February, with the particular instance being the localization of OOo
to the Botswana language. There is already considerable interest
there. But funds are needed. The payoff for us (so to speak) is hard
to gauge, but this is the nature of such scholarship disbursals: one
is sowing but not necessarily reaping. At least not now.
But later, yes: if Botswana, or Japanese language groups can act
efficiently with funds donated by us, the OOo Community, then the
upshot is more contributions, more momentum, more ecosystem
development.
There will be some draft for funding approval guidelines soon (..). So I
think that is a good moment to look at details: what can reasonably be
considered useful to fund.
Regards,
Cor
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