On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 18:15 -0300, Caio Tiago Oliveira wrote: > We don't need to fork that right now,
Agreed > but we should invest more on > attracting investments. That will make it easy if we have to fork in the > future and will help the project, anyway. That is what I have been saying for about 5 years. It also keeps Oracle honest because if they know there is a chance of a fork that is credible they are less likely to do evil things. > I believe that some players will focus on online office suites and the > other won't help OOo if it's required to sign JCA/SCA. > Google, IBM, Novel both contribute to OOo, but each one could expend ten > times more, if that would benefite them. So find ways the community can amplify the benefit and sell the idea to them. My field is certification and I'm in serious talks with a large education charity (turnover about 150m Euros per year) that is also a specialist in certification. If we can work out the right business plan, global certification of OOo could fund the entire project - Oracle should be interested in that too. ICDL certificated 9 million people in 43 countries last year. The UK NHS alone spends £1m a year on ECDL certification. There are 7 million children in UK schools that are a potential target and that could be extended to any country. ECDL is effectively MS Office certification although they have some support for OOo too. Point is they have dated methods designed for 15 years ago and their products are prohibitively expensive in developing countries. We designed our system to be a disruptive innovation in the field, globally scalable using the techniques of the web and social networking. We target different markets where there is volume and we can charge much lower fees. We can train suitably experienced community members as assessors so we can even enable those that want to to build their own businesses around OOo. > We should focus on certification, donations, etc., as ways of making it > easier to maintain the project without depending on some big player. The big question is how to do it. It needs coordination and that needs resources too. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications A new approach to assessment for learning www.theINGOTs.org - 01827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
