On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 17:15 +0200, Andre Schnabel wrote: > Hi Charles, Sophie, * > > .... > > >Last point, Ian: when all is said and done, there will be people who > >contribute to OpenOffice.org and give the best to it, and people who are > >making noise and spread FUD. > > > > The problem is to decide, who belongs to what group. this decision ist > not very easy, as most of us know only from email, what others are > doing. And even if we know more than just Mails, whe don't know the > other's live.
Well said Andre! E-mail is not a good medium to find out about people. Unless you have face to face meetings its very difficult to know what motivates anyone. I'm lucky in that I have been able to meet many community members this year in New Zealand, Australia, USA, and in Eastern Europe. I can say that all the people I have met are passionately committed to OOo even if they have different preferred ways of going about things. So let's have a bit more trust and tolerance of differences. > So ... please calm down a little. +1 > I know, it is not easy to make you (Charles and Sophie) that angry, so > there must be reasons ... but there are also reasons, why people feel > more comfortable with working at the OOoAuthors-site the working within > the documentation project. > > I can tell something, why I have left the documentation project .. and > would rather work on OOoAuthors, if I'd start with OOo documentation > again. But this would be no good idea, if OOoAuthors is really a > community fork. > To me, this is the main problem .. that some people consider OOoAuthors > a fork. Its only a fork if you want it to be one. > But I don't know the reasons for that opinion (well .. I know > know at least one reason for me, to see it as such). > > So .. maybe we should focus on resolving thoses issuen? > > And .. no .. don't tell this all could have been done within the > (global) documentation project. I have several examples where people > asked at [EMAIL PROTECTED] how to help and never got an answer. (So .. > if we are speaking of a fork, search for the reasons within the project, > why this fork was so easy to establish). Also the schools project wants to promote kids learning how to participate in the project. OOoAuthors is a much better fit for this particular need. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
