Hi all, I am shocked by what I have read in the minutes of the last Community Council. The minutes are there : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council_Log_20101014#Community_Council_Session It is about to force the members of the Community Council which are also member of the Document Foundation, to leave their seat at the Community Council under the pretext of an alleged conflict of interest.
I can not accept that. These members of the Community Council are elected by the OpenOffice.org Community and it is obvious for me that : 0/ there is no conflict of interest because the Document Foundation is a proclamation of the need of a step forward for OpenOffice.org. It is in the interest of OpenOffice.org, not against OpenOffice.org. 1/ without member elected by the Community, nobody is legitimate to release a new version of OpenOffice.org in the name of the Community. 2/ as I am the French Native Lang project Lead, I am responsible to manage QA tests to release French localized version. I hope everybody understand that in the current situation I can not be sure to finding enough volunteers to do TCM tests of OOo 3.3.0, nor to want to manage this tests. Indeed, the pressure exerted by Oracle creates uncertainty, damaging for the end users and Community members and destroy the confidence they can have in this new version. As Community members, every day in contact with end-users, we are responsible and we want to release only an high quality product and a product in which the end-users are convinced to find the high quality tools they need. Millions of end-users have confidence in OpenOffice.org only because it is carried, tested and promoted by a very active Community. If you discourage the Community you kill OpenOffice.org, cause big damage among users, and finally, it is Oracle which will be considered as responsible of this mess. I hope Oracle does not want that. JBF -- Jean-Baptiste Faure French N-L project Lead http://fr.openoffice.org Seuls des formats ouverts peuvent assurer la pérennité de vos documents. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org
