On 26/05/2014 Jörg Schmidt wrote:
Yes, a local community must grow themselves, but they need structures within the
overall international project. ...
I think we need to ask ourselves these questions of local structures and
_long-term_ need to create such structures.
We don't need to create them in a formal way. At least, Apache tries to
be as flat as possible here. For a number of reasons, for example,
Apache has a policy that all project decisions are community decisions,
and do not depend on an individual.
So personal responsibilities (like: being the "press contact" for
Germany) are generally not officially granted: rather than having a
press contact for Germany, we have a generic press alias see
http://openoffice.apache.org/press.html that is used to route requests
to the appropriate person depending on the request.
This doesn't forbid that, informally, a person takes responsibility for
a certain activity. But we don't officially grant the many roles we used
to grant in the past.
"common" part (English original, replicate for other languages; this
includes the layout) and a "specific" part where materials in native
language will be shown, specific to each language (documentation in
native language, announces about "local" events...)
That's clear, but please look practice.
It is to say, a difference that _should be_ a English original there or it _must
be_ a English original there.
There must be some pages common to all languages (translated from the
English site); and there can be content in German only, or French only,
that only appears on the German/French website, like the 10-page article
in German you imagine; then, if this content is good to have in other
languages, someone can translate it to English and put it on the English
site; but it is fine, and consistent with what we have now, to host
language-specific content.
I am, for example, believe that we could get enough donations for Open Office in
Germany to fund our local work and that could be used for general purposes of
Apache at the same time still have money left over. But we need clear agreements
for it, because of course the donors want their donation is tax deductible, and
that's a question of local law.
Jan wrote a couple good points, and I'll add that I'm not sure how
tax-deductible donations work with foreign organizations. At the moment,
the biggest obstacle is that Apache never collects money to some
specific purpose (and here I'm not talking about paying for developers:
Apache doesn't pay for developers directly and this won't change). A
massive redesign of the fundraising policy, better suited to OpenOffice
and in general to those projects that could use many small donations and
spend them for specific purposes, is coming and it will be one of the
initial tasks for next year's Apache Board.
Regards,
Andrea.
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