On 5/27/14, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > 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.
Who decides who is the appropriate person? If someone send an email in chineese requesting a contact, would it be routed to the chineese community or to a specific person? Who will that person be? If an event is looking for available speakers, how will press find the correct speaker closest to the location and available to give a talk? Has this situation happened before, how was it handled? > > 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. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
