On 02/10/14 01:44, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote: >> On G+ I have hold a conversation with Bruce Byfield and Jos from KDE >> about the continuation of the Apache OpenOffice community and how the >> way that the community has enter lately into a dormant stage with very >> little traffic. >> >> Althought I do seem that is an exageration, I feel that is true that >> traffic has reach its lowest in several months. I wonder what is going >> on with the community as well as overal adoption and concern of a lack >> of marketing strategy. >> >> I would love to hear from the community managers to have an evaluation. >> > > Community mangers? Come on, you know that is not how we roll at Apache! > > What is amazing to be is how much LO sees a merger of the projects as > a threat to them. > > Here's the background. At the LO conference one of the presenters > spoke in favor of merging LO with AOO, of combining the efforts. This > was the IT Head from the Swiss Supreme Court IT office, who also said > that they preferred to use AOO for its superior stability compared to > LO. > > https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/open-and-libre-office-projects-should-reunite > > As you can imagine, having a speaker at a LO conference say nice > things about AOO and to suggest cooperation with AOO was an insult > that could not be permitted. So LO marketing went into over-drive to > try to kill that message. That's why we see articles like this, and > recent related blog posts by Simon and Charles. > > But it does make me wonder: What are they so afraid of? Why do they > think the idea of cooperation so dangerous? Why do they think that > users are so wrong to value stability and to think that the two > projects would work better together?
This is indeed a good question. I believe the TDF and LO community did a really good job to setup the foundation, the community and the project. But it is also a fact that LO benefits a lot of the things we have done and do in AOO. It's still a valid question why both projects doesn't cooperate better and focus together on important improvements. From my perspective it simply doesn't make sense and together we could reach much more. Juergen > > > -Rob > >> -- >> 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 >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
