Well said JZA, yet a mention in the release announcement is appropriate only if the deceased worked on it directly. That's my 2 cents.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:41 AM, JZA <acolor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On 27/10/15 23:52, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > > I was wondering whether we should remember Ian Lynch at the end of the > > > 4.1.2 Release announcement, with a sentence like > > > > > > "The OpenOffice community dedicates version 4.1.2 to the memory of Ian > > > Lynch, a member of the OpenOffice Project Management Committee and a > key > > > contributor to marketing and education efforts, who passed away earlier > > > this year" [of course please adjust and fix in case] > > > > > > I have no idea on whether this is appropriate or not. I'm rather > neutral > > > on the issue. Feedback welcome. Our memorial for Ian is at > > > http://www.apache.org/memorials/ian_lynch.html > > > > > > > > > my personal opinion is that we should keep the release announcement > > focused on the product. People behind and/or involved the project can be > > addressed in a separate blog where we can also remember project members > > who passed away. > > > > People leave the project or became less active (including me) and new > > people started to become more active and do more and more. I suggest to > > focus on the new fresh blood that can make the difference in the future. > > > > Juergen > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > > I disagree with that view. To focus on the product, well we already have > companies for that. We are not a company, we are a community. And we dont > have 'products' we have 'projects'. The difference? well to start a project > is something that people can participate, not only purchase. So people > participation is key to the project. People are key to the project. > > FLOSS communities like KDE, Gnome, etc, have struggled but also succeed in > adressing the people behind it. This is just a great idea to do exactly > that in our community. > > Also the last line doesn't really make sense, how can we 'focus on the new > fresh blood' exactly? You mean dedicating the release after some n00b who > just got in the project, or writing a blog post about them... How can we > focus on fresh blood if they havent done anything yet, what would we write > about exactly? > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > Apache OpenOffice Contributor > 9060 55AB FFD2 2F02 0E1A 3409 599C 14FC 9450 D3CF >
