Sounds good, there have been some intention of these in the past, not sure
how open the community is right now to be honest. But is a good idea if
somehow there is some strong backing.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Suminda Dharmasena <sirinath19...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am writing to see if the current AOO Dev team would like to create an
> independent entity which can:
>
>    - Do trainings
>    - Accept funds and have pay developers
>    - Write commercial books / online tutorials with sponsorship
>
> This can be used have paid developers working on the project. Maybe initial
> sponsorship can come from an organisation like Redhat, Pivotal or Micro
> Focus if they are interested. Perhaps companies which used the code base in
> the past like IBM or Oracle.
>
> The entity should ensure they work on the AOO codebase using the ASF way.
>
> Suminda
>



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