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 > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor 9060 55AB FFD2 2F02 0E1A 3409 599C 14FC 9450 D3CF