all,
Let me do some additional comments regarding our current project setup
since this is a project which not necessarily has to do with
OpenOffice.org core technology or native lang projects.
Currently the Incubator category has been set up to provide some space
to test new ideas (see: <http://projects.openoffice.org/incubator.html>
"The Incubator category exists to provide a space for community members
to test ideas. These ideas can be coding or not."
It seems to be the expectation that the projects in Incubator should
find their final destination either in Accepted Projects
(http://projects.openoffice.org/accepted.html) or in Native-Lang
Projects (http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html) or find their
end sooner or later in "/dev/null". Since the [EMAIL PROTECTED] project does not
meet the criteria for being an accepted project ("... projects that
include core technical projects as well as key user information
projects.") nor the criteria of a native lang project it seems not be
that easy for me to just vote "+1" without this lengthy comment.
I think we need to revisit these guidelines and may invent a new
category like "OOo related" projects. Candidates for this project might
be the [EMAIL PROTECTED] but also the Extensions or the Education project. To
encourage the creation of such projects I would like to see the
conditions for those project at a low level. At the same time this also
would mean that these project are also not in the scope of the Community
Council Charter (http://council.openoffice.org/CouncilProposal.html).
At this time many OpenOffice.org related projects are hosted anywhere
(e.g. more than 100 on sourceforge) but not within the OpenOffice.org
domain. I think it would help the overall OpenOffice.org project if we
would introduce such new category for these projects.
The current infrastructure on collab.net has some limitations (single
database Issuetracker instance for all project) which makes the
introduction of an independent category difficult but I guess this is
just a technical problem and should be solvable in the one or other way.
but under the current guidelines of the project I'm fine with voting for
the [EMAIL PROTECTED] project becoming a regular incubator project of OpenOffice.org,
Martin
Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote:
Hi OOo Folks,
one or the other may already have heard of a pet project of mine, namely
the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". One important milestone for this effort is becoming an
Incubator Project.
Hereby I officially like to announce, that I am heading for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
becoming an Incubator Project.
That means that later on I am going to ask you to show your interest and
to vote for [EMAIL PROTECTED], this is required as of our policies, please find
the details in
http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/protocols_proposing.html
If you think that this desire is no valid, or otherwise flawed, please
reply (either publicly or privately, at your convenience).
To get your interest and hopefully your support, I would like to give
the motivation:
"The [EMAIL PROTECTED] project aims to develop companion products for ODF and
OpenOffice.org to extend their reach into the WWW. The first planned
product is an ODF Wiki, allowing to edit server side ODF documents
WYSIWYG with the OpenOffice.org application suite, providing HTML and
ODF access via HTTP respectively WebDAV, actually making the WWW as easy
editable as classical documents, such as text documents, spreadsheets,
presentations or drawings."
I already created some pages in the OOo Wiki around [EMAIL PROTECTED], where you
can find all the details, including a screencast and installation
instructions for the prototype, please have a look at
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ODF%40WWW
Thanks for listening and support
Kay
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