On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 11:28 +0200, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > Hello Ian, > I'm very surprized to learn that this consortium has been founded by the > OASIS consortium? (see: > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39228251,00.htm) > Is this true?
Looking at the way this has been taken fron the press release, I think its the fact that we have members from OASIS, SF UK and OSC that has led the journalist to present in that way. Journalists have a habit of doing such thngs with press releases. > Because I think that it's important to stress that this Fellowship is a > purely private initiative, such as spreadopendocument.org, or > friendsofopendocument.org . I'm not sure what you mean by a private initiative. Its an independent initiative in the sense that although its backed by members of other organisations in many different countries it is in itself not part of any other particular project. This is deliberate. We don't want Open Document to be specific to any project since the whole point is to make it a universal standard. So for example, if OD was specifically associated with Sun and Star Office it would make adoption less likely. > In this regard, it is right to explain to the public that if they wish > to donate to this consortium, it will be a donation to a private group, > not to, for instance, the OpenOffice.org's project, for instance. We are very clear that any donation to ODF is definitely not a donation to the OpenOffice.org project. While we hope there is synergy and there will be cooperation with other projects, ODF is independent in its own right. > If somebody wishes to donate to OpenOffice.org, the office suite and the > FLOSS project behind Open Document, this page: > http://contributing.openoffice.org/donate.html is the right place to go to. I think publicising where to make donations for other projects is entirely up to other projects. I was just commissioned to write an article on OD and its history. I will donate the fee to the ODF. The article relates to OpenOffice.org but that is not its main thrust. If it was I would probably donate the fee to some aspect of OpenOffice.org. BTW, the article should help the marketing effort of OOo because its for the trade magazine that is distributed to all the systems builders and the OEM channel in the UK. Just for info, ODF has members in Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, USA, UK. Its early days yet but it would be wrong to think this was just a few people with limited global support. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
