Hi :) I don't think we have to worry about it.
It's easier for whoever owns OpenOffice to copy the LibreOffice documentation and then tweak it a bit than the other way around. So, LO will increasingly be seen as 'upstream' and the best place to work on stuff. To modify it for downstream just rename a chapter & delete sections on functionality they don't have. TDF are unlikely to chase people through legal action over a few screen-shots or LO or TDF branding appearing in other people's documentation. In a way it would be free advertising. I guess that to help ODFauthors with future releases of LibreOffice Documentation a lot of re-working sentences could be done to avoid words that are specific to LO. It's an impossible task for this release though. There is an opportunity for ODFauthors to promote themselves as a group worth paying (or resourcing) to produce documentation for various projects such as KOffice, AbiWord&Gnumeric as well as OpenOffice. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Marc Paré <m...@marcpare.com> To: documentat...@libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 10 June, 2011 6:11:21 Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Apache OpenOffice.org Le 2011-06-09 17:38, Jean Weber a écrit : > Rob Weir reports that there are 75 proposed committers signed up for > the Apache OpenOffice project. > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal > > I don't know what this will mean for us in the OOo and LibO docs > groups, but I am concerned about the potential for further > fragmentation of a small group of docs people into working on several > projects. > > We really need to work on better ways to reuse material without time > consuming rebranding -- by automating everything we can and choosing > not to do some non-essential things that can't be automated. I have a > paper mostly written on this topic, which I'll make available when I > get home late next week. > > Jean > The list of committers include: "It is perfectly all right to have your name on this list if you contribute in another way than to commit program code (please maintain alphabetical ordering)". So, the list includes non-dev people. There is no breakdown in committer categories as it is most likely to their advantage to not do so. It gives people the impression that all on the list will advance the code ... or in our case, for the documentation team, that they may have a large documentation contingent or for the marketing team ... etc. It is reasonable to expect that whoever had not moved to the TDF/LibreOffice would be interested in joining the new OpenOffice project. The fact remains that, LibreOffice has now transplanted itself as the new codebase of choice and that the "Legacy of OpenOffice.org" chart on the ASF page has been rewritten and LibreOffice is now the new base from which adaptations will now be made of. I wouldn't worry too much about the 75 or more committers. We are definitely on the right path and I have to say that it is a pleasure to contribute to LibreOffice and that, this, by itself, is one of the greatest reason why people will continue to join the TDF/LibreOffice project. The cooperation across the different teams as well as the quality of work and friendly exchange of ideas are the attractive elements that keep people interested in LibreOffice. A big thanks to all contributors and to your future contributions to LibreOffice. Cheers Marc -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
