It's just a meeting between colleagues. If all it does is break a little of the entrenched ice I'd call it a success.
Sure beats email for dealing with emotions/trust. ----- Original Message ---- > From: Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Mon, June 6, 2011 2:59:54 PM > Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org Summit Proposal > > A summit meeting presupposed that a relatively small number of > entities have a relatively well-understood agenda. > > It cannot work as a forum for 50-odd (!) people to try to find common ground. > > Now, what might these entities be? At Apache, I claim that the only > appropriate entity would be an Apache PMC -- or, by a stretch, a PPMC. > The direction of OOo at Apache will be set by the project -- with some > oversight and guidance by the larger Foundation, to be sure. > > So it seems to me that this is rather premature. First there has to be > a podling, and then it has to jell into a PPMC with a vision, and only > *then* would it be in a position to summitize. > > If the ipmc votes against the podling, we're in novel territory, and > in that case the Foundation itself might indeed have reason to open > discussions with various and sundry. > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 14:31, eric b <eric.bach...@free.fr> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Le 6 juin 11 à 20:21, Greg Stein a écrit : > >> > >>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 14:18, Alexandro Colorado <j...@openoffice.org> > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> I'll surrely can make it to the US if needed. OSCON is good, but would > >>>> like > >>>> to know if there will be enough OOo people there to ensure there would be > >>>> an > >>>> useful exchange. > >>> > >>> More than zero is better than we have so far :-) > >>> > >> > >> > >> Alexandro isnot joking, and pointed a big issue : there will be nobody from > >> OOo represented (I mean the one who put their names on the wiki) > >> > >> Words are missing me (sorry, I'm not a native speaker), but there is > >> something wrong ... > > > > Oh, I agree that having lots of people meet up is best. But I also > > believe that just *two* people meeting is better than nothing. > > "Critical mass" is great, but I think a lot of people miss the benefit > > of a simple meeting between a couple meeting. > > > > For example, if you and I met for lunch... wouldn't that be good? > > > > In some respects, getting 50 people into a room together may be > > shooting yourself in the foot. If I wanted to spend 5 minutes with > > each other person in the room, that would take over 4 hours!! I would > > much rather spend an hour sharing beers with three people, than three > > minutes each with 50 people. > > > > Cheers, > > -g > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
