On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:49 PM, <donald_harbi...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > Simon Phipps <si...@webmink.com> wrote on 06/06/2011 03:18:11 PM: > > > From: Simon Phipps <si...@webmink.com> > > To: general@incubator.apache.org > > Date: 06/06/2011 03:19 PM > > Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org Summit Proposal > > > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 15:04, Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > Right. > > > > > > And we can also be optimistic that the Incubator will vote the podling > > > in. And optimistic that we'd have something to talk about. Really... > > > nobody is talking about any kind of meetup before mid-July, so there > > > is time. > > > > > > Worst case? Podling doesn't get started, and we just don't meet up. > > > Not a big deal. > > > > > > But to get the ball rolling... yah. Let's try now. > > > > > > > > In the event it doesn't get started (and I sincerely hope it does) it > will > > be even more important for the OpenOffice.org community-at-large to come > > together to work out what happens next. So I figure we need these > meetings > > > regardless, unless we all want the future devised in closed rooms by > > corporate politicians... > > I thought the purpose of this thread was to move forward. > > > > > S. > /don
I don't get your point, Don? Are you saying you disagree that community summits are worth holding regardless of the outcome of the Apache activity? S.