Hi :) Ahhh, now i get it. I agreee with what Charles seems to be saying here.
It would be nice to help ODF plugfests take place more cheaply and help them directly access end-users of various products that use the ODF standard but if that is creating friction then it needs thinking about. >From the sounds of it IBM's attitude is typical of the sort of thing that >keeps MS dominant. We could be co-operating with each other and pushing the >standard forwards, getting it more publicity and raising it's profile. >Hopefully IBM might realise that sometime soon. TDF and LO are quite amazing and other projects should be pushing us into helping raise their profile instead of grumbling about your hard-won successes. Apols and regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 25/6/12, Charles-H.Schulz <[email protected]> wrote: From: Charles-H.Schulz <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Draft Conference PR To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 25 June, 2012, 10:55 Le lundi 25 juin 2012 à 17:23 +1000, Jean Weber a écrit : > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Charles-H. Schulz > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Florian, > > > > Could we please take out the "ODF plugfest" mention and replace it by ODF > > Track? It seems that IBM is vehemently refusing to allow the official ODF > > Plugfest to occur at the LibreOffice Conference. > > > Wow, really? Do they have an excuse... sorry, reason? Their reason is that "in order to avoid any friction, ODF plugfests should take place in neutral venues, for instance not in LibreOffice Conference or AOO conferences". The problem is of course that there has been so far zero AOO conference, and already one LibreOffice Conference. I don't see why it's bad to have an ODF PLugfest at the LibreOffice conference or at any AOO conference, or even KDE Summit, for that matter. There are multiple implementations of ODF out there, and it's an advantage, not a problem. But the "neutrality" argument is always pushed in such a way that TDF is the culprit, and I'm getting tired of that. I am very much in favor to keep our ODF Track without the ODF Plugfest tagging on it, and in fact I think that instead of a "track" we should turn it into a specific hackfest on ODF, where everyone (I mean, *everyone*) would be invited to join. What do others think? best, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-Founder & Director, The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
