Hi :) WooooHooooo. Seems like a few people really ironed things out nicely there. Good work all! Congrats and regards from Tom :)
--- On Tue, 26/6/12, Charles-H. Schulz <[email protected]> wrote: From: Charles-H. Schulz <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Draft Conference PR To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 26 June, 2012, 17:27 Drew, 2012/6/26 drew jensen <[email protected]> > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 08:23 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz 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 . > > We of course would not want to embarrass these gentlemen. > > > > Thanks, > > Charles. > > Hello Charles, et al > > Well that did not sound very good at all and I was rather distressed by > the statement of facts there. I had the opportunity to ask about this in > a different public forum, but too individuals I assumed directly > involved. I did so, let me tell you why. > > I think this is very important, this plugfest, at the conference - for > one thing I believe it is the type of activity core to the idea of doing > things for the common good. Beyond that however, beyond just the common > good, it is also of great good, IMO, to TDF/Libreoffice specifically. > > Anyway - so here is the text of an email I sent about this: > > "What is this I hear that TDF is being denied the use of the name, ODF > Plugfest. The plan was to host such an event at our annual conference > but apparently folks (hell IBM) is blocking it...so what's up with that > - what happened to openness as in Open standard, non encumbered by.... > and all that BS?" I hope that is a reasonable paraphrase of what Charles > said above. > > And here two responses. > > Roberto Galopinni said: > "We have a conf call planned for this Thursday, I don't think we have > any blocker. The only issue I've been reading about is all about the > fact that part of the discussion about the organization has not been > held on the usual channels. As a result some of us were not aware of > the fact the next ODF-Plugfest was going to be held concurrently with > LO event, so when the news come out it was a kind of surprise. > > So said, we're on track to start working on making it happen. > > Roberto" > > Rob Weir responded with a lengthier email, mostly dealing with process > and I'll quote only a portion. > > ".... > 4) No one (to my knowledge) from IBM has opposed or even given an > opinion on TDF hosting a Plugfest. > > .... > > -Rob" > > There was also included the comment that the mailing list: > https://open.nlnet.nl/mailman/listinfo/plugtest-organisers > > is where requests/information about ODF Plugfests needs to go through. > > So I just want to emphasis how important I think it is for TDF to do > this, that I'm happy that it appears doable and want to help if I can - > is there any grunt kind of task that would be needed that I could > perform to help make this happen. > > > Thanks, > > This is a developing situation, developing in a good sense from what I've seen today. Today indeed, we finally agreed on a confcall for good on Thursday. I won't comment on the various reactions you got, but I agree with you that if we can do an official ODF plugfest together, it will be a great thing to do. best, Charles. -- 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
