Note that the issue of monetary contributions and/or donations is a
major one, especially since there are real policy differences between
how OpenOffice.org used to work under Sun/Oracle and how the ASF does
it's fundraising. In particular, the ASF has a [email protected]
team and VP who work on fundraising for all projects; individual
projects do not specifically solicit for funds (other than to link to
the ASF Sponsorship page, etc.).
I would urge the PPMC to start a separate thread dealing with the
contributing.oo.o page, the relationship with SPI, and any other
fundraising matters.
Get a description of any pre-existing ways that funds might have come
into the project in the recent past, figure out a proposed plan for what
the PPMC would like to do in the future, and then work with fundraising@
(a privately archived list) to move forward.
- Shane
On 8/12/2011 8:40 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:05 AM, drew<[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 22:41 -0400, Rob Weir wrote:
<snip>
http://contributing.openoffice.org/donate.html
Ah right - so we should contact SPI and ask for them to stop taking
donations for OpenOffice.org, yes?
mmh, i am not sure. Team OpenOffice.org still exists and is as far as i know
still committed to support OpenOffice. We have to check how this can be
aligned with Apache because we probably don't want to loose this opportunity
to get some money for the project. For example for conferences, marketing
etc.
Juergen
Thanks,
Drew
