Hi 2012/4/25 drew <d...@baseanswers.com>: > I'm just curious - what do you feel you can do with openoffice.org.br > that you could not do with openoffice.apahce.org/br, for instance?
Drew, when we had BrOffice.org/OpenOffice.org.br over our infrastructure, we did a social network page where we had: * news - a clipping service about OOo/BrOo/ODF in Brasil and around the world, translated for pt-BR for our users; * incubation - for new small and localized projects, like our spellchecker, thesaurus, templates for brazilian general documents, etc. In final of BrOffice, we had ~10 incubated projects (that for us are *BIG* projects); * User group - I developed a different way to promote Broo/OOo here, with a logic to promote the opensource and our product; * wiki - for general things. Looking from a promotion/marketing vision, using a CMS like Drupal, we learned a lot how is possible use the social net for present and involve new users and volunteers. In transition for LibO, was more a lot of good things (to do and not) looking this strategy. But returning for your question, what i can do that not in apache infra? I can install a CMS, with a different focus (more sellable), that edit text files arround a VCS. This way, (IMHO) effectively isn't a good way to receive contribution from communication/publicity/grafical volunteers. But one thing that i think with my self, was if our strategy was considered waste for some there (libo), why we got ~10M of users? My R$ 0,02.... Best, Claudio
