2012/5/20 Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> > Paulo, > > Rob also clarified what I mean by people speaking for themselves > when he said this earlier: > > "For example, I have given such presentations before. > I just say that I am, "Rob Weir, a Committer on the > Apache OpenOffice project". I think several of us > have done this as well. > > If someone is not a Committer yet, they could identify > themselves a "Contributor" or "Developer" or "Translator" > or "Volunteer" or something like that. > > Taking about the project is fine. Calling for new volunteers > is good as well." > > It is important that no one appear to be speaking as an > official representative of the ASF or of the Apache OpenOffice > project. > > Yes, I agree.
<snip> > As you see, many such statements are "future looking". None of us > can say whether they will be true or not. And none of us should > obligate the project to deliver a particular feature. > But you can say, for example, something like: "From what I have read > on the mailing list, it looks like we have volunteers interested in > contributing Norwegian and Hebrew translations for the next release", > or "Current discussions point to a 3.4.1 maintenance release in a > couple of months" or "IMHO, I prefer AOO over Project Foo because X, Y > and Z". > "Speaking for yourself" means that when you are stating an opinion, that you "own" the opinion and say that it is yours. > I understand it too. > > -Rob > [ ... ] Regards. -- Paulo de Souza Lima http://almalivre.wordpress.com Curitiba - PR Linux User #432358 Ubuntu User #28729
