On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > On May 21, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > > +1 > > > > Looking good. I would go with it. It is certainly something that the > Apache OpenOffice project can use to refer people too. > > > > +1 - as well. > > I think that we should link to this page. > > > - Dennis > > > > PS: A problem not for immediate solution: The link at the end about > mailing lists is a little indirect. On the other hand, linking to the page > that lists all of the mailing list archives is not it either. It appears > that there is not a handy shallow link that finds individual projects and > information about contacting them, accessing their lists, for end users who > have questions. Perhaps search engines will come to the rescue. > > - The link can be an "Alway Free" button on the topnav. > I like this idea a lot -- we could always reinforcement of this. I'm not that keen on adding it as an extra item in the topnav, however. I don't have an alternate suggestion except maybe linking it in from our "The Free and Open Productivity Suite" somehow. enh...???? > Does the project want to provide translations to make the information more > accessible? > > If so, we can make our own version of your page with our project MLs and > translations. Somehow we would want to follow edits to your original page > and incorporate as appropriate. > > Regards, > Dave > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Shane Curcuru [mailto:a...@shanecurcuru.org] > > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 18:38 > > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org > > Subject: [Comment] Apache software is always free > > > > Since this question is coming up much much more now that we have AOO, I > > figured we need an official URL and resource to point to when people ask. > > > > http://www.apache.org/free > > > > Any glaring errors? Anything I should add, or express more clearly? > > > > The immediate driver for this as a memorable URL is the AOO podling, > > since you clearly have the greatest need (with the huge non-technical > > user base). Is there anything in particular we should consider adding > > to address AOO or OOo users specifically? > > > > - Shane > > > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." -- Mark Twain