Am Montag, 24. September 2012 um 21:32 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: > Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > > On 12-09-24, at 10:52 , Rob Weir wrote: > > > Perhaps it could be de-politicized a little more if the request is > > > for an "ODF Editors" room, and do with multilateral, with LO, > > > Calligra, AbiWord, Gnumeric, etc. > > > > > > > I'm all for that and tried that in 2011 but not this year (2012). > > > > > That would definitely be good for me too, and it's enough to declare in > our application that we are available for such a solution. Note that > there is no need for a joint proposal: FOSDEM organizers will collect > the applications and, based on them, propose to co-organize the > devrooms, see https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_devrooms.html > > Going on, this is the request I would send, posted here for corrections > and lazy consensus. Note: the "Saturday" choice below is totally arbitrary. > --- > * Devroom name: Apache OpenOffice > > * Description > > Apache OpenOffice, formerly known as OpenOffice.org, is one of the most > popular Free and Open Source software projects. The project, hosted by > the Apache Software Foundation since June 2011, had two successful > releases in 2012, with more than 16 million downloads in 4 months. > OpenOffice is developed by a large and diverse community, including > full-time and part-time core developers, translators, testers, user > experience experts, documentation contributors, developers of > third-party extensions and templates. > > * Project URLs > - http://www.openoffice.org > - http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/ > > * Preferred day: Saturday or Sunday > - Saturday > > * Why should FOSDEM accept this proposal? > > After a period of reorganization at Apache, the OpenOffice project > managed to come back to a regular release schedule, is attracting new > volunteers and is now able to successfully engage them. Recent > contributions, like the donation of the Lotus Symphony code by IBM, > provide interesting challenges for new developers, and there are a lot > of tasks available for non-developers too. > > An Apache OpenOffice devroom would allow existing volunteers to meet and > discuss future developments, and users and potential new volunteers to > learn how they can help the project, thanks to presentations and > hacking sessions spanning a broad range of topics. > > The Apache OpenOffice project is definitely willing to consider a > possible suggestion by the organizers for a joint "ODF editors" devroom, > dedicated to Apache OpenOffice and to the other Free and Open Source > editors using OpenDocument as their native format. > --- > > > The issue: who wants to own this? I have done that and worked with > > fosdem for several years, as has Juergen, to whom I handed off the > > task back in 2008 or 2009. > > > > > I just want to make sure we submit our application in time. I wrote the > draft above so that we have a concrete basis for discussion, and I'll > likely attend FOSDEM, as I've done quite regularly in recent years. > > If nobody else steps up, I'll send the application after we have > consensus on it, but if anybody else wants to take over from now on, > it's absolutely OK for me, provided we meet the deadlines, i.e., we send > the application this week. > >
I like your draft and please move forward with it. I will support you later on with further organization... Juergen > > Regards, > Andrea. > >
