On 27/09/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote:
I've just sent the devroom application. ...
Our availability to share a joint devroom with other projects is stated
in the proposal, so it will likely happen that FOSDEM organizers
consider this option and make their recommendations accordingly.
And indeed this happened today: FOSDEM organizers, who received an
application from Apache OpenOffice and one from LibreOffice, asked
whether we can share a devroom. Of course this was already in our
proposal, so I said it would be OK for us. Then a number of practical
issues would have to be addressed, but there is time for it.
Thanks Juergen, Louis, Rob for raising the issue of a possible shared
devroom while we were drafting the proposal: this saves a lot of time
and discussions now. The shared devroom would have the tentative name of
"ODF Offices".
For reference, I'm copying my answer below, and I hope I will be allowed
to share the whole conversation here if it continues (but I don't think
it will continue, at least on our side).
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> [Organizers ask whether we would consider hosting a shared
> devroom]
Sure we would. While we can of course fill a whole day (and more) with
Apache OpenOffice presentations, we had noticed your preference for
shared devrooms and we had discussed it before I forwarded our proposal.
I've nothing to add to what we already wrote:
'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.'
Actually, I do have something to add: may I repost your messages from
this discussion to the ooo-dev public discussion list? Apache OpenOffice
takes all its decisions in public and by consensus, and I am just one of
dozens of PPMC members. So it would be a bit awkward for me to discuss
in private (if there is still need for it) and having to report in
public for taking decisions.
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Regards,
Andrea.
