On 10/10/12, Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: > On 9 October 2012 22:05, Raphael Bircher <rbirc...@apache.org> wrote: > > ... > >>> It would be a very rare open source even that did not have at least >>> one Apache member present. >> Maybe in US. In Europe, Apache is nearly nowhere present. Not even at >> FLOSS Events. > > I'm afraid your assumption is incorrect. The ASF is much broader and > deeper than you imaging. Rob is right to ask how AOO might use that > network to its advantage. http://people.apache.org/map.html
Even so, from all the FLOSS events I have attended to, in a span of 12 years of attending events. I only met 1 guy from apache. Not saying that there weren't others, but from personal experience, I have met more MySQL, Drupal, PHP and Asterisk guys than Apache or any of its projects. > > However, I do think the general discussion should continue as Ian says > later in the thread this is not an either/or thing. > > Ross > -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org