On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 2012-10-11, at 20:52 , Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >>> On 2012-10-11, at 24:24 , Rob Weir wrote: >>>> OK. So we've said that we're happy to share a devroom. This is >>>> good. Are we still waiting to hear from LO? >> >> Yes; apparently LibreOffice had not thought about this, even though it >> was clearly written in the guidelines that organizers would have asked >> to merge similar devrooms. So we'll need to wait. The organizers set >> Saturday as a deadline. >> > I spoke with Michael Meeks (hi michael) about sharing and he suggested that > it may be best to have separate rooms and if it does seem logical and > politically feasible to consider sharing on one or some subjects. No one > likes politics but reality is what it is. >
Politics is what we make it. I don't think we should consider Michael's view to be the last word on the "art of of the possible". >>> I'm in Paris now and will likely be either meeting with or dodging >>> (or both) LO entities. >>> I can ask. They may now know, however, as I would guess the relevant >>> LO person is Meeks? or Thorsten? >> >> Actually, at the moment we are waiting for a "yes" or "no" from LibreOffice, >> and I don't know how many people are involved in the decision and who (I >> didn't see anything on the LibreOffice developers list, but it could be the >> wrong place). If it's a "yes", then we will definitely have to talk, and >> your availability is very welcome. > > I think we ought to propose our room directly NOW. And if LO wants to share > later, then we can conceivably work with Tias and others to arrange that. > Fosdem is fairly plastic. > > I do think it reasonable to consider this occasion as an opportunity to come > to a détente or understanding. AFAICT, the issues that could be resolved by > some public collaboration could have more impact in their effect on the > market--in that it would demonstrate to users that regardless of the flavour, > the substance is, well, solid. > > So, let's propose now, independent of LO and if they want then later to join > up with us, fine--unless you end up with more current information than I--? > Andrea has already done this. Details in previous posts to this thread. The idea of the shared room came from the organizers. It is up to the organizers what to do if AOO agrees to a shared room and LO does not. -Rob > Louis
