Re: [DISCUSSION] ODF Plugfest, September 2015 (was RE: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton ... )
On 1 August 2015 at 19:23, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: jan i wrote: On Saturday, August 1, 2015, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Well, the project does have funds to spend on events and they have to be spent, so funding is only a matter of a discussion/vote/consensus here. Don't worry about this. We used to have a rule of 250eur if I remember right, travelling from US is likely to be 1000+ We've never had generic provisions, since all events are specific. I think that limit was for FOSDEM. Moreover, we never got to the step of actually reimbursing anyone, since nobody ever (me, you, anybody else) asked for travel reimbursement in the end... If we set some guidelines, it would make sense to have at least a recommendation to prefer short-range travel. I saw the 250EUR as generic, we briefly discussed it for at least another event, but you are right it never came to payment time. I would like to have guidelines, but not really event specific, but a max. pr person pr event and that is how I saw the 250EUR. We do not need strong guidelines, but something should be made, to ensure fairness (e.g. the 250EUR would not have paid in full my last trip to FOSDEM) and I totally agree with short-range travel. rgds jan i Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [DISCUSSION] ODF Plugfest, September 2015 (was RE: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton ... )
On 01/08/2015 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I think if we create a portfolio of tests and a few slides on the status of AOO by mid-September, anyone could be present as an AOO participant. So in terms of tests we would need, for example, ODF documents exported by Google Docs (or IBM Docs, or whatever claims to produce ODF) that do not render as expected in OpenOffice? I assume this interoperability (seeing the type of event) is meant exclusively in ODF format, right? I.e., nothing related to OOXML for example. I do not have the means to travel to The Netherlands for this event. Well, the project does have funds to spend on events and they have to be spent, so funding is only a matter of a discussion/vote/consensus here. Don't worry about this. I am willing to go, although it would be valuable to at least have someone more technically involved around interoperability testing. I don't think it is necessary to have someone be an official Sure, any properly skilled contributor can do. Is there a limit on the number of attendees? You could also be 2 people, Amsterdam is easily reachable by anyone in Europe. I find this to be an interesting event, especially as I am preparing an ApacheCon talk somewhat related to this; but it overlaps with another event and I won't be able to attend. I trust Roberto will continue to participate on the calls I haven't understood if Roberto is going to attend too, but a stronger presence at technical and non-technical events can only be beneficial. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [DISCUSSION] ODF Plugfest, September 2015 (was RE: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton ... )
jan i wrote: On Saturday, August 1, 2015, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Well, the project does have funds to spend on events and they have to be spent, so funding is only a matter of a discussion/vote/consensus here. Don't worry about this. We used to have a rule of 250eur if I remember right, travelling from US is likely to be 1000+ We've never had generic provisions, since all events are specific. I think that limit was for FOSDEM. Moreover, we never got to the step of actually reimbursing anyone, since nobody ever (me, you, anybody else) asked for travel reimbursement in the end... If we set some guidelines, it would make sense to have at least a recommendation to prefer short-range travel. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [DISCUSSION] ODF Plugfest, September 2015 (was RE: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton ... )
On Saturday, August 1, 2015, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 01/08/2015 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I think if we create a portfolio of tests and a few slides on the status of AOO by mid-September, anyone could be present as an AOO participant. So in terms of tests we would need, for example, ODF documents exported by Google Docs (or IBM Docs, or whatever claims to produce ODF) that do not render as expected in OpenOffice? I assume this interoperability (seeing the type of event) is meant exclusively in ODF format, right? I.e., nothing related to OOXML for example. I do not have the means to travel to The Netherlands for this event. Well, the project does have funds to spend on events and they have to be spent, so funding is only a matter of a discussion/vote/consensus here. Don't worry about this. We used to have a rule of 250eur if I remember right, travelling from US is likely to be 1000+ I am willing to go, although it would be valuable to at least have someone more technically involved around interoperability testing. I don't think it is necessary to have someone be an official Sure, any properly skilled contributor can do. Is there a limit on the number of attendees? You could also be 2 people, Amsterdam is easily reachable by anyone in Europe. I find this to be an interesting event, especially as I am preparing an ApacheCon talk somewhat related to this; but it overlaps with another event and I won't be able to attend. I trust Roberto will continue to participate on the calls I haven't understood if Roberto is going to attend too, but a stronger presence at technical and non-technical events can only be beneficial. +1 rgds jan i Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
