[tdf-discuss] Desktop Summit
The TDF people are understandably busy with organisational tasks, nonetheless, it is a bit surprising that there seem to be no plans for a LO presence in Berlin this August at the GNOME-KDE fest. Could we not, at least, have recommendations for a couple of hotels we might congregate at and a bar where we could push a few tables together and hang a nice green LibreOffice banner? Doug Bash -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: US Group Status ( was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Media contact for the USA )
--- On Wed, 10/6/10, Drew Jensen wrote: From: Drew Jensen Subject: Re: US Group Status ( was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Media contact for the USA ) To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 12:22 PM On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 15:12 -0400, Benjamin Horst wrote: > Drew, > > Thanks for the update--I am looking forward to seeing this group come tog ether! > Hi Ben So am I. Also, I don't much, in detail, of what Italo is doing. I have a very loose understanding, if you be willing to take on the task of covering that I think, it would be very beneficial for everyone, I know, it would for me. Thanks Drew I'm glad this title changed. In an early thread that was lost when Drew had to re-start Nabble, he, (me), and Andre Schnable talked about setting up an Entity here in the US that could co-ordinate with the Document Foundation-which is itself still organizing. Andre-who has now done this twice, pointed out that you had better identify just what it is that the “community” you are establishing w ants to do. As I've looked into the whole non-profit picture, it has become very clear that while it is fairly easy to start an organization, sustaining it is much more difficult. Less than 30% of all registered np's in the US last for two years . I agree with Ben Horst that it's great to have a press pro in position to push our message. I would like to ensure, though, that we have thought about the message we wish to push. Drew has been working to set-up a communication channel. Let's, for right now, try to assess what those already involved not only want to do, but will work to do, rather than worry about the world at large. IANAL-but I hope that at this stage we have some interested people who do have a lawyer as a relative, significant other, or, debtor, whom we can shamelessly exploit. Hey, we'll buy them a beer. PS: I was not at the meeting in Budapest, but last year, in Italy, those of us who actually lived in the US were thin on the ground. One was a student, there as a Google Summer of Code presenter. Through communication with Thorsten at TDF, she has responded to an email that, though busy, would like to work with LO. Therefore, I think we can claim we have our first US core developer. Doug Bash -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] [Legalese] "Foundation" or "Group"?
--- On Fri, 10/1/10, Andre Schnabel wrote: From: Andre Schnabel Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] [Legalese] "Foundation" or "Group"? To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 6:25 AM Hi, Original-Nachricht > Von: Gianluca Turconi > > Should Germany be the chosen country in order to register the foundation > or is that point a work in progress too? It's in progress. We (speaking of OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. in this case) are happy to be the interim backing for the Foundation activities - but it is not our intention to "become the Foundation". Regarding the country - there are several things to be considered, like strength of community (which is very good in France, Italy, Germany), local law (esp. regarding taxes) ... We are currently working on more detailed plans - but we thougt, it was quite unfair to set up a Foundation and tell everyone "that's it". André -- Hi all; Thanks for beginning this undertaking. The user community is undoubtedly st rongest in Europe, as Andre notes, but if this can be structured so that in tegration with an American non-profit is somehow possible it will certainly help overall growth. Open software adoption by library systems and other g overnmental entities here, especially at a time of severe budgetary pres sures, is being discussed in many venues and it is much easier to propose o pen alternatives if representing some actual Entity rather than merely a Go od Idea. Doug Bash -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
