Il giorno dom, 13-02-2005 alle 09:30 +1100, David N. Wilson ha scritto: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 06:13 am, Van-Couvering,EJ (pgr) wrote: > > David, this is a great update, thanks so much. So, what we could do is: > > > > 1) recruit within our own networks (ie university IT departments, > > anyone?) for talented programmers. My idea is, I can help this by > > creating a poster in PDF that people can print up. This would instruct > > them to visit the website, signup, and email -- Bruce maybe? About > > getting involved. Others on the list can help by putting up the flyers > > etc where they may be useful. > > > Most IT departments have projects like the Kent State Uni capstone project so > they are worth approaching. I tried at my university but had no success, I > think they wanted more 'commercial' type of application. Our project has > plenty of new cool and trendy technology so that should be a selling point.
Another way tp find funding/developers could be asking the right people within Linux distributions: there are some who put a lot of effort into customizing OOo appearance (M. Meeks with his ooo-build package, for instance), and some distros are known for funding open source projects (SUSE, Mandrakelinux). > > 2)Documentation and style templates might be things that people on this > > list could do. Perhaps we could find out a bit more about how to > > contribute to these? > > I do not think is quite ready to start on this yet but hopefully in a few > weeks we could start. > > You actually do not need to know much about xml to convert one of Bruce's > style sheet to another format. The differences in the bibliographic table are > usually just in the ordering of the fields, character format, and extra > punctuation such as commas and brackets. It is much easier to modify an > example than to create from scratch. Please let us know on the ml. > > 4) Regarding money, it would be quite easy to get a donation if we could > > come up with specific costs and possibly an assurance from Oo that if we > > donate for the Bib project it will go to that. We could get online > > donations. We might consider cost-per-click advertising on Google for > > terms such as "open source bibliography" I have some experience in > > search marketing and could handle that, I think. It would be a good way > > to contribute. But we'd have to have the mechanism in place first. > Yes this is well worth considering. I was concerned about the legal aspects > of > managing the money. And other option would be set up an arrangement by which > we could put donors in contact with developers, and the donors pay the > developers directly. If I'm not wrong, GNOME did this with some degree of success by creating "GNOME bounties", perhaps it's worth to investigate it. I'm sure that there are people willing to pay to add these features to OOo. Ciao -- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it Dipartimento di Scienze rosselli at ling.unipi.it del Linguaggio Then spoke the thunder DA Universita' di Torino Datta: what have we given? (TSE) Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre, mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
