Raphael, Why don't you get some folks together and start a company that solicits donations to support OO development and QA work?
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hi Raphael, > > Not sure why you aren't trying this conversation on the OpenOffice > Developer list. > > It is true there is a lack of c++ devs and QA. We were too dependent on > IBM. You had volunteered to do Windows builds, but had other considerations? > > Regards, > Dave > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Apr 19, 2017, at 1:19 PM, Raphael Bircher <rbircherapa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi people > > > > I want to raise a question here. I know, we have to solve our problems > our self, but maybe here are people with ideas. OpenOffice has a big > community problem. The community was simply melted away in the last year. > We have at the moment no Company who offer devs. And the rest of the > community fights the absolutely urgent issues. There was already a > discussion about retirement, it was refused. But this doesn't mean we are > out of the danger zone. > > > > The sweet part of this story is our user base. We have 100'000 Downloads > EVERY single DAY. I mean, this is crazy. We have really loyal users. We get > also frequently messages from user who just want to say "thank you". > > > > The sad thing about this is, they have actually no chance to do > something for the program. They are looked out. Remember, they are normal > users, they are no developers. They are typically private users or small > companies. But imagine what happened if only a small part of our users pay > 20$. > > > > We really need devs and we need skilled one, because OpenOffice is > challenging for programmers. Companies with a load of money has a easy way > to influence an Apache project. Simply pay a developer, that's it. But > people without big pocket are simply looked out. (if they have no > programmer skills) That's not fair! > > > > How to solve this problem? Thanks a load. > > > > Regards Raphael > > > > -- > > My introduction https://youtu.be/Ln4vly5sxYU > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
