Hadrian / Raphael, I will be at Apachecon Miami and open for any opportunity. Will either of you be there?
Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 20, 2017, at 9:05 PM, Hadrian Zbarcea <hzbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On 04/20/2017 11:06 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 4:07 AM, Raphael Bircher >> <rbircherapa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi Ted >>> >>> Am .04.2017, 06:14 Uhr, schrieb Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> Raphael, >>>> >>>> Why don't you get some folks together and start a company that solicits >>>> donations to support OO development and QA work? >>> >>> >>> That's the Apache like style, and that's exactly the reason why i write to >>> community and not to the openoffice dev. We have many projects at big data >>> who are really successful. How they handle this problem? How they get paid >>> stuff involved into their projects. Maybe we can learn from it. >> >> It happens in exactly the way Ted is suggesting -- companies building product >> around Bigdata projects are handling client relationships and they pour $$$ >> back >> into the projects either via hiring more developers to work on them or by >> direct >> sponsorship of ASF or by promoting the projects via conferences, training, >> etc. >> OR all of the above ;-) > Ok. I like a challenge. Raphael, how much, or what would it take to make what > you suggest happen? I am willing to pony up some cash and other resources. > >> >> The challenge that is unique to OpenOffice as you are well aware is >> the fact that >> it is both a product and a project. > That's not unique to OO. There are other projects that are a product too. > Tomcat, ServiceMix, Archiva are examples. > > I see other challenges and opportunities (depending on how one looks at the > glass). For instance the fact that both MS and Google, major competitors, > have a cloud service offering. > >> >> Thanks, >> Roman. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
