My limited experience, trying to get a PR release after Corel announced plans to support Linux, is that this is not quick.
The recent beta 2 announcement was prepared within 24 hours. The were some issues coming from the release engineering side that caused an additional delay, but the announcement text was prepared collaboratively in a short time frame.
Are you saying that MarCons are spokesmen for the project? That would be good to know. I didn't realize that came out of the recent discussion.
> Are you saying that MarCons are spokesmen for the project? That would be > good to know. I didn't realize that came out of the recent discussion. To be honest, I had not thought too much about that when I quickly wrote my reply. I have to admit I'm not fully aware who is currently a member of the marcon list. Thus, without a check I would not go that far that a member of the marcon list is automatically also an official PR spokesperson. Since we had lots of trouble in different areas and different projects with people expressing their own opinions and implementing their own personal strategies in the name of OpenOffice.org. Thus, there has to be some kind of control mechanism in place, e.g. the official spokespeople could be some elected members of the community with the approval of the communit council. Since we need local contact people the native-lang project leads plus the marketing project leads and the community council members would be a good start. In addition, we could add a few additional PR experts with the "approval" of the community council. Whoever the project picks, we would also need a mechanism to stop people from doing/saying what they want to do/say if start to act like a loose cannon. For example telling the press nonse twice (i.e. one more time after warning by the CC) would kick you out of their elected roles and worst case maybe even the project. I know that sounds harsh, but looking at some of the trouble that we had/have (I don't want to talk names or projects here), we need to be able to control "official" OpenOffice.org communication. We unfortunately have/had too many people saying "I'm Mr./Mrs. OpenOffice.org" and spreading messages that the larger community did not support. BTW, sorry for appearing so negative and critizing again in my comments. ;-) All the best, Erwin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
