Hi Alexandro,
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
Hi I want to ask the budget commitee for 500 dls for expenses to
SCALEx9. I want to put the petition even if SCALE still have not
finished the CFP. I submitted a couple of talks and I am still waiting
for the final approval. However budget processes have been a bit slow
lately so I want to put an early petition here.
maybe the processes are slow because you are sending your request
recurrently to the wrong address. AFAIR, Florian had mentioned this many
times. A budget request has to raised with the budget custodian, which
is currently me. Mailing lists are welcome to be CCed, but it's not
mandatory.
Last year I participated with a lightning talk on OOo4Kids which you
can watch here: http://jza.blip.tv/file/3261755/
After the talk I got to talk with the core organizers which were
interested into expanding the participation for communities such as
OOo in the US. And geared me to participate next year with a wider
talk about OOo/ODF etc. This year I am giving a talk on ODF with an
OpenGovernment angle, targeting the success stories gather from South
America and Europe.
If we fund you to attend the SCALEx9, we have to make sure that you are
still with OOo. I had a look at the ES project at the OOo website and I
have to say, that there are a couple of issues puzzling me, hence I want
to raise some concerns:
Firstly, the design of http://es.openoffice.org/ is not as it should be
with OOo. Usually one finds the main project links such as member list,
mailing lists etc., but they are hidden. They only becoming visible
after moving on to "Conoce OOo" or "Servicios". Being there, I have been
having a look at "Comunidad::Listas de Correos" and got really
irritated. (http://es.openoffice.org/comunidad/listas.html) The OOo
mailing lists have apparently been dropped in preference of other
mailing lists hosted as http://oooes.org/. I'm not in favor for such a
solution, but it might still be a agreement of the community. However,
the worst problem for me is, that the OOo mailing list archives are not
reachable from this point. IMHO, that's totally inappropriate. Even more
confusing is, that the d...@es mailing list still seems to have
significant traffic, see:
http://es.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=dev
Can you please comment my above observations.
Secondly, I have been visiting http://oooes.org/ then. It promotes both
OOo and LibreOffice, which many here see as a competing product and
community. So, if you are going to attend the SCALEx9 on behalf and the
expenses of OOo, will yo exclusively promote OOo or will you promote the
whole ecosystem? The flow chart
(http://oooes.org/images/interacciones-oooes.png) on the main page looks
a bit like OOoES is closer tight to the TDF and LibO, rather than OOo.
(BTW, the way OOoES is using the new OOo logo is IMHO against the
guidelines.)
$500 would allow me to partially pay for my travel expenses. I would
still need to chip from my own money to pay for hotel.
Please comment on the above concerns before we proceed.
Best regards,
Peter
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