On 2011-04-16, at 07:40 , Ian Lynch wrote: > On 16 April 2011 04:34, Louis Suarez-Potts <lsuarezpo...@gmail.com> wrote: > All, > As others have noted… well, this is interesting news.* And it comes as news, > indeed. It also comes unattached with any actual explication as to what it > means in practice. And there are many questions, and I've asked my former > colleagues some of them. The most obvious being, of course, Will Oracle > contribute code to the development of OpenOffice.org as it has in the past? > Right now, Oracle does virtually all of the coding for OpenOffice.org. The > resulting code is then worked on by competing projects—either to make it more > compatible with Microsoft Office, or to make it work with established > frameworks, or whatever. > > As of now, the code is mature and powerful; it is being used by tens of > millions and being adopted by even more every year. I am not concerned about > the present, for OpenOffice.org addresses present needs more than adequately. > > I am, however, really interested in seeing what the future brings. And for > that, I think we, the OpenOffice.org community, need to be bold. I envision a > future where the tools for intellectual production are free, use open > standards that can be widely implemented, and that are not limited to this or > that environment but freely adaptable to a range of devices, mobile or not. > > The anchor here is the ODF, the format that transcends any particular > implementation but which is only fully realized by the most comprehensive, > OpenOffice.org. And the tools, such as those making up OpenOffice.org, to > satisfy my vision, and the vision of the community, as I understand it, must > be free and open. > > But from a practical point of view there needs to be some sort of resource > generator to sustain development. If Oracle withdraws all the development > resource it makes it far more difficult for these aspirations to be realised. > We have concrete evidence that there is demand for OpenOffice.org > certification. We have the infrastructure to support it and we know that the > potential income to the community could easily be in the 10s of millions of > dollars. Question is how to make it most likely that that potential can be > realized?
This is precisely what I hope to find out, as well as what sort of resources we (the community) can lay hands on. A lot is at stake, and Oracle is not making it easy for us in the OOo community to understand what, exactly, we have as resources. Louis > > ---- > > Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD > Community Manager > Chair, Community Council > OpenOffice.org > > > Blog: http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > > -- > Ian > Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications > The Schools ITQ > > www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 > You have received this email from the following company: The Learning > Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 > 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@marketing.openoffice.org with Subject: help
