On 3/25/14 2:58 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > Hi, > > On 2014-03-25, at 04:22, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 3/24/14 5:09 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >>> Hi, >>> On 2014-03-24, at 06:18, Rainer Bielefeld >>> <rainerbielefeld_ooo...@bielefeldundbuss.de> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> is someone from Germany observing this? >>>> <http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Behoerden-wollen-Libre-OpenOffice-verbessern-2152858.html> >>>> >>> I had a discussion on improving OO with the lead of the (mostly German) >>> Open Source Business Alliance, Peter G. Sounded great… but the emphasis for >>> him was on LibreOffice. >>> >>> Not AOO. >> >> I can't remember a person Peter G. but I participated in the workshop >> (as reported last year) and helped with the spec and use cases. The >> project in general is a very good idea and I hope that they get many >> quotes from interested developers, companies, ... >> Nevertheless is the spec not detailed enough from my perspective and I >> have reported my feedback but it is not directly reflected. Only some >> use-cases are dropped because no detail information was provided or it >> is already implemented in AOO and can be consumed by LO (probably >> already is consumed). >> >> The first project was sub-optimal regarding the excat definition of how >> the work have to be delivered. In the end the patches were at least >> under ALv2 as well but we were not able to integrate them easy >> (incomplete or not applicable) and not all patches are integrated. Keep >> in mind that this work means man power and the work was already paid. >> Even the implementation was not complete and we have done much more than >> only tweaking the available patch. >> >> Nevertheless have we worked on a better definition of how the work have >> to be delivered in this new project to ensure that both AOO and LO >> benefit from the improvements. Well LO benefits anyway from the work we >> do for AOO but that is of course a different story. >> >> Juergen > > As it happens, Peter Ganten just replied to my post to him of yesterday. He > told me that Matthias Stürmer is more relevant here. "Matthias is the speaker > of the working > group "office interoperability" of the OSB Alliance," Peter wrote. I asked > Peter to put Matthias in contact with Juergen and informed Peter that we are > discussing OSBA's interest here on our dev@ list. > > I remain open to the possibilities. I'm perhaps more optimistic for longterm > outcomes, though do not dismiss this one at all, as this funded opportunity > may lead to more substantial ones later, or at least greater visibility of > some of the rather useful advantages of having open standards and open source > developed locally (but with global effects). >
maybe I was not clear enough, I am working already in this group and am in contact with Mathias. Juergen > -louis > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
