On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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 > Great! This is a wonderful opportunity for more widespread use of Apache OpenOffice. > > > -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 > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect." -- James Mason
