On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:25 PM, <donald_harbi...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Please allow me to introduce myself. I know many of you on this list > already, either personally, in a direct way or indirectly, due to my work > over the last 6 years. But I am a newbie at Apache and learning the > Apache Way. While I am an IBMer, I commit that I will emulate Sam Ruby's > fine example and be careful to wear my brand new Apache Hat here. Catch me > off this list / project if you want me to speak as an IBMer. > > I work in IBM's Open Standards team where we have a bunch of folks on > various standards committees across a broad spectrum of standards > development organizations. I work on ODF in alot of different ways: At > OASIS I have chaired the ODF Adoption TC since March 2006. Folks from TDF > and OOo, and others in the industry and gov't are members. I am also on > the main ODF TC, and the ODF Interoperability and Conformance TC. > > My colleagues in the IBM Collaboration Solution division work on Symphony, > and yes, I do work with them on ODF and OpenOffice Technology issues. You > will no doubt have noticed that the Symphony development team reps have > signed on today also. There is no intent to go nuts here, and put a large > team on the project, but we want to prove that we are genuine about our > plans to contribute more robustly than we have been able to do in the > past. Hopefully, you will hold us to this commitment. I'm sure you will. > :) > > I believe I was the first IBM person to show up at OpenOffice.org when I > attended the 2005 conference in Koper, Slovenia. Since then I have been > the de facto IBM liaison to OpenOffice.org, providing annual sponsorship > funds, helping to encourage IBM participation and contribution to OOo on > many different levels. I helped get IBM to sign on as a member of > OpenOffice.org in Sep 2007. Believe it or not, I have the scars on my > back with respect to our attempts to make code contributions to OOo. > Throughout this experience, I hope I can say without reservation that I > have made many friends in OOo and many of those friends are now with TDF > and LibreOffice. > > My goal with this project proposal is to work and deliver on the > non-coding side of the house; i.e. branding, communications, events, > community development and ODF ecosystem project deliverables when > relevant. I am passionate about the software, whatever it's called, and > have alot of respect and appreciation for those who have labored long and > hard to make the software as great as it is today. > > So 'Nice to meet you!' Let's get on with it. > > /don > > Hi Don, I am glad to see you joining the list. Your input would be largely welcome and value. I am glad to see the ODF people join in.
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