Hi, time to introduce myself, I'm Martin Hollmichel, contributor to StarOffice/OpenOffice.org since 1994, member of the OpenOffice.org Community Council (CC) until 2010 and also Chair of Team OpenOffice.org e.V.
We founded Team OpenOffice.org e.V. in 2003 to serve for the items described for the items below. All the funds coming in was agreed to spend under the guidelines of the CC (see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Funding_And_Budgets). Until September 2010 the CC represents the OpenOffce.org community until the TDF initiative started. Since the remaining CC was preparing the "restart" of the Community the surprising move of Oracle happened and Team OpenOffice.org in behalf of the CC also applied for driving OpenOffice.org. Some of you might also remember the Team OOo was also the initial holder of the OpenOffice.org trademark in the US. Please understand that we are also got surprised by the announcement last Wednesday and we are currently preparing our point of view in this matter. Generally speaking we are still committed to work with all related parties to initiate and continue the collaborative work on offering our users a stable and useful product. I think the decision to move the project from a "one main sponsor thing" to a "non-profit entity" is a good one. Now we are all called to make the best of it, Martin On 06/08/2011 11:31 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > I started looking around at the OOo website. > > I'm not sure if now is the time to bring this up, but at > http://contributing.openoffice.org/donate.html there is a solicitation for > funds via three processes. > > Here's what the page says: > >> Your donation will go directly towards helping this project. Some of the >> ways in which your funds might be used include: >> • Hiring independent developers to work with OpenOffice.org. >> • Paying for participation at trade shows and conferences. >> • Paying for organization and staff at annual OpenOffice.org >> Conference, OOoCon. >> • Marketing banners, collateral, CDs and brochures. >> Please discuss the tax benefits of donating with your accountant. >> You can make a donation to our primary treasury, Team OpenOffice.org, e.V. >> via PayPal or credit card or use bank transfer. >> Or, if you prefer to donate US dolars (USD) via credit card, cheque or money >> order, you can use use Software In the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI), and >> simply identify the recipient project, OpenOffice.org, where indicataed in >> the instructions SPI provides: SPI Donations for OpenOffice.org . (SPI does >> not accept PayPal or wire transfers.) >> > Clearly there ought to be changes to the page and process when/if the podling > happens. This is probably at the ASF Board level... certainly the "hiring > developers" part doesn't fit... > > Regards, > Dave > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
