*** Please change your Subject: line for any [DISCUSSION] of this [VOTE]
As the discussions on the OpenOfficeProposal threads seem to be
winding down, I would like to initiate the vote to accept
OpenOffice.org as an Apache Incubator project.
At the end of this mail, I've put a copy of the current proposal.
Here is a link to the document in the wiki:
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal?action=recall&rev=207
As the proposal discussion threads are numerous, I encourage people to
scan and review the archives for this month:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/browser
Please cast your votes:
[ ] +1 Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation
[ ] +0 Indifferent to OpenOffice.org incubation
[ ] -1 Reject OpenOffice.org for incubation
This vote will close 72 hours from now.
- Sam Ruby
= OpenOffice.org - An open productivity environment =
== Abstract ==
!OpenOffice.org is comprised of six personal productivity
applications: a word processor (and its web-authoring component),
spreadsheet, presentation graphics, drawing, equation editor, and
database. !OpenOffice.org is released on Windows, Solaris, Linux and
Macintosh operation systems, with more
[[http://porting.openoffice.org/|communities]] joining, including a
mature [[http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/|FreeBSD port]].
!OpenOffice.org is localized, supporting over 110 languages worldwide.
== Proposal ==
Apache !OpenOffice.org will continue the mission pursued by the
!OpenOffice.org project while under the sponsorship of Sun and Oracle,
namely:
"To create, as a community, the leading international office suite
that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all
functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an
XML-based file format."
In addition to to building the !OpenOffice.org product, as an end-user
facing product with many existing individual and corporate users, this
project will also be active in supporting end-users via tutorials,
user forums, document template repositories, etc. The project will
also work to further enable !OpenOffice.org to be used as a
programmable module in document automation scenarios.
== Background ==
!OpenOffice.org was launched as an open source project by Sun
Microsystems in June 2000. !OpenOffice.org was originally developed
under the name of StarOffice by Star Division, a German company, which
was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999. Sun released this as open
source in 2000. !OpenOffice.org is the leading alternative to
MS-Office available. Its most recent major version, the 3.x series
saw over
[[http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html|100
million downloads]] in its first year. The
[[http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html|most
recent estimates]] suggest a market share on the order of 8-15%.
The !OpenOffice source is written in C++ and delivers language-neutral
and scriptable functionality. This source technology introduces the
next-stage architecture, allowing use of the suite elements as
separate applications or as embedded components in other applications.
Numerous other features are also present including XML-based file
formats based on the vendor-neutral !OpenDocument Format (ODF)
standard from OASIS and other resources.
== Rationale ==
!OpenOffice.org core development would continue at Apache following
the contribution by Oracle, in accordance with Apache bylaws and its
usual open development processes. Both Oracle and ASF agree that the
!OpenOffice.org development community, previously fragmented, would
re-unite under ASF to ensure a stable and long term future for
OpenOffice.org. ASF would enable corporate, non-profit, and volunteer
stakeholders to contribute code in a collaborative fashion.
Supporting tooling projects will accompany the !OpenOffice.org
contribution, providing APIs for extending and customizing
!OpenOffice.org.
Both !OpenOffice.org and the related tooling projects support the
OASIS Open Document Format, and will attract an ecosystem of
developers, ISVs and Systems Integrators. ODF ensures the users of
!OpenOffice.org and related solutions will own their document data,
and be free to choose the application or solution that best meets
their requirements.
The !OpenOffice.org implementation will serve as a reference
implementation of the Open Document Format standard.
= Current Status =
== Meritocracy ==
We understand the intention and value of meritocracy at Apache. We
are particularly gratified to learn, during the discussion on this
proposal, that there is a strong role for non-coders to participate in
this meritocracy and as they demonstrate their sustained commitment
and merit, to take on additional community responsibilities.
The initial developers are very familiar with open source development,
both at Apache and elsewhere. Apache was chosen specifically because
Oracle as contributor, and IBM as Sponsor, as well as the initial
developers, want to encourage this style of development for the
project. A diverse developer community is regarded as necessary for a
healthy, stable, long term !OpenOffice.org project.
== Community ==
The !OpenOffice.org project, over its 10+ years of existence has
spawned a diverse set of derived applications, each associated with
its own set of communities. Some of the more prominent applications
built on !OpenOffice.org include:
* !LibreOffice
* [[http://wiki.ooo4kids.org|OOo4Kids]] /
[[http://wiki.ooolight.org|OOoLight]]
* IBM Lotus Symphony
* !RedFlag China 2000 !RedOffice
* !NeoOffice
* !EurOffice
A fuller picture of the range of customizations of !OpenOffice.org is
illustrated in this time line:
{{http://www.robweir.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/oo-forks.png}}
Each of these products has one more more associated communities, which
might include:
1. a user community
1. a developer community
1. a community of supporter, promoters, trainers, consultants, e.g.,
an extended ecosystem
In some cases the development effort for the derived project consists
of repackaging the core !OpenOffice.org code with additional plugins,
fonts, clipart, in other cases an additional language translation is
added bundled with additional language tools (spell checking
dictionaries, grammar proofers), and in other cases the development
work involves changes of the core components.
In some cases the communities coordinate closely with the parent
!OpenOffice.org projects, in other cases they have effectively
"forked" into independent projects, and in some cases we really have
no idea who they are or what they are doing. For example, screen shots
of the secretive North Korean "Red Star" computer system indicate that
it is likely using a customized version of !OpenOffice.
The above community relations are as much social as business. The
annual !OpenOffice.org Conference has, for many years, been an
important event on the calendar for community members, a "gathering of
the clans" and generally brings in the "extended family" of projects,
often including non-!OpenOffice.org based projects that interoperate
with !OpenOffice.org via the !OpenDocument Format (ODF) document
format, e.g., Google Docs, Microsoft Office, !AbiWord, Calligra
Suite/KOffice. We want to continue this tradition with members of any
eventual Apache !OpenOffice TLP, in conjunction with the extended
community of derived projects.
One of our goals with this incubation project will be to rationalize
and formalize the coordination of these upstream and downstream
contribution, basing it on the Apache 2.0 license, which should help
us disseminate enhancements to the core more easily, since this
license is easily consumed by all derivatives, even those with
copyleft licenses. We need to identify which functions performed by
the broader network of communities are a good fit for an eventual
Apache TLP, and which things fit better outside of Apache.We also need
to respect that the maintainers of these derivatives of
!OpenOffice.org have a lot of pride in their distributions and value
their independent names and websites. So it is not reasonable to
expect that they will wish to be folded into a single "vanilla" Apache
!OpenOffice.org. However, we must do what is possible to encourage and
further develop a thriving ecosystem around this project.
One possible outcome is that we encourage the core development of the
editors to occur in Apache, while making it easy, via a modular
extension mechanism, a modular install, etc. for others to customize
and redistribute as permitted by the Apache 2.0 license.
== Collaboration with LibreOffice ==
The !LibreOffice project is an important partner in the
!OpenOffice.org community, with an established focus on the GNU/Linux
community as well as on Windows and Mac consumer end-users. The Apache
!OpenOffice project will seek to build a constructive working and
technical relationship so that the source code developed at Apache can
be readily used downstream by !LibreOffice, as well as exploring ways
for their upstream contributions to be integrated.
There will be other ways we will be able to collaborate, including
jointly sponsored events, interoperability 'plugfests', standards
development, shared build management infrastructure, shared release
mirrors, coordination of build schedules and version numbers, defect
lists, and other downstream requirements. We will make this
relationship a priority early in the life of the podlet.
== Core Developers ==
The initial set of committers include developers and other
contributors to !OpenOffice.org, as well members of other derived
products, open source and commercial, including Symphony, RedOffice,
LibreOffice, EducOOo, etc. These committers have varying degrees of
experience with Apache-style open source development, ranging from
none to ASF Members.
== Marketing ==
Since its origins, !OpenOffice.org has had a healthy group of
volunteers committed to marketing with "!MarCons" in many countries.
There are existing initiatives that combine marketing with the
possibility of raising independent funds, for example through EU grant
applications related to the Life Long Learning programme, the
certification project and developing the selling of marketing
collateral around the OpenOffice.org brand. There is potential to
independently raise money to substantially improve the quality and
take up of the code that was not realised previously.
== Education ==
Create a '''strong bridge between !OpenOffice.org and the Educational
World''' :
* Provide a place for !OpenOffice.org users, in Education context:
discuss about adapt !OpenOffice.org to your pedagogy, your needs ..etc
(all levels of Education are concerned )
* Provide and promote tools adapted to pedagogical use, around
!OpenOffice.org
* Write code together : train students to OpenOffice.org source code,
create new features, experiment and reverse the best code to be
integrated, following the
[[http://education.openoffice.org|OpenOffice.org Education Project
model]] and the [[http://www.educoo.org|EducOOo effort]].
* !OpenOffice.org has also maintained various mentoring projects and
efforts and are in demand
== Alignment ==
The developers of !OpenOffice.org will want to work with the Apache
Software Foundation specifically because Apache has proven to provide
a strong foundation and set of practices for developing
standards-based infrastructure and related components. Additionally,
the project may evolve to support cloud and mobile platforms from its
starting point of desktop operating systems.
= Known Risks =
== Orphaned products ==
We are encouraged by the strong initial response that news of this
proposal has attracted, quickly growing from two to over 80 proposed
committers. Among those names are individuals who have been involved
with this project for 10 years or more. In addition to the individual
volunteers, there is a
__significant__[[http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/34638.wss|corporate
committment]]. The risk, as in most projects, is to grow the project
and maintain diversity. This is a priority that is keenly desired by
the community.
== Inexperience with Open Source ==
The initial developers include long-time open source developers,
including Apache Members. Although the vast majority of proposed
committers do not have Apache experience, they do have open source
experience. For example, the names from *openoffice.org addresses
were involved with the project previously.
The inexperience risk is also mitigated by the strong list of mentors
who have signed up to support this project.
== Homogeneous Developers ==
!OpenOffice.org for many years was managed by Sun, who provided the
majority of its engineering resources as well as its direction. Moving
this project to Apache enables a new start and provide a broad
framework. We intend to engage in strong recruitment efforts in order
to further strengthen and diversify this project.
In terms of geographic diversity, the project has strong European
participation. This reflects the historical core of the development
effort in this project. We wish to diversify this more, especially
encouraging greater participation from CJK, India and South America.
== Reliance on Salaried Developers ==
The initial group of proposed committers does not appear to be
dominated by a single company. However, when we look at sponsored
developers, with the ability to work on this project full time, IBM
clearly has more committers. We beleive that this situation will
change, as the project developers. The value of this code under a the
permissive Apache 2.0 license will attract and encourage
opportunities, not only for existing software vendors, but also for
new ventures. This is a new opportunity, not previously permitted to
the same degree by the project's previous license. This combined with
a strong recruitment effort will help remove the project reliance on
developers from any single company.
== Relationships with Other Apache Products ==
Several potential areas for collaboration with other Apache projects
have been suggested, including:
[[http://poi.apache.org|Apache POI]] potentially, if POI extends to
support ODF, the default file format of !OpenOffice.org. (and initial
discussions on this have been promising)
[[http://tika.apache.org/|Apache Tika]] is a generic toolkit for
extracting text and metadata from various file formats. Improving ODF
support with tools from OOo is an obvious area of interest for Tika.
[[http://pdfbox.apache.org/|Apache PDFBox]] is a Java library for
working with PDF documents. If not direct code sharing over the Java /
C++ divide, then at least sharing of PDF know-how and perhaps things
like test cases between these projects would be great.
[[http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/|Apache XML Graphics]] for SVG related
libraries
[[http://community.apache.org/|Community Development]]
We are interested in further exploring these options.
== A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ==
!OpenOffice.org in itself is a very strong brand. Our primary
interest is in the processes, systems, and framework Apache has put in
place around open source software development more than any
fascination with the brand.
== Documentation ==
Additional reading on !OpenOffice.org can be found at the
[[http://www.openoffice.org/|existing project's website]].
== Localization ==
This part is mandatory, and an important step in the organization.
== Initial Source ==
The initial source will consist of a collection of !OpenOffice.org
files as specified in Oracle's submitted SGA.
During incubation, we will seek a grant to the following additional
items:
*
[[http://hg.services.openoffice.org/DEV300/file/DEV300_m106/mysqlc|MySQL
Connector module]]
*
[[http://hg.services.openoffice.org/DEV300/file/DEV300_m106/default_images|default
images]]
*
[[http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ChildWorkSpace|ChildWorkSpaces
(CWS)]]
== External Dependencies ==
!OpenOffice has external dependencies, including source and binary,
required and optional, under a variety of licenses. A list of these
dependencies can be found
[[http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/External/Modules|here]].
We acknowledge that it is a podling graduation requirement to review
these dependencies and to get the product into conformance with Apache
requirements. The details will vary on a case-by-case basis, but
options available to us include:
* Substitute an external dependency with one having a compatible license
* Contact the owner of a dependency and asking for a compatible license
* Replace a source dependency with an unmodified binary dependency
* Make a feature be optional, or user-installed
* Rewrite a feature to avoid the external dependency
* Remove a feature along with its external dependencies
Note: This task will be aided by the help of project members who work
on IBM Lotus Symphony, who are familiar with many of these issues from
a similar effort done on that product.
== Cryptography ==
!OpenOffice.org supports digital signatures and encryption of
documents. The project will complete any needed export control
paperwork related to these features.
== Required Resources ==
Note: It is recommended that after this proposal is accepted, that
there be a consultation with ASF Legal Affairs on the trademark
*before* any project infrastructure is created.
=== Mailing Lists ===
The following mailing lists:
* `ooo-...@incubator.apache.org` - for developer discussions
* `ooo-comm...@incubator.apache.org` - for Subversion commit messages
* `ooo-iss...@incubator.apache.org` - for JIRA change notifications
* `ooo-notificati...@incubator.apache.org` - for continuous
build/test notifications
'''Note''': a users mailing is not being requested at this time. It is
anticipated that users will interact with the community through
existing !OpenOffice.org systems, which are forums, based on phpBB.
=== Other resources ===
A subversion repository
A JIRA issue tracker: short code "OOo"
Pootle server (suggested for localization centralization)
phpBB end-user forums
Download site
TBD: some idea of how much build infrastructure measured in hardware.
Oracle will assist in the transition and migration from
!OpenOffice.org. All of the content has already been archived and is
ready for the ASF infrastructure group to act on.
== Initial Committers ==
In order to help encourage the creation of a broad and diverse project
built upon merit, as required of an Apache project, we have not loaded
the initial committer list with contributors from a single company.
Our intention is for the initial committer list to be representative
of the various users of OOo code. It is perfectly all right to have
your name on this list if you contribute in another way than to commit
program code (please maintain alphabetical ordering).
||<tablewidth="897px" tableheight="714px">'''Name''' ||'''Email'''
||'''Affiliation''' ||'''iCLA''' ||
||Kai Ahrens ||ka at openoffice dot org ||Individual !OpenOffice.org,
[[http://graphics.openoffice.org|graphics.openoffice.org]] || ||
||Eric Bachard ||ericb at openoffice dot org
||[[http://www.educoo.org|EducOOo]],[[http://education.openoffice.org/|Education
Project]] || ||
||Mathias Bauer ||mba at openoffice dot org ||Individual
!OpenOffice.org ||yes ||
||Stephan Bergmann || s...@openoffice.org ||Individual !OpenOffice.org
|| ||
||Raphael Bircher || r.birc...@gmx.ch
||[[http://www.raphaelbircher.ch|Individual]] !OpenOffice.org QA, and
Infrastructure || ||
||Ben Bois ||benbois at ooo4kids dot org
||[[http://www.educoo.org|EducOOo]] /
[[http://wiki.ooo4kids.org|OOo4Kids]] /
[[http://wiki.ooolight.org|OOoLight]] designer || ||
||Andy Brown ||andy at the-marin-byrd dot net ||Individual ||yes ||
||Simon Brouwer ||simonbr at openoffice dot org
||[[http://nl.openoffice.org/|Dutch Native Language Project]] ||yes ||
||Alexandro Colorado || j...@openoffice.org
||[[http://education.openoffice.org/|Education Project]] || ||
||Fred-Juan DIAZ ||fred-juan.diaz at educoo dot org
||[[http://www.educoo.org|EducOOo]] tester || ||
||Robert Burrell Donkin || rdon...@apache.org ||Individual ||yes ||
||Olaf Felka ||of at openoffice.org ||individual, QA,
[[http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/FrameworkTeamsite/ooQA-TeamFramework.html|Framework]]
|| ||
||David Fisher || w...@apache.org ||individual ||yes ||
||Marcelo Horacio Fortino || mfort...@estrategiasgnulinux.com
||Individual || ||
||Jaime R. Garza ||<<MailTo(garzaj AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com)>>
||Individual || ||
||Roman Gelbort || elprofero...@openoffice.org
||[[http://openoffice.org/people/307558-elproferoman|Spanish and
Marketing project]] || ||
||Luis E. Vasquez || levar...@openoffice.org ||Individual || ||
||Christian Grobmeier ||grobmeier AT apache dor org ||Individual ||yes ||
||Wolf Halton || wolf.hal...@gmail.com ||http://atlantacloudtech.com
|| ||
||Dennis E. Hamilton || dennis.hamil...@acm.org ||Individual
([[orcmid]]) || ||
||Ivo Hinkelmann ||ihi at openoffice dot org ||Individual || ||
||Eric Hoch || mave...@openoffice.org ||Co-Lead
[[http://de.openoffice.org/|German Native Language Project]],
MacPorting Project || ||
||Martin Hollmichel || m...@openoffice.org ||Release Manager, OOo
external project lead || ||
||imacat || ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw ||[[http://educoo.tw|EducOOo
Taiwan]], [[http://zh.openoffice.org|Traditional Chinese]] || ||
||Jim Jagielski || j...@apache.org ||Individual ||yes ||
||Christoph Jopp || j...@gmx.de ||Individual ||yes ||
||Marcus Lange || m...@openoffice.org ||Individual
[[http://download.openoffice.org|download.openoffice.org]] || ||
||Steve Lee || st...@fullmeasure.co.uk ||Individual (a11y) ||yes ||
||Christian Lippka || c...@lippka.com ||Individual
[[http://graphics.openoffice.org|graphics.openoffice.org]] || ||
||Dieter Loeschky || d...@openoffice.org ||Individual
[[http://performance.openoffice.org|OOo Performance]],
[[http://council.openoffice.org/esc|OOo ESC]] || ||
||Ian Lynch || ian.ly...@theingots.org
||[[http://theingots.org|Marketing Project/TLM]] || ||
||Carl Marcum || carl.mar...@codebuilders.net ||Individual
[[http://www.codebuilders.net|CodeBuilders.net]] ||yes ||
||Patrick Maupin || pmau...@gmail.com ||Individual || ||
||Ingrid von der Mehden ||iha at openoffice dot org
||[[http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Chart2|OOo chart
development]] || ||
||Stephane Quenson ||stephane.quenson [at] gmail [dot] com
||Individual || ||
||Eike Rathke ||ooo AT erack DOT de ||individual || ||
||Manfred Reiter ||fredao at openoffice dot org
||[[http://theingots.org|Marketing Project/TLM]] || ||
||Zoltán Reizinger || r4z...@openoffice.org ||Individual qa user forum
|| ||
||Phillip Rhodes || prho...@fogbeam.com
||[[http://www.fogbeam.com|Fogbeam Labs]] ||yes ||
||Andrew Rist || andrew.r...@oracle.com
||[[http://oracle.com/|Oracle]] ||yes ||
||Lawrence Rosen || lro...@rosenlaw.com
||[[http://www.rosenlaw.com/|Individual]] ||yes ||
||Juergen Schmidt ||jsc at openoffice dot org ||Individual
[[http://api.openoffice.org|API]],
[[http://extensions.openoffice.org|Extensions]] || ||
||Jomar Silva ||homembit at gmail ||Individual
([[http://www.homembit.com|homembit]]) || ||
||Kai Sommerfeld ||kso at openoffice dot org ||Individual
!OpenOffice.org || ||
||Mechtilde Stehmann || mechti...@openoffice.org ||qa officer || ||
||Michael Stehmann || mikea...@openoffice.org ||individual || ||
||Greg Stein ||gstein at gmail ||individual ||yes ||
||Michael Stahl ||mst at openoffice dot org ||Individual
!OpenOffice.org || ||
||Carl Symons || carlsym...@gmail.com ||Individual || ||
||Stefan Taxhet ||stx123 at gmail
||[[http://www.linkedin.com/in/stefantaxhet|Individual]],
[[http://openoffice.org/people/4-Stefan-Taxhet|OpenOffice.org]] || ||
||Malte Timmermann || m...@openoffice.org
||[[http://www.linkedin.com/in/maltetimmermann|Individual]],
[[http://security.openoffice.org/|OpenOffice.org Security]] and
Accessibility || ||
||Rob Weir || robert_w...@us.ibm.com ||[[http://ibm.com/|IBM]] ||yes ||
||Yong Lin Ma || mayo...@cn.ibm.com ||[[http://symphony.lotus.com|IBM,
Symphony Architect]] ||yes ||
||Lei Wang || l...@cn.ibm.com ||[[http://symphony.lotus.com|IBM,
Spreadsheet]] || ||
||Drew Jensen || d...@baseanswers.com ||Individual
[[http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Drew|TDF]]
[[http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:DrewJensen|OpenOffice]] ||yes
||
||Graham Lauder || yori...@openoffice.org ||!OpenOffice.org !MarCon
[[http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html|(Marketing Contact)
New Zealand]] || ||
||Florent André || flor...@apache.org ||individual ||yes ||
||Allen Pulsifer ||pulsifer at openoffice.org ||individual || ||
||Herbert Duerr || h...@openoffice.org ||individual || ||
||Kazunari Hirano || khir...@openoffice.org ||individual || ||
||Kent Åberg || kent.ab...@newformat.se
||[[http://www.newformat.se/newformat/eng/newformat-home-index.html|NewFormat]]
|| ||
||Maho NAKATA || m...@openoffice.org ||ja/qa project lead, FBSD
porting || ||
||Miguel Á. Ríos ||mariosv@miguelangel dot mobi ||Individual || ||
||Dave !McKay || thegur...@openoffice.org ||Individual || ||
||Louis Suárez-Potts || lo...@openoffice.org ||individual || ||
||Fernand Vanrie || s...@pmg.be ||individual || ||
||Arthur Buijs || artie...@openoffice.org
||[[http://nl.openoffice.org/|Dutch Native Language Project]] ||Yes ||
||Dave Barton || d...@tasit.net
||[[http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org|Tutorials For OpenOffice]]
|| ||
||Jian Fang Zhang || zhan...@cn.ibm.com
||[[http://symphony.lotus.com|IBM, Symphony Chief Programmer, G11N,
Security]] ||Yes ||
||Zhe Wang || wangz...@cn.ibm.com ||[[http://symphony.lotus.com|IBM,
Impress]] || ||
||Don Harbison || donald_harbi...@us.ibm.com ||[[http://ibm.com/|IBM]]
||Yes ||
||Jian Hong Cheng || chen...@cn.ibm.com
||[[http://symphony.lotus.com|IBM, Writer, Impress]] || ||
||Chao Sun || sunc...@redoffice.com ||[[www.redoffice.com|RedOffice]]
|| ||
||Heng Lee || lih...@redoffice.com ||[[www.redoffice.com|RedOffice]]
|| ||
||Shu Wang Han || hanshuw...@redoffice.com
||[[www.redoffice.com|RedOffice]] || ||
||Hong Yun An || anhong...@redoffice.com
||[[www.redoffice.com|RedOffice]] || ||
||Jin Hua Chen || chenj...@cn.ibm.com ||IBM, Symphony Presentation || ||
||Yegor Kozlov || ye...@apache.org ||individual ||yes ||
||Juan C. Sanz || jucasac...@openoffice.org ||Spanish documentation || ||
||Peter Junge || p...@openoffice.org ||Individual || ||
||Cyril Beaussier ||oooforum at free dot fr
||[[http://user.services.openoffice.org/fr|French forum
admin]],[[http://fr.openoffice.org/|French Project webmaster]] || ||
||Damjan Jovanovic || dam...@apache.org ||individual ||yes ||
||Fernando Cassia || fcas...@sdf.lonestar.org ||individual || ||
= Sponsors =
== Champion ==
Sam Ruby, Apache Foundation
== Nominated Mentors ==
Because of the scope and complexity of this proposed project, we
believe that the incubation process would benefit from multiple
mentors, especially ones willing to be the "point person" for each of
the following disciplines:
a. IP review
a. infrastructure
a. release management
a. community development
Mentors (these are all Members of the Foundation):
* Jim Jagielski
* Sam Ruby
* Danese Cooper
* Shane Curcuru
* Nóirín Plunkett
* Joe Schaefer
* Christian Grobmeier
* Ross Gardler
== Sponsoring Entity ==
The Apache Incubator
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