On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:58 PM, drew <d...@baseanswers.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 14:31 -0700, John LeMoyne Castle wrote: >> Drew, >> I appreciate your position and your moderate, thoughtful questions and >> responses all across the several boards I have seen them on. I am still >> attracted to Apache and their OO project, but I finally balked on the >> proposal so clearly NOT written by a community or its representatives. >> My late and non-binding vote -- >> http://www.mail-archive.com/general@incubator.apache.org/msg29462.html > > Hi John, > > Honestly I was optimistic also but... > > I'm rather sorry about the whole 'punish me' line in my earlier email - > but a couple of days after I put my name on the ASF wiki someone in > India went to my facebook wall and started a survey titled 'Drew should > be kiled' yes/no. I blew it off with a joke response and FB was kind > enough to remove the survey entry - followed by a few emails over the > next couple of days with suggestions ranging from taking a long walk of > a short pier to one request to perform an act which quite frankly I > don't think is physically possible. Anyway, I should not of let the > fringe element color my interaction here.
:-( I know it is easier said than done, but I would advise to classify these in the 'misguided idots' files. > >> >> Back to the subject of this thread, > > +1 > >> I am interested in participating in a >> HackFest and maybe even more interested if it has a QA focus. Distributed >> devlopment is tough, distributed QA needs definition and a lot of eyes on >> it. Sadly, I do not see a way to attend. From the mountain west, Ohio is >> only one order of magnitude closer than Europe and my car croaked last year. >> >> Please let me know of any virtual attendance or way to work in parallel that >> you devise. > > Thanks for the offer and I'll do my best to find a way to take you up on it - > shouldn't be all that hard to devise, if nothing else just knowing that there > would be people hanging out on IRC at the right time would help I think. That would be much more workable for me than a 2000 miles road trip :-) Norbert _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
