Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-09-02 Thread toki
On 31/08/2016 22:44, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >> As a business model, it works for most of the Apache projects that emerged >> from Incubation, and stayed out of the Attic. > I think that is the case because downstream producers, who get the support > business, contribute to their upstream fr

Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-09-01 Thread Kay Schenk
On 07/11/2016 09:44 PM, Suminda Dharmasena wrote: > This is exactly what I had in mind also. >From the original post of: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201607.mbox/%3CCAAfFNYEBbXaTj5-qVy7V8Uj7uA3wCyo6O0fsHG7ESpmTG4qO3Q%40mail.gmail.com%3E None of the approaches listed

Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-09-01 Thread Rory O'Farrell
;> > > >>> -Original Message- > > >>> From: toki [mailto:toki.kant...@gmail.com] > > >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 11:30 > > >>> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > > >>> Subject: Re: Independent Entity to Develo

RE: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-09-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Dr. Michael Stehmann [mailto:anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de] > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 22:04 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO > > Am 01.09.2016 um 00:59 schrieb Sim

Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-08-31 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
gt; Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 11:30 >>> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >>> Subject: Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO >>> >>> On 31/08/2016 16:26, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >>> >> I think that is the case because downstream producers, who g

Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-08-31 Thread Simon Phipps
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton < dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: toki [mailto:toki.kant...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 11:30 > > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > > Subj

RE: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-08-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: toki [mailto:toki.kant...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 11:30 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO > > On 31/08/2016 16:26, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > >

Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-08-31 Thread Kay Schenk
Original Message- >> From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] >> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 14:04 >> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> Subject: RE: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO >> >> There is a bit to discuss about how "The en

Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-08-31 Thread toki
On 31/08/2016 16:26, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > One can always create an independent entity. It hasn't happened. By now, > the odds are clearly that it will not. The Document Foundation is an independent entity, building upon the OOo 3.x code base. > My considered opinion is that the great

RE: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-08-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
day, July 11, 2016 14:04 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: RE: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO > > There is a bit to discuss about how "The entity should ensure they work > on the AOO codebase using the ASF way" is workable or not. In > particular

Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-07-11 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Sorry, incorrect mailing list, so repetition: Hello, > From: Suminda Dharmasena [mailto:sirinath19...@gmail.com] > This is exactly what I had in mind also. Ok, but: then (imho), this has nothing to do with Apache, and need not be discussed here, because that is the normal open source way.

Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-07-11 Thread Suminda Dharmasena
This is exactly what I had in mind also. > > AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH > > Another way to interact and support Apache OpenOffice in terms of > collaborative contributions is as follows. > > 1. Establish a downstream producer, TeamX (for example), that provides > releases of derivative software ba

RE: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-07-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
office.apache.org; dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO > > Hello, > > I am writing to see if the current AOO Dev team would like to create an > independent entity which can: > >- Do trainings >- Accept funds and

Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-07-11 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, > From: Suminda Dharmasena [mailto:sirinath19...@gmail.com] > I am writing to see if the current AOO Dev team would like to > create an > independent entity which can: > >- Do trainings >- Accept funds and have pay developers >- Write commercial books / online tutorials wit

Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-07-11 Thread Suminda Dharmasena
Every remaining dev / concerned user must get together a take an initiative. Things rarely workout on their own. On 11 July 2016 at 13:11, JZA wrote: > Sounds good, there have been some intention of these in the past, not sure > how open the community is right now to be honest. But is a good ide

Re: Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-07-11 Thread JZA
Sounds good, there have been some intention of these in the past, not sure how open the community is right now to be honest. But is a good idea if somehow there is some strong backing. On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Suminda Dharmasena wrote: > Hello, > > I am writing to see if the current AOO

Independent Entity to Develop and Further AOO

2016-07-11 Thread Suminda Dharmasena
Hello, I am writing to see if the current AOO Dev team would like to create an independent entity which can: - Do trainings - Accept funds and have pay developers - Write commercial books / online tutorials with sponsorship This can be used have paid developers working on the project. M