Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Fwd: [steering-discuss] libreoffice.org e-mail accounts

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Rimas Kudelis <rq@akl.lt> wrote:

> 2011.01.14 19:14, sophie rašė:
>
>  Hello,
> > as discussed yesterday in the confcall, we're planning to give out
> > official LibreOffice e-mail accounts to people who are community members
> > per the membership committee's decision. (For information on the
> > membership committee, refer to yesterday's confcall as well. It will be
> > online as audio recording soon.)
> >
> > My plan is to hand out only e-mail forwarders, not real mailboxes with
> > POP and IMAP, as the latter one requires lots of maintenance.
> >
> > However, as we had lots of irritating issues with @openoffice.org e-mail
> > addresses, I would like to avoid these mistakes. It's evident that
> > @documentfoundation.org accounts are only for those who work for/with
> > TDF and are eligible to represent them in certain aspects, like the SC
> > or administrators.
>
> agreed.
>
>
>  For LibreOffice, I'm a bit hesitant to hand out @libreoffice.org, as
> > this may seem like people are acting on behalf of TDF, causing liability
> > issues. Maybe I'm too touchy, so I'm happy for comments, which is why I
> > am writing this mail. :-)
> >
> > My plan is actually to have something like
> >
> >    volunteer.nickname@libreofficecommunity.org
> > or
> >    volunteer.nickname@libreofficemail.org
> > or
> >    volunteer.nickname@libreofficevolunteers.org
> >
> > I'd like to avoid subdomains (@community.libreoffice.org), as they are
> > really ugly for e-mail accounts.
>
> I think domains like libreofficecommunity.org are just as ugly.
>
> I'd say it should be either libreoffice.org, or nothing. After all, it's
> nobody's obligation to offer email addresses to anyone, so why not just make
> up some rules (not necessarily formal) instead of being touchy?

+1
I first thought that maybe the Steering Committee and people in charge of
l10n/marketing/website/etc should get one, so things could be more official.
but... things would be more official, and it may discourage people to debate
after a response from a @libreoffice.org mail?

it's great to see the willingness to give @libreoffice.org addresses, but I
don't see the advantages; apart from the excitement of having
me@libreoffice.org, of course.
I may be wrong, and a @libreoffice.org reward is worth the effort?
I'll keep reading this. This will be interesting



> Actually, I can't think of any other open-source project (except
> OpenOffice.org) that would offer email addresses to anyone, and I don't
> think it's necessary (as if we all didn't have a bunch of addresses
> already).
+1



> Rimas
>
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