[libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Support for LibraOffice

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> From: Tutorials For OpenOffice <contact@tutorialsforopenoffice.org>
> Date: October 17, 2010 5:22:34 AM CDT
> To: Dave Johnson <davefilms.us@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Support for LibraOffice
> Reply-To: contact@tutorialsforopenoffice.org
>
> -------- Original Message  --------
> From: Dave Johnson <davefilms.us@gmail.com>
> To: contact@tutorialsforopenoffice.org
> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:04:46 -0500
> > LibO is a new version of OpenOffice.org from the http://www.documentfoundation.org
> > We would be pleased if you could show your support for LibO on your webpage.
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> As you will be aware from your involvement with The Document Foundation's LibreOffice marketing 
> group/project, LibreOffice is not strictly speaking a "new" version of OOo, since the current 
> beta 1 & 2 releases are based on the OOo 3.3.0 development code, incorporating patches from 
> Novel's Go-OO and others. What is new is that the long (10 year) wait for "The Community" to take 
> control of "The Project" is finally over and The Document Foundation is now being established.
>
> We and other projects (eg. OpenOffice Authors) outside of the "official" OOo holding, have been 
> waiting on a definitive statement as to whether or not the OpenOffice.org name and trademark, 
> held in trust by Sun and subsequently Oracle, is going to be released to The Document Foundation. 
> In the absence of any such statement and in light of remarks[1] made by (Sun/Oracle's puppet) OOo 
> Community Development Manager - Louis Suarez-Potts, at the most recent meeting of the OOo 
> Community Council, it would seem that Oracle will not be supporting The Document Foundation and 
> propose to take action to distance themselves from it.
>
> The "long neglected" (Read: almost abandoned) Tutorials For OpenOffice project has itself 
> undergone a change of administration/ownership and work has started on a number improvements and 
> expansions of both the tutorials and the services provided by the website. Until such time as The 
> Document Foundation has established a viable infrastructure and released a production version of 
> LibreOffice, we propose to continue working on tutorials centered around OOo. However, just like 
> the OpenOffice Authors project, we will be preparing LibreOffice materials for publication at a 
> later date.
>
> At this stage we only intend to demonstrate our support for The Documentation Foundation and 
> LibreOffice, by adding appropriate entries to the "Links" page of our website. 
>
> Regards
>
> Dave Barton
> Project Coordinator
> Tutorials For OpenOffice
>
> [1]  In summary: Members of the OOo Community Council who have joined, or indicated their support 
> for, The Document Foundation (eg. Cor Nouws) are being asked to resign from the council.


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