Re: [libreoffice-marketing] inconsistent boilerplate

Hi :)
I think that first bit is historically accurate but is fairly irrelevant now 
that things have developed so far and fast.  It's possibly even insulting to 
Apache.  I now agree with Florian's earlier points in this thread about making 
the statements more consistent.  


I think the TDF has evolved the aim to being to 
"facilitate the evolution of the LibreOffice  community".  
In the second quoted text i think we need to just remove all the stuff in the 
paragraph to make it
"TDF has to consider the interests of new community members."

OpenOffice has become irrelevant.  Apache might recover it's position but if 
they do then there is a good chance it will be by working with us.  


I think we have reached the point where there is only 1 community but that it 
supports 2 products and 2 organisations.  Under Oracle they were only ostensibly 
2 communities and that was due to Oracle trying to push people out of 'their' 
area.  I think the 2 communities are more comfortable working together 
co-operatively.  


If that is a bit idealistic and "looking through rose tinted glasses" then i 
think we still only need to focus on 1 community and ignore elements that are 
vehemently pro-OpenOffice and anti-LibreOffice (if any such people really exist, 
which i doubt).  


Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Florian Effenberger <floeff@documentfoundation.org>
To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Fri, 24 June, 2011 12:58:57
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] inconsistent boilerplate

Hi,

Christoph Noack wrote on 2011-06-13 16.32:

> Well, I think we have the following situation here:
>        * TDF has _still_ the aim to "facilitate the evolution of the
>          (former) OpenOffice.org community"

of course. However, given the recent developments, I'd be careful with the 
OpenOffice.org wording now, but from the history, it is correct.

>        * TDF has to consider the interests of the new community members
>          (new to LibreOffice, having not participated within the OOo
>          community)

Yep.

>        * TDF has - in the long-run - to enable the community by
>          contentiously maintaining the "open, independent, and
>          meritocratic organization"

Yep.

> In my personal point-of-view, this slightly revised text may be used
> until we have the final foundation set-up:
>
>          The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the
>          evolution of the LibreOffice Community into a new, open,
>          independent, and meritocratic organization over the next few
>          months. An independent foundation is a better reflection of the
>          values of our contributors, users and supporters, and will
>          enable a more effective, efficient and transparent community.
>          TDF will protect past investments by building on the
>          achievements of the first decade with OpenOffice.org, will
>          encourage wide participation within the community, and will
>          co-ordinate activity across the community.
>
> At least, all important points are kept (especially the "achievements of
> the first decade" - which is related to OOo but LibO).

Sounds good to me! What do others think?

Florian

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