Re: [libreoffice-marketing] inconsistent boilerplate

Le 2011-06-24 07:58, Florian Effenberger a écrit :
> 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
I like it too, although, I do second the notion that was mentioned in 
Tom Davies reply, that we should also mention StarOffice because, as Tom 
so aptly states that we still have remnants of StarOffice usage in 
"soffice", "swriter" etc. Perhaps amend that particular line:

old: "TDF will protect past investments by building on the achievements 
of the first decade with OpenOffice.org, "

proposed: "TDF will protect past investments by building on the 
achievements of the past decades with OpenOffice.org and StarOffice,"

New text would then read:

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 past decades with OpenOffice.org and StarOffice, 
will encourage wide participation within the community, and will 
co-ordinate activity across the community.

This will furthermore entrench our codebase lineage with our project.

Should there also be mention of the type of licence we have adopted -- 
opensource copy-left -- . Do we need to define ourselves from the 
version of the ASF opensource licence? This may be important for people 
who are looking into what is the difference between the TDF/LibreOffice 
and ASF versions of their office suite. IMO, I think we need to make 
this clear and also link our licence to the appropriate full description 
on the FSF site.

Cheers

Marc

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Marc Paré
http://www.parEntreprise.com


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