Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Draft Conference PR

Hi :)
WooooHooooo.  Seems like a few people really ironed things out nicely there.  Good work all!
Congrats and regards from
Tom :)  


--- On Tue, 26/6/12, Charles-H. Schulz <charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org> wrote:

From: Charles-H. Schulz <charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Draft Conference PR
To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Tuesday, 26 June, 2012, 17:27

Drew,

2012/6/26 drew jensen <drewjensen.inbox@gmail.com>

> On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 08:23 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
> > Florian,
> >
> > Could we please take out the "ODF plugfest" mention and replace it by ODF
> > Track? It seems that IBM is vehemently refusing to allow the official ODF
> > Plugfest to occur at the LibreOffice Conference .
> > We of course would not want to embarrass these gentlemen.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Charles.
>
> Hello Charles, et al
>
> Well that did not sound very good at all and I was rather distressed by
> the statement of facts there. I had the opportunity to ask about this in
> a different public forum, but too individuals I assumed directly
> involved. I did so, let me tell you why.
>
> I think this is very important, this plugfest, at the conference - for
> one thing I believe it is the type of activity core to the idea of doing
> things for the common good. Beyond that however, beyond just the common
> good, it is also of great good, IMO, to TDF/Libreoffice specifically.
>
> Anyway - so here is the text of an email I sent about this:
>
> "What is this I hear that TDF is being denied the use of the name, ODF
> Plugfest. The plan was to host such an event at our annual conference
> but apparently folks (hell IBM) is blocking it...so what's up with that
> - what happened to openness as in Open standard, non encumbered by....
> and all that BS?" I hope that is a reasonable paraphrase of what Charles
> said above.
>
> And here two responses.
>
> Roberto Galopinni said:
> "We have a conf call planned for this Thursday, I don't think we have
> any blocker. The only issue I've been reading about is all about the
> fact that part of the discussion about the organization has not been
> held on the usual channels. As a result some of us were not aware of
> the fact the next ODF-Plugfest was going to be held concurrently with
> LO event, so when the news come out it was a kind of surprise.
>
> So said, we're on track to start working on making it happen.
>
> Roberto"
>
> Rob Weir responded with a lengthier email, mostly dealing with process
> and I'll quote only a portion.
>
> "....
> 4) No one (to my knowledge) from IBM has opposed or even given an
> opinion on TDF hosting a Plugfest.
>
> ....
>
> -Rob"
>
> There was also included the comment that the mailing list:
> https://open.nlnet.nl/mailman/listinfo/plugtest-organisers
>
> is where requests/information about ODF Plugfests needs to go through.
>
> So  I just want to emphasis how important I think it is for TDF to do
> this, that I'm happy that it appears doable and want to help if I can -
> is there any grunt kind of task that would be needed that I could
> perform to help make this happen.
>
>
> Thanks,
This is a developing situation, developing in a good sense from what I've
seen today. Today indeed, we finally agreed on a confcall for good on
Thursday. I won't comment on the various reactions you got, but I agree
with you that if we can do an official ODF plugfest together, it will be a
great thing to do.

best,
Charles.

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