Re: [libreoffice-marketing] OpenOffice.org Roles

Hi Marc, all,

Marc Paré wrote:
> [...]
> As an outsider looking in at these proceedings, it is quite clear that
> the TDF people who are still at Ooo are on borrowed time. I read through
> the minutes and I guess that you are being told to either leave or you
> will be asked to leave. But you must have expected this anyway.

The official way to handle these requests is mentioned in the 
"Guidelines for participating in OpenOffice.org" [1] for project leads 
(and I assume it should be valid for other roles in OOo too):

They have to be voted off by their project or "in extraordinary 
circumstances" by the direct intervention of the Community Council.

Community Council members will have to removed by "consensus vote of the 
other nine Council members" [2] if they don't resign on their own 
(possible at any time).

So if there is a group consisting of more than one council member not 
willing to resign, the Council Charter describes only one way to "get 
rid" of them: New elections (after 2 years of service if there is no 
agreement on earlier votes).

I hope that we'll never come to a situation where it will be necessary 
to test their validity under pressure...

We are still part of the OpenOffice.org community - and I don't know if 
Oracle really wants to test the support for the people having been 
active in this community for long time and deciding that it is crucial 
for the community's survival to have an independent foundation.

So my recommendation: Don't step back - stand for the community and keep 
on inviting community members not able to understand our move to talk 
about the future of our community. Perhaps we'll find a way to keep on 
collaboration.

If Oracle wants to revoke the community to use the OpenOffice.org 
trademark or if they keep on removing rights in the OOo infrastructure 
(... it might be just an accident, that Cor and Christoph had to be 
moderated to the discuss@CC mailing list ...), this would be an action 
visible for the whole world.

I'd like to avoid negative publicity for the OpenOffice.org project, 
even if I might be losing the virtual home I had for the last 6 years.

So please let us stay polite and open for discussion - most of the 
people on the OOo mailing lists have the same goals as we have: To 
create, as community, the best Office Suite of the world.

(... and perhaps one or another might be able to convince their 
management how important a vivid community is for an open source project 
...)

Best regards

Bernhard

[1]: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/guidelines.html

[2]: http://council.openoffice.org/councilcharter12.html

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