Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: changes for this mailing list

Upside-down.  Membership of TDF is governed by a set of agreed rules and can be 
revoked.  OOo didn't have that.  With OOo the membership and the Community were 
seriously under-valued as a low-level add-on to the company that owned the 
product, ie cheap labour to do the grunt work.  Some Sun employees may have 
appreciated certain members of the community at certain times.  


With TDF the membership 'is' (will be?) the 'company' that owns the product.  
The founders are the core of that.  Members are representative of at least a 
small part of the organisation that owns the product (ie representing 
themselves) so bad-behaviour back-fires on them.  It's a completely different 
bottle of crisps from the Sun and Oracle set-up.

Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Thu, 26 May, 2011 20:36:01
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: changes for this mailing list

On 2011-05-26 12:25 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> the Community is all of us, the people engaging on the lists,
> contributing. We received many requests like "can I have a
> @libreoffic.org address like it was at OpenOffice.org", and during one
> of the public calls, the steering committee agreed in doing so, help
> people identify with the project. The limitation to members -- anyone
> active can apply as a member -- is solely because of bad experiences we
> had at OpenOffice.org, where people simply could register an
> @openoffice.org address and pretend they speak on behalf of the project.
> We ran into problems indeed with that.

As has been stated, it would have been MUCH better to have simply made
these addresses be something like user@memers.libreoffice.org, rather
than disturbing the existing community...

This would have also made it clear that these people were simply
*members*, not actual *reps* of TDF or LibreOffice...

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