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Contribution – Random thoughts and serendipity http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog A collection of jottings on various issues that excite no one else Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:27:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.17 21471312 The Document Foundation, LibreOffice and the road forward http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2010/10/04/the-document-foundation-libreoffice-and-the-road-forward/ http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/2010/10/04/the-document-foundation-libreoffice-and-the-road-forward/#respond Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:30:34 +0000 http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/?p=696 Continue reading The Document Foundation, LibreOffice and the road forward →]]> It is incredibly wonderful to see forward momentum on a somewhat long wait for a Foundation for OpenOffice.org project. The Document Foundation has promised to be an independent self-governing meritocratic Foundation. And, that is actually a lot of good intentions to live up to.

Once the rush of news announcements are over it would be nice to see some concrete time-line driven announcements from the Foundation. These would possibly end up around areas concerning:

  • how LibreOffice builds upon the existing work done within the fold of OpenOffice.org community
  • the cohesive nature of participation amongst existing Native Language Communities for OO.o and, LibreOffice
  • would LibreOffice contributions start off from a point in time

The last two items are specifically close to one’s heart because it goes directly and deeply into how the existing community finds a place within the new infrastructure and, how the contributions keep happening. Whether this would require reaching out to all the existing community/project leaders and seeking consensus is something that the wise heads at TDF know. I would wait to see more decisions being announced around infrastructure, contribution processes and, actual contributions begin to happen at a rapid clip.

Here’s to a new beginning.

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