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From: Dave Fisher <dave2wave@comcast.net>
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 21:30:29 -0700
Subject: Re: Trouble child OpenOffice
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archived-at: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 04:30:46 -0000

Hadrian / Raphael,

I will be at Apachecon Miami and open for any opportunity. Will either of yo=
u be there?

Regards,
Dave

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> On Apr 20, 2017, at 9:05 PM, Hadrian Zbarcea <hzbarcea@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 04/20/2017 11:06 AM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 4:07 AM, Raphael Bircher
>> <rbircherapache@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Ted
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>>> Am .04.2017, 06:14 Uhr, schrieb Ted Dunning <ted.dunning@gmail.com>:
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>>>> Raphael,
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>>>> Why don't you get some folks together and start a company that solicits=

>>>> donations to support OO development and QA work?
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>>> That's the Apache like style, and that's exactly the reason why i write t=
o
>>> community and not to the openoffice dev. We have many projects at big da=
ta
>>> who are really successful. How they handle this problem? How they get pa=
id
>>> stuff involved into their projects. Maybe we can learn from it.
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>> It happens in exactly the way Ted is suggesting -- companies building pro=
duct
>> around Bigdata projects are handling client relationships and they pour $=
$$ back
>> into the projects either via hiring more developers to work on them or by=
 direct
>> sponsorship of ASF or by promoting the projects via conferences, training=
, etc.
>> OR all of the above ;-)
> Ok. I like a challenge. Raphael, how much, or what would it take to make w=
hat you suggest happen? I am willing to pony up some cash and other resource=
s.
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>> The challenge that is unique to OpenOffice as you are well aware is
>> the fact that
>> it is both a product and a project.
> That's not unique to OO. There are other projects that are a product too. T=
omcat, ServiceMix, Archiva are examples.
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> I see other challenges and opportunities (depending on how one looks at th=
e glass). For instance the fact that both MS and Google, major competitors, h=
ave a cloud service offering.
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>> Thanks,
>> Roman.
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