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[X] +1 Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

On 6/10/11 12:02 PM, Sam Ruby wrote:
> *** Please change your Subject: line for any [DISCUSSION] of this [VOTE]
>
> As the discussions on the OpenOfficeProposal threads seem to be 
> winding down, I would like to initiate the vote to accept 
> OpenOffice.org as an Apache Incubator project.
>
> At the end of this mail, I've put a copy of the current proposal.  
> Here is a link to the document in the wiki:
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal?action=recall&rev=207
>
> As the proposal discussion threads are numerous, I encourage people to 
> scan and review the archives for this month:
>
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/browser 
>
>
> Please cast your votes:
>
> [  ] +1 Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation
> [  ] +0 Indifferent to OpenOffice.org incubation
> [  ] -1 Reject OpenOffice.org for incubation
>
> This vote will close 72 hours from now.
>
> - Sam Ruby
>
> = OpenOffice.org - An open productivity environment =
> == Abstract ==
> !OpenOffice.org is comprised of six personal productivity 
> applications: a word processor (and its web-authoring component), 
> spreadsheet, presentation graphics, drawing, equation editor, and 
> database. !OpenOffice.org is released on Windows, Solaris, Linux and 
> Macintosh operation systems, with more 
> [[http://porting.openoffice.org/|communities]] joining, including a 
> mature  [[http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/|FreeBSD port]]. 
> !OpenOffice.org is localized, supporting over 110 languages worldwide.
>
> == Proposal ==
> Apache !OpenOffice.org will continue the mission pursued by the 
> !OpenOffice.org project while under the sponsorship of Sun and Oracle, 
> namely:
>
> "To create, as a community, the leading international office suite 
> that  will run on all major platforms and provide access to all 
> functionality and  data through open-component based APIs and an 
> XML-based file format."
>
> In addition to to building the !OpenOffice.org product, as an end-user 
> facing product with many existing individual and corporate users, this 
> project will also be active in supporting end-users via tutorials, 
> user forums, document template repositories, etc.  The project will 
> also work to further enable !OpenOffice.org to be used as a 
> programmable module in document automation scenarios.
>
> == Background ==
> !OpenOffice.org was launched as an open source project by Sun 
> Microsystems in June 2000.  !OpenOffice.org was originally developed 
> under the name of StarOffice by Star Division, a German company, which 
> was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999.  Sun released this as open 
> source in 2000.  !OpenOffice.org is the leading alternative to 
> MS-Office available.  Its most recent major version, the 3.x series 
> saw over 
> [[http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html|100 
> million downloads]] in its first year.  The 
> [[http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html|most 
> recent estimates]] suggest a market share on the order of 8-15%.
>
> The !OpenOffice source is written in C++ and delivers language-neutral 
> and scriptable functionality. This source technology introduces the 
> next-stage architecture, allowing use of the suite elements as 
> separate applications or as embedded components in other applications. 
> Numerous other features are also present including XML-based file 
> formats based on the vendor-neutral !OpenDocument Format (ODF) 
> standard from OASIS and other resources.
>
> == Rationale ==
> !OpenOffice.org core development would continue at Apache following 
> the contribution by Oracle, in accordance with Apache bylaws and its 
> usual open development processes. Both Oracle and ASF agree that the 
> !OpenOffice.org development community, previously fragmented, would 
> re-unite under ASF to ensure a stable and long term future for 
> OpenOffice.org. ASF would enable corporate, non-profit, and volunteer 
> stakeholders to contribute code in a collaborative fashion.
>
> Supporting tooling projects will accompany the !OpenOffice.org 
> contribution, providing APIs for extending and customizing 
> !OpenOffice.org.
>
> Both !OpenOffice.org and the related tooling projects support the 
> OASIS Open Document Format, and will attract an ecosystem of 
> developers, ISVs and Systems Integrators. ODF ensures the users of 
> !OpenOffice.org and related solutions will own their document data, 
> and be free to choose the application or solution that best meets 
> their requirements.
>
> The !OpenOffice.org implementation will serve as a reference 
> implementation of the Open Document Format standard.
>
> = Current Status =
> == Meritocracy ==
> We understand the intention and value of meritocracy at Apache.  We 
> are particularly gratified to learn, during the discussion on this 
> proposal, that there is a strong role for non-coders to participate in 
> this meritocracy and as they demonstrate their sustained commitment 
> and merit, to take on additional community responsibilities.
>
> The initial developers are very familiar with open source development, 
> both at Apache and elsewhere. Apache was chosen specifically because 
> Oracle as contributor, and IBM as Sponsor, as well as the initial 
> developers, want to encourage this style of development for the 
> project. A diverse developer community is regarded as necessary for a 
> healthy, stable, long term !OpenOffice.org project.
>
> == Community ==
> The !OpenOffice.org project, over its 10+ years of existence has 
> spawned a diverse set of derived applications, each associated with 
> its own set of communities. Some of the more prominent applications 
> built on !OpenOffice.org include:
>
>  * !LibreOffice
>
>  * [[http://wiki.ooo4kids.org|OOo4Kids]] / 
> [[http://wiki.ooolight.org|OOoLight]]
>
>  * IBM Lotus Symphony
>  * !RedFlag China 2000 !RedOffice
>
>  * !NeoOffice
>
>  * !EurOffice
>
> A fuller picture of the range of customizations of !OpenOffice.org is 
> illustrated in this time line:
>
> {{http://www.robweir.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/oo-forks.png}}
>
> Each of these products has one more more associated communities, which 
> might include:
>
>  1. a user community
>  1. a developer community
>  1. a community of supporter, promoters, trainers, consultants, e.g., 
> an extended ecosystem
>
> In some cases the development effort for the derived project consists 
> of repackaging the core !OpenOffice.org code with additional plugins, 
> fonts, clipart, in other cases an additional language translation is 
> added bundled with additional language tools (spell checking 
> dictionaries, grammar proofers), and in other cases the development 
> work involves changes of the core components.
>
> In some cases the communities coordinate closely with the parent 
> !OpenOffice.org projects, in other cases they have effectively 
> "forked" into independent projects, and in some cases we really have 
> no idea who they are or what they are doing. For example, screen shots 
> of the secretive North Korean "Red Star" computer system indicate that 
> it is likely using a customized version of !OpenOffice.
>
> The above community relations are as much social as business. The 
> annual !OpenOffice.org Conference has, for many years, been an 
> important event on the calendar for community members, a "gathering of 
> the clans" and generally brings in the "extended family" of projects, 
> often including non-!OpenOffice.org based projects that interoperate 
> with !OpenOffice.org via the !OpenDocument Format (ODF) document 
> format, e.g., Google Docs, Microsoft Office, !AbiWord, Calligra 
> Suite/KOffice. We want to continue this tradition with members of any 
> eventual Apache !OpenOffice TLP, in conjunction with the extended 
> community of derived projects.
>
> One of our goals with this incubation project will be to rationalize 
> and formalize the coordination of these upstream and downstream 
> contribution, basing it on the Apache 2.0 license, which should help 
> us disseminate enhancements to the core more easily, since this 
> license is easily consumed by all derivatives, even those with 
> copyleft licenses. We need to identify which functions performed by 
> the broader network of communities are a good fit for an eventual 
> Apache TLP, and which things fit better outside of Apache.We also need 
> to respect that the maintainers of these derivatives of 
> !OpenOffice.org have a lot of pride in their distributions and value 
> their independent names and websites. So it is not reasonable to 
> expect that they will wish to be folded into a single "vanilla" Apache 
> !OpenOffice.org. However, we must do what is possible to encourage and 
> further develop a thriving ecosystem around this project.
>
> One possible outcome is that we encourage the core development of the 
> editors to occur in Apache, while making it easy, via a modular 
> extension mechanism, a modular install, etc. for others to customize 
> and redistribute as permitted by the Apache 2.0 license.
>
> == Collaboration with LibreOffice ==
> The !LibreOffice project is an important partner in the 
> !OpenOffice.org community, with an established focus on the GNU/Linux 
> community as well as on Windows and Mac consumer end-users. The Apache 
> !OpenOffice project will seek to build a constructive working and 
> technical relationship so that the source code developed at Apache can 
> be readily used downstream by !LibreOffice, as well as exploring ways 
> for their upstream contributions to be integrated.
>
> There will be other ways we will be able to collaborate, including 
> jointly sponsored events, interoperability 'plugfests', standards 
> development, shared build management infrastructure, shared release 
> mirrors, coordination of build schedules and version numbers, defect 
> lists, and other downstream requirements. We will make this 
> relationship a priority early in the life of the podlet.
>
> == Core Developers ==
> The initial set of committers include developers and other 
> contributors to !OpenOffice.org, as well members of other derived 
> products, open source and commercial, including Symphony, RedOffice, 
> LibreOffice, EducOOo, etc.   These committers have varying degrees of 
> experience with Apache-style open source development, ranging from 
> none to ASF Members.
>
> == Marketing ==
> Since its origins, !OpenOffice.org has had a healthy group of 
> volunteers committed to marketing with "!MarCons" in many countries. 
> There are existing initiatives that combine marketing with the 
> possibility of raising independent funds, for example through EU grant 
> applications related to the Life Long Learning programme, the 
> certification project and developing the selling of marketing 
> collateral around the OpenOffice.org brand. There is potential to 
> independently raise money to substantially improve the quality and 
> take up of the code that was not realised previously.
>
> == Education ==
> Create a '''strong bridge between !OpenOffice.org and the Educational 
> World''' :
>
>  * Provide a place for !OpenOffice.org users, in Education context: 
> discuss about adapt !OpenOffice.org to your pedagogy, your needs ..etc 
> (all levels of Education are concerned )
>
>  * Provide and promote tools adapted to pedagogical use, around 
> !OpenOffice.org
>
>  * Write code together : train students to OpenOffice.org source code, 
> create new features, experiment and reverse the best code to be 
> integrated, following the 
> [[http://education.openoffice.org|OpenOffice.org Education Project 
> model]] and the [[http://www.educoo.org|EducOOo effort]].
>
>  * !OpenOffice.org has also maintained various mentoring projects and 
> efforts and are in demand
>
> == Alignment ==
> The developers of !OpenOffice.org will want to work with the Apache 
> Software Foundation specifically because Apache has proven to provide 
> a strong foundation and set of practices for developing 
> standards-based infrastructure and related components. Additionally, 
> the project may evolve to support cloud and mobile platforms from its 
> starting point of desktop operating systems.
>
> = Known Risks =
> == Orphaned products ==
> We are encouraged by the strong initial response that news of this 
> proposal has attracted,  quickly growing from two to over 80 proposed 
> committers.  Among those names are individuals who have been involved 
> with this project for 10 years or more.  In addition to the individual 
> volunteers, there is a 
> __significant__[[http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/34638.wss|corporate 
> committment]].  The risk, as in most projects, is to grow the project 
> and maintain diversity.  This is a priority that is keenly desired by 
> the community.
>
> == Inexperience with Open Source ==
> The initial developers include long-time open source developers, 
> including Apache Members. Although the vast majority of proposed 
> committers do not have Apache experience, they do have open source 
> experience.  For example, the names from *openoffice.org addresses 
> were involved with the project previously.
>
> The inexperience risk is also mitigated by the strong list of mentors 
> who have signed up to support this project.
>
> == Homogeneous Developers ==
> !OpenOffice.org for many years was managed by Sun, who provided the 
> majority of its engineering resources as well as its direction. Moving 
> this project to Apache enables a new start and provide a broad 
> framework.  We intend to engage in strong recruitment efforts in order 
> to further strengthen and diversify this project.
>
> In terms of geographic diversity, the project has strong European 
> participation.  This reflects the historical core of the development 
> effort in this project.  We wish to diversify this more, especially 
> encouraging greater participation from CJK, India and South America.
>
> == Reliance on Salaried Developers ==
> The initial group of proposed committers does not appear to be 
> dominated by a single company.  However, when we look at sponsored 
> developers, with the ability to work on this project full time, IBM 
> clearly has more committers.  We beleive that this situation will 
> change, as the project developers.  The value of this code under a the 
> permissive Apache 2.0 license will attract and encourage 
> opportunities, not only for existing software vendors, but also for 
> new ventures.  This is a new opportunity, not previously permitted to 
> the same degree by the project's previous license.  This combined with 
> a strong recruitment effort will help remove the project reliance on 
> developers from any single company.
>
> == Relationships with Other Apache Products ==
> Several potential areas for collaboration with other Apache projects 
> have been suggested, including:
>
> [[http://poi.apache.org|Apache POI]] potentially, if POI extends to 
> support ODF, the default file format of !OpenOffice.org. (and initial 
> discussions on this have been promising)
>
> [[http://tika.apache.org/|Apache Tika]] is a generic toolkit for 
> extracting text and metadata from various file formats. Improving ODF 
> support with tools from OOo is an obvious area of interest for Tika.
>
> [[http://pdfbox.apache.org/|Apache PDFBox]] is a Java library for 
> working with PDF documents. If not direct code sharing over the Java / 
> C++ divide, then at least sharing of PDF know-how and perhaps things 
> like test cases between these projects would be great.
>
> [[http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/|Apache XML Graphics]] for SVG related 
> libraries
>
> [[http://community.apache.org/|Community Development]]
>
> We are interested in further exploring these options.
>
> == A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ==
> !OpenOffice.org in itself is a very strong brand.  Our primary 
> interest is in the processes, systems, and framework Apache has put in 
> place around open source software development more than any 
> fascination with the brand.
>
> == Documentation ==
> Additional reading on  !OpenOffice.org can be found at the 
> [[http://www.openoffice.org/|existing project's website]].
>
> == Localization ==
> This part is mandatory, and an important step in the organization.
>
> == Initial Source ==
> The initial source will consist of a collection of !OpenOffice.org 
> files as specified in Oracle's submitted SGA.
>
> During incubation, we will seek a grant to the following additional 
> items:
>
>  * 
> [[http://hg.services.openoffice.org/DEV300/file/DEV300_m106/mysqlc|MySQL 
> Connector module]]
>
>  * 
> [[http://hg.services.openoffice.org/DEV300/file/DEV300_m106/default_images|default 
> images]]
>
>  * 
> [[http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ChildWorkSpace|ChildWorkSpaces 
> (CWS)]]
>
> == External Dependencies ==
> !OpenOffice has external dependencies, including source and binary, 
> required and optional, under a variety of licenses.  A list of these 
> dependencies can be found 
> [[http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/External/Modules|here]].
>
> We acknowledge that it is a podling graduation requirement to review 
> these dependencies and to get the product into conformance with Apache 
> requirements.  The details will vary on a  case-by-case basis, but 
> options available to us include:
>
>  * Substitute an external dependency with one having a compatible license
>  * Contact the owner of a dependency and asking for a compatible license
>  * Replace a source dependency with an unmodified binary dependency
>  * Make a feature be optional, or user-installed
>  * Rewrite a feature to avoid the external dependency
>  * Remove a feature along with its external dependencies
>
> Note: This task will be aided by the help of project members who work 
> on IBM Lotus Symphony, who are familiar with many of these issues from 
> a similar effort done on that product.
>
> == Cryptography ==
> !OpenOffice.org supports digital signatures and encryption of 
> documents.  The project will complete any needed export control 
> paperwork related to these features.
>
> == Required Resources ==
> Note: It is recommended that after this proposal is accepted, that 
> there be a consultation with ASF Legal Affairs on the trademark 
> *before* any project infrastructure is created.
>
> === Mailing Lists ===
> The following mailing lists:
>
>  * `ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org` - for developer discussions
>
>  * `ooo-commits@incubator.apache.org` - for Subversion commit messages
>
>  * `ooo-issues@incubator.apache.org` - for JIRA change notifications
>
>  * `ooo-notifications@incubator.apache.org` - for continuous 
> build/test notifications
>
> '''Note''': a users mailing is not being requested at this time. It is 
> anticipated that users will interact with the community through 
> existing !OpenOffice.org systems, which are forums, based on phpBB.
>
> === Other resources ===
> A subversion repository
>
> A JIRA issue tracker: short code "OOo"
>
> Pootle server (suggested for localization centralization)
>
> phpBB end-user forums
>
> Download site
>
> TBD: some idea of how much build infrastructure measured in hardware.
>
> Oracle will assist in the transition and migration from 
> !OpenOffice.org. All of the content has already been archived and is 
> ready for the ASF infrastructure group to act on.
>
> == Initial Committers ==
> In order to help encourage the creation of a broad and diverse project 
> built upon merit, as required of an Apache project, we have not loaded 
> the initial committer list with contributors from a single company. 
> Our intention is for the initial committer list to be representative 
> of the various users of OOo code. It is perfectly all right to have 
> your name on this list if you contribute in another way than to commit 
> program code (please maintain alphabetical ordering).
> ||<tablewidth="897px" tableheight="714px">'''Name''' ||'''Email''' 
> ||'''Affiliation''' ||'''iCLA''' ||
> ||Kai Ahrens ||ka at openoffice dot org ||Individual !OpenOffice.org, 
> [[http://graphics.openoffice.org|graphics.openoffice.org]] || ||
> ||Eric Bachard ||ericb at openoffice dot org 
> ||[[http://www.educoo.org|EducOOo]],[[http://education.openoffice.org/|Education 
> Project]] || ||
> ||Mathias Bauer ||mba at openoffice dot org ||Individual 
> !OpenOffice.org ||yes ||
> ||Stephan Bergmann || sb@openoffice.org ||Individual !OpenOffice.org 
> || ||
> ||Raphael Bircher || r.bircher@gmx.ch 
> ||[[http://www.raphaelbircher.ch|Individual]] !OpenOffice.org QA, and 
> Infrastructure || ||
> ||Ben Bois ||benbois at ooo4kids dot org 
> ||[[http://www.educoo.org|EducOOo]] / 
> [[http://wiki.ooo4kids.org|OOo4Kids]] / 
> [[http://wiki.ooolight.org|OOoLight]] designer || ||
> ||Andy Brown ||andy at the-marin-byrd dot net ||Individual ||yes ||
> ||Simon Brouwer ||simonbr at openoffice dot org 
> ||[[http://nl.openoffice.org/|Dutch Native Language Project]] ||yes ||
> ||Alexandro Colorado || jza@openoffice.org 
> ||[[http://education.openoffice.org/|Education Project]] || ||
> ||Fred-Juan DIAZ ||fred-juan.diaz at educoo dot org 
> ||[[http://www.educoo.org|EducOOo]] tester || ||
> ||Robert Burrell Donkin || rdonkin@apache.org ||Individual ||yes ||
> ||Olaf Felka ||of at openoffice.org ||individual, QA, 
> [[http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/FrameworkTeamsite/ooQA-TeamFramework.html|Framework]] 
> || ||
> ||David Fisher || wave@apache.org ||individual ||yes ||
> ||Marcelo Horacio Fortino || mfortino@estrategiasgnulinux.com 
> ||Individual || ||
> ||Jaime R. Garza ||<<MailTo(garzaj AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com)>> 
> ||Individual || ||
> ||Roman Gelbort || elproferoman@openoffice.org 
> ||[[http://openoffice.org/people/307558-elproferoman|Spanish and 
> Marketing project]] || ||
> ||Luis E. Vasquez || levarcol@openoffice.org ||Individual || ||
> ||Christian Grobmeier ||grobmeier AT apache dor org ||Individual ||yes ||
> ||Wolf Halton || wolf.halton@gmail.com ||http://atlantacloudtech.com 
> || ||
> ||Dennis E. Hamilton || dennis.hamilton@acm.org ||Individual 
> ([[orcmid]]) || ||
> ||Ivo Hinkelmann ||ihi at openoffice dot org ||Individual || ||
> ||Eric Hoch || maveric@openoffice.org ||Co-Lead 
> [[http://de.openoffice.org/|German Native Language Project]], 
> MacPorting Project || ||
> ||Martin Hollmichel || mh@openoffice.org ||Release Manager, OOo 
> external project lead || ||
> ||imacat || imacat@mail.imacat.idv.tw ||[[http://educoo.tw|EducOOo 
> Taiwan]], [[http://zh.openoffice.org|Traditional Chinese]] || ||
> ||Jim Jagielski || jim@apache.org ||Individual ||yes ||
> ||Christoph Jopp || jopp@gmx.de ||Individual ||yes ||
> ||Marcus Lange || mla@openoffice.org ||Individual 
> [[http://download.openoffice.org|download.openoffice.org]] || ||
> ||Steve Lee || steve@fullmeasure.co.uk ||Individual (a11y) ||yes ||
> ||Christian Lippka || cl@lippka.com ||Individual 
> [[http://graphics.openoffice.org|graphics.openoffice.org]] || ||
> ||Dieter Loeschky || dl@openoffice.org ||Individual 
> [[http://performance.openoffice.org|OOo Performance]], 
> [[http://council.openoffice.org/esc|OOo ESC]] || ||
> ||Ian Lynch || ian.lynch@theingots.org 
> ||[[http://theingots.org|Marketing Project/TLM]] || ||
> ||Carl Marcum || carl.marcum@codebuilders.net ||Individual 
> [[http://www.codebuilders.net|CodeBuilders.net]] ||yes ||
> ||Patrick Maupin || pmaupin@gmail.com ||Individual || ||
> ||Ingrid von der Mehden ||iha at openoffice dot org 
> ||[[http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Chart2|OOo chart 
> development]] || ||
> ||Stephane Quenson ||stephane.quenson [at] gmail [dot] com 
> ||Individual || ||
> ||Eike Rathke ||ooo AT erack DOT de ||individual || ||
> ||Manfred Reiter ||fredao at openoffice dot org 
> ||[[http://theingots.org|Marketing Project/TLM]] || ||
> ||Zolt�n Reizinger || r4zoli@openoffice.org ||Individual qa user forum 
> || ||
> ||Phillip Rhodes || prhodes@fogbeam.com 
> ||[[http://www.fogbeam.com|Fogbeam Labs]] ||yes ||
> ||Andrew Rist || andrew.rist@oracle.com 
> ||[[http://oracle.com/|Oracle]] ||yes ||
> ||Lawrence Rosen || lrosen@rosenlaw.com 
> ||[[http://www.rosenlaw.com/|Individual]] ||yes ||
> ||Juergen Schmidt ||jsc at openoffice dot org ||Individual 
> [[http://api.openoffice.org|API]], 
> [[http://extensions.openoffice.org|Extensions]] || ||
> ||Jomar Silva ||homembit at gmail ||Individual 
> ([[http://www.homembit.com|homembit]]) || ||
> ||Kai Sommerfeld ||kso at openoffice dot org ||Individual 
> !OpenOffice.org || ||
> ||Mechtilde Stehmann || mechtilde@openoffice.org ||qa officer || ||
> ||Michael Stehmann || mikeadvo@openoffice.org ||individual || ||
> ||Greg Stein ||gstein at gmail ||individual ||yes ||
> ||Michael Stahl ||mst at openoffice dot org ||Individual 
> !OpenOffice.org || ||
> ||Carl Symons || carlsymons@gmail.com ||Individual || ||
> ||Stefan Taxhet ||stx123 at gmail 
> ||[[http://www.linkedin.com/in/stefantaxhet|Individual]], 
> [[http://openoffice.org/people/4-Stefan-Taxhet|OpenOffice.org]] || ||
> ||Malte Timmermann || mt@openoffice.org 
> ||[[http://www.linkedin.com/in/maltetimmermann|Individual]], 
> [[http://security.openoffice.org/|OpenOffice.org Security]] and 
> Accessibility || ||
> ||Rob Weir || robert_weir@us.ibm.com ||[[http://ibm.com/|IBM]] ||yes ||
> ||Yong Lin Ma || mayongl@cn.ibm.com ||[[http://symphony.lotus.com|IBM, 
> Symphony Architect]] ||yes ||
> ||Lei Wang || leiw@cn.ibm.com ||[[http://symphony.lotus.com|IBM, 
> Spreadsheet]] || ||
> ||Drew Jensen || drew@baseanswers.com ||Individual 
> [[http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Drew|TDF]] 
> [[http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:DrewJensen|OpenOffice]] ||yes 
> ||
> ||Graham Lauder || yorick_@openoffice.org ||!OpenOffice.org !MarCon 
> [[http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html|(Marketing Contact) 
> New Zealand]] || ||
> ||Florent Andr� || florent@apache.org ||individual ||yes ||
> ||Allen Pulsifer ||pulsifer at openoffice.org ||individual || ||
> ||Herbert Duerr || hdu@openoffice.org ||individual || ||
> ||Kazunari Hirano || khirano@openoffice.org ||individual || ||
> ||Kent �berg || kent.aberg@newformat.se 
> ||[[http://www.newformat.se/newformat/eng/newformat-home-index.html|NewFormat]] 
> || ||
> ||Maho NAKATA || maho@openoffice.org ||ja/qa project lead, FBSD 
> porting || ||
> ||Miguel �. R�os ||mariosv@miguelangel dot mobi ||Individual || ||
> ||Dave !McKay || thegurkha@openoffice.org ||Individual || ||
> ||Louis Su�rez-Potts || louis@openoffice.org ||individual || ||
> ||Fernand Vanrie || sos@pmg.be ||individual || ||
> ||Arthur Buijs || artietee@openoffice.org 
> ||[[http://nl.openoffice.org/|Dutch Native Language Project]] ||Yes ||
> ||Dave Barton || db@tasit.net 
> ||[[http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org|Tutorials For OpenOffice]] 
> || ||
> ||Jian Fang Zhang || zhangjf@cn.ibm.com 
> ||[[http://symphony.lotus.com|IBM, Symphony Chief Programmer, G11N, 
> Security]] ||Yes ||
> ||Zhe Wang || wangzcdl@cn.ibm.com ||[[http://symphony.lotus.com|IBM, 
> Impress]] || ||
> ||Don Harbison || donald_harbison@us.ibm.com ||[[http://ibm.com/|IBM]] 
> ||Yes ||
> ||Jian Hong Cheng || chengjh@cn.ibm.com 
> ||[[http://symphony.lotus.com|IBM, Writer, Impress]] || ||
> ||Chao Sun || sunchao@redoffice.com ||[[www.redoffice.com|RedOffice]] 
> || ||
> ||Heng Lee || liheng@redoffice.com ||[[www.redoffice.com|RedOffice]] 
> || ||
> ||Shu Wang Han || hanshuwang@redoffice.com 
> ||[[www.redoffice.com|RedOffice]] || ||
> ||Hong Yun An || anhongyun@redoffice.com 
> ||[[www.redoffice.com|RedOffice]] || ||
> ||Jin Hua Chen || chenjinh@cn.ibm.com ||IBM, Symphony Presentation || ||
> ||Yegor Kozlov || yegor@apache.org ||individual ||yes ||
> ||Juan C. Sanz || jucasaca34@openoffice.org ||Spanish documentation || ||
> ||Peter Junge || pj@openoffice.org ||Individual || ||
> ||Cyril Beaussier ||oooforum at free dot fr 
> ||[[http://user.services.openoffice.org/fr|French forum 
> admin]],[[http://fr.openoffice.org/|French Project webmaster]] || ||
> ||Damjan Jovanovic || damjan@apache.org ||individual ||yes ||
> ||Fernando Cassia || fcassia@sdf.lonestar.org ||individual || ||
>
>
>
>
> = Sponsors =
> == Champion ==
> Sam Ruby, Apache Foundation
>
> == Nominated Mentors ==
> Because of the scope and complexity of this proposed project, we 
> believe that the incubation process would benefit from multiple 
> mentors, especially ones willing to be the "point person" for each of 
> the following disciplines:
>
>  a. IP review
>  a. infrastructure
>  a. release management
>  a. community development
>
> Mentors (these are all Members of the Foundation):
>
>  * Jim Jagielski
>  * Sam Ruby
>  * Danese Cooper
>  * Shane Curcuru
>  * N�ir�n Plunkett
>  * Joe Schaefer
>  * Christian Grobmeier
>  * Ross Gardler
>
> == Sponsoring Entity ==
> The Apache Incubator
>
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