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From: Ross Gardler <rgardler@apache.org>
Subject: Re: OpenOffice Proposal: Relationships with Other Apache Products
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 09:08:58 +0100
To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <general@incubator.apache.org>

Sent from my mobile device (so please excuse typos)

On 5 Jun 2011, at 04:17, Shane Curcuru <asf@shanecurcuru.org> wrote:

> robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
>> I plan on updating the proposal on the wiki over the week-end.  I'm going=
 to start a series of threads on various sections of the proposal that I thi=
nk are a bit thin and which I could use some help with. For "Relationships w=
ith Other Apache Products" we currently just call out only POI as a possible=
 connection based on document file formats that are in common between the tw=
o projects, both the current POI Microsoft Office formats, as well as possib=
le future ODF libraries.
>> Are there any other Apache projects where there might be an interesting r=
elationship?   Anything jump out?=20
>=20
> How about Community Development over at community.apache.org?
>=20
> It's not a technical relationship to be sure, but there have been far more=
 discussions about how to manage communities in threads related to this pote=
ntial podling than there have about almost any technical issues.
>=20

In my opinion there are two relationships with ComDev:

1) The education projects would seem to marry reasonably well with ComDevs c=
urrent activities on mentoring. Although I should point out that The OO.o ef=
forts have a different focus (although not necessarily out of scope for us)

2) in understanding the ApacheWay. It's the Incubators job to ensure the pro=
ject is working well in this regard . ComDev has been increasing it's effort=
s to develop entry level docs for newcomers, and we've started to document s=
ome of our internal (often unwritten) knowledge. I'm pleased to say Dennis H=
amilton has already helped us fix up a few issues as a result of this propos=
al.

The proposal already has a request for a comdev mentor. I'm considering my t=
ime availability and encourage others (ComDev or otherwise) to consider sign=
ing up.=20

Ross

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