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Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 14:40:21 -0400
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Subject: Re: OpenOffice Proposal: Relationships with Other Apache Products
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Some of the Wave capabilities would be helpful off top of head.

NRJ

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Ross Gardler <rgardler@apache.org> wrote:
> 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. =A0I'm g=
oing to start a series of threads on various sections of the proposal that =
I think are a bit thin and which I could use some help with. For "Relations=
hips with Other Apache Products" we currently just call out only POI as a p=
ossible connection based on document file formats that are in common betwee=
n the two projects, both the current POI Microsoft Office formats, as well =
as possible future ODF libraries.
>>> Are there any other Apache projects where there might be an interesting=
 relationship? =A0 Anything jump out?
>>
>> How about Community Development over at community.apache.org?
>>
>> It's not a technical relationship to be sure, but there have been far mo=
re discussions about how to manage communities in threads related to this p=
otential podling than there have about almost any technical issues.
>>
>
> In my opinion there are two relationships with ComDev:
>
> 1) The education projects would seem to marry reasonably well with ComDev=
s current activities on mentoring. Although I should point out that The OO.=
o efforts 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 =
project is working well in this regard . ComDev has been increasing it's ef=
forts to develop entry level docs for newcomers, and we've started to docum=
ent some of our internal (often unwritten) knowledge. I'm pleased to say De=
nnis Hamilton has already helped us fix up a few issues as a result of this=
 proposal.
>
> The proposal already has a request for a comdev mentor. I'm considering m=
y time availability and encourage others (ComDev or otherwise) to consider =
signing up.
>
> Ross
>
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