Note that the issue of monetary contributions and/or donations is a
major one, especially since there are real policy differences between
how OpenOffice.org used to work under Sun/Oracle and how the ASF does
it's fundraising. In particular, the ASF has a fundraising@apache.org
team and VP who work on fundraising for all projects; individual
projects do not specifically solicit for funds (other than to link to
the ASF Sponsorship page, etc.).
I would urge the PPMC to start a separate thread dealing with the
contributing.oo.o page, the relationship with SPI, and any other
fundraising matters.
Get a description of any pre-existing ways that funds might have come
into the project in the recent past, figure out a proposed plan for what
the PPMC would like to do in the future, and then work with fundraising@
(a privately archived list) to move forward.
- Shane
On 8/12/2011 8:40 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:05 AM, drew<drew@baseanswers.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 22:41 -0400, Rob Weir wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> http://contributing.openoffice.org/donate.html
>>>
>>
>> Ah right - so we should contact SPI and ask for them to stop taking
>> donations for OpenOffice.org, yes?
>>
>
> mmh, i am not sure. Team OpenOffice.org still exists and is as far as i know
> still committed to support OpenOffice. We have to check how this can be
> aligned with Apache because we probably don't want to loose this opportunity
> to get some money for the project. For example for conferences, marketing
> etc.
>
> Juergen
>
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Drew
>>
>>
>
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