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From: =?utf-8?Q?Louis_Su=C3=A1rez-Potts?= <luispo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WWW][Policy] Rewriting contributing.openoffice.org
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:34:55 -0500
To: "ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org" <ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org>

Hi

(Nonsense words? iPad's spellchecker.)

-- Louis Su=C3=A1rez-Potts=20

=20

On 2011-11-18, at 18:50, Rob Weir <robweir@apache.org> wrote:

>=20
> Hi Louis,  I was making a much narrower point, that if I were looking
> to donate cash to an open source project, I would not think to look
> under a link that read "I want to participate".  That was my only
> point.  I wasn't expressing an opinion on code versus other forms of
> participation

Of course, but I was using the misinterpretation as a springboard: I do not w=
ant to repeat the old mistakes. The problem here was lack of clarity of iden=
tity and purpose. That's all right, usually, but as we lacked for many years=
 the wherewithal to work all the angles,  we ended up  losing a lot. Hence m=
y interest in focus.=