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Subject: RE: Dealing with a large and diverse project - Native Languages and
 project teams
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 12:25:21 -0700
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I want to encourage all that you say here.

I am not so confident that the openoffice.org approach (that is, what =
Sun allowed and supported) is applicable here because the ASF as a =
foundation must operate differently than a commercial enterprise.

That can be a minor thing, once the guidelines are clear.

Do you have suggestions on how affiliation with ASF and the Apache =
OpenOffice project can be reconciled?  Need there be any?  If there is =
coupling between an NL community and AOO, what arrangement do you =
request?

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Paolo Pozzan [mailto:paolo@z2z.it]=20
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 11:34
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Dealing with a large and diverse project - Native Languages =
and project teams

[ ... ]

Reading to all other messages in this thread, I think many missed the =
point.
The problem is not about what language to use, but how to manage the=20
to-be-volunteers which don't or wouldn't have the same skills as ours.
Volunteers are a big marketing weapon; is like happy workers that freely =

advertise the company they work for. OTOH rejected volunteers (even for=20
difficulty of access - e.g. language) will feel the final product less=20
theirs, so they will be less willing to marketing that.

[ ... ]

What I understood in my experience with italian volunteers is that=20
people love to contribute in a hassle-free maneer, this means that=20
someone else have to show them the way, letting them just do. I know=20
this may sound disappointing, but it is not a limit of freedom if=20
someone choose by his/her own to follow some rules.

I think that it would be useful to write some basic guidelines for the=20
native language teams to know what to do and what not. Letting them know =

it would eventually lead to the birth of local communities, where=20
"basic" contributors will eventually will go there.
Maybe many of us have still in mind the old OpenOffice.org structure,=20
which worked fine for the language teams and to which we can consider=20
copying from.

Paolo