On 27/09/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> I've just sent the devroom application. ...
> Our availability to share a joint devroom with other projects is stated
> in the proposal, so it will likely happen that FOSDEM organizers
> consider this option and make their recommendations accordingly.
And indeed this happened today: FOSDEM organizers, who received an
application from Apache OpenOffice and one from LibreOffice, asked
whether we can share a devroom. Of course this was already in our
proposal, so I said it would be OK for us. Then a number of practical
issues would have to be addressed, but there is time for it.
Thanks Juergen, Louis, Rob for raising the issue of a possible shared
devroom while we were drafting the proposal: this saves a lot of time
and discussions now. The shared devroom would have the tentative name of
"ODF Offices".
For reference, I'm copying my answer below, and I hope I will be allowed
to share the whole conversation here if it continues (but I don't think
it will continue, at least on our side).
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> [Organizers ask whether we would consider hosting a shared
> devroom]
Sure we would. While we can of course fill a whole day (and more) with
Apache OpenOffice presentations, we had noticed your preference for
shared devrooms and we had discussed it before I forwarded our proposal.
I've nothing to add to what we already wrote:
'The Apache OpenOffice project is definitely willing to consider a
possible suggestion by the organizers for a joint "ODF editors" devroom,
dedicated to Apache OpenOffice and to the other Free and Open Source
editors using OpenDocument as their native format.'
Actually, I do have something to add: may I repost your messages from
this discussion to the ooo-dev public discussion list? Apache OpenOffice
takes all its decisions in public and by consensus, and I am just one of
dozens of PPMC members. So it would be a bit awkward for me to discuss
in private (if there is still need for it) and having to report in
public for taking decisions.
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Regards,
Andrea.
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