[steering-discuss] ODFAuthors vs Alfresco vs others

[sophi]

Hi,

I would like to clarify the different initiatives taking part of the LibreOffice documentation:

- The ODFAuthors (exOOoAuhtors) is the oldest initiative, hosted now by TDF, who has proven its capacity to produce and federate members by the guides and books covering all the suite it has produced. Several of our members are part of this initiative since a long time and they work on several languages.

- The Alfresco initiative is just born, pushed by David Nelson and has, for the moment and due to his very young age, produced nothing. It aims to work on dedicated LibreOffice documentation on different forms. It his hosted by David Nelson and supported by TDF.

- I'm pushing another initiative dedicated to t9n using xliff file format on Pootle to allow TM and glossaries. This initiative needs to be evaluated and pushed or abandoned following the feedback of the translators.

Even if the ODFAuthors initiative has proven his ability to federate and convey users to our project, this should not prevent other initiatives to take place.
Each initiative is welcome if it constitutes an emulation and not a competition et if it contributes at the openness and complementarity of the participations.

Members get the same merit whether they participate to one or another and are respected at the same level. These initiatives are here to provide choices and our contributors will be free to choose the one that better answer their wishes.
Other initiatives will take place in the future and they will be welcomed and evaluated in the same way.

I hope this is clear for every body and I will add an introduction of the different initiatives on the welcome documentation page of the wiki.

Kind regard
Sophie

[Jonathan_Aquilina]

Are we going to have a page on the site that will list all sites that are 3rd party initiatives but have the backing of the TDF?

[sophi]

Hi Jonathan,

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OAre we going to have a page on the site that will list all sites that are 3rd party initiatives but have the backing of the TDF?

I think it depends how deep is the 3rd party integrated with the workflow of the project. But why not.
If a big part of the community is interacting with this 3rd party and the result of this interaction is material available on our site, so I think it should be listed, yes.
For ODFAuthors, the books are often translated on the wiki, so the original place have to be mentionned.
For Alfresco, time will say if it's adopted or not by the community, but in the meantime, it should be indicated that it exists and is a choice for the members who wishes to work with it.
Does it answer your question?

Kind regards
Sophie

[Jonathan_Aquilina]

Yes it does thanks.

[Karl-Heinz_Godderz]

Hi @all,

Sophie Gautier schrieb:

- The ODFAuthors (exOOoAuhtors) is the oldest initiative, hosted now
by TDF, who has proven its capacity to produce and federate members by
the guides and books covering all the suite it has produced. Several
of our members are part of this initiative since a long time and they
work on several languages.

- The Alfresco initiative is just born, pushed by David Nelson and
has, for the moment and due to his very young age, produced nothing.
It aims to work on dedicated LibreOffice documentation on different
forms. It his hosted by David Nelson and supported by TDF.

is there a solution at the moment to see what document is on which
platform, so one working with ODFAuthors can find documents in alfresco
and viceversa?

Karl-Heinz