Re: [board-discuss] Counterproposal to the "actization" of LibreOffice Online

Hi,

the linked documents shows the different behavior / narrative during a
period without a commercial product and with the opposite.
During the first one it is a community project and it is one of the core
projects. It is welcomed that every community member (everyone)
contributes to the project, support it and use it for free (as product
of the community). It is also proposed that it will be supported as a
community project and get updates (etc.).
Once the project gets commercial ready this commitment was retracted.
And the speech changed to the statement that the project had only little
/ negligible contributions from the community.
If you analyze this statement you could get to the conclusion that the
contributions of one group of developers are not contributions to the
community. But if that would be the case, why could they apply for TDF
membership and so on?

And the statement, that Paolo linked in this thread, was made from TDF
in 2015 and you could find out who was on the board at that time:
https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/board/2014-2016/

Thus it seemed very important to have clear rules for projects, that TDF
hosts and which were substantial driven by a professional entity.

And it's also obvious that a CoI could happen very likely, if one try to
wear two hats (on different sides of the table).

Regards,
Andreas

Am 21.01.22 um 19:10 schrieb Paolo Vecchi:
> And also:
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20160320072620/https://www.collaboraoffice.com/community-news/libreoffice-online-questions-answered-what-who-how-and-when/
>
>
> Maybe also that gave some people the impression that LibreOffice
> OnLine, being hosted at TDF and "contributed to the LibreOffice
> project", would have been made available to all but that may just be
> my reading.
>
> Ciao
>
> Paolo
>
> On 21/01/2022 18:31, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > On 18/01/2022 06:39, Andreas Mantke wrote:
> > > only for background information I recommend to read:
> > > blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2015/01/27/the-document-foundation-announces-the-results-of-the-android-tender/
> > >
> > > and e.g. the annual report 2013 of TDF, page 9/10
> >
> >     And also:
> >
> >     https://collaboraonline.github.io/post/faq/#mobile-story
> >
> >     which has links to the reports, with the (core) commits. And:
> >
> >     https://collaboraonline.github.io/post/faq/#creators
> >
> >     may be interesting too; all of that a year+ old.
> >
> >     ATB,
> >
> >         Michael.

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