On 10/26/2010 02:44 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
I haven't quite read all the messages regarding this subject as there are quite a few of them, so if I talk about something that has already been discussed, please forgive me. In terms of obtaining funding, I already see that donations are being taken on behalf of TDF, which to me is a good start. Is TDF going to have one central location with chapters throughout the world (like the FSF)? What about adding more avenues for donations, such as Google Checkout? Not everyone participates in bank transfers, and not everyone is comfortable using PayPal.Le 2010-10-26 12:31, Italo Vignoli a écrit :Gianluca Turconi wrote:A Foundation that collects funds and gathers contributions to further developing LibO, and steers the wider Community for that development, it's a reassuring idea. It's just like Mozilla.The Document Foundation was born with this same idea, although we do not see the same founding opportunities of Mozilla (as they receive 60 million dollars per year from Google for choosing Google as the default search engine). There will be announcements in the next two weeks which will improve the understanding of the organizational model and of the development directions TDF will be following in the future. Although each member of TDF Steering Committee is able to express his own opinions on the subject, I would not take every word as a statement on behalf of TDF. At the moment, the vast amount of positive enthusiasm around TDF is fostering ideas and innovations, and I prefer to see the discussion flowing instead of feeding the list with statements. In seven years, I have never seen so many people on the US marketing team, and this is what makes me feel very comfortable inside TDF: the amount of enthusiasm and positive feelings around the project. Shortly in the future, we will have a season of more disciplined discussions. Ciao, ItaloAs a new member, and not knowing the history of the group, as well as not a member the SC or any core group, I am also quite encouraged and impresseed of how the LibO and TDF are organising. I am also quite impressed of the TDF broaching such issues as "what constitutes a member", "corporate sponsorship with membership concerns" etc. in consultation of the community. This is indeed a very promising project and team. I am sure the issue of funding will be addressed at some point but organising the community is of utmost importance. Once we are a little more organised and the first distro is released, we will be able to turn our more of our attention to corporate funding.As for the US and in my case the Canadian membership, I really think that the approach should be more of finding members by approaching individuals and organisations rather than sitting back and waiting for membership to grow on its own. We need to seed with enough members to attain an amount of critical mass so that the membership feeds itself. It will not grow unless we go out into the user world and try to convince them to join our LibO community.That said, I personally still expect a great product and a very professionally run organisation from the TDF/LibO. Judging from the chatter on the mailists and participation on getting the various aspects of the hardware/dev software etc. I can already see that these qualities are already part of the membership culture.Cheers Marc
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