[tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org Summit Proposal

My apologies if this proposal is out of place on either list, but I think it's worth thinking about 
early.  Obviously I speak for neither Apache nor TDF but I have a deep concern for OpenOffice.org 
and am very keen to see the community healed.

Given that:
*  both LibreOffice (October, Paris) and Apache (November, Vancouver) have conferences in the 
second half of the year, 
*  between them cover both Europe and North America, 
*  plenty of people will be travelling anyway to attend them,
*  it's much easier to co-operate with people you've met

I would like to suggest to both TDF and Apache that they host an "OpenOffice.org Unity Summit" (or 
some less cheesy name if you prefer!) at both conferences, inviting everyone associated in any way 
with the overall OpenOffice.org community (open source projects like LibreOffice or the proposed 
Apache project, their direct downstreams like NeoOffice, their commercial derivatives like 
Symphony) to attend, preferably without charge.

The event would need a neutral Chair/Organiser and a suitably egalitarian agenda, naturally.  Is 
this worth exploring?

S.



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