Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Erwin's StarOffice Tango
Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing
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Dienstag März 22, 2005

The transparency and passion Jim is looking for ...
In his latest blog entry Jim Grisanzio asks some very interesting questions:
"Imagine running the whole project in a transparent way -- engineering, project management, marketing, branding, legal, PR, sales, business development, service, everything. Is that possible? Just how would you open source the entire process? If the engineers are opening up, the other guys ought to open up, too, don't you think?"

There is already a project that does all that. It's OpenOffice.org!

Not everything is working perfectly fine, but OpenOffice.org has many sub-projects that cover all the aspects that Jim mentioned, at least to some degree. The marketing project covers things like marketing, branding and PR. Since OpenOffice.org is free, there is no sales. However, companies offering services around OpenOffice.org are listed on a separate support page. Sun is one of them! Business development is covered by the bizdev project. Legal is probably the trickiest area. Questions regarding licensing, etc. are typically answered by the OpenOffice.org Community Council and Sun.

Jim, you see, OpenOffice.org is already doing what you asked for! ;-)

The OpenOffice.org community does even more. Volunteers from all over the world participate in the QA and localization effort. Finally, many people are part of the Native Language Confederation.

However, I have to admit, that doing everything in an open, transparent way can be a challenge. My blog entry from March 9 gives you an idea why.
( Mrz 22 2005, 12:32:54 PM CET ) Permalink

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