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  Roberto Galoppini 8:04 pm on November 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  The Unsaid Document Foundation (more talkbacks) 

  “The  Unsaid Document Foundation” series is disappointingly considered “fud” from LibreOffice developers, and Michael Meeks saying (again) that I made some  good points, calls me a non-developer, probably  to infer that I am not the best person to make programming suggestions.

  Commercial open source blog readers care little to know about my computer science degree, or how much code I have been writing on a PDP-11 system. Therefore I would rather spend the rest of this blog entry sharing more thoughts about LibreOffice future.

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    Brad 1:27 am on November 19, 2010 Permalink

    Volunteers working on easy-hacks will hardly turn into code hackers able to make this kind of changes. Full-time developers are needed, especially now that LibreOffice is meant to be something different.

    This shows a lack of understanding of how free and open-source software works. How to do community-building and create a sustainable environment.

    Did you ever get involved deeply into the development of an open-source project?

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    Roberto Galoppini 11:35 am on November 19, 2010 Permalink

    Brad, I am regularly helping companies and organizations to interact with open source communities, either with commensalistic or symbiotic approaches.

    What I learned is that every project has its own characteristics, and things like code modularity, comments, etc strongly affect participation.

    Train someone to run a grep command it is a start, but I it will hardly make him or her able to write *Office code. Time will tell if those 90 new contributors will ever become real *office programmers.

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