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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Small KOffice interaction design meeting in middle november?
From:       Sebastian Sauer <mail () dipe ! org>
Date:       2006-11-02 22:03:27
Message-ID: 200611022303.27723.mail () dipe ! org
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On Thursday 02 November 2006 21:48, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday 02 November 2006 12:13, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > e.v. board isn't really responsive, but, if I may make the old-fashioned
> > comparison, we're a bit in the position of being the husband who has to
> > go to his wife for tobacco money :-)
>
> heh ... i understand the feeling. what we're trying to do is work with
> groups within kde where, for instance, koffice would come up with a budget
> which we would then approve and the money would be earmarked for those
> needs. this should help the e.V. board plan better while providing better
> service to the community, both when it comes to helping to coordinate fund
> raisers / donors and making funds available for expenditures that arise.
>
> if you have some thoughts on what such a program might look like so that it
> would work well for you (the koffice team) please let us (the e.v. board)
> know so that we can take it into consideration.

Well, beside the billion of dollars we would use then to organize a hackaton 
each week in changing locations starting with Hawaii next week, I don't see 
how that could solve the in my eyes somewhat bigger prob of "everything is 
part of the whole coperate KDE-desktop". E.g. KOffice is KDE's office-suite, 
but is that true? I mean is Abiword Gnome's word processor or Gaim Gnome's 
instant messanger? Well, not if you ask users or if you take a look at the 
last google soc list of participating _organizations_ ...
So, beside the "KOffice e.V. to have an own bank-account" motivation, I still 
ask myself how the KDE e.V. will solve the own identity KOffice misses in the 
public (even more visible this days where www.koffice.org doesn't contain any 
longer an own logo but uses the same one KDE has - *hint to artists*).
Lot of lines of code to say: KO is not KDE and could be even used on your 
favorit blackbox or xfce4-system. It rocks even there! :-)

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