Hi all, if you think it may be of interest, I could talk about the development of tailor-made extensions for customers. I think this may be seen as a kind of the win-win situation which Rob is referring to: taking advantage of the whole community by learning a lot about extension development, creating tailored extensions for customers with so much specific requirements that a consultancy agreement is needed, giving back to the community the new skills learned during the process (the ones not related to the customer's specific needs, or at least making generalizations), thus sharing knowledge, which can lead to new customers' requests and so on. In my case, for example, that's the way I came to talk at FOSDEM (it all started in quite recent times with IBM Lotus Symphony, but the global context is the same; indeed, it could even be a subject of interest, given the merging of Symphony code in AOO 4). I am at your disposal if you think it may fit. Best regards,
Fabrizio On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]>wrote: > On 21/01/2013 Rob Weir wrote: > >> If anyone is uncomfortable with this I can do it on my personal blog, >> of course. But it is relevant to the AOO project, so I'd prefer to >> put it here. >> > > I see no reasons to avoid this topic. But the post would actually be more > credible, and enjoyable, if we actually manage to interview a couple of > consultants/companies who are making money (or even a living) out of > OpenOffice. So not only a generic post by project volunteers, but a post > including also a few paragraphs where established consultants provide some > extra information. > > Regards, > Andrea. >
