Great job! Let's keep on rolling... On Sep 20, 2012, at 3:43 AM, "Marcus (OOo)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 09/19/2012 05:23 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: >> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Shenfeng Liu<[email protected]> wrote: >>> What a great news! >>> Congratulations! >>> >> >> I'm especially proud of the recognition the community received for the >> OpenOffice Templates website. This almost did not happen. It >> required a lot of effort, especially by SourceForge and Apache Infra, >> to make this a reality. >> >> Remember back when OpenOffice first came to Apache. We had the OOo >> code, and a bunch of legacy services hosted on Oracle (and other 3rd >> party) servers: website, wiki, forums, templates, extensions, >> bugzilla, etc. We could have just abandoned the services and focused >> 100% on the code. We could have just kissed the legacy web services >> good bye and let them die. That would have been an easier choice. >> This option was mentioned at the time. It would have been less >> effort. It would have allowed us to make more progress on the code, >> and faster. Certainly that was the choice that could have been made, >> and which was made by another related project. IMHO, it is akin to an >> army leaving its wounded behind in order to make a faster advance. >> >> Personally, I'm glad we did not abandon these services. Instead we >> invested in them. Yes, it took time. Yes, it took energy. Yes, it >> diverted resources that could have been used to work on product >> features. If you recall there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth >> in some circles, saying that we had delayed our OpenOffice release so >> long that it would no longer be relevant, that we would never catch >> up, that we would inevitably fail. >> >> Well, guess what happened? We released 3.4.0 and had phenomenal >> download numbers. And then we released 3.4.1 and the download numbers >> are even better. And now we receive awards both for the product, >> but also for one of the legacy web services. Hopefully this puts the >> doubts to rest. The answer to an "either/or" question is sometimes >> "both". > > great summary, well done! > > I think especially the Sourceforge team around Roberto can be proud of have > been gone the way to keep the support for the extension & templates and > finally to got were they are now. > > Marcus > > > >>> 2012/9/19 Rob Weir<[email protected]> >>> >>>> InfoWorld is out with their 2012 "Bossie" awards (Best of Open Source). >>>> >>>> As far as I can see we are the only open source project that won two >>>> awards! >>>> >>>> In the "desktop applications" category we received an award for the >>>> OpenOffice application: >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/64914/bossie-awards-2012-the-best-open-source-desktop-applications-202288#slide4 >>>> >>>> And in the same category we received another award for our Template >>>> Repository: >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/64914/bossie-awards-2012-the-best-open-source-desktop-applications-202288#slide5 >>>> >>>> The full article is here: >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/bossies-2012-the-best-of-open-source-software-awards-202465 >>>> >>>> So congratulations to all for the hard work that led to these honors. >>>> This was a broad effort, extending out from the core project to >>>> partners like SourceForge and all those power users whose creative >>>> contributions bring value to the template repository. These are truly >>>> awards for the whole community! >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> -Rob
