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From: Guy Voets on 13 Apr 2010 06:25 Hello, There's a discussion going on on the French discuss site about the relation between the OOo Community and the 'new owner', Oracle. The discussion arose about the preparation of OOo 3.2.1, the first release 'under Oracle'. I thought it might be useful to open this up to the English speakers. Jean-Baptiste Faure says in a mail from April 10: "The object of this message is to inform you about turbulence that is agitating the Community about the attitude of Oracle in preparation of the version 3.2.1. "Those testing the development version OOO320m14 that prefigures the next version 3.2.1 have seen changes to the splash screen and the Starting center." Jean-Baptiste Faure says in a mail from April 12: "To synthesize, my questioning is on two levels: "- the place of the Community: QA procedures were not respected and there is a lack of communication between Hamburg and the Community (e.g. unilateral replacement of the start dialogue that the Community chose after a contest/concourse). This shows that the Community may have become not more than a pretext, a kind of 'FLOSS washing' like we say 'green washing'. But the QA is based essentially on procedures that are meticulously respected, and the Community is indispensable for the existence and distribution of OOo. "- the bad quality of the Start Center design: if one doesn't looks closely (who will?) the icons look identical; they are dull and too small compared to the whote background; the same icons can be found in the File menu; the 4 icons below seem greyed out. If we consider the Start Center als the entry portal to OpenOffice.org, this doesn't seem very inviting. "In this periode of transition of the sale of Sun to Oracle, all this is sending a very bad signal to the Community and the users and may be send many people running away. (...) The objective is of course to excert pressure in orderto obtain a version 3.2.1 whose quality satisfies all partners." some links: discussion on release list: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=releases&msgNo=15418 analysis of splash screen and starting ceter concepts by Christoph Noack on branding list: http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=branding&msgNo=83 design proposed by Community (Bernhard Dippold): http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/b/b3/ODF_icons_with_symbol.png about the new visual elements: http://www.patentpending.co.nz/soapbox/?p=3 http://www.patentpending.co.nz/soapbox/?p=52 -- Guy using dutch OOo 3.2 on a iMac Intel DualCore Snow Leopard and brazilian OOo 3.2 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to discuss(a)openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org |