2011/2/18 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
On 18 February 2011 15:15, Milos Rancic
<millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
While it is likely that they will achieve $50.000
somehow [1], it
would be good that WMF (1) donate them some sum of money and (2) to
cover the remainder, if they would have any.
It's a good cause, but doesn't look on the surface tremendously
WMF-mission-relevant. Do we have a significant usage of
OpenOffice/LibreOffice?
I frequently use it to convert documents written by people
uncomfortable with MediaWiki syntax. Encyclopedic articles, documents
for WikiSource, word-lists for Wiktionary etc. Last time i checked,
MediaWiki exporter was included in the default installation of
LibreOffice. There supposed to be an equivalent add-on for Microsoft
Office. I tried installing it, but it didn't actually work; YMMV. But
then, we love Free Software anyway anyway, don't we?
This doesn't necessarily mean that i support donating money to that
foundation. I love and use the product, i help localizing it, and i do
hope that it will be independent from Oracle, but i haven't made up my
mind about this particular organizational move yet.
(I installed LibreOffice 3.3 in Ubuntu 10.10 from the
PPA. It's quite
nice. They're getting out a lot of little annoyances that Sun and now
Oracle never bothered with. Recommended.)
+1.