Re: OpenOffice project proposal: xvoice-sphinx

[robert b <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Sorry I haven't got back to you about this.

We are trying to stick with sourceforge for the time being.  If disk space does 
become an issue in
the future, I'll go through this process.

Thanks for all the info!

--- Louis Suarez-Potts <http://www.openoffice.org/~louis> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on 12/20/02 12:53 PM, robert b at http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert wrote:
> 
> > --- Louis Suarez-Potts <http://www.openoffice.org/~louis> wrote:
> >> Hi, Robert,
> >> I am the community manager and also the lead of community-sponsored
> >> experimental projects, which is why I contacted you. But we (
> >> OpenOffice.org,
> >> not CollabNet; I cannot speak for CollabNet) do not have such free server
> >> space; rather, you can work with community members to see if that is
> >> possible.
> >> 
> >> Is this clearer?
> > 
> > Yes, I see.  I guess xvoice-sphinx would be a "community-sponsored
> > experimental project".
> Yes,  I think so. We can probably engage OpenOffice.org developers, too, as
> there has been some interest in this.
> > 
> > Are the list of communities on the http://projects.openoffice.org page?
> Yes, that is a list of the projects. But sub projects are not fully listed.
> To see the Incubator projects, go to http://incubator.openoffice.org/
> 
> > 
> > In any case, once we get the list of communities, I guess the question we 
> > need
> > to answer is where
> > xvoice-sphinx fits in to any of the existing communities -- it may or may 
> > not.
> > If it does fit
> > somewhere, it will be easier for me to write the proposal.
> The url above will give you insight. You might also do well to post a
> message to http://www.openoffice.org/~discuss and explain what you have in mind. That
> will excite a lot of attention.
> 
> > 
> > (I'm sorry that things have got messy again :-(. )
> Heh, no, I think we are communicating...;)
> Cheers,
> Louis 
> > 
> >> So, let's pretend that I know very little of what you are proposing. I 
> >> also
> >> cannot offer you, out of hand, any server space.
> >> Second, there is no such thing as a CollabNet OpenOffice foundry.
> >> OpenOffice.org is *hosted* by CollabNet, but only b/c Sun pays CollabNet
> >> money to do that. Sun sponsors OpenOffice.org.
> >> 
> >> OpenOffice.org is more than Sun and CollabNet, however. It is also a
> >> community of developers and endusers. Many of those have servers.
> >> 
> >> The facts:
> >>     CollabNet  has nothing to do with this. OpenOffice.org is essentially
> >> independent of CollabNet, though that company hosts the servers Sun pays
> >> for.
> >> 
> >> Louis