On Monday 13 August 2012 19:13:35 Calvin Morrison wrote: basically ok, IMHO, to show interest in collaboroation. however, florian maier seems no longer be in charge of limux, but kirsten böge, see http://www.it-muenchen-blog.de/category/open-source/ - there is also a contact email at http://www.it-muenchen-blog.de/uber-uns/ I think they can read/write in english there fairly well. otherwise, me or julius can help with german :) werner --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:27:51 -0400 Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey(a)gmail.com> wrote: http://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Direktorium/LiMux/Kontakt.ht… --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

On Monday 13 August 2012 20:27:51 Calvin Morrison wrote: well, it-blog(a)muenchen.de or limux(a)muenchen.de (from /dev/ammo s link) werner --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

Kirsten Böge seems to be the "communications manager" of the project and probably the correct first contact.

Although the email will be written in English, what is an appropriate German salutation and closing? Culturally, would using German appear as a gesture of good will or not?

Werner, although many Germans speak and write English, would you please review the final letter to ensure no cultural translation problems or slang appear in the letter?

I get the idea. "Sucking up" or "brown nose" might be an equivalent English meaning.

Calvin Morrison wrote: Some things are still missing I think. First of all, what is the exact goal this letter is trying to achieve? Do you expect LiMux people to make significant improvements to TDE directly through GIT or send in patches or does it also have to do with financial contributions? Or maybe you just expect them to report bugs? There are some notes in there, but I think "joining efforts" should be avoided because it is too vague. At this point it is completely unclear I guess what LiMux could actually offer to the Trinity project. So I can imagine a first e-mail should try to find out how much focus there is on Trinity and what kind of resources they are spending now on it. Right now, as far as I understand, there haven't been any (few) bug reports from people associated with LiMux. Is this really correct? What I do think is very good in your letter is that it shows what the Trinity project can mean for LiMux: "resolve LiMux specific issues, respond to problems, as well as offer debugging and packaging help". I think the emphasis of the letter should be on that together with why such feedback is also very important for the Trinity project. A list of features for the next release seems good, but I think it is too technical now and also some things are really not interesting for end-users. What does an X11 compositor give them? Doesn't LibreOffice already have dialog boxes? Why would they care how the software is branded exactly? I would advice to try to rewrite this list into something more marketable. I suspect their main priority right now is to be able to migrate off Ubuntu 10.04 in time to a next LTS release of Ubuntu, so I think Trinity's stance on that would be the most important. I hope this feedback is useful. Good luck! It will be interesting to see the result. Best regards, Julius --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

Dne út 14. srpna 2012 Julius Schwartzenberg napsal(a): From the LiMux presentation I had a feeling that feels uncertainty of further development of the Trinity. Therefore, I suppose, is one purpose of this letter to assure that development continues, it has its goals and that the project is alive. Slavek -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting

I fleshed out the new features of R14, giving just a little taste of the improvements. Calvin