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[Bob Jonkman]

> The LibreOffice project (nee OpenOffice) is looking for 50,000 euros 
> (or about 2 billion in Canadian dollars)

Erm, no it isn't:

http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=50000&From=EUR&To=CAD

Folks might be discouraged from contributing if they believe their 
toonie is only one-billionth of LibreOffice's needs.  It is far more 
encouraging knowing that your toonie is actually as much as 
one-thirty-three-thousandth of LibreOffice's needs.  Perhaps a 
correction could be made on the Web page? http://kwlug.org/node/815

Also, it was Oracle who didn't like LibreOffice participants in the 
OpenOffice Community Council, and invited them to leave the project: 
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/10/oracle-wants-libreoffice-members-to-leave-ooo-council.ars

--Bob.


On 11-02-17 05:18 AM, webhost at kwlug.org wrote:
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> - LibreOffice
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> The LibreOffice project (nee OpenOffice) is looking for 50,000 euros 
> (or about 2 billion in Canadian dollars) so I propose that we help get 
> this project started.
>
> As you probably know, LibreOffice developers didn't like working for 
> Oracle, and so they forked OpenOffice, with the intent to be better 
> stronger faster and the rest of it.
>
> They have a challenge to get their 50,000 euros with 33 days left in 
> the challenge. http://challenge.documentfoundation.org/
>
> Read more http://kwlug.org/node/815
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