Distribution Project

2002-12-09

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Mission Statement

The purpose of Distribution Project is to establish policy and consolidate areas and links relating to the distribution of OpenOffice.org. Distribution includes the Mirrors Project, CD-ROM Project, and the experimental P2P project, which is still under development. For now, the Download pages, in English and in other languages, are not linked to this project. Please go to the Application Download page. Distribution's (sub) projects are fairly autonomous and independent but use the same mailing lists and follow the same distribution policies.

Policy on Distributions: What To Distribute

We have created a page dedicated to explaining the files you can offfer. If you are interested in distributing OpenOffice.org files, go to:

Community Distributor

A Community Distributor is anyone who is distributing OpenOffice.org. We have Community Distributor banner; we also have logos, banners, graphics, of better quality, that do not say Community Distributor but which you are free to use. There is no obligation to use the Community Distributor banner. If you are offering a CD-ROM, you are a Community Distributor.

1. You must subscribe to our mailing lists
2. You must read our licensing provisions. See the OEM-CD page for information. It links to useful pages.

Please also join the appropriate project (listed below): CD-ROM, Mirrors, P2P. We encourage you to join so that we may coordinate work more efficiently. But there is no obligation to join.

As to benefits: OpenOffice.org is receives over two million page hits every week. You are also joining in distributing a product and enlarging a project that is changing the world.

Mailing Lists

We have three primary mailing lists. You must be subscribed to the dev@distribution list to post unmoderated messages. All are welcome to join, but it is obligatory that all Community Distributors only join the "announce@distribution.openoffice.org" list.

• dev@distribution.openoffice.org: For discussion on issues relating to distributing the software, mirroring, and establishing peer-to-peer networks.
• announce@distribution.openoffice.org: For announcements relating to new releases, updates, and other important information. Not a discussion list.
• stats@distribution.openoffice.org: The list to collect site activity statistics. Not a discussion list.

To subscribe to these, view and search the archives, please go to the Project Mailing Lists.