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The minutes for the Document Foundation's steering committee's public phone conference on 3-Nov-2010 are now available

Some of the decision that were made:

The Document Foundation's steering committee will hold a public phone conference on November 3, 2010, 1900 UTC.

The agenda entails:

Filed on 29 October 2010, Google has sued the US Government (in particular the Department of Interior), for violating the requirement to allow a full and open competition in the tendering process.

The action is against the support by the Department of Interior is supporting a "Limited Source Justification" in requiring the solution for a "single hosted email and collaboration services solution" being based on "Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite".

As announced in this letter, 33 lead developers of the OpenOffice project have decided to leave OpenOffice and instead support LibreOffice and the Document Foundation in the future.

3 weeks after the successful launch as permanent Q&A site in our new Ubuntu design, we have reached the 3000 question threshold. Those 3000 questions have been answered to 94% with 7000 answers by 5000 users. 30000 votes have been cast for the questions and answers.

We had a very constructive session at UDS about the further roadmap in how to use this very valuable site. One of the goal is to provide it in a multi-lingual fashion, and hopefully this will be possible soon.

A couple of weeks ago the members of the OpenOffice Community Council that are employed by Oracle have set an ultimatum to the rest of the members to step down from the council citing conflict of interest by them (All members not employed by Oracle have joined The Document Foundation which is making available LibreOffice, a fork of OpenOffice which allows easier contributions for community contributors).

As Daniel Holbach has blogged, the harvest tool has been steadily improved and is now available for contributors who are looking for opportunity to help to bring the Ubuntu project forward.

Drupal7 has released its second beta and hence I decided to run it for a spin. It is important to find issue now before the release candidates come out.

As Nathan Handler writes in his blog, the Ubuntu Hall of Fame web page shows now also the weekly leading contributors for AskUbuntu.com.

Since updating from lucid to maverick, I was not able to add and delete applications to my favorites on the "search & launch" activity page of the netbook plasma.

In order to perform these functions, the page must be unlocked.

This can be done by clicking on the cashew on the bottom left corner of the page and then clicking on "Unlock Page".