Re: [board-discuss] Drafting Tender "Cleanup & further improve ODF conformance"

2022-02-08 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, thanks for your feedback, everyone! I tried to factor in the changes and suggestions proposed into the tender draft at https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/ggqpciBK54rztJi, splitting the issues in high and low priority. For Michael's suggestions, I wasn't sure about the

[board-discuss] Re: Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-08 Thread sophi
Hi Paolo, Le 07/02/2022 à 19:16, Paolo Vecchi a écrit : Hi all, Thanks for discussing your proposal here. Just wanted to add a few words within your lines, so jumping here: [...]  * Members of the ecosystem and others also suggested that we should    spend more money in development  *

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-08 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Thank you Sophie! Having also feedback from the members of the Team is very important for me as you'll have to deal with your new colleagues as well ;-) Please do reach out saying openly what you see right and/or wrong in this proposal so that you can help the board in making the right

[board-discuss] Re: Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-08 Thread Daniel A. Rodriguez
El 7/2/22 a las 15:16, Paolo Vecchi escribió: Hi all, many of you voted for me as you wanted me to promote and achieve the goals set in my candidacy statement: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/2021/msg00279.html Point 1 is what leads me once again to share with

Re: [board-discuss] Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-08 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi Kendy, thanks for participating to the discussion. On 08/02/2022 16:41, Jan Holesovsky wrote: Hi all, Paolo Vecchi píše v Po 07. 02. 2022 v 19:16 +0100: Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs My candidacy statement

Re: [board-discuss] Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-08 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi all, Paolo Vecchi píše v Po 07. 02. 2022 v 19:16 +0100: > Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house > developers to address our donors specific needs My candidacy statement was much more focused on the community growth; so I'd like to propose a different vision: TDF

Re: [board-discuss] Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-08 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Paolo, Am 08.02.22 um 17:34 schrieb Paolo Vecchi: (...) On 08/02/2022 16:41, Jan Holesovsky wrote: (..)   if we talk about TDF employees or contractors, we need more mentors - because that is the only way how to scale:    "Give a person a fish, and you feed them for a day. Teach a person  

Re: [board-discuss] Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-08 Thread Simon Phipps
Hi Andreas! On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 5:59 PM Andreas Mantke wrote: > > but it wouldn't improve the situation, if - like today - the experienced > fisherman / fishermen take every new talented fisher immediately from > the free software developer (volunteer) market. > > Thus there is now chance

Re: [board-discuss] Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-08 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Simon, Am 08.02.22 um 19:44 schrieb Simon Phipps: Hi Andreas! On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 5:59 PM Andreas Mantke wrote: but it wouldn't improve the situation, if - like today - the experienced fisherman / fishermen take every new talented fisher immediately from the free

Re: [board-discuss] Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-08 Thread Heiko Tietze
To give this discussion another spin: We pondered in the team about hiring a web developer. Someone between infra, code, mentoring and design. This person could also care about extension development (an area where users can participate in the development without knowing C++). But in any case

Re: [board-discuss] Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-08 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Andras, Andreas Mantke wrote on 08/02/2022 18:58: The best person that can teach you how to fish is an experienced fisherman. My example would be fruit grower and fruit picker (after all, the apple came before the fisherman ;) ) but apart from that: but it wouldn't improve the

Re: [board-discuss] Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-08 Thread Daniel A. Rodriguez
El 8/2/22 a las 17:06, Andreas Mantke escribió: Hi Simon, Am 08.02.22 um 19:44 schrieb Simon Phipps: Hi Andreas! On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 5:59 PM Andreas Mantke wrote:     but it wouldn't improve the situation, if - like today - the     experienced     fisherman / fishermen take every new