Hi Andreas, On 22/06/2020 19:01, Andreas Mantke wrote: > could you please explain what is the next generation?
Well, I know where you want to go :) A generation is typically 20 years. New generation, here are the devs/contributors my age or younger. Those still students or entering the world of work.[1] > And why do you think that only younger people will bring 'fresh air and > perception' into the project? To answer your question, ask yourselves whether you were born with a computer? >From a 2 years work at handling the LibreOfficeFR Twitter account, I have realized we sometimes have interesting questions from that "new gen". e.g. "will I loose my documents if I remove LibreOffice". Why that? Because they were born with a smartphone and don't know the usual computer we are used to use: desktop/laptop computer. The same applies to social media. Some, here, don't understand the importance of a polished and proactive (what I call modern) communication like KDE/GNOME are nowadays doing. If you want me to define what's "modern communication", feel free to follow us in the marketing mailing list =) > > I don't see such connection to the age of one. Now you should see. :) Also ask yourselves whether the new generation is using email with mailing list or a beautiful and eye catchy Discourse instance accessible from **mobile** (see rdm#2952 and rdm#3246). > If I interpret the purpose of the Redmine ticket correctly it is not > targeted to developers. The LibreOffice project is not a developer > project only. Sure. But the most important thing to work on is the lack of devs. Have a look at the UI channel, everyone wants to do UI, but we are not enough devs to implement such changes. :) Since I now have recovered plenty of time for the project, virtual hackathons is something I want to lead, at least for the French community. :) > Developers are only one part of the project but their work wouldn't be > successful without e.g. documentation, user support etc. You are absolutely right, this is why in talks about FOSS when I was advocating for it back in the days, I used to say (pardon my harshness): the software as in code would still be there with only devs. However, without all the other skills participating in a FOSS project we would have lost our soul and our community spirit =) Have a nice evening, [1] I didn't follow that path. Made things in reverse order by acquiring a 5+ years of experience in IT/dev than completing my computer management degree... Some would say I walk on the head, which could explain a lot of things :D -- William Gathoye Hyper<hack>tive volunteer for LibreOffice Proud member of The Document Foundation Member of LaMouette - French based association promoting ODF and LibreOffice -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
