Hi Thorsten, On 10/02/2022 17.55, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
Sole users (i.e. without contributing anything to the community) are to my mind never part of a FLOSS project community.
Just to mention it, the KDE Code of Conduct [1] contains this:
Our community is made up of several groups of individuals and organizations which can roughly be divided into two groups: * Contributors, or those who add value to the project through improving KDE software and its services * Users, or those who add value to the project through their support as consumers of KDE software
and I remember that the importance of users was emphasized at some in-person event I attended (probably Akademy) as well.
Of course, one could try to make a distinction between users that contribute something back and those who do not, but I don't know whether that would be particularly helpful, or even easy. (E.g. is a user that only uses the software for themselves not part of the community, but one who recommends it to others is, because they "spread the word"? - And maybe one of those starts getting active in some "official" area in the LibreOffice project, or migrates their company from a proprietary office suite to an LTS version from an ecosystem company,...)
Best regards, Michael [1] https://kde.org/code-of-conduct/ -- 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
