Hi Cor, > Independent of how good the page and sympathetic the NLC/contributor > is, I think we need a very good reason to be able to say yes to such a > request. > Maybe that reason is there, then we need to know.
Top page is very important for the marketing point of view. For example our statistics shows approximately 30,000hit/day and 1,000,000hit/month. For better presentation, JA project need better, more friendly top page. Sometimes, it is very hard to find volunteers on such kind of works. (our economical situation is bad - under deflation, so people work too hard and focusing on OOo just for free, reducing the cost) Fortunately I found a person, Terada-san, he did a great work. He's not a long term contributor of JA, actually this is the first time. So I'd like to pay as a bounty and motivate him and JA community. Thanks From: Cor Nouws <oo...@nouenoff.nl> Subject: [marketing] Re: [marcon] Re: [marketing] Fund request for top page renewal at ja.oo.o, Terada-san Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:55:32 +0200 > Hi all, > > Louis Suarez-Potts wrote (17-06-10 16:42) >> >> On 2010-06-17, at 03:26 , Peter Junge wrote: >> >>> Hi Maho, >>> >>> Maho NAKATA wrote: >>>> Hello, Florian, John, Cor and Italo, (Cc: Terada-san) I'm the >>>> project lead of ja.oo.o, and I'd like to request 1000 Euro for >>>> Terada-san's top page renewal work for http://ja.openoffice.org/ >>>> . >>> >>> I see one really big issue here. OOo has about 100 sub-domains for >>> language projects, which were all maintained on a volunteer basis >>> so far. If we would now start to subsidize one project, it would >>> create precedence with the consequence, that we have to subsidize >>> every language project, which then means we will need an extra >>> budget of 100,000 Euros for web design. I'm not sure how these >>> funds should be raised. >> >> >> I sort of disagree, as I think the notion of "subsidize" can be >> clarified fruitfully. > > Independent of how good the page and sympathetic the NLC/contributor > is, I think we need a very good reason to be able to say yes to such a > request. > Maybe that reason is there, then we need to know. > >> For instance, I'd like to think about the idea >> of having a "slush" or "reserve" fund that can be usefully deployed >> according to need. > > I agree with that as general approach. > >> Adjudication of such disbursals could be managed >> by the CC, under the guidance of the NLC leads―Charles and me―with >> the CC holding not just a rubber stamp but actual discretionary >> ability, ie, it could say, "no." >> >> An example of what is needed could relate to events that lead to the >> expansion of the productive (contributory) community. It could also >> lead to new and useful localizations. I suggested something like >> this―the protocol, procedures―at the Hamburg F2F meeting last >> February, with the particular instance being the localization of OOo >> to the Botswana language. There is already considerable interest >> there. But funds are needed. The payoff for us (so to speak) is hard >> to gauge, but this is the nature of such scholarship disbursals: one >> is sowing but not necessarily reaping. At least not now. >> >> But later, yes: if Botswana, or Japanese language groups can act >> efficiently with funds donated by us, the OOo Community, then the >> upshot is more contributions, more momentum, more ecosystem >> development. > > There will be some draft for funding approval guidelines soon (..). So > I think that is a good moment to look at details: what can reasonably > be considered useful to fund. > > Regards, > Cor > > -- > >> Your office 2010 software: the new OpenOffice.org << > > Cor Nouws > - ideas/remarks for the community council? > - http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
