On 9/2/2016 10:18 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Patricia Shanahan
[mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 09:26 To:
dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: What would OpenOffice
NON-retirement involve?
On 9/2/2016 7:59 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
OK, counter-point to the other thread... let's talk specifically
about
what
needs to happen next, given that some (plenty|most|all|???) of us
want
this
project to continue moving forward.
What has to happen next? What is the most important thing/things
we
could
be working on? What could I do *right now* to help move things
in a
positive
direction?
How can we attract more developers? How do we counter the FUD
that is already being promulgated in response to the "retirement"
discussion? etc...
The "other thread" is actually liberating. Let's go public with the
risk that AOO will be shut down, despite the wishes and best
efforts of its remaining developers.
[orcmid]
I think that is a great approach, Patricia.
I would like to see every possible medium used to present one
message: "AOO is at serious risk of dying, unless we get more
volunteer developers, especially C++ programmers."
I know we need other skills as well, but I don't want to dilute or
complicate that message.
I would like a special mailing list
recruitm...@openoffice.apache.org, just for signing up and
organizing new developers. No need for them to start with dev@,
especially the less experienced developers. Just send an e-mail to
recruitment@
[orcmid]
We can, of course, add a mailing list. That does mean we need
moderators and we also need someone to watch the list and figure out
what to do with the offers.
I've already volunteered to mentor and organize volunteers. How that
works would depend on how many volunteers we get.
Something we can easily do already [as well], and we have not acted
on it, is add the ASF Help Wanted widget in a number of places. We
can then populate the database the Widget uses with specific requests
for assistance on Apache OpenOffice. The benefit is that (1) these
can be focused tasks, (2) the Help Wanted will also be visible in
other places among the Help Wanted from other projects, and (3) the
Help Wanted item provides enough properties about skill requirements
and nature of the task, as well as a link to details that help the
interested volunteer find details enough to decide how to
contribute.
Addition of the help-wanted widget can be done immediately.
I have another promised activity for this US Holiday weekend, but I
will dig into that too.
- Dennis
The message should go out every way it can:
us...@openoffice.apache.org OpenOffice forums Press release
memb...@apache.org d...@community.apache.org
We should also strengthen the current download page appeal for
developers to state the risk of shut down.
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