Hi :) Ouch. It is fair enough. I think one problem was Sun's mastery but it's good to hear that the problems we are having are not new. In England it is a particularly difficult time to recruit volunteers as a lot of charities are having their funding pulled away so they are all clamouring for volunteers too. Of course the top-down structure doesn't bode well for them either so like Sun they might have troubles too. None of which really helps Apols and regards from Tom :)
--- On Thu, 10/11/11, Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Vote: Elect Jean Weber as Documentation team lead To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 10 November, 2011, 11:38 Also, after all these years I'm bored with the whole thing. --Jean On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 21:10, Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you to everyone for your support of David's proposal for me to > be team leader. I am honoured. > > However, after much thought, I am declining the invitation. I will > continue to do some things, but only intermittently, and I do not want > to accept responsibility for the things I think need to be done. What > I want to do requires enough others contributing reliably and > productively to get at least some jobs done. And we don't have enough > productive people. I've been recruiting for and promoting OOo/LO docs > for many years, and the results have not been encouraging. I don't > know what the secret is for successful volunteer recruitment and > retention, but obviously I haven't stumbled on it. I'm tired of > trying. > > Some time ago I did a fairly thorough "brain dump" into the chapters > of the Contributors Guide. Even though they need updating and (in some > cases) expansion, they should be a good starting place for the group's > members, both new and veteran. I sincerely hope some people will > emerge to take over doing the necessary work, and doing it well. > > --Jean > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
