The recent influx of new doc team contributors and Kenneth's wiki work
caused something to click in my brain. I started thinking about the
specific role of quality tech documentation in attracting and retaining
contributors.
I would like to establish an image of the documentation team as one of
the highest providers of value to the project. We can express this idea
with a simple formula: in FOSS projects contributors equal money. A
documentation team that provides excellent copywriting and tech docs is
equal to an investor. Contributors keep flowing in as long as the doc
team is strong in this area.
Now for something concrete, based on feedback received recently. I would
like you to take a look at the main LibO website
https://www.libreoffice.org/
In the menu bar, do you agree that "Events" should be exchanged with
"Get involved" that is currently hiding as a submenu item under
"Community"?
Could the intention be conveyed better by changing "Get involved" to
something else? "How can I help?" was proposed, but I think we need to
be careful not to mislead people seeking help files (and consider
translatability).
In the "Get involved" page itself
http://www.libreoffice.org/community/get-involved/ should we have a
short piece that sells the idea of contributing? Ie. make everything as
explicit as possible instead of "here are our teams, you know the rest,
right?". There could be a general bit to draw the visitor in and then
the individual team entries could be finessed until they are at the
absolute peak of comprehensibility.
I am able to edit the page contents and if something in the layout needs
changing I can handle it with the admin.
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