The reason for the page is to to make contributors more visible to local
users for networking opportunities. All this at the local level.
Since joining the community two or so years ago I have been approached
as a contributor and a localizer only once. There may be many reasons
for this, but one of them is we're (working contributors) are not
visible for the general public (non-contributing folks who stop to flip
a few pages without delving any deeper).
Please, note I'm suggesting the contributor page to be part of a local
subsite (fostering contact sharing within an ethnic and/or linguistic
locale). It is not meant to be generic or historical.
If we, physical contributors, cannot be contacted here by the general
public it will happen somewhere else. I'd rather see the Lithuanian
subsite becoming the hub for all matters (and thus Internet traffic)
concerning the Lithuanian version of AOO and not some external site such
as "http://openoffice.lt/"; that uses the address and the name of
OpenOffice to promote LibreOffice.
How did that come about? Well the enthusiasm of the maintainers of the
aforementioned website for one product (AOO) at an earlier time turned
into enthusiasm for another product (LO) at a later time. The chances
for such vicissitudes of life would have been minimized had it all been
happening under "http://www.openoffice.org/lt/";.
I find it rather paradoxical to have a webpage for the contacts of
professional (paid?) consultants
("http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.html";) and not have an
equivalent for volunteering contributors. Don't you?
Regards,
Aivaras
2015.01.23 21:10, Louis Suárez-Potts rašė:
On 23 Jan 2015, at 11:03, Aivaras Stepukonis <astepuko...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd like to share with you a proposal for adding to the website a page
dedicated to contributors.
For an example, please, see
"http://www.openoffice.org/lt/participate/contributors";.
The webpage should be accessible from the navigation bar (i.e., Product |
Download | Support | ... | Contributors).
The webpage is intended for the world at large, not the contributors' community
(we have directories of volunteers in the Wiki for this). It is meant to
increase our chances to be seen as contributors and to build social bridges to
the external world by providing concise information about ourselves as
volunteers and contributors.
What do you think?
Regards,
Aivaras
It's an interesting idea but a) I think this post ought to be to the dev@ list or
marketing@; and b) we currently use http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html, which
is referred to by the OpenOffice splash screen (I think) and "About" screen and
probably elsewhere (at one point, I think it was listed in the marketing project,
download, etc.). In general, I'm reluctant to add new or change existing pages unless
there's a compelling reason to, as that way bitrot lies. However, we can also add more
pages that refer to those lists.
louis
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