Le mardi 04 septembre 2012 à 10:48 -0400, Marc Paré a écrit : > Le 2012-08-30 18:34, Jean Weber a écrit : > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Marc Paré<m...@marcpare.com> wrote: > >> > >> Unfortunately, we are in great need of community building strategies, which > >> is where our success rate is quite slim. We need to work on this and make > >> it > >> a concerted effort on all of our lists (global and language lists). > > > > Totally agree. I'm trying to organise my notes and thoughts from CLS > > (Community Leadership Summit), which I attended in July. I was mainly > > looking for ideas that might work for expanding the Docs team, but > > most of what was covered should be relevant to other segments of the > > community. My interests, as you all know, are in marketing and user > > services, not coding: support, training, user docs, and certification > > of people working in those areas. IMO the places where we might find > > new community members for those areas are not the same places where we > > look for developers. More on that topic later! > > > > --Jean > > > > I also have some thoughts of community building on the project. Some of > my main thoughts are that the TDF/LibreOffice project has managed to > impress all of the opensource community for its quick rise to success > with its amazing product "LibreOffice". However, and this is where IMO > we are running into problems, the complement of devs and its rise in > numbers has far outstripped the TDF membership number of contributors. > While a strong dev participation is a good measure of an opensource > project's health, the problem facing the TDF is its > web/wiki/documentation/QA/design/marketing infrastructures. In other > words, the community building aspect of the project has definitely not > been one of the TDF's (our) success stories. > > I believe the TDF should re-focus some of its energies and strategies on > community building in order to address the need for contributor help in > maintaining the QA and public face of the project. The stress of > contributor is quite apparent in major sections of the project; help is > needed in QA (this should be front and centre for recruitment of help in > QA (localization help as well); website management (desperately needed > at the localized level) as well as the global site -- important as this > is the public face of the project; design; marketing etc. Simply said > the number of contributor help has not kept pace with the number of dev. > contributors. One can easily count the number of active contributors to > realize that there are simply too few for the amount of needed work and > these contributors' activity is often stretched beyond reasonable limits. > > The TDF/LibreOffice project should really be seen as a two-pronged > project: a product developed by devs (along with QA/Design) and a > product marketed and supported (Web/Wiki/Doc/marketing etc) by its > membership. This is where, through community building, TDF would try > address the need for help with the project. At this point, the devs seem > to be "humming" along at a great and cooperative speed; where the need > is really required is in the support-contributor group. > > Just my initial thoughts on this for now.
+1. A big plus one. And just to add something to this: I think many, if not all the BoD is aware of this. I would not hesitate to call this the challenge of 2012 and 2013. Best, Charles. > > Cheers, > > Marc > > > -- > Marc Paré > m...@marcpare.com > http://www.parEntreprise.com > parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) > parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+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/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
