Le Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:53:04 +0200, Leif Lodahl <leiflod...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> Hi, > All in all its about engaging users to join the community. First > thing to do is to welcome every one who downloads the binaries as > actually being part of the community. "Its our product, and if you > join us, its also your product". > > Secondly we must ensure that users are actually embraced by the > community when they join. Open source communities (including ours) > often sees only contributors as "members". So how can we embrace > users better? Should we gather all user focused material on one page > (if not already done) like documentation, askbot, user mailing list > etc? > > How can we extend the community to better embrace average users? > > If we can make users feel that they are part of the community we can > easier encourage them to contribute. > +1 Thanks Leif! Charles. > > Cheers, > Leif > > > 2013/10/21 Charles-H. Schulz <charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> > > > Le Sun, 20 Oct 2013 18:20:59 -0400, > > Marc Paré <m...@marcpare.com> a écrit : > > > > > Hi Charles, > > > > > > Le 2013-10-20 10:02, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I wanted to discuss an idea that's been floating around for some > > > > time; credits come to Ubuntu and Bjoern for having had something > > > > like this since a few years already. In just a few words, do > > > > you think we could design a process (that would probably go > > > > through the website of course) where we could enroll users > > > > (defined as people visiting libreoffice.org to download > > > > LibreOffice) to join any team, such as marketing, QA, docs, etc? > > > > > > > > How do you think this could work? Is it desirable? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > Yes! Definitely! At download time is the best time while people > > > are waiting for the download to complete. We should be careful to > > > not take the spotlight away from the request for donations > > > (apparently that is really working out), but, if we could add one > > > other request page or somehow integrate it with the donations > > > page, we could ask if the user would be interested in helping out > > > with our community. > > > > > > I am also a firm believer in telling people that we are really > > > looking for help with the project and that any type of help is > > > welcome and for any amount of time they may have to contribute, > > > whether 5 minutes a day/week etc. > > > > > > BTW ... with respect to including this at the installation point > > > of LibreOffice, we had already discussed this, but the final > > > decision was that people did not want to be disturbed by requests > > > when the software was being installed. That is why there is no > > > polling done at the point of installation as it was done > > > previously with OOo. > > > > > > But, at the download point, where people stare at the computer > > > screen waiting for the download to complete, yes, this is a good > > > place to ask if people would be interested in joining our > > > communities. > > > > > > Moving on in the discussion, it seems many people here agree with > > the idea of engaging users, pretty much at the download phase or at > > least in a consistent way through website content. > > > > Now let me ask the "What" question, after we sort of figured out the > > "if" and the "how" parts. This would mean: what do we tell users? > > Do we tell them there's a community behind LibreOffice (good point > > Zeki, many people are not aware of that, which in a sense is > > flattering) or do we give them clear pointers to the various tasks, > > roles and teams of our project? > > > > Best, > > -- > > Charles-H. Schulz > > Co-founder & Director, The Document Foundation, > > Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin > > Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts > > Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint > > Mobile Number: +33 (0)6 98 65 54 24. > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe e-mail to: > > marketing+unsubscr...@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 > > > > > -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder & Director, The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint Mobile Number: +33 (0)6 98 65 54 24. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@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
