Thanks for the reply Rob!
On 7 January 2014 14:11, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Leonardo Alexandre Ferreira Leite > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ideas for Growing the ODF Toolkit Community > > > > Hi guys, > > > > I'm new here in the list. > > I have submitted a bug report [1], and a question about it (I'm trying to > > fix it). > > But no reply was given to me. > > > I think what you discovered is accurate. What I do in my code is > start with a document template, an ODF file that has my default styles > already defined. Then my code loads that document, modifies it and > writes out the final document. I think it is is a lot easier to > manage styles in OpenOffice than in Java code. > > > > I know it was not an easy question, but maybe replying newcomers > > is a good way to help "growing the whole thing". > > And I'm sorry if I did not pay attention to some required rule... > > > > This is a good point. > > > Just a note: a new release would be great... > > I could not use the current versions downloading the JARs, > > because there are some crazy dependencies that brings trouble (I did not > > remember exactly the problem now). > > The only way was downloading the repo, mvn install, > > and declaring dependency on my project's pom. > > By the way, a "maven release" would be great too > > (using an online maven repository). > > > > Someone (Svante?) published the libraries to Maven Central here: > > http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|g%3A%22org.apache.odftoolkit%22 > > But that looks like an older version. > > -Rob > > > thanks, > > Leonardo Leite > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODFTOOLKIT-349 > > > > > > > > > > > > On 1 January 2014 16:09, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I'd like to see if we can grow the community a bit more in the next > >> month or so. We've been a very quiet project compared to some. We > >> have just two public mailing lists, no blog, no new articles written > >> about us. If we can better publicize the project then we will grow. > >> > >> I think of a pyramid. At the base are the users, those who get some > >> benefit from using the ODF Toolkit. Some fraction of the users will > >> contact the project, maybe submit a bug report. They also help spread > >> the word about the project to their colleges. Some fraction of these > >> "engaged" users will then send a patch or express interesting in > >> helping with the project. That's the next level up on the pyramid. > >> And some fraction of those developers will become committers. > >> > >> The idea of this analogy is if we grow the base, we grow the whole > >> thing, including contributors and committers. > >> > >> So a suggestion on how we can make a big advance: > >> > >> 1) Let's get out a new release in January. > >> > >> 2) In parallel we can revise our "get involved" page: > >> > >> http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/get-involved.html > >> > >> For example, do we have any specific ideas for what new developers > >> can/should work on? Obviously bug reports. But do we have a "wish > >> list" of possible enhancements/features that we should list? It makes > >> it easier for a new volunteer if we can point to some ideas. > >> > >> If others can contribute ideas I can edit them on the website. > >> > >> 3) To attract more users we need an up to date tutorial or demo. > >> Maybe what we have is fine? Or do we need something "sexier"? > >> > >> 4) With the new release I can help publicize the Toolkit and the > >> project on my personal blog. And we can all help in this area with > >> Twitter, etc. If we want we can request a project blog via > >> blogs.apache.org. This have many readers as well. > >> > >> Any other ideas? > >> > >> -Rob > >> >
