On 12-10-28, at 23:33 , Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > > That's the way to grow. Raising money to send the existing volunteers > to travel to more places is only growth for the airline industry. It > is not growth for the project. We need to find people who are able to > succeed in a business based on enhancing or supporting the OpenOffice > product to businesses and users.. A business based on promoting the > OpenOffice open source project is not really a business model. I > don't think we want to encourage anyone to think of making a career as > a professional OpenOffice community manager or anything like that.
hey! ;=) Though your contempt for community management is, I have to say, a little ironic, given that's pretty much what you do. But actually I agree with you here, in that what would work to enlarge the community of contributors is not sending ambassadors here and there to little effect but to (and here I extend the argument) to provide the resources for regional ecosystem growth. Those resources are, I think, cheap. They are: website, badge, banners; guidelines for trademark; wiki for suggestions, additions, and minimal provisions for beer and pizza (and its equivalents) for initial meetings. In short, what you normally find at a LUG or so. louis
