Hi Cor,
> Independent of how good the page and sympathetic the NLC/contributor
> is, I think we need a very good reason to be able to say yes to such a
> request.
> Maybe that reason is there, then we need to know.
Top page is very important for the marketing point of view. For example
our statistics shows approximately 30,000hit/day and 1,000,000hit/month.
For better presentation, JA project need better, more friendly top page.
Sometimes, it is very hard to find volunteers on such kind of works.
(our economical situation is bad - under deflation, so
people work too hard and focusing on OOo just for free, reducing the cost)
Fortunately I found a person, Terada-san, he did a great work.
He's not a long term contributor of JA, actually this is the first time.
So I'd like to pay as a bounty and motivate him and JA community.
Thanks
From: Cor Nouws
Subject: [marketing] Re: [marcon] Re: [marketing] Fund request for top page
renewal at ja.oo.o, Terada-san
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:55:32 +0200
> Hi all,
>
> Louis Suarez-Potts wrote (17-06-10 16:42)
>>
>> On 2010-06-17, at 03:26 , Peter Junge wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Maho,
>>>
>>> Maho NAKATA wrote:
Hello, Florian, John, Cor and Italo, (Cc: Terada-san) I'm the
project lead of ja.oo.o, and I'd like to request 1000 Euro for
Terada-san's top page renewal work for http://ja.openoffice.org/
.
>>>
>>> I see one really big issue here. OOo has about 100 sub-domains for
>>> language projects, which were all maintained on a volunteer basis
>>> so far. If we would now start to subsidize one project, it would
>>> create precedence with the consequence, that we have to subsidize
>>> every language project, which then means we will need an extra
>>> budget of 100,000 Euros for web design. I'm not sure how these
>>> funds should be raised.
>>
>>
>> I sort of disagree, as I think the notion of "subsidize" can be
>> clarified fruitfully.
>
> Independent of how good the page and sympathetic the NLC/contributor
> is, I think we need a very good reason to be able to say yes to such a
> request.
> Maybe that reason is there, then we need to know.
>
>> For instance, I'd like to think about the idea
>> of having a "slush" or "reserve" fund that can be usefully deployed
>> according to need.
>
> I agree with that as general approach.
>
>> Adjudication of such disbursals could be managed
>> by the CC, under the guidance of the NLC leads―Charles and me―with
>> the CC holding not just a rubber stamp but actual discretionary
>> ability, ie, it could say, "no."
>>
>> An example of what is needed could relate to events that lead to the
>> expansion of the productive (contributory) community. It could also
>> lead to new and useful localizations. I suggested something like
>> this―the protocol, procedures―at the Hamburg F2F meeting last
>> February, with the particular instance being the localization of OOo
>> to the Botswana language. There is already considerable interest
>> there. But funds are needed. The payoff for us (so to speak) is hard
>> to gauge, but this is the nature of such scholarship disbursals: one
>> is sowing but not necessarily reaping. At least not now.
>>
>> But later, yes: if Botswana, or Japanese language groups can act
>> efficiently with funds donated by us, the OOo Community, then the
>> upshot is more contributions, more momentum, more ecosystem
>> development.
>
> There will be some draft for funding approval guidelines soon (..). So
> I think that is a good moment to look at details: what can reasonably
> be considered useful to fund.
>
> Regards,
> Cor
>
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