[OT] Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals
Robert, Le mardi 24 janvier 2012 à 15:49 -0600, Robert Derman a écrit : Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Olivier Hallot wrote on 2012-01-24 15:48: Voting is a measure of traceable membership participation/activity. Otherwise we can get spammed on untraceable votes to send us where we don't want LibCon to happen. by that, we would exclude a large amount of developers, and I am sure want to have them on the list. While it might be indeed something to attract more people applying for membership, I think excluding them from all votings (rather than only elections, which is what membership is about), does not feel right - but I am happy to hear some more thoughts, since we seem to have mixed feelings here. ;) Florian Perhaps we should have 2 tiered membership, full members, developers who contribute on a regular and ongoing basis and such, and associate members, those who have been on the mail lists since the founding of TDF, and who contribute in less provable ways, like promoting the program, giving others the program on disk etc. I have been on the discuss list with OOo since about the turn of the century, and actually would like to contribute to the program in limited ways, like sending word lists for the spelling dictionary, and enhancing the autocorrect function if any developer is willing to help me to do it. I haven't done any programming since working with BASIC back in the 1980s, so I can't contribute much to the code, but I would like to do whatever I can. Slightly off topic but a quick comment: TDF members are not just developers; if you read bylaws we do ackowledge other, technical *or* non-technical contributions. Best, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-Founder Director, The Document Foundation. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.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.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals
Hi, Am 25.01.2012 17:57, schrieb Florian Effenberger: we just discussed about that in the BoD call, and agreed to only let members vote. Ok. So this is going to be a TDF conference. Accepted. ;-) TDF members decide about it, others are invited as guests. Accepted. ;-) However, even if not allowed to vote, *all* people who feel themselves as a part of the LibreOffice community can at least post a statement at the mailing list, in order to support their favorite proposal. Right? They can even go out on the street for a demonstration. :-D I love this freedom. :-D Stefan -- LibreOffice - Die Freiheit nehm' ich mir! -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.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.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals
Hi Stefan, Am 25.01.2012 18:45, schrieb Stefan Weigel: I love this freedom. :-D I also. Rgd Jochen -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.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.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals
Hi, Stefan Weigel wrote on 2012-01-25 18:45: Ok. So this is going to be a TDF conference. Accepted. ;-) TDF members decide about it, others are invited as guests. Accepted. ;-) no, that's the wrong assumption. :) It is a conference for all interested parties, for the large community, for everyone. It is called LibreOffice Conference on purpose. :-) However, we in the past had large practical problems with many people voting who did not intend to go at all - joke voters. So we had a hard time providing mechanisms to avoid joke votings. My first idea was to invite people from all the mailing lists, but in today's BoD call the concern was raised, that by that, we would effectively also miss several people, as it's no clear border to draw. What about those not on a list, but actively contributing in the wiki? Thus, for 2012, we decided to only allow members to vote, and at the same time encourage contributors to become members. I guess any solution has drawbacks, so I hope we could find some sensible one. If there is a one size fits it all solution, I am happy to hear it, of course. :-) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Chairman of the Board at The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.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.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
