Hooray for Sophie! Thank you for stepping forward. --Jean On Thursday, September 4, 2014, Sophie Gautier <gautier.sop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jean, all, > > Sorry to not have post before but I was focusing on the LibreOffice > conference and wanted to have time to read the mails of the list. > So I would like to volunteer to coordinating the work on this project. > For those who don't know me, I'm with LibreOffice since the beginning of > the project, I'm working for TDF on a paid basis as release coordinator and > administrative assistant. On my volunteer time, I used to localize the UI > and help of LibreOffice in French, do some QA, and translated some part of > the FAQ from French to English. My English is not good enough to write the > English documentation, but I quite well know all the parts of this project > to be able to help his coordination and help new comers to find their way. > > Let me know if you would like me to help on this task :) > Kind regards > Sophie > > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jeanwe...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> IF people in this group think some coordination and/or mentoring is >> needed or at least would be useful, the group needs to find someone or >> several people to do that, do it consistently, and do it well. >> >> I do a bit now and then, but I have not been doing it consistently, >> have no intention of doing it consistently, and will probably be doing >> even less in future. I've been saying this for months, but is anyone >> listening? >> >> If we can't find one or more volunteers to take on this sort of >> responsibility, perhaps we should make a case for TDF to fund someone, >> at least part time? IMO we would need to hire someone with experience >> in technical communication, project management, and mentoring new team >> members. Preferably someone with experience coordinating volunteers, >> so they don't have inappropriate expectations of giving people >> assignments and getting the work done to a schedule. (No, I'm not >> looking for a job.) >> >> I'm not at all sure that would help enough, because we would still >> need people who have both the time and knowledge to do the actual >> work. Our problem, AFAICT, has not been in attracting volunteers. The >> problem is attracting -- and keeping -- the right volunteers: that is, >> people with the time and knowledge. >> >> BTW, I find it both encouraging and discouraging to note that the AOO >> Docs group appears to have the same problems that we do. >> >> --Jean >> > > -- > Sophie Gautier <sophie.gaut...@documentfoundation.org > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sophie.gaut...@documentfoundation.org');>> > Tel:+33683901545 > Co-founder - Release coordinator > Certification Committee Member > The Document Foundation > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+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/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
