+1 to comments posted at the bottom of the thread. The documentation team is also currently writing documentation on work-flow for documents looked after by the documentation team. Certain innovations and things that have happened high up in TDF recently have changed things a little but hopefully made it easier to contribute time and skills. Regards from Tom :)
________________________________ From: Marc Paré <m...@marcpare.com> To: marketing@libreoffice.org Sent: Wed, 27 April, 2011 14:30:47 Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Position of the Design Team in the community Thanks Christoph and Tom Le 2011-04-27 09:03, Tom Davies a écrit : > Hi Marc, > > an interesting thread ... indeed. One little comment ... > > Am Dienstag, den 26.04.2011, 00:02 -0400 schrieb Marc Paré: >>>>> As far as the text in the material, in this particular case ... >>>>> marketing material, the marketing team would give approval for the >> text >>>>> included in document/materials. Marketing text is not the area of >>>>> expertise of the design team. >>> >>> This should be clear to everybody: >>> For text in marketing material marketing expertise is crucial, so >> this >>> list is the appropriate place to discuss and decide it. > > Let's say the place is better suited, since its more likely that we have > more people here being interested in Marketing related issues (keeping > their eyes and ears open). > > But the good thing about community is that many others are quite > capable ... whether it is QA, l10n, Marketing, Design. So (simplified) > team XYZ can contribute to such discussions like team ABC - but they > should really meet at the dedicated list. > > Regards, > Christoph > > > Hi :) > Some things seem to inevitably be cross-discipline and so many people subscribe > to more than one list while focussing on perhaps just 1 for most of their > discussions. It's something that seems so much easier in OpenSource or > Community Led Organisations. > Regards from > Tom :) > Agree on both counts. Obviously, many of us frequent/lurk/participate on many lists that are of personal interests. Thus making us members of these lists (at times we wear many hats). Its by making the process clearer that we will have a more effective participation from our membership and new and old (members). Arguably, some of our members may not need as much direction as they have shown the respect for the underlying informal process (in this case the approval process for newly designed elements), but it is to avoid any newer members, unaware of these informal processes, to feel lost and perhaps involving too much of their efforts on a new design that may in the end be rejected outright and having them feel abandoned. If we can clear up the process and itemize it on a wiki page, then it is to all our advantage. So, I feel we should clarify (for LibreOffice/TDF materials or for any materials looking for TDF official support/sanction): * the design approval process for new elements as well as mention the usage "rules" behind the pre-approved elements. * the marketing approval process where we have an agreement to connect with Italo so that he may have a look at the material before publication. Once clarified, the process should then be noted on a wiki page accessible to all wanting to contribute on both these counts. Cheers Marc -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
