Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On May 26, 2012 11:54 AM, "drew" <d...@baseanswers.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 11:25 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: > > Yes, that's true and is the point I made, in response, plus we downplayed > > the mentor role. But remember, I've written open letters, blog posts, > > computerworld articles and spoken to reporters too. The point is to have > > *more* committees speaking with their own voice. > > Hi Ross, > > Then I would suggest you simply stop - it seems rather simple.
Of course. Will we then have silence? Oh, and your welcome. Ross > > //drew > > > > > Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. > > On May 26, 2012 9:38 AM, "Roberto Galoppini" <rgalopp...@geek.net> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Ross Gardler > > > <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: > > > > +1 to a return to a focus on the community members. > > > > > > > > After Rich's interview with me another mentor pointed out that I've done > > > > more publicity around AOO than the rest of the community put together. It > > > > was pointed out that this might be making the mentoring look more > > > important > > > > than the coding. Not a good thing. > > > > > > Actually your interview came after a couple of interviews to community > > > members and templates' creators. I'm sure Rich will be more than happy > > > to keep interviewing community members, please let us know who wants > > > to be featured on SourceForge community blog. > > > > > > Roberto > > > > > > > More people have to step up and provide material for the project to use. > > > > There are people ready to turn it into content and there are milestones > > > to > > > > hang these things from. > > > > > > > > > > > Ross > > > > > > > > Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. > > > > On May 25, 2012 1:45 AM, "Donald Harbison" <dpharbi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Thursday, May 24, 2012, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > >> > > > >> > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org > > > >> <javascript:;>> > > > >> > wrote: > > > >> > > > > >> > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Kay Schenk < kay.sch...@gmail.com > > > >> <javascript:;>> > > > >> > wrote: > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > On 05/24/2012 11:46 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > > > >> > > >> > > > >> > > >> Just checking the numbers: we appear to be at 1.8 million for > > > AOO > > > >> 3.4 > > > >> > > >> install downloads. > > > >> > > >> > > > >> > > >> It might make sense to put out another story when we hit 2 > > > million. > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > why not! :) > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > OK. I'll work with Don on this. But after this I suggest we only > > > >> > > note the downloads at 5 million intervals. Otherwise we will spend > > > >> > > too much time writing news articles and too little time improving > > > >> > > OpenOffice. > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > >> > this definitely makes sense... > > > >> > > > > >> > We might note that June 1 is the first anniversary OpenOffice with > > > >> Apache. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> My birthday is June 2, so I'll be sure to note other milestones! :)) > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > Maybe the new DL stats announcement, if the timeline is right, might > > > make > > > >> > note of this and include a mention of how successful this new > > > >> > environment/arrangement has been for OpenOffice. Just a thought. > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> IMHO, we need to return focus to the need to profile community members > > > so > > > >> we better know each other. I have a short piece on Dave Fisher ready to > > > go > > > >> in June. Let's work up more of these....please. > > > >> > > > >> Louis and Nancy had volunteered previously. Anyone else want to do a > > > 'Meet > > > >> and Greet'? > > > >> > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > A good problem to have ;-) > > > >> > > > > > >> > > -Rob > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > >> Maybe this can be combined with the piece on Symphony that Don > > > was > > > >> > > >> working on? > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > yes...good idea! > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > >> > > > >> > > >> -Rob > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > -- > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >> > > > MzK > > > >> > > > > > > >> > > > "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." > > > >> > > > -- Mark Twain > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > -- > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >> > MzK > > > >> > > > > >> > "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." > > > >> > -- Mark Twain > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > > > -- > > > ==== > > > This e- mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It > > > may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the > > > intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > > > distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly > > > prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately > > > notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any > > > attachment(s) from your system. Thank you. > > > > > > > >
