Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Websites we can use to bring in new contributors

[Sreekanth V K]

I think we can make a difference if we plan it well. 


​Sincerely,

Sreekanth V K

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On May 25, 2018 7:16 PM, Italo Vignoli  wrote:

> As I said to Sreekanth, the idea is to organize a marketing call focused
> 
> on India during the next couple of weeks, to start organizing marketing
> 
> activities. I will follow up early next week with a couple of timeslot
> 
> proposals.
> 
> On 25/05/2018 15:39, Biraj Karmakar wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Sreekanth +1 for your idea.
> > 
> > Mike, I was one of the host Mozilla Sprint 2018. We have 10-15 dedicated
> > 
> > people in our community. They are are interested in opensource. I will
> > 
> > engage them if you could start these type of initiative on l10n, QA,
> > 
> > Document writing etc.
> > 
> > Thank You
> > 
> > Biraj Karmakar
> > 
> > Twitter :@birajkarmakar
> > 
> > On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Sreekanth V K <
> > 
> > sreekanth.vettikk...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Dear Mike,
> > > 
> > > Yes. I was referring to the similar events. Having this sprint as a group
> > > 
> > > activity in different locations would encourage more people to contribute.
> > > 
> > > Having some goodies - even virtual like small certificate of appreciation
> > > 
> > > -   softcopy would do - would encourage more and students to participate 
> > > in
> > > 
> > > such events.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > We can have our hack fests and Sprints. We need to encourage more and more
> > > 
> > > students and young people to contribute. It also should help them to learn
> > > 
> > > and add some value to their life.
> > > 
> > > It will be great if we have good collaboration with development team and
> > > 
> > > if they could classify the issues that could be take up in 
> > > Sprints/Hackfest
> > > 
> > > into different levels and mark them as Beginner (Easy Hack), Medium, 
> > > Expert
> > > 
> > > (or 5 levels) according to their wish.Also it could be prioritized and
> > > 
> > > marked as urgent, non-urgent, etc. Provide only those issues similar to
> > > 
> > > the way we present in Sprint week page.
> > > 
> > > Share this information across different social media and urge the sprint
> > > 
> > > teams to join us online on one or two days across the world. In case of
> > > 
> > > Mozilla they used Gitter and ether pad for collaboration.
> > > 
> > > Most important thing is that if the contributors/sprinters have something
> > > 
> > > to take hope as a token of appreciation would encourage lots of people to
> > > 
> > > join. Even stickers, softcopy of certificate would be a good option.
> > > 
> > > We can take this up. Is it possible to get contact of the people who
> > > 
> > > organised the hack fests in past?
> > > 
> > > Sincerely,
> > > 
> > > Sreekanth V K
> > > 
> > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
> > > 
> > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
> > > 
> > > On May 25, 2018 2:22 PM, Mike Saunders  > > 
> > > documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi Sreekanth,
> > > > 
> > > > On 23/05/2018 22:22, Sreekanth V K wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Recently, I participated in Mozilla Sprint 2018. The similar concepts
> > > > 
> > > > would be a good way to reach out to the people and community.
> > > > 
> > > > > We can have Sprint like concepts for the Libre Office projects alone
> > > > 
> > > > with appropriate promotion.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for sharing your experience! It sounds a bit like the hackfests
> > > > 
> > > > that we have done in the past, albeit with a broader focus. We're also
> > > > 
> > > > doing things like this:
> > > > 
> > > > https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/05/21/guide-revision-
> > > > 
> > > > sprint-week/
> > > > 
> > > > The main thing is finding the time to organise and run them, so if
> > > > 
> > > > anyone has ideas and wants to help out, we'll support you to the best of
> > > > 
> > > > our capabilities :-)
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > 
> > > > Mike
> 
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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Websites we can use to bring in new contributors

[Italo Vignoli]

As I said to Sreekanth, the idea is to organize a marketing call focused
on India during the next couple of weeks, to start organizing marketing
activities. I will follow up early next week with a couple of timeslot
proposals.

On 25/05/2018 15:39, Biraj Karmakar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Sreekanth +1 for your idea.
> 
> Mike, I was one of the host Mozilla Sprint 2018. We have 10-15 dedicated
> people in our community. They are are interested in opensource. I will
> engage them if you could start these type of initiative on  l10n, QA,
> Document writing etc.
> 
> 
> Thank You
> 
> Biraj Karmakar
> Twitter :*@birajkarmakar*
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Sreekanth V K <
> sreekanth.vettikk...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Mike,
>>
>> Yes. I was referring to the similar events. Having this sprint as a group
>> activity in different locations would encourage more people to contribute.
>>
>> Having some goodies - even virtual like small certificate of appreciation
>> - softcopy would do - would encourage more and students to participate in
>> such events.
>>
>> We can have our hack fests and Sprints. We need to encourage more and more
>> students and young people to contribute. It also should help them to learn
>> and add some value to their life.
>>
>> It will be great if we have good collaboration with development team and
>> if they could classify the issues that could be take up in Sprints/Hackfest
>> into different levels and mark them as Beginner (Easy Hack), Medium, Expert
>> (or 5 levels) according to their wish.Also it could be prioritized and
>> marked as urgent, non-urgent, etc.  Provide only those issues similar to
>> the way we present in Sprint week page.
>>
>> Share this information across different social media and urge the sprint
>> teams to join us online on one or two days across the world. In case of
>> Mozilla they used Gitter and ether pad for collaboration.
>>
>> Most important thing is that if the contributors/sprinters have something
>> to take hope as a token of appreciation would encourage lots of people to
>> join. Even stickers, softcopy of certificate would be a good option.
>>
>> We can take this up. Is it possible to get contact of the people who
>> organised the hack fests in past?
>>
>>
>> ​Sincerely,
>>
>> Sreekanth V K
>>
>> Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.​
>>
>> ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
>>
>> On May 25, 2018 2:22 PM, Mike Saunders > documentfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Sreekanth,
>>>
>>> On 23/05/2018 22:22, Sreekanth V K wrote:
>>>
 Recently, I participated in Mozilla Sprint 2018. The similar concepts
>>>
>>> would be a good way to reach out to the people and community.
>>>
 We can have Sprint like concepts for the Libre Office projects alone
>>>
>>> with appropriate promotion.
>>>
>>> Thanks for sharing your experience! It sounds a bit like the hackfests
>>>
>>> that we have done in the past, albeit with a broader focus. We're also
>>>
>>> doing things like this:
>>>
>>> https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/05/21/guide-revision-
>> sprint-week/
>>>
>>> The main thing is finding the time to organise and run them, so if
>>>
>>> anyone has ideas and wants to help out, we'll support you to the best of
>>>
>>> our capabilities :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Mike


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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Websites we can use to bring in new contributors

[Biraj Karmakar]

Hello,

Sreekanth +1 for your idea.

Mike, I was one of the host Mozilla Sprint 2018. We have 10-15 dedicated
people in our community. They are are interested in opensource. I will
engage them if you could start these type of initiative on  l10n, QA,
Document writing etc.


Thank You

Biraj Karmakar
Twitter :*@birajkarmakar*





On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Sreekanth V K <
sreekanth.vettikk...@protonmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Mike,
>
> Yes. I was referring to the similar events. Having this sprint as a group
> activity in different locations would encourage more people to contribute.
>
> Having some goodies - even virtual like small certificate of appreciation
> - softcopy would do - would encourage more and students to participate in
> such events.
>
> We can have our hack fests and Sprints. We need to encourage more and more
> students and young people to contribute. It also should help them to learn
> and add some value to their life.
>
> It will be great if we have good collaboration with development team and
> if they could classify the issues that could be take up in Sprints/Hackfest
> into different levels and mark them as Beginner (Easy Hack), Medium, Expert
> (or 5 levels) according to their wish.Also it could be prioritized and
> marked as urgent, non-urgent, etc.  Provide only those issues similar to
> the way we present in Sprint week page.
>
> Share this information across different social media and urge the sprint
> teams to join us online on one or two days across the world. In case of
> Mozilla they used Gitter and ether pad for collaboration.
>
> Most important thing is that if the contributors/sprinters have something
> to take hope as a token of appreciation would encourage lots of people to
> join. Even stickers, softcopy of certificate would be a good option.
>
> We can take this up. Is it possible to get contact of the people who
> organised the hack fests in past?
>
>
> ​Sincerely,
>
> Sreekanth V K
>
> Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.​
>
> ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
>
> On May 25, 2018 2:22 PM, Mike Saunders  documentfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi Sreekanth,
> >
> > On 23/05/2018 22:22, Sreekanth V K wrote:
> >
> > > Recently, I participated in Mozilla Sprint 2018. The similar concepts
> >
> > would be a good way to reach out to the people and community.
> >
> > > We can have Sprint like concepts for the Libre Office projects alone
> >
> > with appropriate promotion.
> >
> > Thanks for sharing your experience! It sounds a bit like the hackfests
> >
> > that we have done in the past, albeit with a broader focus. We're also
> >
> > doing things like this:
> >
> > https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/05/21/guide-revision-
> sprint-week/
> >
> > The main thing is finding the time to organise and run them, so if
> >
> > anyone has ideas and wants to help out, we'll support you to the best of
> >
> > our capabilities :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Websites we can use to bring in new contributors

[Sreekanth V K]

Dear Mike,

Yes. I was referring to the similar events. Having this sprint as a group 
activity in different locations would encourage more people to contribute.  

Having some goodies - even virtual like small certificate of appreciation - 
softcopy would do - would encourage more and students to participate in such 
events. 

We can have our hack fests and Sprints. We need to encourage more and more 
students and young people to contribute. It also should help them to learn and 
add some value to their life. 

It will be great if we have good collaboration with development team and if 
they could classify the issues that could be take up in Sprints/Hackfest into 
different levels and mark them as Beginner (Easy Hack), Medium, Expert (or 5 
levels) according to their wish.Also it could be prioritized and marked as 
urgent, non-urgent, etc.  Provide only those issues similar to the way we 
present in Sprint week page.   

Share this information across different social media and urge the sprint teams 
to join us online on one or two days across the world. In case of Mozilla they 
used Gitter and ether pad for collaboration. 

Most important thing is that if the contributors/sprinters have something to 
take hope as a token of appreciation would encourage lots of people to join. 
Even stickers, softcopy of certificate would be a good option. 

We can take this up. Is it possible to get contact of the people who organised 
the hack fests in past? 


​Sincerely,

Sreekanth V K

Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.​

‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐

On May 25, 2018 2:22 PM, Mike Saunders  
wrote:

> Hi Sreekanth,
> 
> On 23/05/2018 22:22, Sreekanth V K wrote:
> 
> > Recently, I participated in Mozilla Sprint 2018. The similar concepts
> 
> would be a good way to reach out to the people and community.
> 
> > We can have Sprint like concepts for the Libre Office projects alone
> 
> with appropriate promotion.
> 
> Thanks for sharing your experience! It sounds a bit like the hackfests
> 
> that we have done in the past, albeit with a broader focus. We're also
> 
> doing things like this:
> 
> https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/05/21/guide-revision-sprint-week/
> 
> The main thing is finding the time to organise and run them, so if
> 
> anyone has ideas and wants to help out, we'll support you to the best of
> 
> our capabilities :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Websites we can use to bring in new contributors

[Mike Saunders]

Hi Sreekanth,

On 23/05/2018 22:22, Sreekanth V K wrote:
>
> Recently, I participated in Mozilla Sprint 2018. The similar concepts
would be a good way to reach out to the people and community.
> We can have Sprint like concepts for the Libre Office projects alone
with appropriate promotion.

Thanks for sharing your experience! It sounds a bit like the hackfests
that we have done in the past, albeit with a broader focus. We're also
doing things like this:

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/05/21/guide-revision-sprint-week/

The main thing is finding the time to organise and run them, so if
anyone has ideas and wants to help out, we'll support you to the best of
our capabilities :-)

Cheers,
Mike

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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Websites we can use to bring in new contributors

[Sreekanth V K]

Dear All,

Recently, I participated in Mozilla Sprint 2018. The similar concepts would be 
a good way to reach out to the people and community. 
We can have Sprint like concepts for the Libre Office projects alone with 
appropriate promotion.  

The steps that could be solved are: 
1 . identifying the pain points need urgent and crowd support to solve it. 
2. Asking the community to put forward the necessary items to be solved. 
3. Select the list of projects to be used for Sprint of 1-2 days. 
4. Provide platform for learn, collaborate and implement solutions. 
5. Promote the events by sharing the mementos and goodies to the early birds 
and great contributors.  


​Sincerely,

Sreekanth V K

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On May 23, 2018 9:46 PM, Mike Saunders  
wrote:

> On 23/05/2018 14:46, Mike Saunders wrote:
> 
> > -   https://yourfirstpr.github.io
> > -   https://www.codetriage.com
> > -   https://up-for-grabs.net
> > -   https://www.codenewbie.org/learn
> 
> I made a Redmine ticket and Ilmari has already provided some feedback here:
> 
> https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/2615
> 
> And here's another idea -- Fedora magazine is looking for articles. As I
> 
> worked for Linux magazines for many years, I could write an article
> 
> about how to get involved with LibreOffice (build it on Fedora, an
> 
> overview of the code, other ways to help the project etc.)
> 
> Do we think that'd be a good way to bring in more people?
> 
> Mike
> 
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[libreoffice-marketing] Websites we can use to bring in new contributors

[Mike Saunders]

Hi everyone,

As you know, when marketing LibreOffice we're not just spreading the
word about the software, but the community too! And we try to get new
people involved. I've come across a few websites that we could use for
this -- I haven't investigated further yet, but maybe someone on the
list has some experiences with them...

* https://yourfirstpr.github.io
* https://www.codetriage.com
* https://up-for-grabs.net
* https://www.codenewbie.org/learn

For the final one, we could link to some of the tutorials that were on
the design blog, eg:

https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2018/04/14/easyhacking-how-to-make-a-feature-optional/

I'll look in more detail soon, but if anyone has any thoughts or ideas,
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