Dave Barton wrote:
-------- Original Message --------
From: Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org>
To: doc@openoffice.apache.org
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:07:53 -0400
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Keith N. McKenna
<keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote:
Rob Weir wrote:
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Keith N. McKenna
<keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote:
RGB ES wrote:
2013/3/19 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org>
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Keith N. McKenna
<keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote:
RGB ES wrote:
<snip>
I think we need more "hand holding" and guidance for new volunteers.
Just pointing them to wiki is not enough. With QA new volunteers I
gave them specific assignments at first, e.g., review these 10 bug
reports. I know it sounds odd to "assign" tasks to volunteers, but
until they find their way around and self-assign tasks, this is a good
way for them to get started. In return, with QA, I promised to review
their early work and give them feedback.
So I wonder if we can come up with set of specific tasks, of various
sizes, from 1 to 8 hours, and specifically asked new volunteers to
pick from that list? It might work better.
It is certainly worth a try. We have hard virtually nothing from many of
the
volunteers since there initial contact.
Another thing would be for one of the moderators of the mailing list
to cross reference current list subscribers with those who said they
wanted to help. Some of them may not have subscribed to the list.
With the QA team I did that and then sent reminders to those who were
not yet signed up.
I am not a moderator but if one can get the list and e-mail it to me I will
do the cross check and send out the reminders.
OK. I'm not a moderator on this list either. So who is?
-Rob
Keith
Any moderator can request the subscriber list by sending this commend
from their moderator email address: doc-l...@openofice.apache.org
Although you should not share the list publicly, since it has
everyone's email address, it would be interesting to know how many
people are subscribed in total.
-Rob
The list of 63 subscribers has been sent directly to Keith.
Dave
On 2013-04-09 I sent the following reminder to all individuals that had
expressed interest in working on documentation but had not yet signed up
for the mailing list:
You recently expressed interest in working on documentation for
ApacheOpenOffice. To date you have not signed up for our mailing list which is
where we discuss everything having to do with documentation for the project.
Currently we are concentrating on user guides for Version 4.0 and we
need help of all sorts for these.If you are still interested please
subscribe to the mailing list by sending a blank e-mail to
mailto:doc-subscr...@openoffice.apache.org and follow the instructions
in the return email or for those that prefer using nntp instead set your
news reader to news.gmane.org and subscribe to
gmane.comp.apache.openoffice.doc and join us.
Regards Keith McKenna
To date I have had no replies. If one of our moderators could check and
see if we have had an increase from the 63 registered users that were on
the list that Dave Barton sent me on 2013-03-26 it would be greatly
appreciated.
It is to say the least disheartening to look at the status page and see
the same few names as doing all the work both writing (Ricardo) and editing.
As a group we need to work towards finding ways to motivate others to
become more active and to recruit new members, especially those with
knowledge of Calc, Impress and Base who can start writing the Guides for
those applications.
Regards
Keith
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