Hi Alexandro, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Sometime ago I wanted to do something like social.openoffice.org this > is more like on the lines of "people" from KDE. http://behindkde.org/ > although not exactly. The key here is to know what people in general > are doing. > > For example have a personal profile page that will aggregate from > their activities on the CVS tree, mailing list, issuezilla and map to > this activity to the user. > > So why is this social site useful: > - Will improve to lower the level of confusion between the projects > and the developers > - Will expose areas that are too slow performance and maybe do > something about it > - Know what developers are working at and their expertise within the source > tree
I'm working on the same side of the community :) This is some time that we need to know who is contributing or who is doing what, and we discuss this also by the need to re-write the CC charter and Community Yera Plan Cor has launched. My first move has been to look at other projects, this is how I discovered Launchpad. But it's not free and may be too much for us. I've phoned Pascal from Mozilla Europe and he told me that they have nothing currently but are actually thinking about a tool however more for social purpose than for monitoring. Gnome has a manual process which I fear to resources consumer. > > OOo is one of the largest FLOSS communities out there, however that > means is easy to get lost in the crowd and your work to not be as > visible by others. You might be a NL project lead but also a strong > contributor on XML project and that is not very visible on the OOo > site. Exactly, and beside this, if we want to move to a more open governance, we need to know who are the actors of the project. > > This will get us some karma points, something like ohloh.com but with > a more deep searching and also with a more human touch. Something like > ohloh.com meets behindkde.org / facebook.com. This is what I'm not sure about it. I don't see how members doing what is not contributed to cvs will be visible. > > I am sure Elgg is not exactly what we need, Elgg is a different beast > more like ning and there is no fetching and mapping of information > traffic but it does provide a first stage to the project by providing > the social aspect. Technical aspect will come either from extensions > or just while we migrate to a platform that satisfy the needs. Louis used to make some interviews on quite regular base see http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/articles.html > > This effort is not new to OOo since there used to a time that there > was a developer newsletter and it was also formed from a python script > that went through OOo fetching the relevant information and changes on > the CVS. It was written by CPH afaik. Yes, but today we need more than this, because there is a lot of involvement in QA, L10n, documentation, marketing, art, website, ux, etc... :) Cor is currently working on the Community Year Plan, would you like to add you very valuable inputs on the discussion page ? http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/YearPlan Thanks for you work here Alexandro :) Kind regards Sophie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
