> -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] > Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 10:18 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: RE: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] > > Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 09:26 > > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > > Subject: Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve? [ ... ] > > I would like to see every possible medium used to present one message: > > "AOO is at serious risk of dying, unless we get more volunteer > > developers, especially C++ programmers." > > > > I know we need other skills as well, but I don't want to dilute or > > complicate that message. > > > > I would like a special mailing list recruitm...@openoffice.apache.org, > > just for signing up and organizing new developers. No need for them to > > start with dev@, especially the less experienced developers. Just send > > an e-mail to recruitment@ > [orcmid] > > We can, of course, add a mailing list. That does mean we need > moderators and we also need someone to watch the list and figure out > what to do with the offers. > > Something we can easily do already [as well], and we have not acted on > it, is add the ASF Help Wanted widget in a number of places. We can > then populate the database the Widget uses with specific requests for > assistance on Apache OpenOffice. The benefit is that (1) these can be > focused tasks, (2) the Help Wanted will also be visible in other places > among the Help Wanted from other projects, and (3) the Help Wanted item > provides enough properties about skill requirements and nature of the > task, as well as a link to details that help the interested volunteer > find details enough to decide how to contribute. > > Addition of the help-wanted widget can be done immediately. > > I have another promised activity for this US Holiday weekend, but I will > dig into that too. [orcmid]
I figured out how to add the widget to the orange box on the Download page. It does not fit will with that. I think it is best to have the AOO Help Wanted Widget on a page of its own. It could be linked to by other pages, where its list of help-wanted tasks can be lengthy. I am going to stop looking into that for now. > > - Dennis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
