Hi Andre,
Its good to know this map created by Eike exists. I took a poll of a
few OOo members and and this is the first I learn of this map, so
many thanks for the link. And Yes there seems to be a lot of spam
entries in this ooodev map.
This idea was to not to only map ALL contributors but also some key
milestones and produce an OOo a story. I had positive response from
people when I talked about the idea.... and ofcourse the people
working on OOo are key to this story, without which we don't have a
story.
The mapping pages are hosted elsewhere including the questionaire, so
we could use simple tools to very quickly setup a questionaire and
these currently don't exist on the OOo site (to my knowledge).
Once complete, the final maps can be downloadable directly from the
OOo site, so this exercise is not to create a community elsewhere,
but to capture the information in a database/spreadsheet which
( unfortunately) has to reside elsewhere, as we do for other surveys.
As you will see from my examples. It will not include spam, since
there is a little manual intervention needed to move the content over
from the spreadsheet where we gather the information over to the
Google Map/Earth. Given we want to map milestones as well as
community profiles - so producing a story of OOo, a different kind of
exercise to this map. Any creative input would be very welcome.
I have a lot of photos, starting from the early days of OOo and my
days working at Sun and some more recent while traveling and meeting
OOo contributors around the world, that make up some of the
Openoffice.org story that I would like to share and link to a story.
It would be great to link to a part of the world and find ALL
contributors in the area that may not know of each other. I wanted to
encourage others to share their stories and do the same. I think you
will agree this is a different kind of map to the one linked to
below. I anticipated a map of the OOo story could happen quickly but
this may be a while in the making. ;-)
If anyone would like to help with the data capture and mapping it
would be very welcome, the final map can be as content rich as the
information we all provide.
At a minimum I would love for everyone to enter a short profile.
Best
Zaheda
HI Andre,
On 30 Oct 2008, at 04:57, André Schnabel wrote:
Hi,
Zaheda Bhorat schrieb:
:-( We have only six community entries so far in our attempt to
create an OpenOffice.org community map. None of the entries
include developers. Our goal was to get off to a great start to
this project with many entries in time for OOoCon 2008 in Beijing
next week.
Sometimes it might be better to use the resources that are already
there instead of creating new ones:
http://www.frappr.com/ooodev/map
This has many of our developers and contributors.SOmewith short
statements what they do here in the project. (Unfortunately most of
the recent entries are spam)
The curious thing about communities is that they grow where they
like - and not when and where we like them to grow.
The idea is not to create a community elsewhere but to use tools that
exists elsewhere to create map - as with the frapper.com map. The
final map can easily be linked to directly from the OOo site and
downloaded from this site.
André
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