On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:19 PM, BRM <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > >> From: Drew Jensen <[email protected]> >> On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 16:57 +0200, Gianluca Turconi wrote: >> > Il 20/10/2010 16.36, Mike Dupont ha scritto: >> > > 1. what will it cost if you have to rewrite the authors code and all >> > > derived works. >> > > 2. what if you just remove the code >> > >> > Contributions are not only code. There are a lot of intangibles. >> > >> > Marketing, lobbying and advocating work are some examples. >> >> Please let us not expand what defines contribution. >> >> Lobbying should not IMO garner admittance. >> >> Advocating should not.
You can define contribution as documents or commits to a repository or wiki, or recruiting of new members to a team, you can define karma like ubuntu lauchpad does. I have done alot of advocating and promoting of OOO in Kosovo, trying to find translators and also aquiring the source code of the 2.0 translation. We are also looking for funding of further translations. I have also spent money and time on events and meetings. I have recruited members and help build the community. The biggest problem that I see for OOO is it is very hard to get started, people need to be more skilled than on other projects. It also took us months to get the pootle activated, and when it was, alot of the interest was gone. Right now we are looking at the huge task of translation from version 2, and I have to say, it is just too big, we need a smaller set of strings and an easier way to get members to contribute. To be honest, a facebook app would be the best way to get people to contribute, because 99% of the computer literate Albanian speakers are on facebook and if they got some positive feedback for translation they would do more. Even if we had some money for translation, we could hire people at about 2-3 euro cents per word for the translation. thanks, mike -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
