Hi Michael, *, Am 19.09.2012 11:32 schrieb Michael Meeks: > On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 22:10 +0200, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
>> I'm not against having paid officers in general, but they should do meta >> tasks, i.e. rather looking for people doing necessary work - for example >> by poking sponsors to provide manpower than doing the work themselves. > I'm not sure this model generally works so well :-) Sponsors are not > lacking tasks of their own and tend to value the ability to direct their > own resources: that's why they pay them. Having said that I think you > capture something really important: > If we contract anyone it is critical to ensure that they are someone > who works well with, and is a respected part of the community. Currently > we have plenty of people full-time on the code who (I hope) work in that > capacity: they do some of the less sexy work to allow volunteers to do > the bits they love best, they help mentor people and empower them and so > on - presumably that pattern can work elsewhere too ? Maybe I was not clear: I talk of what *TDF* pays for. I'm happy community work having done by paid people, paid by external resources as You describe. > For example - we're contracting Tollef currently to do some bugzilla > administration around freedesktop: he's the existing sysadmin in that > space, is widely respected and is doing a great job: my hope is that > that is not too controversial a pattern :-) Who is "we"? SuSE, TDF? > Aside from that, we have a ton of un-met administrative needs that go > far beyond system administration: you point out one: fund-raising, there > is a lot more detail around the board that requires significant > investments of time to get right - and these tend to fall through the > cracks. Couldn't agree more! The boards intention though is to contract an *infrastructure* officer. Btw.: wasn't me pointing out the fund-raising issue ;o)). > Anyhow - it's great to hear about the good work you're doing in the > admin team, that sounds really encouraging, and is much appreciated. Thanks for the flowers! Generously waving the honey spoon is a nice gesture ;o)) regards Friedrich -- Friedrich Strohmaier - Admin team - The Document Foundation http://www.documentfoundation.org/
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