Hi everyone! Cor, thank you for your questions which I am happy to respond to.
Concerning your "enough spare time" question ... Generally, it would be unrealistic to assure the availability of additional spare time :-) Like many other contributors, I already spend a lot of effort for OpenOffice.org. Nevertheless, I think that my current activities do already support the the core goals of the Community Council. So I'm sure that re-prioritizing my activities will allow me to substantially support the work of the Community Council without negative impact on other activities. Additionally, like most of the other voluntary contributors, I have a day job that is unrelated to OpenOffice.org. So I already spoke with my line manager who fortunately will support me if some more time flexibility is required. Concerning your "idea by work/tasks, areas of interest/ideas" question ... The Community Council represents the interests of many individuals and business organizations - both inward and outward. That results in a variety of different questions and required actions. Logically speaking, my first goal is to support any topic of broad interest which is brought into the Community Council. A very positive move is the collection of proposed "project improvements" at [1] which I observe since quite a while. Since you have already spoken of special areas of interest - yes, there are three of them. First, I would like to see an improved transparency with regard to the software development and the underlying decisions (e.g. why does the new/changed feature XY support OpenOffice.org). For example, the last months provided several examples of feature inclusions which were heavily discussed afterwards. Currently I miss a "visible" and commonly agreed strategy which helps us to develop OpenOffice.org more specifically. That doesn't mean that everybody has to agree to certain decisions, but everyone should be able to judge whether it is aligned to our project goals. A second area of interest is to inspire more people to participate. We already have a very large (user) community, so it would be great to lower the hurdles to get them started. For example, I would love to see a platform for sharing new ideas for OpenOffice.org - getting discussions more focused and again improve the transparency of the product development. I have started to collect some information about that some time ago [2]. A third area of interest is to steadily improve the communication; especially with the main sponsor Sun Microsystems. Several times I have worked closely with Sun employees - even sitting next to them [3] - and I know that many of them love to cooperate with the community. Sometimes that may be perceived different, because they are bound to "system immanent characteristics" of large business organizations. ;-) I do also work for a very large company, so I know such constraints. But that should not hinder us to identify some issues to make working with the volunteer community a (in a positive manner) "routine" instead of the "option" ... being a basis for beneficial cooperation. Literally speaking, it is all about people. And that brings me to my first blog posting after becoming the Co-Lead of the User Experience project. I think my goals never changed much, so I would like to refer to it - written about 1,5 years ago [4]. Please decide for yourself whether I meet your personal criteria being a voice in the Community Council :-) Cor, did that answer your questions? If you (or others) have some more, then please drop a mail! Have a nice day, Christoph [1] Community Council Project Improvements http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Project_Improvements [2] Idea Handling http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Idea_Handling [3] Blog posting "Vacation the UX way" http://uxopenofficeorg.blogspot.com/2009/04/vacation-ux-way.html [4] Blog posting "It's all about people" http://uxopenofficeorg.blogspot.com/2008/04/its-all-about-people.html Am Sonntag, den 25.10.2009, 00:15 +0200 schrieb Cor Nouws: > Hi Christoph, > > Christoph Noack wrote (19-10-2009 0:57) > > André, thank you very much for your trust to nominate me. To make it > > short: I'm happy to say that I agree. I really believe in the whole > > community - and would like to contribute my part to it. > > Thanks for your nomination. > Could you pls write for me about the next questions: > - why do you think that you have enough spare time for the work in the > Community Council? > - what is your idea by the work/tasks of the council? Do you have any > special areas of interest/ideas? > > Thanks a lot for your answers, > best wishes, > > Cor > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
