Hi :) OOooops :( Sorry. I post tooo much :( Sometimes people enjoy seeing "a good scrap". Some of us like to diffuse it or turn it around. Like in the marketing list yday. High energy, a passion for the task and/or the project can be good fun to work with & inevitably lead to spats. Everyone just agreeing all the time can be sooo boring lol. We learn a lot about each other and alternative viewpoints too imo.
Most of the people i disagree with i consider friends or they become friends "further down the road". I love it when i can step into the middle of a misunderstanding and translate so that both people realise they are on the same side. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: David Nelson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 16 June, 2011 8:14:29 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] My plans Hi Jean, On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 05:48, Jean Hollis Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with you about what we need, but I don't agree that's > necessarily *all* we need. Past experience tells me otherwise. > > IMO we also need at least one (preferably several) people who will take > a coordinating (or "leadership") role to help work move along > expeditiously, *especially* now when we do not yet have a crew of > regular, experienced contributors. In my experience, little actually > gets done on group projects unless there are leaders. If this project > turns out to be different, then I will be delighted. I see what you're getting at, but I think it's a delicate thing. I think people want contributing to be fun and enjoyable. My impression is that they're easily scared off by any hint of discord/disagreements between team members. I seem to have noticed in the past that new contributors have faded almost immediately when "spats" have broken out in the list. I also have the impression that many new contributors quickly go silent if they have any feeling of imposed direction or imposed commitment. Like they get enough of that in their off-list lives, and don't "come here" for more of the same. IMHO, guidance has to be provided with a very light hand and extreme discretion. If people over-extend their presence within a team, they can easily kill the germination of a core of regular contributors. Again, just my own 2 cents. -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
