Hi, I've been watching the feedback, including Jean's of course. Although some months ago my own feelings were that the LibO English docs team didn't really need a specific team leader, my opinion has somewhat evolved since then.
This is partly because of the small number (or even practical non-existence) of regularly active team members. New people have turned up, done some work and then become inactive again. People previously involved in OOo and ODFAuthors have sometime put in some work and then gone silent again - sometimes leaving their work in a half-finished state. There are only a couple or so people with any accurate idea of the state of play of docs work and who's doing what, and Jean is one of them. Also, I have noticed how there is more general activity from other people when Jean herself is in an active period, and how things go largely dead when she's busy with other stuff in life. So I do think it would be worth properly naming her team lead, because she does seem to carry a lot of weight with people and since it could give her a better position to be an ambassador for LibO documentation (for recruiting new members, for possibly finding alternative ways of getting documentation written for the project, etc.). I'd see her as having more of an organizational/coordinating/project management role, and as being more of a "librarian" than anything else. "Possibly finding alternative ways of getting documentation written for the project"? Well, how about the possibility of getting commercial technical documentation and translation agencies involved in sponsoring/undertaking projects, in exchange for some form of publicity/creditation for their contribs? That would, of course, require some serious liaison and organization, and Jean would be a well-qualified candidate for the job (if she felt able to take on the role). This is just one idea that comes to mind, but I'm starting to think that it's time to do some lateral thinking. The LibreOffice documentation effort has currently ground almost to a halt in terms of real productive work. -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
