Hi :) Ubuntu has "Community Development" people and that seems to be a term used in voluntary sector organisations (and others) that are outside of the IT industry in the UK.
The Docs Team has been lucky to attract a few new people recently but inevitably it can be difficult to join in at the start and learn the systems so drop-out rate is highest in the early days. Personally i just hang out on various lists and if i spot someone i think would be good here or would enjoy it here (usually both) then i try to push them into this list but i'm not very good at following-up when they do join the list. I also try a generic post to the Users List every 6 months or so to encourage people from there to join in with the docs team. Each team is pretty much left to it's own ways of doing things and that sometimes means teams compete with each other for people that seem keen to be involved. It's usually very positive and usually used as an excuse to raise the profile of all the other teams at the same time. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Robinson Tryon <[email protected]> >To: Tom Davies <[email protected]> >Cc: "[email protected]" ><[email protected]> >Sent: Sunday, 10 February 2013, 0:12 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Questions galore! > >On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi :) > >Hi! > >> Bear in mind that there are only around 4ish documenters to cover the work >> of 500 devs. Also MS Office only has 1 branch every 4 years (ish) whereas >> LibreOffice has 2 per year. > >I've heard the same story from the QA team: A few (determined) hands >for bucket-loads of bugs. It sounds like we should do some recruiting! >:-) > >Who is in charge of the LibreOffice volunteers? Is there anyone who >wears a hat like "Volunteer Coordinator" ? > >--R > > -- 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
