Hi :) Good to see such a positive message again. That's a good one for letting people know how relaxed and friendly this list is. Nice work there! Is this slap carefully timed to try to catch new people as they join they to discourage them from daring to comment? People used to chatter happily on this list about all sorts of things, such as usage of certain words, etymology and ways of trying to get different documents to be consistent with each other. Now people seem scared to say anything. Is this atmosphere encouraging people to join in?
Trying to pretend that this list is easy to join really doesn't prepare for the reality. We have had people waiting over a week at times in the past and feeling so frustrated with it that they walked off wondering if it was personal or something. Some have even seen other people given logins while they still hadn't been given one. >From the results i got by suggesting that it's not so easy to join in i think >it might be better to pretend it's really tough as i got more responses this >time with that approach. Sometimes people prefer something exclusive rather >than something too open If it really is so easy to join in then why don't more people do so? Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Jean Weber <[email protected]> >To: Tom Davies <[email protected]> >Cc: "[email protected]" ><[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 16:46 >Subject: Re: Well wishers from the Users List Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: >[libreoffice-documentation] German Base-Handbuch 4.1 ready > > >Tom, > >Comments like the one quoted below do not help LO at all. How is it >"difficult" to join the Docs team? Is it "difficult" to sign up to the >wiki and to ODFAuthors? A little extra work, perhaps, but no more so >than joining any other team at LO (such as Marketing or QA) and IMO a >lot less difficult than reporting bugs. Also, your comment "it means >signing up to a couple of 3rd party independent sites" is factually >incorrect. There is only one: ODFAuthors, and even that is not a >requirement. We can accommodate people who do not wish to edit the >source files. > >--Jean > > >On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: >>>On 8/13/2013 7:28 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >>>> If anyone can join in and help them translate or help proof-read or get >>>> screen-shots in English (if needed) then that would be fantastic. The >>>> Docs Team is a difficult one to join and it means signing up to a couple >>>> of 3rd party independent sites, such as ODFAuthors, but they are all a >>>> good bunch and do good work so once you get past the initial hurdles it's >>>> usually good to be par of the team. > > -- To unsubscribe 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
