IF people in this group think some coordination and/or mentoring is needed or at least would be useful, the group needs to find someone or several people to do that, do it consistently, and do it well.
I do a bit now and then, but I have not been doing it consistently, have no intention of doing it consistently, and will probably be doing even less in future. I've been saying this for months, but is anyone listening? If we can't find one or more volunteers to take on this sort of responsibility, perhaps we should make a case for TDF to fund someone, at least part time? IMO we would need to hire someone with experience in technical communication, project management, and mentoring new team members. Preferably someone with experience coordinating volunteers, so they don't have inappropriate expectations of giving people assignments and getting the work done to a schedule. (No, I'm not looking for a job.) I'm not at all sure that would help enough, because we would still need people who have both the time and knowledge to do the actual work. Our problem, AFAICT, has not been in attracting volunteers. The problem is attracting -- and keeping -- the right volunteers: that is, people with the time and knowledge. BTW, I find it both encouraging and discouraging to note that the AOO Docs group appears to have the same problems that we do. --Jean -- 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
