Hi Jean, all, Sorry to not have post before but I was focusing on the LibreOffice conference and wanted to have time to read the mails of the list. So I would like to volunteer to coordinating the work on this project. For those who don't know me, I'm with LibreOffice since the beginning of the project, I'm working for TDF on a paid basis as release coordinator and administrative assistant. On my volunteer time, I used to localize the UI and help of LibreOffice in French, do some QA, and translated some part of the FAQ from French to English. My English is not good enough to write the English documentation, but I quite well know all the parts of this project to be able to help his coordination and help new comers to find their way.
Let me know if you would like me to help on this task :) Kind regards Sophie On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Sophie Gautier <[email protected]> Tel:+33683901545 Co-founder - Release coordinator Certification Committee Member The Document Foundation -- 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
