Hello Sophie, all,
Many thanks for offering your help. We have first met in Lyon OOo
conference in 2006 and you have been more then a helping hand to me ever
since. I think our project and in particular the documentation team will
benefit a lot from your help.
As translating the guides into Dutch is my major contribution to our
LibreOffice, I cannot but welcome all help that will help us all.
Many thanks again, Sophie and look forward to continue working with you.
Best regards
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Leo Moons
LibreOffice/nl
Nous sommes condamnés à être libres
Op 04-09-14 om 15:20 schreef Sophie Gautier:
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 <jeanwe...@gmail.com> 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
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