Hi :) +1
Regards from Tom :) On 7 September 2014 07:40, Leo Moons <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > 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 <[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: documentation+unsubscribe@ >>> global.libreoffice.org >>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> > > -- > 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 > -- 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
