On 09/04/2012 10:48 AM, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2012-08-30 18:34, Jean Weber a écrit : >> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Marc Paré<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Unfortunately, we are in great need of community building >>> strategies, which >>> is where our success rate is quite slim. We need to work on this and >>> make it >>> a concerted effort on all of our lists (global and language lists). >> >> Totally agree. I'm trying to organise my notes and thoughts from CLS >> (Community Leadership Summit), which I attended in July. I was mainly >> looking for ideas that might work for expanding the Docs team, but >> most of what was covered should be relevant to other segments of the >> community. My interests, as you all know, are in marketing and user >> services, not coding: support, training, user docs, and certification >> of people working in those areas. IMO the places where we might find >> new community members for those areas are not the same places where we >> look for developers. More on that topic later! >> >> --Jean >> > > I also have some thoughts of community building on the project. Some > of my main thoughts are that the TDF/LibreOffice project has managed > to impress all of the opensource community for its quick rise to > success with its amazing product "LibreOffice". However, and this is > where IMO we are running into problems, the complement of devs and its > rise in numbers has far outstripped the TDF membership number of > contributors. While a strong dev participation is a good measure of an > opensource project's health, the problem facing the TDF is its > web/wiki/documentation/QA/design/marketing infrastructures. In other > words, the community building aspect of the project has definitely not > been one of the TDF's (our) success stories. > > I believe the TDF should re-focus some of its energies and strategies > on community building in order to address the need for contributor > help in maintaining the QA and public face of the project. The stress > of contributor is quite apparent in major sections of the project; > help is needed in QA (this should be front and centre for recruitment > of help in QA (localization help as well); website management > (desperately needed at the localized level) as well as the global site > -- important as this is the public face of the project; design; > marketing etc. Simply said the number of contributor help has not kept > pace with the number of dev. contributors. One can easily count the > number of active contributors to realize that there are simply too few > for the amount of needed work and these contributors' activity is > often stretched beyond reasonable limits. > > The TDF/LibreOffice project should really be seen as a two-pronged > project: a product developed by devs (along with QA/Design) and a > product marketed and supported (Web/Wiki/Doc/marketing etc) by its > membership. This is where, through community building, TDF would try > address the need for help with the project. At this point, the devs > seem to be "humming" along at a great and cooperative speed; where the > need is really required is in the support-contributor group. > > Just my initial thoughts on this for now. > > Cheers, > > Marc > > Following up on Marc's comments, how many of our non-dev contributors are active in multiple areas. It seems like I often see the same people in many areas.
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