On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: >> Let's get started on a list of points for this brochure as it is our next >> priority. >> >> * our community offers developer meets (so far localized) >> * we have gone to sprints >> * QA meets >> * QA bug hunt marathons >> * support from the TDF to pay for members attending/representing >> TDF/LibreOffice >> * use of IRC, Skype, Google etc. tools for some text or face to face >> encounters >> * IRC used by our most active and contributing developers >> * groups such as marketing make use of collaborative work for PR's and >> webpages >> >> Hmmm, do you think it would be best to break this down to the different >> teams and list what collectively they bring to the community? > > > I'm now mulling over what I think would be useful to include in this > particular brochure. I'll add my points here on this thread and also > put them on the wiki page. > > --Jean
Time to get back to work on this brochure! I see there has been no discussion here nor anything added to the wiki page. I know we've all been busy with other things (in my case, helping the Docs team finish two books and get them published), but we should move along with this. I hope with those books off my mind, I can spare some thought cycles for this brochure. Random off-the-top-of-my-head thoughts are below. Hoping to hear from others as well. What do *you* think should be mentioned or featured? Can we borrow ideas from other communities, such as Ubuntu? I'll repeat a comment that I made on another thread: we need to answer some unspoken questions, *from a potential contributor's point of view*: So what? Who cares? What's in it for me? Others include: Why LO and not some other project? (There are so many, large and small, not necessarily having anything to do with office productivity.) What can *I* do, especially if I'm not a hacker? Some "what's in it for me" items include: * gain experience and create work items to show potential employers * networking: meet people * mentoring: learn from more experienced people OR teach others, pass on skills and knowledge * have fun Include some specific team examples: * developing (coding) * user support * documentation * QA * translation & localization * others from http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/ * perhaps more detail for hackers, taken from this page? http://www.libreoffice.org/developers/ * mention easy hacks (both dev & others) --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/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
