Hello, Sreekanth +1 for your idea.
Mike, I was one of the host Mozilla Sprint 2018. We have 10-15 dedicated people in our community. They are are interested in opensource. I will engage them if you could start these type of initiative on l10n, QA, Document writing etc. Thank You Biraj Karmakar Twitter :*@birajkarmakar* On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Sreekanth V K < sreekanth.vettikk...@protonmail.com> wrote: > Dear Mike, > > Yes. I was referring to the similar events. Having this sprint as a group > activity in different locations would encourage more people to contribute. > > Having some goodies - even virtual like small certificate of appreciation > - softcopy would do - would encourage more and students to participate in > such events. > > We can have our hack fests and Sprints. We need to encourage more and more > students and young people to contribute. It also should help them to learn > and add some value to their life. > > It will be great if we have good collaboration with development team and > if they could classify the issues that could be take up in Sprints/Hackfest > into different levels and mark them as Beginner (Easy Hack), Medium, Expert > (or 5 levels) according to their wish.Also it could be prioritized and > marked as urgent, non-urgent, etc. Provide only those issues similar to > the way we present in Sprint week page. > > Share this information across different social media and urge the sprint > teams to join us online on one or two days across the world. In case of > Mozilla they used Gitter and ether pad for collaboration. > > Most important thing is that if the contributors/sprinters have something > to take hope as a token of appreciation would encourage lots of people to > join. Even stickers, softcopy of certificate would be a good option. > > We can take this up. Is it possible to get contact of the people who > organised the hack fests in past? > > > Sincerely, > > Sreekanth V K > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On May 25, 2018 2:22 PM, Mike Saunders <mike.saunders@ > documentfoundation.org> wrote: > > > Hi Sreekanth, > > > > On 23/05/2018 22:22, Sreekanth V K wrote: > > > > > Recently, I participated in Mozilla Sprint 2018. The similar concepts > > > > would be a good way to reach out to the people and community. > > > > > We can have Sprint like concepts for the Libre Office projects alone > > > > with appropriate promotion. > > > > Thanks for sharing your experience! It sounds a bit like the hackfests > > > > that we have done in the past, albeit with a broader focus. We're also > > > > doing things like this: > > > > https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/05/21/guide-revision- > sprint-week/ > > > > The main thing is finding the time to organise and run them, so if > > > > anyone has ideas and wants to help out, we'll support you to the best of > > > > our capabilities :-) > > > > Cheers, > > > > Mike > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > > > > Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > > > > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ > Netiquette > > > > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > > > > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
