On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 08:40 -0700, Carl Symons wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:29 AM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 08:58 -0700, Carl Symons wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 6:01 AM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 16:01 -0700, Carl Symons wrote: > >> >> What happens at a LibreOffice HackFest? > >> >
<snip> > >> > > >> > >> This sounds like quite a useful project. Interesting to developers, > >> but would also require guidance from seasoned LibO development people. > > > > 100% agree - there is a little problem there and one I need to address > > directly on a different mailing list, today. > > > >> > >> What skillset would people need to have to be involved? C++, Java, Python? > >> > >> Help improve the leading open source office suite at Ohio LinuxFest. > >> If you are a C++ (and whatever else) programmer and want to help make > >> a big FOSS difference, join the LibreOffice Hackfest. Free pizza and > >> Red Bull. > > > > At the SELF show I was relentless in doing two things with every person > > that stopped and talked: > > > > 1) They got a hand shake from me. Don't laugh that really does mean > > something. > > > > 2) I asked them to help the effort. > > > > The number of people that said they wanted to help somehow was very > > strong, not everyone of course, not even the majority of people, but a > > goodly number - of those many where interested in helping with easy > > hacks or with QA, so now we need to help them start. That is the goal in > > my mind. > > > > Thanks > > > > Drew > > > > I don't think that we were as assertive at LinuxFest Northwest as you > describe. > > The OHLF Hackfest is proposed for the first day, so there wouldn't be > an opportunity to recruit people to the effort during the Fest. You > wrote before that some coordination would be required. That would have > to happen, somehow, ahead of time. The OHLF organizers would probably > have to help get the word out. And there would have to be LibreOffice > outreach too. Yes, yes and yes - also I have a small list of email addresses of folks that are planning on being in Ohio and would be interested. So the big thing is to get this to a point of either a go or a no-go quickly so that those outreach efforts have a chance of happening. > > Taking all that into consideration, it still sounds like a great idea. > I ran it by a fellow LinuxFest NW person yesterday...got an > enthusiastic yes response. This is something worth doing. There would > be some improvements to the apps; more importantly, it's an > opportunity to build the stakeholder base and demonstrate the > grassroots-iness. Yes! -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
