On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 11:25 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: > Yes, that's true and is the point I made, in response, plus we downplayed > the mentor role. But remember, I've written open letters, blog posts, > computerworld articles and spoken to reporters too. The point is to have > *more* committees speaking with their own voice.
Hi Ross, Then I would suggest you simply stop - it seems rather simple. //drew > > Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. > On May 26, 2012 9:38 AM, "Roberto Galoppini" <rgalopp...@geek.net> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Ross Gardler > > <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: > > > +1 to a return to a focus on the community members. > > > > > > After Rich's interview with me another mentor pointed out that I've done > > > more publicity around AOO than the rest of the community put together. It > > > was pointed out that this might be making the mentoring look more > > important > > > than the coding. Not a good thing. > > > > Actually your interview came after a couple of interviews to community > > members and templates' creators. I'm sure Rich will be more than happy > > to keep interviewing community members, please let us know who wants > > to be featured on SourceForge community blog. > > > > Roberto > > > > > More people have to step up and provide material for the project to use. > > > There are people ready to turn it into content and there are milestones > > to > > > hang these things from. > > > > > > > > Ross > > > > > > Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. > > > On May 25, 2012 1:45 AM, "Donald Harbison" <dpharbi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> On Thursday, May 24, 2012, Kay Schenk wrote: > > >> > > >> > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org > > >> <javascript:;>> > > >> > wrote: > > >> > > > >> > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com > > >> <javascript:;>> > > >> > wrote: > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > On 05/24/2012 11:46 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> Just checking the numbers: we appear to be at 1.8 million for > > AOO > > >> 3.4 > > >> > > >> install downloads. > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> It might make sense to put out another story when we hit 2 > > million. > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > why not! :) > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > >> > > OK. I'll work with Don on this. But after this I suggest we only > > >> > > note the downloads at 5 million intervals. Otherwise we will spend > > >> > > too much time writing news articles and too little time improving > > >> > > OpenOffice. > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > this definitely makes sense... > > >> > > > >> > We might note that June 1 is the first anniversary OpenOffice with > > >> Apache. > > >> > > >> > > >> My birthday is June 2, so I'll be sure to note other milestones! :)) > > >> > > >> > > >> > Maybe the new DL stats announcement, if the timeline is right, might > > make > > >> > note of this and include a mention of how successful this new > > >> > environment/arrangement has been for OpenOffice. Just a thought. > > >> > > > >> > > >> IMHO, we need to return focus to the need to profile community members > > so > > >> we better know each other. I have a short piece on Dave Fisher ready to > > go > > >> in June. Let's work up more of these....please. > > >> > > >> Louis and Nancy had volunteered previously. Anyone else want to do a > > 'Meet > > >> and Greet'? > > >> > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > A good problem to have ;-) > > >> > > > > >> > > -Rob > > >> > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > >> Maybe this can be combined with the piece on Symphony that Don > > was > > >> > > >> working on? > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > yes...good idea! > > >> > > > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -Rob > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > -- > > >> > > > > > >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >> > > > MzK > > >> > > > > > >> > > > "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." > > >> > > > -- Mark Twain > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > -- > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> > MzK > > >> > > > >> > "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." > > >> > -- Mark Twain > > >> > > > >> > > > > -- > > ==== > > This e- mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It > > may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the > > intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > > distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly > > prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately > > notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any > > attachment(s) from your system. Thank you. > > > >
