On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 12-10-28, at 23:33 , Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > >> >> That's the way to grow. Raising money to send the existing volunteers >> to travel to more places is only growth for the airline industry. It >> is not growth for the project. We need to find people who are able to >> succeed in a business based on enhancing or supporting the OpenOffice >> product to businesses and users.. A business based on promoting the >> OpenOffice open source project is not really a business model. I >> don't think we want to encourage anyone to think of making a career as >> a professional OpenOffice community manager or anything like that. > > hey! ;=) Though your contempt for community management is, I have to say, a > little ironic, given that's pretty much what you do. >
I don't have contempt for the role. It was fine as a corporate-defined role in a corporate-led and sponsored open source project. I just don't see the role as applicable in a community-led meritocracy. > But actually I agree with you here, in that what would work to enlarge the > community of contributors is not sending ambassadors here and there to little > effect but to (and here I extend the argument) to provide the resources for > regional ecosystem growth. > > Those resources are, I think, cheap. They are: website, badge, banners; > guidelines for trademark; wiki for suggestions, additions, and minimal > provisions for beer and pizza (and its equivalents) for initial meetings. In > short, what you normally find at a LUG or so. > > louis > >
