Hi :) And part-time (paid) and full-time (volunteers) or a combination of partly paid and partly volunteer work either (or both) of which might be full or part-time.
There is often an assumption that paid people work at a particular task full-time but even a full-time worker might have many different duties. Also "full time" in my country used to mean about 40-45 hours/week, perhaps more in certain types of work a decade or few ago. Nowadays it means about 30hours/week but many people still work in excess of 60-70 hours per week, especially self-employed people. I also know many volunteers that put in about 60 hours per week through love of the project or in a "save the world" type of fanaticism. It is easy to be disparaging about volunteer work especially if you have only seen the "slap a bit of paint on the community shack and have a beer" type of thing as shown on tele and promoted by the media who would like to perpetuate the myth rather than really examine the truth. It's a bit like racism or something where people see one or 2 examples on the street but fail to realise that they are not seeing what is going-on off-street. I'm not saying that Cor meant to fall into this trap, on the contrary he appears to have been trying to congratulate everyone on working hard and/or smart and achieving an excellent result. Regards from Tom :) ----- Original Message ---- > From: Cor Nouws <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Fri, 10 June, 2011 23:57:35 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] help package installation failure > > Tanstaafl wrote (10-06-11 17:26) > > On 2011-06-10 11:17 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: > >> Tanstaafl wrote (10-06-11 16:54) > >> > >>> If you go back and read the archives, you will plainly see that the only > >>> reason given for the single download was because of limited disk space, > >> > >> Are you really sure? I though build time, so plain CPU power& energy, > >> were an issue too. But I might be wrong (could ask devs of course..) > > > > I'm sure, because I participated in the discussion... > > What I see now is : > > Subject: Re: [Libreoffice] Comments on RC1 > Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:10:47 +0000 > From: Michael Meeks <[email protected]> > [...] > One of the benefits of the combined installer is that we do not require > many gigabytes of duplicated pointlessness on -every- mirror site: as we > duplicate all of the code again and again and again for windows, 90%+ of > which is identical, but each time with ~10Mb of translation / help :-) > That is a nightare to build, copy, sign, up-load and manage. > [...] > > I see 3.4.0 for Windows is 188 MB now. Do you remember how much it was in >December .. 440 MB. > Wow, great work from all the devs, full time (paid) and part time >volunteers, that helped with this! > > But on the other hand, and I guess that's what the discussion started with, >having to do a separate download for the help, if you want it local, is not >so >convenient. > > Regards, > > > > -- - Cor > - http://nl.libreoffice.org > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
