Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Community building (was: Nabble: friend or foe?)

Le mardi 04 septembre 2012 à 10:48 -0400, Marc Paré a écrit :
> Le 2012-08-30 18:34, Jean Weber a écrit :
> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Marc Paré<marc@marcpare.com>  wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, we are in great need of community building strategies, which
> > > is where our success rate is quite slim. We need to work on this and make it
> > > a concerted effort on all of our lists (global and language lists).
> >
> > Totally agree. I'm trying to organise my notes and thoughts from CLS
> > (Community Leadership Summit), which I attended in July. I was mainly
> > looking for ideas that might work for expanding the Docs team, but
> > most of what was covered should be relevant to other segments of the
> > community. My interests, as you all know, are in marketing and user
> > services, not coding: support, training, user docs, and certification
> > of people working in those areas. IMO the places where we might find
> > new community members for those areas are not the same places where we
> > look for developers. More on that topic later!
> >
> > --Jean
>
> I also have some thoughts of community building on the project. Some of 
> my main thoughts are that the TDF/LibreOffice project has managed to 
> impress all of the opensource community for its quick rise to success 
> with its amazing product "LibreOffice". However, and this is where IMO 
> we are running into problems, the complement of devs and its rise in 
> numbers has far outstripped the TDF membership number of contributors. 
> While a strong dev participation is a good measure of an opensource 
> project's health, the problem facing the TDF is its 
> web/wiki/documentation/QA/design/marketing infrastructures. In other 
> words, the community building aspect of the project has definitely not 
> been one of the TDF's (our) success stories.
>
> I believe the TDF should re-focus some of its energies and strategies on 
> community building in order to address the need for contributor help in 
> maintaining the QA and public face of the project. The stress of 
> contributor is quite apparent in major sections of the project; help is 
> needed in QA (this should be front and centre for recruitment of help in 
> QA (localization help as well); website management (desperately needed 
> at the localized level) as well as the global site -- important as this 
> is the public face of the project; design; marketing etc. Simply said 
> the number of contributor help has not kept pace with the number of dev. 
> contributors. One can easily count the number of active contributors to 
> realize that there are simply too few for the amount of needed work and 
> these contributors' activity is often stretched beyond reasonable limits.
>
> The TDF/LibreOffice project should really be seen as a two-pronged 
> project: a product developed by devs (along with QA/Design) and a 
> product marketed and supported (Web/Wiki/Doc/marketing etc) by its 
> membership. This is where, through community building, TDF would try 
> address the need for help with the project. At this point, the devs seem 
> to be "humming" along at a great and cooperative speed; where the need 
> is really required is in the support-contributor group.
>
> Just my initial thoughts on this for now.


+1. A big plus one. And just to add something to this: I think many, if
not all the BoD is aware of this. I would not hesitate to call this the
challenge of 2012 and 2013. 

Best,
Charles.

> Cheers,
>
> Marc
>
>
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