Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure type: Community

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Jean Weber <jeanweber@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:
> > Let's get started on a list of points for this brochure as it is our next priority.
> >
> > * our community offers developer meets (so far localized)
> > * we have gone to sprints
> > * QA meets
> > * QA bug hunt marathons
> > * support from the TDF to pay for members attending/representing TDF/LibreOffice
> > * use of IRC, Skype, Google etc. tools for some text or face to face encounters
> > * IRC used by our most active and contributing developers
> > * groups such as marketing make use of collaborative work for PR's and webpages
> >
> > Hmmm, do you think it would be best to break this down to the different
> > teams and list what collectively they bring to the community?
>
>
> I'm now mulling over what I think would be useful to include in this
> particular brochure. I'll add my points here on this thread and also
> put them on the wiki page.
>
> --Jean


Time to get back to work on this brochure! I see there has been no
discussion here nor anything added to the wiki page. I know we've all
been busy with other things (in my case, helping the Docs team finish
two books and get them published), but we should move along with this.
I hope with those books off my mind, I can spare some thought cycles
for this brochure. Random off-the-top-of-my-head thoughts are below.

Hoping to hear from others as well. What do *you* think should be
mentioned or featured?

Can we borrow ideas from other communities, such as Ubuntu?

I'll repeat a comment that I made on another thread: we need to answer
some unspoken questions, *from a potential contributor's point of
view*: So what? Who cares? What's in it for me?
Others include: Why LO and not some other project? (There are so many,
large and small, not necessarily having anything to do with office
productivity.) What can *I* do, especially if I'm not a hacker?

Some "what's in it for me" items include:
* gain experience and create work items to show potential employers
* networking: meet people
* mentoring: learn from more experienced people OR teach others, pass
on skills and knowledge
* have fun

Include some specific team examples:
* developing (coding)
* user support
* documentation
* QA
* translation & localization
* others from http://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/
* perhaps more detail for hackers, taken from this page?
http://www.libreoffice.org/developers/
* mention easy hacks (both dev & others)

 --Jean

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