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On 06/06/2013 05:17 AM, Jean Weber wrote:
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


Just to clarify. . .

This brochure if about community support. Developers and other types of community supporting - such as a community based email-based and web-based user support "service".

Is that correct, or am I reading it wrong.

I have to looked into that brochure due to a back log of repair work and a couple severe bouts of my recurring illness. Yet, I would be happy to help, if and when I can, with this brochure.

question: Do you think there is a place in this brochure stating that there are regional groups that are actively supporting LO in their regions of the world?




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