Le Sun, 20 Oct 2013 18:20:59 -0400,
Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> a écrit :
Hi Charles,
Le 2013-10-20 10:02, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit :
Hi,
I wanted to discuss an idea that's been floating around for some
time; credits come to Ubuntu and Bjoern for having had something
like this since a few years already. In just a few words, do
you think we could design a process (that would probably go
through the website of course) where we could enroll users
(defined as people visiting libreoffice.org to download
LibreOffice) to join any team, such as marketing, QA, docs, etc?
How do you think this could work? Is it desirable?
Thanks,
Yes! Definitely! At download time is the best time while people
are waiting for the download to complete. We should be careful to
not take the spotlight away from the request for donations
(apparently that is really working out), but, if we could add one
other request page or somehow integrate it with the donations
page, we could ask if the user would be interested in helping out
with our community.
I am also a firm believer in telling people that we are really
looking for help with the project and that any type of help is
welcome and for any amount of time they may have to contribute,
whether 5 minutes a day/week etc.
BTW ... with respect to including this at the installation point
of LibreOffice, we had already discussed this, but the final
decision was that people did not want to be disturbed by requests
when the software was being installed. That is why there is no
polling done at the point of installation as it was done
previously with OOo.
But, at the download point, where people stare at the computer
screen waiting for the download to complete, yes, this is a good
place to ask if people would be interested in joining our
communities.
Moving on in the discussion, it seems many people here agree with
the idea of engaging users, pretty much at the download phase or at
least in a consistent way through website content.
Now let me ask the "What" question, after we sort of figured out the
"if" and the "how" parts. This would mean: what do we tell users?
Do we tell them there's a community behind LibreOffice (good point
Zeki, many people are not aware of that, which in a sense is
flattering) or do we give them clear pointers to the various tasks,
roles and teams of our project?
Best,
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