Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: First steps guide for new Marketing Team contributors

Hi Marc,

Those are good points -- thanks! I'll update the page today accordingly.

Mike


On 25.05.2016 23:10, Marc Paré wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Le 2016-05-25 09:44, Mike Saunders a écrit :
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > There's a lot of great content on our marketing wiki, but it can be a
> > bit overwhelming for new contributors. So I've made a "first steps"
> > guide here:
> >
> > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/First_Steps
> >
> > All feedback welcome! If people are happy with it, we can put it as 
> > the
> > first link on https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing and spread
> > it around social media to (hopefully) bring more people in to the
> > Marketing project.
>
> Thanks for doing this. Always nice to give some direction to 
> new-comers.
>
> The list looks good and not complicated. Nice!
>
> Perhaps letting new comers know that helping out does not necessarily
> mean a large contribution of time, and that any amount of
> contribution, no matter how much or little time involved is most
> welcomed. Many people think that you have to promise hours of time but
> really, even if all it involves is about 5 minutes/day or 20 minutes
> to help proof messages or fix wiki pages, then this is also welcomed.
>
> One other aspect that I usually think really important is that people
> should have fun contributing ... it is not a job, but volunteered
> time. If it becomes a "chore" helping out and no fun, then they could
> try another section with LibreOffice and see if they could contribute
> elsewhere -- it is amazing how one's talents can be put to good use on
> the project!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc
>
>
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