Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Websites we can use to bring in new contributors

Dear Mike,

Yes. I was referring to the similar events. Having this sprint as a group activity in different 
locations would encourage more people to contribute.  

Having some goodies - even virtual like small certificate of appreciation - softcopy would do - 
would encourage more and students to participate in such events. 

We can have our hack fests and Sprints. We need to encourage more and more students and young 
people to contribute. It also should help them to learn and add some value to their life. 

It will be great if we have good collaboration with development team and if they could classify the 
issues that could be take up in Sprints/Hackfest into different levels and mark them as Beginner 
(Easy Hack), Medium, Expert (or 5 levels) according to their wish.Also it could be prioritized and 
marked as urgent, non-urgent, etc.  Provide only those issues similar to the way we present in 
Sprint week page.   

Share this information across different social media and urge the sprint teams to join us online on 
one or two days across the world. In case of Mozilla they used Gitter and ether pad for 
collaboration. 

Most important thing is that if the contributors/sprinters have something to take hope as a token 
of appreciation would encourage lots of people to join. Even stickers, softcopy of certificate 
would be a good option. 

We can take this up. Is it possible to get contact of the people who organised the hack fests in 
past? 


​Sincerely,

Sreekanth V K

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On May 25, 2018 2:22 PM, Mike Saunders <mike.saunders@documentfoundation.org> wrote:

> Hi Sreekanth,
>
> On 23/05/2018 22:22, Sreekanth V K wrote:
>
> > Recently, I participated in Mozilla Sprint 2018. The similar concepts
>
> would be a good way to reach out to the people and community.
>
> > We can have Sprint like concepts for the Libre Office projects alone
>
> with appropriate promotion.
>
> Thanks for sharing your experience! It sounds a bit like the hackfests
>
> that we have done in the past, albeit with a broader focus. We're also
>
> doing things like this:
>
> https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/05/21/guide-revision-sprint-week/
>
> The main thing is finding the time to organise and run them, so if
>
> anyone has ideas and wants to help out, we'll support you to the best of
>
> our capabilities :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
>
>
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