Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: North America QA Online Chat

On 07/29/2013 04:42 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> On 07/28/2013 08:54 PM, Joel Madero wrote:
> > On 07/28/2013 05:32 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> > > On 07/28/2013 03:50 PM, Robinson Tryon wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Joel Madero 
> > > > <jmadero.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Hi All,
> > > > >
> > > > > So it looks like we have at least 5 people from North America who are
> > > > > interested in participating so I say let's do it.
> > > > nifty!
> > > >
> > > > > Date: August 2nd, 2013
> > > > > Time: 1500 (EST) so for those on the west coast we're talking Noon 
> > > > > :) If I
> > > > > must I'll translate that to GMT/UTC but....I seem to get that 
> > > > > wrong often ;)
> > > > Well 1300GMT is 9 here, so 1500EST is later-o-clock GMT, right?
> > > >
> > > > > @Robinson - can we get a tentative agenda going - you and I can 
> > > > > give an
> > > > > update and maybe get a few things together that we could use help 
> > > > > with - see
> > > > > if we can get some volunteers to help us with some of the load :)
> > > > Yep, yep.
> > > >
> > > > Agenda:
> > > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Meetings/2013/August_02_NA_Pub_Chat 
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > For anyone thinking about joining - please do - we're a friendly 
> > > > > bunch, if
> > > > > we could pop open a beer in a pub and do it live we would but 
> > > > > distance
> > > > > prevents this so as a second best.... feel free to have a beer on 
> > > > > hangout,
> > > > > it'll be casual ;)
> > > > Page appropriately themed...
> > > >
> > > > --R
> > >
> > > AlthoughI am in the USA, I do not know if I would be a part of the 
> > > "chat".
> > >
> > > I am not a developer and I have noreal skill in promoting developers 
> > > to be part of the LO system.
> > >
> > > I do support the "cause" and do what I can towards that.  But any 
> > > live chat is not something I will do, since after 3 strokes it is 
> > > hard to type quickly.  It can take 10-20 minutes to just type an 
> > > email to people that is only a few paragraph long.
> > >
> > > Video chatting never worked on my end, though I have tried.
> > This is not a developer chat at all - I have very very limited skills 
> > in terms of development - Quality Assurance is about testing the 
> > product, managing bugzilla and providing a medium for which user 
> > complaints/suggestions reach developers. So I encourage you to join - 
> > I've seen you quite often on the user channel and you are very very 
> > helpful and known in the community - if you have the time please call 
> > in to talkyoo with a cell phone or landline.
> >
> >
> > Best,
> > Joel
> Sorry, but that was what I got when I first saw the emails.  You 
> wanted to get more people on this side of the pond involved in 
> developing LO and other open source packages.
>
> "on the user channel"?
> Do you mean the email lists? If not, then I do not know who it would 
> be, since I rarely use "chat" for anything, along with Twitter or 
> Facebook.
>
> To be honest, I am not comfortable calling in an "talkyou" or any live 
> option. After 3 strokes, it can be difficult sometimes to get the 
> "proper words out". When I am face to face, using a wheeled-walker or 
> wheelchair, people are more "understanding" when I have troubles with 
> my speech pattern.  They are more willing to "wait" for me to get the 
> words out, than most people I have dealt with over the phone lines.  
> That is why I do most of my communicating via email where I can pause 
> for the words and/or edit them so I get the meaning of the words out 
> even if not all the "right" words.
>
> To be honest, some days I can barely speak "understandably" and/or 
> type 3 letters in a row correctly[let alone the needed words]. That is 
> what I have to deal with, and am very lucky that I have that much, 
> since I lost a lot of my memory with the 1st and 2nd of the 3 strokes.
No worries at all - if you ever want to call in and just listen - no 
need to say a single word and you can get a sense of how QA works on the 
project. We've had people do this before.

Warm Regards,
Joel

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