[libreoffice-users] Re: Engaging users: initial results of the survey

On 11/12/13 4:45 PM, Pedro wrote:
> Hi Paul
>
>
> Paul-6 wrote
> > > Third, "there is nothing forcing him to work on anything but what he
> > > wants to" is exactly the problem IMO.
> > Sure, but it is a problem with no solution. Unless you have blackmail
> > material, or bribery material (such as, say, a salary), there is very
> > little you can do to force someone to do something they don't want. The
> > best would be to come up with better incentives.
>
> You are missing the voluntary concept. Voluntary doesn't mean that you do
> what you feel like when you feel like. It means that you are volunteering
> your time and/or skills for some project. Someone coordinates the tasks no
> matter how uncomfortable and assigns them. Then everybody contributes to do
> it on the agreed schedule.
>
> Do you think it is a pleasure to go out at night during the Winter to
> distribute food to the homeless? Yet volunteers do this...

+1  That is *exactly* the concept of volunteers.  Add firefighters to 
this list.  They may put their lives at risk entering a burning 
building, and they don't get paid.

> Paul-6 wrote
> > > I'm suggesting that a compromise based volunteer model is applied to
> > > all, not just to developers. Then you might start to see a change and
> > > a real community ;)
> > I'm not following; who apart from the developers would you apply this
> > to? To what end?
>
> To anyone contributing to this project. It is quite obvious by your comment
> that anyone who can't code isn't an important part of this project.
> Someone like myself who helps irregularly on AskLO. Someone who helps
> irregularly on Translation. Someone who helps on Documentation... all those
> useless non-developers...
>
> If there is a sense of responsibility and commitment so that you can
> actually feel that people are doing whatever is needed within a defined
> schedule (not just " what they want, when they want") then you can create a
> real community and move forward much faster.
>
> Charles-H, if you are reading this: this is one of the reasons it's hard do
> engage users. At some point they are reminded that they are not developers
> and therefore secondary in this project...
>
> Best regards,
> Pedro
>
>
>
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