On 9/9/20 11:29 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: > This is a very interesting point. 4k people in Weblate, so that would be > 350 persons or so on average for every language that LibreOffice supports?
Although I have a degree in humanities, I am still capable of handling basic operations: 4000 divided by 140 active language projects gives as a result 28.6, quite a smaller figure. Even if we consider only the 119 available languages, the figure is 33.6. >> I think that a solution to this issue is to reach out to native language >> communities, especially outside Europe, where the relationship with the >> core group is less strong. > I think we have to recognize that the number of 4k people there is very > high. Even if say 10% would contribute (...) it is unrealistic to expect > that their membership will help with a balanced, strong governance of > the foundation. According to the statutes, if they contribute they can become TDF members. Statutes do not mention at all the way their membership can help a balanced and strong governance of the foundation. And in any case, how each TDF member helps a balanced and strong governance falls under the personal judgement, and here each one may have a completely different point of view. > Yet, having them on our side showing support, spreading the word, is > important. And the same applies in the area of e.g. marketing and > design. We do want to value the support also from people that help on a > booth or do a local presentation 2, 3 times a year and have them engaged. > Is it necessary to try to make them all member? Growing membership is > not a goal of the community. My opinion is completely different here, and I think there are several other people who share my point of view. Actually, several people asked about ideas to grow the membership by involving more contributors. > More important is that the board of > trustees is composed in a way, that this supports that people who > are doing the hard and essential work of development will also be > leading their own work. We cannot afford that the meritocracy > disappears; this is undesired. Sorry, but I completely disagree here. Having a board of trustees based only on developers would be as bad as having a board of trustees without developers, and would kill meritocracy in both cases. -- Italo Vignoli - LibreOffice Marketing & PR mobile/signal +39.348.5653829 - email it...@libreoffice.org hangout/jabber italo.vign...@gmail.com - skype italovignoli GPG Key ID - 0xAAB8D5C0 DB75 1534 3FD0 EA5F 56B5 FDA6 DE82 934C AAB8 D5C0 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
