Hi,
On Aug 29, 2005, at 9:12 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Daniel Carrera wrote:
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
Daniel Carrera wrote:
Do you feel that team-building within the community is
unimportant? For an open source project, I think that this sort
of interaction between members is very important. After all,
"fun" and "community" are the primary motivators for almost any
volunteer.
It's obviously important but ought not to be seen as the primary
reason for funding a conference. It is usually seen as a side
benefit.
I guess I rank community contact higher than you then. Because I
think that it's significantly more than a "side benefit".
+1
Attracting and motivating volunteers seem to me to be absolutely
essential for a project like OOo, given that everyone around OOo
keeps complaining that they don't have enough people to do what
needs to be done.
There are many ways to do attract and motivate volunteers; in my
experience, interaction at conferences is a very important one of
those ways.
Jean
Jean, no one is saying, least of all me, that an excellent benefit of
a hosting a booth at a conference is not community building. It
partly depends on the conference, of course. Having a booth at a
conference is fun, stressful, interesting, engaging; and the
camaraderie created there is quite valuable: I have been to *many*
conferences and manned many booths, and can speak to the connections
formed there. But community building was not the focus. The focus
was representing OOo and what it can do and leveraging our presence
there as much as possible so that the project could benefit. Thus,
community building was a "side benefit" though "obviously important,"
to quote myself :-)
Of course, for a conference like OOoCon, part of the point is
community building. And the community, the OOo community, is
implicated in it, even those who are not attending.
I do hope I clarified things.
Cheers,
Louis
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