Today there are 67 subscribers to the docs list. -------- Original Message -------- From: Keith N. McKenna <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> To: doc@openoffice.apache.org Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:30:38 -0400
> Dave Barton wrote: >> -------- Original Message -------- >> From: Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> >> To: doc@openoffice.apache.org >> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:07:53 -0400 >> >>> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Keith N. McKenna >>> <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote: >>>> Rob Weir wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Keith N. McKenna >>>>> <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> RGB ES wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 2013/3/19 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Keith N. McKenna >>>>>>>> <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> RGB ES wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>> <snip> > >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I think we need more "hand holding" and guidance for new >>>>>>>> volunteers. >>>>>>>> Just pointing them to wiki is not enough. With QA new volunteers I >>>>>>>> gave them specific assignments at first, e.g., review these 10 bug >>>>>>>> reports. I know it sounds odd to "assign" tasks to volunteers, but >>>>>>>> until they find their way around and self-assign tasks, this is >>>>>>>> a good >>>>>>>> way for them to get started. In return, with QA, I promised to >>>>>>>> review >>>>>>>> their early work and give them feedback. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> So I wonder if we can come up with set of specific tasks, of >>>>>>>> various >>>>>>>> sizes, from 1 to 8 hours, and specifically asked new volunteers to >>>>>>>> pick from that list? It might work better. >>>>>>>> >>>>>> It is certainly worth a try. We have hard virtually nothing from >>>>>> many of >>>>>> the >>>>>> volunteers since there initial contact. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Another thing would be for one of the moderators of the mailing list >>>>> to cross reference current list subscribers with those who said they >>>>> wanted to help. Some of them may not have subscribed to the list. >>>>> With the QA team I did that and then sent reminders to those who were >>>>> not yet signed up. >>>> >>>> >>>> I am not a moderator but if one can get the list and e-mail it to me >>>> I will >>>> do the cross check and send out the reminders. >>>> >>> >>> OK. I'm not a moderator on this list either. So who is? >>> >>> -Rob >>> >>>> Keith >>>> >>>> >>>>> Any moderator can request the subscriber list by sending this commend >>>>> from their moderator email address: doc-l...@openofice.apache.org >>>>> >>>>> Although you should not share the list publicly, since it has >>>>> everyone's email address, it would be interesting to know how many >>>>> people are subscribed in total. >>>>> >>>>> -Rob >> >> The list of 63 subscribers has been sent directly to Keith. >> >> Dave >> > On 2013-04-09 I sent the following reminder to all individuals that had > expressed interest in working on documentation but had not yet signed up > for the mailing list: > >> You recently expressed interest in working on documentation for >> ApacheOpenOffice. To date you have not signed up for our mailing list >> which is > where we discuss everything having to do with documentation for the > project. >> >> Currently we are concentrating on user guides for Version 4.0 and we > need help of all sorts for these.If you are still interested please > subscribe to the mailing list by sending a blank e-mail to > mailto:doc-subscr...@openoffice.apache.org and follow the instructions > in the return email or for those that prefer using nntp instead set your > news reader to news.gmane.org and subscribe to > gmane.comp.apache.openoffice.doc and join us. >> >> Regards Keith McKenna > > To date I have had no replies. If one of our moderators could check and > see if we have had an increase from the 63 registered users that were on > the list that Dave Barton sent me on 2013-03-26 it would be greatly > appreciated. > > It is to say the least disheartening to look at the status page and see > the same few names as doing all the work both writing (Ricardo) and > editing. > > As a group we need to work towards finding ways to motivate others to > become more active and to recruit new members, especially those with > knowledge of Calc, Impress and Base who can start writing the Guides for > those applications. > > Regards > Keith --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org
