As I said to Sreekanth, the idea is to organize a marketing call focused on India during the next couple of weeks, to start organizing marketing activities. I will follow up early next week with a couple of timeslot proposals.
On 25/05/2018 15:39, Biraj Karmakar wrote: > Hello, > > Sreekanth +1 for your idea. > > Mike, I was one of the host Mozilla Sprint 2018. We have 10-15 dedicated > people in our community. They are are interested in opensource. I will > engage them if you could start these type of initiative on l10n, QA, > Document writing etc. > > > Thank You > > Biraj Karmakar > Twitter :*@birajkarmakar* > > > > > > On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Sreekanth V K < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Mike, >> >> Yes. I was referring to the similar events. Having this sprint as a group >> activity in different locations would encourage more people to contribute. >> >> Having some goodies - even virtual like small certificate of appreciation >> - softcopy would do - would encourage more and students to participate in >> such events. >> >> We can have our hack fests and Sprints. We need to encourage more and more >> students and young people to contribute. It also should help them to learn >> and add some value to their life. >> >> It will be great if we have good collaboration with development team and >> if they could classify the issues that could be take up in Sprints/Hackfest >> into different levels and mark them as Beginner (Easy Hack), Medium, Expert >> (or 5 levels) according to their wish.Also it could be prioritized and >> marked as urgent, non-urgent, etc. Provide only those issues similar to >> the way we present in Sprint week page. >> >> Share this information across different social media and urge the sprint >> teams to join us online on one or two days across the world. In case of >> Mozilla they used Gitter and ether pad for collaboration. >> >> Most important thing is that if the contributors/sprinters have something >> to take hope as a token of appreciation would encourage lots of people to >> join. Even stickers, softcopy of certificate would be a good option. >> >> We can take this up. Is it possible to get contact of the people who >> organised the hack fests in past? >> >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Sreekanth V K >> >> Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. >> >> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ >> >> On May 25, 2018 2:22 PM, Mike Saunders <mike.saunders@ >> documentfoundation.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi Sreekanth, >>> >>> On 23/05/2018 22:22, Sreekanth V K wrote: >>> >>>> Recently, I participated in Mozilla Sprint 2018. The similar concepts >>> >>> would be a good way to reach out to the people and community. >>> >>>> We can have Sprint like concepts for the Libre Office projects alone >>> >>> with appropriate promotion. >>> >>> Thanks for sharing your experience! It sounds a bit like the hackfests >>> >>> that we have done in the past, albeit with a broader focus. We're also >>> >>> doing things like this: >>> >>> https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/05/21/guide-revision- >> sprint-week/ >>> >>> The main thing is finding the time to organise and run them, so if >>> >>> anyone has ideas and wants to help out, we'll support you to the best of >>> >>> our capabilities :-) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Mike -- Italo Vignoli - Marketing & PR email [email protected] mobile/signal +39.348.5653829 - skype italovignoli hangout/jabber [email protected] The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint GPG Key ID - 0xAAB8D5C0 DB75 1534 3FD0 EA5F 56B5 FDA6 DE82 934C AAB8 D5C0 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
