Hi. On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) Create a new mailing list: [email protected] (or > [email protected] if we prefer). I'll assert that the > current mailing lists are inadequate for encouraging this community to > thrive. If they interact on ooo-dev then they are bombarded with 99% > irrelevant posts, and if they gather on ooo-users then this will be > disruptive to the end-user subscribers there. Extension authors > really are a distinct sub-community of their own.
I agree. Demand for emails here on ooo-dev is great, a specific list for API/extension will be better. > 2) Promote the mailing list via the usual means: website, social > networking, maybe a blog post. > > 3) Try to contact the existing extension authors, to encourage them to > joint the list. I'd try to do this via SourceForge initially, since > they might already have the means to send them all an email. > > 4) Promote AOO extension development in general, by interviews of > extension authors, blog posts, perhaps even a rotating spot on our > website featuring an "extension of the week" (or day). > > 5) Encourage this community to provide feedback to the project and > help maintain the current app dev and SDK documentation, website and > wiki. Yeah! We need listing more users. (: > I'll need a couple more list moderator volunteers as well. Me. Albino
