<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>Em 29/02/2012, ās 20:45, Juha Manninen escreveu:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">2012/2/29 Marco van de Voort <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marcov@stack.nl">marcov@stack.nl</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Usually they are driven by a foundation and/or core team. Much like FPC<br>
nowadays, with occasional alliances with commercial parties that sponsor a<br>
certain development.<br>
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There are not many alternative routes.<br></blockquote></div><br><br>I was hoping something more concrete and detailed, like ideas for helping new potential contributors to get a softer landing. That was the original idea of this thread.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That`s true. To get the "softer landing" improving the doc (and i think the ways of it) would be enough. The project management is more about to lead the people to achieve <b>common</b> goals. I don`t know how you people from the core lives with so few contributors. The high goal of this thread is to improve that.</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
<br>Rich Saunders proposed "SMEs", people to
intermediate between core developers and users. It may be a good idea, I only wonder how would it be organized in practical day-to-day life.<br><br>Many issues discussed here could be solved by improving documentation. Especially there should be a page listing tasks suitable for new people.<br>
However that does not change the management anyhow, it only helps people find those things easier.<br><br>So, what does the management mean in practice?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>About management from the wikipedia: "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><b>Project management</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "> is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals."</span></div><br><blockquote type="cite">Should Lazarus be managed differently from how it is managed now?</blockquote><blockquote type="cite">
<br>Juha<br><br>
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