<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Just for information.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I have contacted (as earlier agreed) developers who have not been active for quite a while, with the mail below.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I am every month monitoring the rate of new people entering the project, compared to people who have not added patches for a while, and the relation is slowly improving. Bear in mind it is natural that volunteers come and go, depending on the time and energy they have available so this is not a measure if the project grows but simply a "change rate".</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">rgds</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">jan i.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> jan iversen <<a href="mailto:jani@documentfoundation.org">jani@documentfoundation.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> 16 December 2015 at 11:26:13 GMT+1<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:jani@documentfoundation.org">jani@documentfoundation.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Contributing to LibreOffice.</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Hi</span><br><span></span><br><span>Sorry for intruding on your mailbox. I am the development mentoring lead in the document foundation (LibreOffice), which means it is my job to find out how to make the community better, especially for new people.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I noticed it has been a while since you have contributed (I am sorry if I overlooked something) therefore I would like to ask you a couple of questions.</span><br><span></span><br><span>It is totally free whether or not you want to answer the questions. I might poke you again in a bit just in case, but promise not to nag you beyond that.</span><br><span></span><br><span>a) Is there a specific reason why you have not contributed in a while?</span><br><span></span><br><span>b) can you suggest anything we should have or can do better?</span><br><span></span><br><span>c) Did you feel welcome and helped in the community ?</span><br><span></span><br><span>d) Is there anything we can do, to motivate you again (remembering it is my job to help people getting started) ?</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>THANKS a lot for taking time to answer and thereby help us. I hope to see you contributing again in the future.</span><br><span></span><br><span>merry christmas</span><br><span>jan i.</span><br><span>Development mentoring lead, LibreOffice.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Sent from my iPad, please excuse any misspellings </span></div></blockquote></body></html>