Re: [board-discuss] Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

Hi Thorsten,

On 10/02/2022 17.55, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
> Sole users (i.e. without contributing anything to the community) are
> to my mind never part of a FLOSS project community.

Just to mention it, the KDE Code of Conduct [1] contains this:

> Our community is made up of several groups of individuals and
> organizations which can roughly be divided into two groups:
>
> * Contributors, or those who add value to the project through
>   improving KDE software and its services
> * Users, or those who add value to the project through their
>   support as consumers of KDE software

and I remember that the importance of users was emphasized at some 
in-person event I attended (probably Akademy) as well.

Of course, one could try to make a distinction between users that 
contribute something back and those who do not, but I don't know whether 
that would be particularly helpful, or even easy.
(E.g. is a user that only uses the software for themselves not part of 
the community, but one who recommends it to others is, because they 
"spread the word"? - And maybe one of those starts getting active in 
some "official" area in the LibreOffice project, or migrates their 
company from a proprietary office suite to an LTS version from an 
ecosystem company,...)

Best regards,
Michael


[1] https://kde.org/code-of-conduct/

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