Re: contracting someone to help us out

Prople,

I talked with a friend in munich and she told me that she doesn't needs to
work right now and she can help kde promo in full time without getting paid.
I'm having a meeting with her today to see if this is really possible.

Tomaz


On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Kenny Duffus <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Monday, 5 December 2016 22:19:46 GMT, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> At the board meeting last weekend we discussed which area of KDE would
>> benefit the most from some paid support by a contractor for a limited
>> time and where we would get the most bang for the buck so to speak. We
>> have discussed various options, including fundraising and website
>> coding. In the end in our opinion it seems best to get someone who can
>> support you, the KDE Promo Team. The board has various ideas for the
>> specific tasks for the person but I'd like to hear from you if you
>> generally agree with getting a contractor and what you think the
>> person should focus on.
>>
>>
> Something that I hadn't really thought of before qtcon was how important
> others being technically competent is to being able to work well with us
> (and not make them a liability, it was so bad that we lost person-weeks of
> other peoples time handling them)
>
> We take being able to use email/mailing lists/webapps/irc as easy things
> that anyone should be able to do but that isn't always the case.
>
> Hopefully not a problem for this but something to think about.
>
> --
>
>         Kenny
>