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 Discussion re Community Feedback

Encouraging people in the community to participate and give their feedback

Sometimes when a thread is posted or proposal made on the mailing list, there is no community feedback at all. Lack of feedback makes it very difficult for the person making the proposal or starting the discussion because they dont know whether the community are not interested, think it's a bad idea or silent because they agree. Over the last few months with all the work that has been done, lots of ideas and proposals have been made.

One response was that perhaps people are not responding because they dont think that they have the technical knowledge or expertise to respond or give an opinion.

Another response was that all communities have a 'silent group' (i.e a group of people who monitor the mailing lists but don't actively participate on the list or the discussions). There are more people subscribed to our lists than participate on a regular basis in the mailing list discussions.

What can we do as a community to encourage people to participate more on the mailing lists and in the discussions.?

Perhaps people Make sure that the tone of the discussions is friendly, open and welcoming of other opinions.

Be more patient.

Take the time to explain things in a friendly way to others that don't understand.

OFBiz Meetups

Meeting at Apachecon is a great way to strengthen relationships and also collaborate. What about making use of meetups (real and virtual) to bring the community together. Many other ASF project have meetups but OFBiz doesnt - we tend to meetup at Apachecon and that's it. Could we look at organising some meetups, hackathons, traininng etc. We have a lot of work so the meetups could be a way for a group of people to work together on a specific topic. Could also be used to do some outreach (recruit new members) as well as providing some valueable info for existing community members