EasyHacks for Non-Developers

EasyHacks have been a very successful enterprise for the development of LibreOffice. This workshop will try to explore with other teams on what can be learned and reused from that for other areas (QA, Marketing, Localization, Infrastructure, Design) and what needs to be adjusted or reinvented.
LibreOffice conference, Berlin, 18th October 2012

video available at:
http://141.64.64.107/presentations/libreoffice/?p=151

Transcript

1. 1 LibreOffice Berlin 2012 Conference Presentation Template EasyHacks for Non-Developers Bjoern Michaelsen bjoern.michaelsen@canonical.com
2. 2 LibreOffice Berlin 2012 Conference Presentation Template Essence of EasyHacks “easy” is just marketing with quite a few of them Lonesome Coder Or needs a mentor Nice-to-haves, not mission-critical deadline stuff Throw things at the wall, see what sticks “Look what I did, ma!”
3. 3 LibreOffice Berlin 2012 Conference Presentation Template Lost in Translation http://www.flickr.com/photos/markjtaylor/2460099436/sizes/m/in/photostream/ by eatatmarks
4. 4 LibreOffice Berlin 2012 Conference Presentation Template Lost in Translation “Unix is user-friendly. It just isn't promiscuous about which users it's friendly with.” – Ron Pike
5. 5 LibreOffice Berlin 2012 Conference Presentation Template Copyright CC-BY-SA 2007 Ben Stanfield http://www.flickr.com/photos/acaben/1308078001/in/set-72157601826753840
6. 6 LibreOffice Berlin 2012 Conference Presentation Template Local Teams Translating is a EasyHack in itself We should encourage local teams to go beyond that: Marketing QA Build bridges between local and global teams
7. 7 LibreOffice Berlin 2012 Conference Presentation Template EasyHacks everywhere! We need to promote EasyHacks wherever we can! “Development” got a bit lazy here too, to be honest. We should cross-sell them viciously. Everyone teasing EasyHacks should end with “and there are other EasyHacks too”
8. 8 LibreOffice Berlin 2012 Conference Presentation Template Prerequisites, experience, knowledge, trust issues User Experience/Design: is a attracting a lot of “ideas” but ideas are a dime a dozen For infrastructure: Keys to the kingdom should be somewhat guarded “staging” – that is play-with-me virtual machines might be solution
9. 9 LibreOffice Berlin 2012 Conference Presentation Template Infinitive EasyHacks The road goes on forever and the party never ends. – Robert Earl Keen Some tasks are essentially never finished We should make them finishable: Distribute 10.000 LibreOffice-flyers by the end of November!
10. 10 LibreOffice Berlin 2012 Conference Presentation Template Success Stories Development QA Bfoman submarine work: created lots of windows stacktraces Marketing: Seen this video?
11. 11 LibreOffice Berlin 2012 Conference Presentation Template Lets go! Lets find 10-20 EasyHacks for marketing, UX and infrastructure!
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