On 25/04/2014 Jörg Schmidt wrote:
From: Louis Suárez-Potts
About the only place where I can see urgency for a kind of
plan is in QA and in meeting release dates. There would be
urgency simply to sync with the global marketing deadlines.
We had a lot of problems with this in OOo days and there is
no simple or even wholly satisfying solution. ...
I think part of the problem are excessive formal requirements that are not
always
fulfilled in practice and then cause that happens nothing.
What requirements do you mean? Is there anything we can do better?
Of course it is right to organize the marketing on an international level, if
this
is not to create, in some cases, locally organized marketing is better than
none.
"Local" is not only better than nothing, it is vital! The fact that we
have an international marketing list does not mean that we only admit
centrally organized marketing activities. By the way, the international
list is way too quiet.
Germany ... marketing activities (*) are there currently, supported by the
PrOOo-Box
(**), because there is only little local marketing from the AOO project
directly.
I don't get the "directly". OpenOffice is marketed by its users, by its
volunteers. When we have the people we don't need anything else, let
alone any "formal" requirements. For example: if a "Free Software
Advocacy" day exists in Germany, with local workshops and presentations,
you just need the people if you want to talk about OpenOffice, you don't
need formal endorsements or so.
The international marketing exists to help local activities, not to kill
them: if you need a presentation about OpenOffice to translate in
German, or if you need someone to design materials that you want to
print and distribute, the marketing list is at your service. The project
can even pay for marketing materials, so feel free to ask.
Regards,
Andrea.
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