Hi khirano,
I assume, most people here know me, but I will briefly introduce myself in a second. Do you have any specific questions for me?
Independent of the name of the co-lead, we probably should define what the lead and co-lead should be doing or trying to achieve. From my point of view it does not matter who the employer of the co-lead is if the person has the right skills and does a goog job.
What is the focus of the bizdev project? Who is the target audience?
I see two key goal:
1.) Helping SOHO, SMB and enterprise users to migrate, so that
we can generate more success stories.2.) Convincing more ISV's to support our office suite, to
enrich the overall solution set.If you look at my past OpenOffice.org Conference presentations you will see, that I try to "promote" all vendors who support OpenOffice.org. However, I have to admit that I typically highlight those companies that also give something back to the project including my employer Sun Microsystems.
Thus, if I would become the bizdev co-lead I definitely would mention Sun from time-to-time. This might be bad, because I would not act unbiased. However, it would also be good because I sometimes would inform OpenOffice.org users and ISV's about services that they need and that Sun actually can provide.
For example, Sun has worked and is working together with multiple ISV's. Typically we/Sun can only assign FREE full-time resources to ISV projects that have a strategic character (e.g. the big ERP, CRM and DMS guys), but we do provide developer support to companies who want to integrate their solutions with OpenOffice.org.
In addition, Sun does have the skills to provide backline support to local partners who provide first and second level support. Thus, Sun could be the catalyst for other partners if we find the right model.
O.k., I'm getting a bit off track here. ;-) As I said, we should define first what we want to achieve and then look for the right person. A simple "non-Sun", "not-over-30-years", "not-US-based", etc. rule does not help to find the right guy.
Oh, regarding my introduction, for those who don't know me, my name is Erwin Tenhumberg and I'm a Product Marketing Manager for OpenOffice.org/StarOffice at Sun Microsystems. I'm located in Hamburg in the same building as the Sun's OpenOffice.org developers, but I'm also closely working together with the larger marketing team in the US. Some of my OpenOffice.org/StarOffice related work is:
The now a bit outdated version of the market share document at http://bizdev.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList
The OpenOffice.org 1.1 and 2.0 feature lists http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/1.1/index.html http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/index.html
My preparation work for the past OpenOffice.org conferences including my own presentations http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/ http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2004/presentations/thursday/tenhumberg_commercial_ooo_solutions.pdf
My blog where I explain StarOffice 8 features and talk about different open source projects including OpenOffice.org: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/dancer
The XML white paper at http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/whitepapers/index.xml
An OpenOffice.org 2.0 article including a Base tutorial for this Linux magazine: http://www.lpmagazine.org/en/modules/news/
Hope this helps!?
Please let me know if you need additional information!
Cheers, Erwin
Kazunari Hirano wrote:
Hi Louis and all, This may be the first time for me to post something to this bizdev list. :) About the co-lead nomination can Erwin speak to us before the voting? Can anyone nominate another candidate for the co-lead? Cheers, khirano
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