HI Daniel, >Yes. I'd like to introduce myself as the newest member of the Digital >Distribution Global Training Services team (notice the cool new email >address). I will be putting some energy into getting OOo Case Studies >going, as part of DDGTS' contribution to the community.
Great; thanks for introducing yourself and your affiliation. We it's one of the big pending things--actually, the biggest--of this project. > >I'll start out slowly, since I'm new at this. I suppose that a >reasonable place to start would be: > >* Getting a list of companies willing to participate. Louis? Do you >have such a list alrady? yes and no. yes, there is a list of companies but not on this mail list; and the list is not exactly set in stone. Rather, we use the private [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ list. I can add you. > >* Figuring out what kind of information they should contain. And which >case studies would be most significant. I'll need guidance here, but >I'm happy to learn. To a degree, we've been playing that by ear. We have the case studies templates--which you saw, I presume (I list them from the BizDev homepage and Docs and files section), but they are really meant ultimately as guides. > >* What a Case Study should look like :-) Justin pointed me to these >samples from MySQL: > >http://www.mysql.com/it-resources/case-studies/mysql-cention-casestudy >.pdf >http://www.mysql.com/it-resources/case-studies/mysql-citysearch- >casestudy.pdf > >http://www.mysql.com/it-resources/case-studies/mysql-pcit-casestudy. >pdf > >They look very good to me. Is this a model I should try to emulate? Justin also wrote (substantially) the case study templates. As models go, they are good. But again, playing it by ear is pretty important, obviously, as large companies might have different things to say and speak to. A key thing to keep in mind is that a case study can lead to getting the company to help promulgate OOo product and community. > >* I've looked through the templates in issue 18858 and found: > + Some templates for collecting information. + > OOo11CaseStudyWorksheet-easy.sxw > >These will be useful for answering my earlier question about what they >should contain. So I will going over these for now. Yes, please. And, as my brief conversation with John McCarthy (other new member) indicates, they are always in a state of some improvement. > >All the other templates in this issue are very very old (2003). I >notice that there is no template for the final case study. You know, >something cool-looking and professional, like what the MySQL folk did. >Since this task requires less knowledge of case studies, maybe this >would be a good place to start. Precisely. :-) For now, our case studies are essentially listed by John McCreesh, from the product pages. Case studies take time to do properly. Justin has been great for helping with the templates, but we also need to do necessary follow up. At OOoCon, we had an important BizDev meeting and the people there agreed to help with case studies--providing information about who their clients are, etc. (Most were effectively brokers.) > >Cheers, Daniel. > The next step is to send a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll add you, as I indicated. The list is ... quiet.... but the people involved are interested in helping. They are just way busy actually getting others to use OOo. best, Louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
