Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
Great; thanks for introducing yourself and your affiliation. We it's
one of the big pending things--actually, the biggest--of this project.
I like feeling useful. :-)
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.
Okay, I just sent a request for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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.
Understood: guidelines, playing it by ear. I realize that there is no
such thing as one size fits all.
* 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.
ok
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.
Can I get a URL?
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.)
Understood.
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.
Okay, email sent.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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