Hi, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
> >>This is a very interesting task. Actually, I was about to ask the >>distribution project and the Marketing project leads if an official page >>listing our distributors (in the broad sense) could be useful. >> >> > >It could... By "distributor" we can mean just about any implementation, >yes? We've discussed this before, of course.... there are a couple of >issues, as you recall. For free distributors (free as in speech), it's >easy and good to list them. For those of the less free persuasion, it >can become problematical: free advertising, using OOo at our expense for >their gain, issues like that. > > Yes, actually I was thinking more to OEMs and Linux distributions. That is, not people using OOo at our expense so much as "industry solutions" using or including Openoffice.org . As such, I was mentionning Red Hat who doesn't just grow the market share of OOo but does even help with the development, and even Mandriva who has a clear impact on our market share although it does not really help directly with the development (but this could change, actually). Also, solutions using OOo or based on OOo with a real value in innovation are surely worth of mention. In fact I was willing to mention Linux distributions and innovative solutions based on OOo more than resellers making dimes on our back. > > >>I know >>that the BizDev project hosts the Consultants page. But this list has >>mainly services providers and a small (and I think rather incomplete) >>list of OEMs. >>Do you think that this wiki page you just opened could give birth to >>such a list that could be later on used for communicatio and marketing >>tasks? >> >> >> > >Sure. It depends if people want to use the data collected there. I >think that we do have to agree, as we more or less have, on the rule for >listing non-free implementations, and that rule is (probably) to list >them without comment. With the new license, LGPL, their number will >drop by quite a lot, and they will want to work with us, so I see the >problem as ultimately temporary. > > I think we could use a marketing flyer, nicely laid out and a web page diplaying what we could call "our industry partners". This would go into the "reassure people who are about to use the software" marketing section :-) ; but yes, let's make sure we mention our good citizens and not just rogues who do not follow the LGPL. Thanks, Charles. >My reason for posting this wiki is that though the development page also >lists implementations of OOo, it is a pain to manage, as a committer has >to add the new data, meaning that unless he knows it, several steps are >involved. The wiki reduces those steps and thus makes it easy to record >things. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
