Hi Peter welcome, I think you have done a great work in Hungary and can imagine you have gone through the battles that involve lobbying the public administration and awareness of technology. These are definitely skills that we would need in the marketing project as it adds focus and objectivity to the goals of the project.
Right now I think OOo is on a critical moment where are challenges we need to address such as protecting OOo trademark globally, have a heavier more structured internet marketing strategy and social marketing strategy as well. Finally be able to expose not only the OpenOffice.org product but the OpenOffice.org community as a service. Fuel development/developer programs that can attend not only the needs of the OpenOffice.org project but also the open source project at large. I think OpenOffice.org should work together more closely with other technology groups and integrate to new technological trends to become more relevant in the future. I am confident your input will accelerate the discussions we have and put more action into the ideas and conclusions we can generate. 2009/6/3 Szakál Péter <szakal.pe...@openskm.com>: > Dear All! > > Let me introduce myself, my name is Peter Szakal. > > I work with open source softwares since 2004, when we released our > software package based on OOo under the name "SpringOffice". > Since 2005 I am a co-owner of Open SKM Agency, an agency offering > consultancy and management services. As a partner of Sun Microsystems we > are the exclusive representative of StarOffice in Hungary. > > In the last few years we co-ordinated government lobby activity together > with different companies (Sun Microsystems, IBM, Oracle, ULX/Red Hat) > and civil organizations (ODFA, IVSZ) to end the monopol situation of > Microsoft on the public software market. Our activity was successful: > the secretary for Informatics and Government Commissioner announced the > Hungarian government is going to increase its use of open source > software and will make 21 million Euro available for open source > softwares. > > We also supported and managed local FLOSS events like FLOSS Farm, > participated at conferences and published articles and created studies > in the subject of Open source softwares especially StarOffice and > OpenOffice. > > I am the teamleader of the commity to organise OOoCon in Budapest - as > it is already known we won the tender for the year 2010. > > If you would like to know more about our activity, click on the link: > http://openskm.com/press/index.html > > In the future I would like to become an active member of the > OpenOffice.org marketing project and share my experiences with the OOo > community. > > > Best, > Peter SZAKAL > Open SKM Agency Ltd. > +36-70-704-5669 > szakal.pe...@openskm.com > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: j...@jabber.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
