Hi Florian, John,
thank you for considering me to step up to his role. I am pleased to
accept it.
Charles, Cor, Louis, Christoph, Thorsten, Drew, Katsuya-san, Joost,
Maho-san and Xiaohong,
thanks for your personal expression of your confidence in me.
I'm looking forward to great cooperation with everyone in the Marketing
Project.
Best regards,
Peter
Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hello,
as some of you know, after stepping down from the Marketing Lead -- a
role he had held for many years -- John McCreesh offered to stay as
Marketing Co-Lead temporarily, until a successor has been found.
Dear John, on behalf of the OpenOffice.org Community, I would like to
thank you for all your efforts, all your creativity, all your heart and
all your sense of humor you've put into OpenOffice.org. Over the past
years, you've formed and shaped the Marketing Project to what it is
today, and your contribution of OpenOffice.org's success is invaluable.
Personally, I'd like to take the chance of not only thanking you for
being an esteemed colleague and a brilliant teacher, but especially for
being a wonderful friend and an endless source of inspiration. We've
been working together in good and bad times, shared laughs and sorrows.
It is an honour for me to work with you, and I hope that you will stay
with the Community for many more years to come -- you will always be an
important part of our big family, and I'm already looking forward to
having a drink with you in Budapest!
I took a long time in thinking of who could be John's successor.
Following his footsteps is not an easy task. Our project is at change,
and the Marketing Project has chances and duties as never before. Now
that OpenOffice.org has arrived in user's heads and on their machines,
we will all have to face new challenges, and the Marketing Project will
play an important role. We have many great contributors in the
Community, and you surely agree when I say it was not easy to determine
who could share the burden of working together with me. ;-)
I'm glad that one of our fellow colleagues, who has been with
OpenOffice.org for a long time and more than once has proven his
dedication and enthusiasm, agreed to start into this exciting adventure.
Many of you know him as experienced OOoCon organizer, as the top paper
reviewer from last year's Call for Papers and as regular contributor to
the Marketing Project and active participant in our phone conferences.
I'm talking about Peter Junge who agreed in taking over the Marketing
Co-Lead role, and has support from his predecessor, John. I hope you
support and welcome him as much as we do and that you share my positive
view on his nomination.
One of my goals has always been to strenghten the Marketing Project and
to bring its members closer together. We are a worldwide family, but in
these times of changes, it is more important than ever to work together
jointly. One of the first tasks thus will be working on the Strategic
Marketing Plan for the next years, as well as compiling an agenda to
work efficiently.
Let me finish with: I'm proud of we have achieved so far, and I'm
looking forward to a bright future with all of you. Thank you so much,
John, for your contributions and all you have done. Welcome, Peter, and
thanks for starting into this adventure!
May the source be with you :-)
Florian
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