On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 11:40 -0400, Benjamin Horst wrote: > Hello Guy, > > I've long felt that a PR and media push in the USA could produce very strong > results for OOo and now for LibO. I'd suggest we (I'm in NYC) model such a > campaign after the work Italo Vignoli does in Italy, which has been so > successful there. > > Are you a PR professional yourself? Such experience would be a boon!
> > On Oct 6, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Guy Lunardi <gluna...@novell.com> wrote: > > > Bonjour! > > > > I just noticed (should have much earlier) that there is no media contact > > based in the USA. > > > > > > I already know and have worked with most of the journalists that are > > likely to cover LibreOffice and the Document Foundation. > > > > Having participated in at least one interview that Florian and Michael > > gave, I feel I can handle most if not all questions that would come our > > way. > > Howdy Guy, Ben I won't go into great detail but let me bring you both up to speed as to some actions already started. A couple of days back I posted a message on the list for anyone interested in starting a US document foundation group to contact me direct. Ben was one person, of a group to do so. There are active and interested community members in areas ranging from Seattle, to LA, with Guy from MA to GA and points in between. I have contacts for 2 state LUGs that would be interested in someone coming to talk about the document foundation and LibreOffice. There was also a phone call between myself and R. Singer, a marketing consultant in Redwood City CA, formally and soon to be again (they I go speaking for others..) active member of the community. He had some good initial thoughts that I figured could be used as a kick off discussion for the group. Yesterday I asked the steering committee if it would be possible to setup a dedicated mailing list for our use, to get everyone involved and brainstorming. I came up with the creative name of US-Events. Haven't heard back yet but they are rather busy. If the mailing list needs to wait a bit I will setup a forum for us to use later tonight or the morning as an interim. I'd say it's just a matter of how quickly this gets launched and not if. Thanks, Drew Jensen -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
