PLEASE BE WARNED, THIS IS NOT A TOTALLY SERIOUS PROFILE Who am I?
At 57, I am the grandfather of The Document Foundation, but I can anticipate that you will find me jumping around for a long time as I plan to work full time on advocating FOSS when I will retire in eight years (good marketing planning looks at the long term...). During my working life, I have done quite a few things, that you can find summarized in my Linkedin profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/italovignoli. If you want to know how I ended up in marketing of technology products with a background in humanities, you can read my very personal story, which I wrote for the tenth anniversary of ComputerWorld Italy: http://www.linkedin.com/in/italovignoli. The story is in Italian, but I can anticipate that it is written in a style which makes Google Translate shine, apart from some hiccups. Of course, this is the absolute truth. It all happened in June 1982. What I have done for TDF? Don't look at statistics, as you won't find my name anywhere. I've just tried to do what I know best: provide some marketing advice, and try to make TDF and LibreOffice as popular as possible by engaging the media. I have also gone a few miles around to represent TDF at conferences in Chicago, Zagreb and Athens, and I will also be speaking at LinuxCon Europe in Prague in October. What motivates me to work for TDF? I have a professional challenge: with a marketing budget of zero (in letters it looks bigger), outsmart corporations with a marketing budget with six or more zeros (and with a number in front which makes it more significant). I have managed to achieve this objective at OOo in Italy, and I would like to achieve the same objective at TDF. What will I be doing, should I get elected? I promise that I will never write a single line of code, and this is quite important for software stability. In addition, I will cook pasta at hackfests and on spare time I will handle some marketing and media relations. I am also going to have an awful lot of fun, as any serious grandfather deserves when he is close to retiring. END OF PARTIALLY SERIOUS PROFILE I promise I will be more serious when answering additional enquiries. Ciao, Italo -- Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.com mobile +39.348.5653829 VoIP +39.02.320621813 skype italovignoli -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
