2011/9/24 Italo Vignoli <italo.vign...@gmail.com> > 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 >
Was looking forward to reading your very personal story, Italo - without the aid of Google Translate - but was unable to find it on the Linkedin page to which you linked above. Is the following the blog you had in mind ( http://www.cwi.it/2010/02/01/nasce-il-nuovo-blog-sistemaperto-riflessioni-in-liberta-sullopen-source/) or, if not, could you point me to another ?... Henri -- *老朽 頓首 M Henri Day, PhD, MD Stadshagsvägen 22, 5tr S-112 50 Stockholm SUÈDE Tel : +46 8 6183098 Email : mhenri...@gmail.com Skype/Google Talk : mhenriday http://mhenriday.googlepages.com http://mhenriday.blogspot.com/ http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/mhenriday/* *Re**gistered Linux user : #451735* -- 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
