On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 23:06 +0200, Italo Vignoli wrote: > Marc Paré wrote: > > > Would it be a good idea to sign off on emails with your country? Like > > below? This would help in explaining the marketing views that you may > > have in discussion threads. > > Yes, this could be a nice way to recognize ourselves and the specific > problems we represent. Software has to deal with languages because of > the localization, but marketing has to deal with countries because of > governments and economies. Let's say that the OOo project was a > collection of marketing horrors by Sun that Oracle is pushing forward in > a shameless way. Of course, there are country specific languages, like > Italian, where the distinction between language and market don't matter, > and languages like english and spanish which are spoken in completely > different economies. In this case I am definitely for some country > specific distinction, which definitely make sense. At first, though, > it's better to shape the group, and then look at country specificities. > > -- Hello Italo
Just a quick comment - not restricted to marketing per se, or even country specific. OO.o as an organization was constructed in such a way that everything focused on the single entity. Very much similar to a corporate structure. This is not the only way to construct an organization however. There are models that are much more based on confederation. I haven't seen anything yet on the structures that are being talked about for the document foundation - and I realize it is early, so don't take that as meaning that I think I should of at this point. But I am interested if anyone is looking at this other type of approach. Thanks Drew -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to [email protected] List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted.
