Hi Italo, all, Italo Vignoli wrote: Marc Paré wrote: > >> Just in case that I had not made this evident in my previous posts. I do > >> still hope to write/call some Canadian organisations in the hope of > >> organising the Canadian Marketing section of LibO but having an > >> identifying title would help. > > I wrote: > > In your case I think everybody agrees to state that you have already > > contibuted to > > our project in a very substancial way. So I for one would call you > > "Marketing Team > > Member" and allow you to use this title in communication with other > > organizations. > > This title should be able to add at your signature and on business cards > > we'll have > > to design, so they represent our branding. > > > > To avoid misunderstandings, I'd like to add another line to the signature or > > business card: "If you want to contact an offifcial spokesperson of the > > community > > behind LibreOffice, please contact i...@documentfoundation." > > I think that this could be a "transitional" solution, especially for US > and Canada where community roles in the past have not been considered > too much. > > In Europe community roles are quite clear, and - as I said - I do not > need to state in my signature that I am a volunteer for OOo because all > my stakeholders already know my position (when you are described as Mr > TDF I do not think you need additional recognitions).
At fairs it turns out quite handy if you can hand over a business card even if you don't have an official representing position as you, Italo. In these cases I like to have a business card with with official branding, but clearly stating that I'm not an official representative, but just a community member. >From time to time this approach allows an easy switch from discussing the >product to information about the community and invitation to join... Best regards Bernhard -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe 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
