Hello, back in the OpenOffice.org times, we had a comprehensive list of so called MarCons (http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html), marketing contacts for various languages and regions. They acted as a local point of contact for the press and for local events (outside channel), but also were in charge of translating press releases, distributing them and coordinating with the local communities (inside channel). They also represented their language groups in the marketing confcalls and on the conference.
As discussed in the latest marketing conference calls, we would like to have something similar for LibreOffice, to work together more efficiently. Right now, we have four media spokespeople for The Document Foundation (http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/), who are eligible of representing the foundation in the press. The number of official TDF contacts should be rather limited, as they represent the legal entity of the foundation at large in the press, so I would not do any major changes to these four people. For LibreOffice, i.e. the project and the software, no official contacts exist so far, and I would like to change that, and I envision a similar scheme as we had with OpenOffice.org. At the moment, only a few language groups translate press releases, and there seem to be some confusion on who is "eligible" of representing LibreOffice. In order to have a better press appearance, I think it is crucial that we have defined responsibilities, publically known contacts, and some processes in place. One of these processes would be to regularly take care of the press release translations. We will also set-up an internal space where press contacts and other items could be shared amongst the contacts. My (rough) idea for the moment is that each language group names one or ideally two marketing representatives, preferably through voting. Those contacts should already engage themselves in the global marketing mailing list, and if there are no objections from the wider community, we should set them in place on a publically available website. We can discuss about the details, but I'd like to hear your thoughts on the basic idea first. Thanks! Florian -- Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted