Hello Florian, all, On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:43:18 +0200, Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > 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. Great idea, thanks a lot for your initiative.
> > 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. +1 > > 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. +1 for two representatives per language, because it will help each local community to avoid so-called a single point of failure and to encourage them to work together collaboratively. Cheers, -- Takeshi Abe > > 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
