Hi :) +1 I think the role is an official gateway or "point of contact" between the 'local' community marketing teams and the international one. I think it would NOT restrict other people being "unofficial" "points of contact" / gateways / middlemen/women.
The word 'local' seems wrong to me but i can't think of a better word even in my fairly extensive vocabulary (i'm native English and always been heavily addicted to reading) and clearly other people haven't either. 'Obviously' 'local' teams are likely to have people from all around the world rather than being restricted to a small geographical area. The best i can think of is putting ' marks around the word to try to make it a bit sarcastic. Lol. Anyway, since there doesn't seem to be a better word in common usage i think we have to stick with it. I think the role will help 'local' teams by making sure that not everyone in their team is forced to join the international list and yet they can have complete confidence that important and relevant stuff is being copied to the other list and being received from it. I think that is the main aim? I'm not completely sure tbh but i think so. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 20 August, 2011 8:59:25 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Building a network of marketeers Hi Paulo, Paulo de Souza Lima wrote on 2011-08-16 16:48: > In this discussion we must be aware that Florian wishes to separate TDF > intitutional contacts from *Community Marketing Contacts*. exactly. Imagine that in the future the TDF has three big projects. Then there will be official TDF contacts, representing the legal entity, and contacts for each of the big projects. I really like to make a distinction between the legal entity and individual projects here - the term Community Marketing Contact does sound really good, indeed. :-) > In the other hand, I disagreee with the idea that *all* people must have > those skills you've mentioned. All of those skills seems to be in the > "business" approach. We need to understand that LibreOffice is not only > about business. There's a lot of passion and ideology in this matter. Give > to the businness approach more emphasis than the one it really has is quite > dangerous too, IMHO. It's not only about business, it's also about cooperation and collaboration inside the community. If we have a good and skilled marketing contact, but the majority of the other contacts can't talk to her or him, because of the language barrier, that doesn't help either, because then it will be a "closed circle". So, also in terms of communicating with community members, English is really valueable - but the proposed "gateway" approach indeed could work. > And that's why I think those issues should be discussed locally, also. And I > also think that in cases like Brazil, there should be more than one person. > performing those marketing tasks. But we have already agreed with that > earlier in this discussion. Absolutely. The same will be true for the US and for a few other regions, I guess. 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 Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted