Hi there, this is a quick report from an event Mike and I have participated in Thursday last week - TDF got invited to a Berlin townhall reception, out to all newly-established foundations from the last 12 months.
The reception was formally hosted by Berlin's mayor, represented by his undersecretary of state. Setup was extra-posh, local press around with two ladies, taking pictures, cello solist interludes, fine food & drinks. Various addresses by officials, interspersed with brilliant cello music. A total of five foundations got hand-picked to briefly introduce themselves on stage, TDF one of them - it seems we represented the "innovative flavour", the other being "social", "medicine", "music", and "arts". Got a wonderful introduction by the reception host, who seemed to have really spent some time looking at our public pages (and effectively extended our own 7 minute marketing sprint with his 3 minutes). Afterwards chatted with all & sundry, handed out stickers & business cards left and right. Mentioned LibOCon dates on stage, and to everybody listening on the floor later. That said, we can possibly do even better next time, since: - those events are perfect for handing out DVDs / flyers (e.g. one of the other foundations managed to hand out a professionally-produced folded leaflet, printed double-sided, 5 pages in total - including donation / participation information - fundraising - getting a concise message of *what* we do to benefit society + our bank account number is what needs to be spread there - for people formally representing TDF, would be nice to have a TDF-branded business card template somewhere available (I think Italo showed a very nice sample at LinuxTag) After that, we briefly went over to a Flattr meetup happening at the same day. Met some local blogging / hacktivist celebrities, and had the opportunity to chat with Flattr founders & engineers. * reportedly the all-average flattr click is worth ~1 EUR, would be good verifying that applies to us, too * if yes, and since Flattr is rather low-threshold, we could possibly stick Flattr buttons on more pages. (tangentially, it seems https://flattr.com/thing/149926/The-Document-Foundation-Challenge could benefit from some love / updated texts ;)) Cheers, -- Thorsten -- 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