Quick comment from my side: I will not be very active on forums as tou can't work with them on phones and I use my phone a lot for email.
But I am open to experimentation. However we must form a real marketing team with tasks and production. Then we'll think about forums or mailing list. Best, Charles. Le 12 oct. 2012 21:51, "Marc Paré" <m...@marcpare.com> a écrit : > At th risk of starting another heated discussion, we need to decide, and, > I think it important the marketing team think about this. By "team", I > mean the regular members on this list who actually contribute to the work, > discussions and decision making, which is why you are on this list. For the > others who are on this list just to monitor, well, I only wish you could > join in and help out, we need you. > > Do we want the LibreOffice Marketing section to move to the forums? > > My proposal is that we test-try for a few months with leaving both mailing > list and forums (I would suggest 9 months to a year). If we find that we > gain more interest/contributors from the forums, then a move, IMO, would be > good. If not, we can all commit to transfer any information from the forums > back to the mailing list if we need to do this. > > Who knows, we may decide to keep both, the forums as an entry point for > potential marketing contributors and the mailing lists to do the bulk of > the work, planning, discussion etc. > > We are a LibreOffice section where, I would consider, in "dire" need of > more marketing contributors. > > * Not only should we be "leading the charge" with marketing materials (in > joint partnership with the design team), but we also have other important > roles to fill such as: > > * we should be helping with vetting all materials being put out by the > TDF/LibreOffice. We should be checking materials for EN grammar, syntax, > cohesion, both, before the materials are published (important!), and, after > publication (review and improvement of text). At present we are doing > very-little to not-at-all of this. We need people who are very adept with > the EN language for this. > > * keeping up the wiki pages for the marketing materials that are developed > (this is already a big job unto itself -- we would need a couple of people > to take care of this) > > * monitor the NL groups and help catalogue their marketing materials into > EN for potential global use. A good example are the DE and PT-BR > communities who publish materials that could be adapted for EN-global use. > > * help all other sections of the wiki to make sure that the wiki is > representative of the TDF/LibreOffice brand and make sure that the brand is > protected on these pages. > > * we need help to re-new our Marketing wiki pages (something that I have > promised to do, but there is always something else that bumps this) > > * we should also make sure the TDF/LibreOffice websites are representative > of the brand/values of the project and help out with text on the site(s) > > Although the project started quite strong with organizing the marketing > team, we have recently fallen quite short in filling in our > responsibilities. In large part, this is the result of LibreOffice's > stratospheric rise bringing with it demands unto the very few of us who are > at work on the project (bearing different responsibilities) and having too > few to help out. Although our numbers in dev contributors have kept pace, > so far, our team contributors have seem very little increase in months and > are in need of attention. > > So, should we try a forums for the marketing section? > > Cheers, > > Marc > > > -- > Marc Paré > m...@marcpare.com > http://www.parEntreprise.com > parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) > parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+help@global.** > libreoffice.org <marketing%2bh...@global.libreoffice.org> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/**marketing/<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
