1) How important is to your business to have the "Community Distributor" logo on your website, or to otherwise have access to OpenOffice logos and branding?
I think it would benefit both the seller and the buyer knowing that they are buying from a known distributor. So I would say that this is a good idea to use the official logos and branding. 2) How important is to your business to be listed on a distribution page of our website, www.openoffice.org? Is this due to traffic that is generated? Or by the implied endorsement that comes from being listed? Or both? It is of the up most importance to be listed on your distributors page due to the traffic generated by that specific page. Also, If you take a look at my website, <http://www.123openoffice.com> www.123openoffice.com, you can clearly see that I have the logo on the top left of the page as a community distributor. Also note below that, if the latest version is not up to date on my site when it is released, I will distribute the CD free of charge. Which is a great incentive for some people that may see that I do not have the latest version up. I think if something like that was implemented in the guidelines of being a distributor it would work to everyone's benefit. 3) If we made a "distributor" logo available for use by OpenOffice distributors, but under specific conditions, what should those conditions be? I think the conditions should be as follows: The distributor logo must appear on the top fold of your page. Which means you should be able to see it without scrolling down. The logo should not be altered in any way as this may confuse people and trick people into thinking that it is a different office product. 4) Another way to think of it is this: The value of that logo is diminished it is given to those who offer poor service. So what would distinguish a good distributor from a bad one? For me as stated above, I issue free copies of the software if someone requests one if I do not have the latest version available. Also if you briefly read through my FAQ's, it explains how and why I am able to sell something that is free. I think everyone that is a distributor should have something similar to my FAQ's. If you need help with any web design I would be willing to assist. As I have created many website before and I can keep the list of distributors up to date. I know when Alex was in charge, I would send him the links that were out of date and websites that did not have the latest version available. But I'm not sure why he did not keep it updated. (No offense to Alex!) Let me know everyone's thoughts about the above and if I could be of service. I also do graphic design work as well, jsgraphix.com. Thanks, John Schmidt -----Original Message----- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 3:52 PM To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: John Schmidt Subject: Re: Bring back the distributors page! Hi John, First, thanks for caring enough about this to write. It is great to have a working distributor weigh in on these questions as we discuss them. As you probably saw on the website, we took down the distribution site with the hopes of possibly bringing it back in some form in the future. But we wanted to give some thought to how we could do this. Could I ask you a few questions, from your perspective as a distributor? It would help me, and others as well, understand what your needs are. 1) How important is to your business to have the "Community Distributor" logo on your website, or to otherwise have access to OpenOffice logos and branding? 2) How important is to your business to be listed on a distribution page of our website, <http://www.openoffice.org> www.openoffice.org? Is this due to traffic that is generated? Or by the implied endorsement that comes from being listed? Or both? 3) If we made a "distributor" logo available for use by OpenOffice distributors, but under specific conditions, what should those conditions be? 4) Another way to think of it is this: The value of that logo is diminished it is given to those who who offer poor service. So what would distinguish a good distributor from a bad one? Any other thoughts would be welcome as well. Regards, -Rob
