Re: [marketing] Marketing budget - SCALEx9

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Junge

Hi Alexandro,

Alexandro Colorado wrote:

Hi I want to ask the budget commitee for 500 dls for expenses to
SCALEx9. I want to put the petition even if SCALE still have not
finished the CFP. I submitted a couple of talks and I am still waiting
for the final approval. However budget processes have been a bit slow
lately so I want to put an early petition here.


maybe the processes are slow because you are sending your request 
recurrently to the wrong address. AFAIR, Florian had mentioned this many 
times. A budget request has to raised with the budget custodian, which 
is currently me. Mailing lists are welcome to be CCed, but it's not 
mandatory.




Last year I participated with a lightning talk on OOo4Kids which you
can watch here: http://jza.blip.tv/file/3261755/

After the talk I got to talk with the core organizers which were
interested into expanding the participation for communities such as
OOo in the US. And geared me to participate next year with a wider
talk about OOo/ODF etc. This year I am giving a talk on ODF with an
OpenGovernment angle, targeting the success stories gather from South
America and Europe.


If we fund you to attend the SCALEx9, we have to make sure that you are 
still with OOo. I had a look at the ES project at the OOo website and I 
have to say, that there are a couple of issues puzzling me, hence I want 
to raise some concerns:


Firstly, the design of http://es.openoffice.org/ is not as it should be 
with OOo. Usually one finds the main project links such as member list, 
mailing lists etc., but they are hidden. They only becoming visible 
after moving on to Conoce OOo or Servicios. Being there, I have been 
having a look at Comunidad::Listas de Correos and got really 
irritated. (http://es.openoffice.org/comunidad/listas.html) The OOo 
mailing lists have apparently been dropped in preference of other 
mailing lists hosted as http://oooes.org/. I'm not in favor for such a 
solution, but it might still be a agreement of the community. However, 
the worst problem for me is, that the OOo mailing list archives are not 
reachable from this point. IMHO, that's totally inappropriate. Even more 
confusing is, that the d...@es mailing list still seems to have 
significant traffic, see:

http://es.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=dev
Can you please comment my above observations.

Secondly, I have been visiting http://oooes.org/ then. It promotes both 
OOo and LibreOffice, which many here see as a competing product and 
community. So, if you are going to attend the SCALEx9 on behalf and the 
expenses of OOo, will yo exclusively promote OOo or will you promote the 
whole ecosystem? The flow chart 
(http://oooes.org/images/interacciones-oooes.png) on the main page looks 
a bit like OOoES is closer tight to the TDF and LibO, rather than OOo. 
(BTW, the way OOoES is using the new OOo logo is IMHO against the 
guidelines.)




$500 would allow me to partially pay for my travel expenses. I would
still need to chip from my own money to pay for hotel.


Please comment on the above concerns before we proceed.

Best regards,
Peter


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Re: [marketing] Marketing budget - SCALEx9

2010-12-15 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Peter Junge p...@openoffice.org wrote:
 Hi Alexandro,

 Alexandro Colorado wrote:

 Hi I want to ask the budget commitee for 500 dls for expenses to
 SCALEx9. I want to put the petition even if SCALE still have not
 finished the CFP. I submitted a couple of talks and I am still waiting
 for the final approval. However budget processes have been a bit slow
 lately so I want to put an early petition here.

 maybe the processes are slow because you are sending your request
 recurrently to the wrong address. AFAIR, Florian had mentioned this many
 times. A budget request has to raised with the budget custodian, which is
 currently me. Mailing lists are welcome to be CCed, but it's not mandatory.


 Last year I participated with a lightning talk on OOo4Kids which you
 can watch here: http://jza.blip.tv/file/3261755/

 After the talk I got to talk with the core organizers which were
 interested into expanding the participation for communities such as
 OOo in the US. And geared me to participate next year with a wider
 talk about OOo/ODF etc. This year I am giving a talk on ODF with an
 OpenGovernment angle, targeting the success stories gather from South
 America and Europe.

 If we fund you to attend the SCALEx9, we have to make sure that you are
 still with OOo. I had a look at the ES project at the OOo website and I have
 to say, that there are a couple of issues puzzling me, hence I want to raise
 some concerns:

 Firstly, the design of http://es.openoffice.org/ is not as it should be with
 OOo. Usually one finds the main project links such as member list, mailing
 lists etc., but they are hidden. They only becoming visible after moving on
 to Conoce OOo or Servicios. Being there, I have been having a look at
 Comunidad::Listas de Correos and got really irritated.
 (http://es.openoffice.org/comunidad/listas.html) The OOo mailing lists have
 apparently been dropped in preference of other mailing lists hosted as
 http://oooes.org/. I'm not in favor for such a solution, but it might still
 be a agreement of the community. However, the worst problem for me is, that
 the OOo mailing list archives are not reachable from this point. IMHO,
 that's totally inappropriate. Even more confusing is, that the d...@es
 mailing list still seems to have significant traffic, see:
 http://es.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=dev
 Can you please comment my above observations.

 Secondly, I have been visiting http://oooes.org/ then. It promotes both OOo
 and LibreOffice, which many here see as a competing product and community.
 So, if you are going to attend the SCALEx9 on behalf and the expenses of
 OOo, will yo exclusively promote OOo or will you promote the whole
 ecosystem? The flow chart (http://oooes.org/images/interacciones-oooes.png)
 on the main page looks a bit like OOoES is closer tight to the TDF and LibO,
 rather than OOo. (BTW, the way OOoES is using the new OOo logo is IMHO
 against the guidelines.)


 $500 would allow me to partially pay for my travel expenses. I would
 still need to chip from my own money to pay for hotel.

 Please comment on the above concerns before we proceed.

I am not sure, this is a oooES issue at all, nor was intervention at
SCALE last year. There is no business for the spanish NLC in the US.
Last year I was promoting the projects of the Education Project, being
ooo4kids. This year it will be a more technical approach than last
year -- hopefully. I dont think I ever pushed ES NLC as you might see
on the discussion from last year budget request between Cor and myself
nor on the video from the talk. So to answer your question, I probably
won't be pushing the spanish NLC at any point of the conference.

About the changes that you see, well most of them have been taken from
a community consensus on what is best for the contributors. I am not
sure if this concerns marketing project, since I really never seen the
marketing project as an auditor for what NLC groups do or dont do. I
am confused, can you please explain?



 Best regards,
 Peter





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RE: [marketing] Marketing budget - SCALEx9

2010-12-15 Thread BILL SILER

Sorry Folks, but we run at different speeds and different tracks...Bill Siler

 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:37:32 +0800
 From: p...@openoffice.org
 To: j...@openoffice.org
 CC: dev@marketing.openoffice.org; mar...@marketing.openoffice.org
 Subject: Re: [marketing] Marketing budget - SCALEx9
 
 Hi Alexandro,
 
 Alexandro Colorado wrote:
  Hi I want to ask the budget commitee for 500 dls for expenses to
  SCALEx9. I want to put the petition even if SCALE still have not
  finished the CFP. I submitted a couple of talks and I am still waiting
  for the final approval. However budget processes have been a bit slow
  lately so I want to put an early petition here.
 
 maybe the processes are slow because you are sending your request 
 recurrently to the wrong address. AFAIR, Florian had mentioned this many 
 times. A budget request has to raised with the budget custodian, which 
 is currently me. Mailing lists are welcome to be CCed, but it's not 
 mandatory.
 
  
  Last year I participated with a lightning talk on OOo4Kids which you
  can watch here: http://jza.blip.tv/file/3261755/
  
  After the talk I got to talk with the core organizers which were
  interested into expanding the participation for communities such as
  OOo in the US. And geared me to participate next year with a wider
  talk about OOo/ODF etc. This year I am giving a talk on ODF with an
  OpenGovernment angle, targeting the success stories gather from South
  America and Europe.
 
 If we fund you to attend the SCALEx9, we have to make sure that you are 
 still with OOo. I had a look at the ES project at the OOo website and I 
 have to say, that there are a couple of issues puzzling me, hence I want 
 to raise some concerns:
 
 Firstly, the design of http://es.openoffice.org/ is not as it should be 
 with OOo. Usually one finds the main project links such as member list, 
 mailing lists etc., but they are hidden. They only becoming visible 
 after moving on to Conoce OOo or Servicios. Being there, I have been 
 having a look at Comunidad::Listas de Correos and got really 
 irritated. (http://es.openoffice.org/comunidad/listas.html) The OOo 
 mailing lists have apparently been dropped in preference of other 
 mailing lists hosted as http://oooes.org/. I'm not in favor for such a 
 solution, but it might still be a agreement of the community. However, 
 the worst problem for me is, that the OOo mailing list archives are not 
 reachable from this point. IMHO, that's totally inappropriate. Even more 
 confusing is, that the d...@es mailing list still seems to have 
 significant traffic, see:
 http://es.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?listName=dev
 Can you please comment my above observations.
 
 Secondly, I have been visiting http://oooes.org/ then. It promotes both 
 OOo and LibreOffice, which many here see as a competing product and 
 community. So, if you are going to attend the SCALEx9 on behalf and the 
 expenses of OOo, will yo exclusively promote OOo or will you promote the 
 whole ecosystem? The flow chart 
 (http://oooes.org/images/interacciones-oooes.png) on the main page looks 
 a bit like OOoES is closer tight to the TDF and LibO, rather than OOo. 
 (BTW, the way OOoES is using the new OOo logo is IMHO against the 
 guidelines.)
 
  
  $500 would allow me to partially pay for my travel expenses. I would
  still need to chip from my own money to pay for hotel.
 
 Please comment on the above concerns before we proceed.
 
 Best regards,
 Peter
 
 
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