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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org >
