[marketing] Partnership program
A few days back Florian mentioned the idea of a Marketplace for OOo. There has also been some talk about a partnership program. I guess I want to bring the discussion back on track. What exactly do we need to create this program. Should bizdev be the project involved. Who is part of bizdev (project lead?). What exactly do we need. There is also the thing of the domain. Ugly 4 level domains are not very friendly, services. A satelite website is also not very recomended. http://bizdev.openoffice.org might be the best URL to have people come to, is more friendly URL and also not very well used (Is Erwin still in OOo now that he is at SAP?) The challenge is how to make this site dynamic. Hopefully with new AJAX technology mostly all sites (html) can be dynamic if they are routed correctly. I went to IRC to consult this case and got a quote from a developer. He told me is possible as long as we can get a datasource from within the same domain. Something I need to verify. Technical things aside, I think this is a good oportunity that would like to know if there is any list of goals that we want to achieve with this. Should all companies listed be free? does that mean that we endorse them fully? Should we have a QA process to award them with a certified membership? -- Alexandro Colorado CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES http://es.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 01:29 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: A few days back Florian mentioned the idea of a Marketplace for OOo. There has also been some talk about a partnership program. I guess I want to bring the discussion back on track. What exactly do we need to create this program. Should bizdev be the project involved. Who is part of bizdev (project lead?). Take a look at Moodle. They have a partnership programme which gives them a sustainable income. Moodle partners get rights to use the Moodle name officially in return for a small cut of their business earnings. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications A new approach to assessment for learning www.theINGOTs.org - 01827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [marketing] Partnership program
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:35:35 -0500, Ian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 01:29 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: A few days back Florian mentioned the idea of a Marketplace for OOo. There has also been some talk about a partnership program. I guess I want to bring the discussion back on track. What exactly do we need to create this program. Should bizdev be the project involved. Who is part of bizdev (project lead?). Take a look at Moodle. They have a partnership programme which gives them a sustainable income. Moodle partners get rights to use the Moodle name officially in return for a small cut of their business earnings. Yes Mozilla is a very protective organization of their brands and products too. I would also want to encourage having a set of guidelines on how to use our brand. We have been too relax on this aspect and already have companies like Siemens screwing us up by copyrighting open office For their voip product. -- Alexandro Colorado CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES http://es.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi Alexandro, Yes Mozilla is a very protective organization of their brands and products too. I would also want to encourage having a set of guidelines on how to use our brand. We have been too relax on this aspect and already have companies like Siemens screwing us up by copyrighting open office For their voip product. Louis currently works on the trademark policy. It has been in the draft for long, but I hope to have some idea of it soon. :-) Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello Alexandro, what exactly do you mean with a partnership program? Do you want to award companies official partner status, instead of just listing their solutions at our website? Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:26:30 -0500, Florian Effenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Alexandro, what exactly do you mean with a partnership program? Do you want to award companies official partner status, instead of just listing their solutions at our website? Florian I want to do both. Think of ebay's regular users and the 'certified' sellers. Anyway right now we might not have infrastructure for either. But would be good on how this marketplace if there is any should work. -- Alexandro Colorado CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES http://es.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi Alexandro, I want to do both. Think of ebay's regular users and the 'certified' sellers. Anyway right now we might not have infrastructure for either. But would be good on how this marketplace if there is any should work. may I suggest we pick up that idea after 3.0 has been released? This clearly requires lots of work, and I guess most people don't have much time before 3.0 is out :-) Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:00:47 -0500, Florian Effenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alexandro, I want to do both. Think of ebay's regular users and the 'certified' sellers. Anyway right now we might not have infrastructure for either. But would be good on how this marketplace if there is any should work. may I suggest we pick up that idea after 3.0 has been released? This clearly requires lots of work, and I guess most people don't have much time before 3.0 is out :-) Florian I bet there i a lot of focus on 3.0 release but clearly we are not talking about developing right now just to think about what would be involved or features could we have in this. Here is a great example of what I am trying to get at. http://bizdev.openoffice.org/consultants.html Here we mention a label when we say that we don't endorse any of these vendors.. What if we have a methodology to endorse this vendors for a cost, regardless if the cost is monetary or donating developers? -- Alexandro Colorado CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES http://es.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi Alexandro, I bet there i a lot of focus on 3.0 release but clearly we are not talking about developing right now just to think about what would be involved or features could we have in this. I definitely like the idea, but I won't be able to join the discussion until 3.0 is out - already too much on my todo list. :-) Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
