[marketing] Sales cost

2008-08-23 Thread Alexandro Colorado
This is an interesting training cost for the Google Apps stack, the interesting part is that it also take into account the Google docs and point out some 'pain questions' to ask regarding a sale's pitch. This questions could well be apply to anyone addressing a company's need to change to O

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org Social network

2008-08-23 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Sometime ago I wanted to do something like social.openoffice.org this is more like on the lines of "people" from KDE. http://behindkde.org/ although not exactly. The key here is to know what people in general are doing. For example have a personal profile page that will aggregate from their activi

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org Social network

2008-08-23 Thread Benjamin Horst
Hey Alexandro, Thanks for this idea, and thanks for reading my blog! I think you are on to something here. I think Elgg could make a great communication platform for the widespread members of the OOo project. Ideally, we may leverage it to come up with new uses, like organizing a campus re

[marketing] Looking for information about associations supporting OOo

2008-08-23 Thread André Schnabel
Hi *, I'm going to give a talk about funding the project at OOoCon 08. Instead of focusing on the "centralistic" way, I'd like to focus on a network of associations. I know, that there already are several lokal associations supporting OOo and our Communiy Contributors (I'm founding member o