On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 09:33 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2011-06-20 08:54, drew a écrit : > > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 08:52 -0300, Olivier Hallot wrote: > >> Hi Marc > >> > >> I got this statement from the info@ list... not being myself knwoledgeable > >> on them. > >> > >> I found them here : www.grupoinfoec.com. > >> > >> On my side, simple correction as you did are OK. I put Gerardo on copy if > >> anything "au contraire". > > Hi Olivier, > > > > If the original request is to add this firms comments to this page: > > http://www.documentfoundation.org/supporters/ > > > > then I would recommend against doing so. > > > > Looking at this firms website I can't help but feel we are just giving > > some free advertisement to a local system vendor. I appreciate that they > > support our software and am very happy that they, apparently, include it > > on systems they sell, but in all honesty that is neither unique nor > > particularly noteworthy in and of itself - I have already met many such > > vendors in my region. > > > > Rather I would be in favor of creating a different set of pages where > > firms offering support for LibreOffice can be listed - along with some > > minimum criteria for that privilege. On such a page then of course they > > would be welcomed. > > > > Just my opinion naturally. > > How would you break down these pages?
By Country and or Region i.e. Here is a list of OO.o consultants in France: http://fr.openoffice.org/Marketing/entreprises.html#france I want to say quickly though that I would not duplicate the way this was done back at the bizdev group at OO.o, this is just an example of how it was done once. > Would we not then have to question > RedHat, Novell, No - Do I really need to explain why? > etc on our support list as well then? FSF or FSF or Hungary, well again sure - and again do I need explain why? > They are also > selling something or other. That is not the issue. > > Just wondering. I could flip this around - if I come back with 12 firms, very much like this one, all with nice statements of support from their owners would we just add them to the page. We could find a lot of these, guaranteed. When someone in Germany comes with 12 more, cause I guarantee you they could be found easily also, do we again make the page longer. That is not just a yellow pages type page IMO - unless of course that is what we want to turn it into. Now we might expand the idea of a 'support/consultants' listing function and say something like - write up a nice statement of support and you get a little extra placement for some period of time and then cycle these through - I could see dong that. There are lots of ideas that come to mind - for instance didn't I just read something about a magazine? Bottom line - It is a judgment call based on this specific case, nothing more - sometimes you have to just use common sense. Best wishes, Drew Jensen -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
