Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Wiki, who you are, national marketing

On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 23:06 +0200, Italo Vignoli wrote:
> Marc Paré wrote:
>
> > Would it be a good idea to sign off on emails with your country? Like
> > below? This would help in explaining the marketing views that you may
> > have in discussion threads.
>
> Yes, this could be a nice way to recognize ourselves and the specific
> problems we represent. Software has to deal with languages because of
> the localization, but marketing has to deal with countries because of
> governments and economies. Let's say that the OOo project was a
> collection of marketing horrors by Sun that Oracle is pushing forward in
> a shameless way. Of course, there are country specific languages, like
> Italian, where the distinction between language and market don't matter,
> and languages like english and spanish which are spoken in completely
> different economies. In this case I am definitely for some country
> specific distinction, which definitely make sense. At first, though,
> it's better to shape the group, and then look at country specificities.
>
> -- 
Hello Italo

Just a quick comment - not restricted to marketing per se, or even
country specific.

OO.o as an organization was constructed in such a way that everything
focused on the single entity. Very much similar to a corporate
structure. This is not the only way to construct an organization
however. 

There are models that are much more based on confederation.

I haven't seen anything yet on the structures that are being talked
about for the document foundation - and I realize it is early, so don't
take that as meaning that I think I should of at this point.

But I am interested if anyone is looking at this other type of approach.

Thanks

Drew

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