Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO North American group

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:

> Le 2010-10-12 13:07, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit :
>
>  Hello everyone,
> > Le Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:55:53 -0400,
> > Drew Jensen<drew@baseanswers.com>  a écrit :
> >
> >  On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 12:43 -0400, Benjamin Horst wrote:
> > > > Thanks, Alexandro.
> > > >
> > > > Two possible starting points: request a new mailing list, or create
> > > > a wiki page.
> > > >
> > > > Next step: brainstorm marketing activities and choose one or two to
> > > > work on.
> > > >
> > > > Drew's been leading this so far, so he'll have the most background
> > > > and can share his thoughts on what's next, too.
> > > >
> > > > -Ben
> > >
> > > Operative word there is "so far"...just trying to prime the pump.
> > >
> > > I did ask for a mailing list, but given that the wiki is up (didn't
> > > quite expect that)...maybe that isn't needed or maybe just a generic
> > > Events ML makes more sense. Opinions?
> > >
> > > Make use the wiki for sure? Absolutely.
> > >
> > > Finally - there is an iron in the fire already - but sine it involves
> > > another organization and isn't quite finalized yet, it's a bit
> > > premature to make a public announcement I think.
> > >
> > > I'll send one more email to the list that was assembled, adding the
> > > new names to it today - touch base with the steering committee, after
> > > some feedback from that email and see about getting to the spot where
> > > we can start planning this in the open, in the next couple of days.
> >
> >
> > We can also set up a mailing list, sorry we've been a bit messy on that
> > (next time request a wiki and we'll get you a mailing list :p)
> >
> > As a side note, I would rather like to see one specific group for the
> > US market, because we've always been very, very weak there, even if it
> > means have another group for Mexico and one for Canada, but I'm just a
> > lousy European, so don't take my advice as an educated guess..
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Charles.
> >
> >
> > > Drew
> Hi Charles:
>
> Maybe if we combined to start off as we are only 43 million people in
> Canada, pretty small compared to US and the sharing of marketing materials
> may make more sense with us. We can maybe split off later as we gain more
> tools/resources. We Canadians would be starting literally from point zero.
>
> Anyone from Mexico for an opinion? Was there a Mexican OpenOffice.org
> group?

No there wasn't, there is a Spanish OOo that cover the Spanish speaking
countries, however the idea is to basically have more speakers and people
that can go to the US (or Canada) and give a presentation or speak about the
product or provide other services. Also US has a huge Spanish market on
certain areas like Florida, Texas and California.


> Marc
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