Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Can we put marketing titles under our names?

On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 16:32 +0100, Thomas Krumbein wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I agree with James, structures should be settle up very soon! And we
> should show this - in public!
>
> [..]
> > My real point is, we cannot afford to stagnate, and cannot take 3-4 months
> > to really get the foundation set up, it needs to happen soon, or we will
> > fade away.
> > We also cannot promote LibreOffice to people if the infrastructure is not in
> > place, including the by-laws of the foundation.  
>
> Well, I believe, this is another point, the by-laws of the foundation.
> It is not nessassary, that his goes "hand by hand", by-laws of the
> foundation will take more time and ( I believe) even more discussion,
> but this can be done independent of the structure and a "Fondation
> Committee". This should be start working immediatly - and local
> homepages should be settle up include all names of people, who are
> responsible for local activities.

I would like to jump in here and support Thomas' last comment.

IMO, the focus right now should be on tangible efforts - getting local
meeting groups is to me the absolute key to long term success. 

Getting local pages up, as a way to help these local groups meet up,
would be right there. Use the libreofficevols.status.net micro-blog,
this is a good tool for organizing local groups, meet-ups, etc.

So if you want a meetup in NY, or Oklahoma, use the tools here - start,
announce, be in a place for others to come to, put together a hand out,
use the tools here (yes said that twice)..but pick something and do it.

If you have a LUG in your area, go to a meeting, introduce yourself, be
prepared to tell people what we are up to, where they can find us.

You do not not need to speak for anyone beyond yourself - You support
FOSS, you support LibreOffice, you want to share something.

Titles - forgive me for speaking bluntly here - not important at this
juncture and the discussion of them is really just a distraction we
don't need. As for structure - EU has a bunch - well, who says we want
that same structure in the NA efforts. I for one would rather see a much
more grass roots organization, at least for libreOffice - seriously, we
need some titles of course, they will come in due time.

just some thoughts,

Drew









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