Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Media Contacts for TDF

Hi,

Paulo de Souza Lima wrote on 2011-06-08 15.40:

> Are qualified people members, founder members, or something else?

with qualified I mostly meant people who can do the job, because being a 
media spokesperson requires some knowledge and experience.

Official spokespeople of the foundation as legal entity should be 
carefully selected, and I guess we only need a few of them. Their task 
is mostly the foundation itself, and not so much LibreOffice. The 
comparison does not fit 100%, of course, but think of it like in a 
corporation: You have a few spokespeople legally represnting the 
corporation, but for specific projects or groups, you have many more, as 
they are not legally representing it.

So, while the TDF spokespeople to my opinion should be approved members, 
LibreOffice project and community marketing contacts do *not* have to be 
approved members. Rather, their engagement in this area can even help 
them in gaining the membership status.

> For me, it seems fine also.

That's good. :)
Indeed, the current workflow is not too good - we have some PRs 
translated, and some not. By having something similar to the MarCons 
(marketing contacts) we had back at OpenOffice.org, I hope to get many 
more people involved. I will work on this, it just needs some more time. 
My first guess is that the local groups simply can nominate/elect/vote 
on their marketing contacts themselves, and I do not see a necessity of 
having the board of directors involved.

Florian

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