Re: [libreoffice-marketing] building up a marketing network

On 10 July 2011 02:41, Takeshi Abe <tabe@fixedpoint.jp> wrote:

> Hello Florian, all,
>
> On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:43:18 +0200, Florian Effenberger <
> floeff@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > back in the OpenOffice.org times, we had a comprehensive list of so
> > called MarCons (http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html),
> > marketing contacts for various languages and regions. They acted as a
> > local point of contact for the press and for local events (outside
> > channel), but also were in charge of translating press releases,
> > distributing them and coordinating with the local communities (inside
> > channel). They also represented their language groups in the marketing
> > confcalls and on the conference.
> Great idea, thanks a lot for your initiative.
>
> > As discussed in the latest marketing conference calls, we would like to
> > have something similar for LibreOffice, to work together more
> efficiently.
> > Right now, we have four media spokespeople for The Document Foundation
> > (http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/), who are eligible of
> > representing the foundation in the press. The number of official TDF
> > contacts should be rather limited, as they represent the legal entity of
> > the foundation at large in the press, so I would not do any major
> > changes to these four people.
> +1
>
> > For LibreOffice, i.e. the project and the software, no official contacts
> > exist so far, and I would like to change that, and I envision a similar
> > scheme as we had with OpenOffice.org. At the moment, only a few language
> > groups translate press releases, and there seem to be some confusion on
> > who is "eligible" of representing LibreOffice. In order to have a better
> > press appearance, I think it is crucial that we have defined
> > responsibilities, publically known contacts, and some processes in
> > place. One of these processes would be to regularly take care of the
> > press release translations. We will also set-up an internal space where
> > press contacts and other items could be shared amongst the contacts.
> >
> > My (rough) idea for the moment is that each language group names one or
> > ideally two marketing representatives, preferably through voting. Those
> > contacts should already engage themselves in the global marketing
> > mailing list, and if there are no objections from the wider community,
> > we should set them in place on a publically available website.
> +1 for two representatives per language, because it will help each
> local community to avoid so-called a single point of failure and
> to encourage them to work together collaboratively.
>
> Cheers,
> -- Takeshi Abe
>
> > We can discuss about the details, but I'd like to hear your thoughts on
> > the basic idea first.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Florian
> >
> > --
> > Florian Effenberger <floeff@documentfoundation.org>
> > Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation
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+1. One thing I'd like to see is a quarterly report. Just a quick list of
actions or activities during the last quarter and any future plans for each
marcon in a central place eg a wiki. This would ensure ideas and practice
spreads between marcons and also makes each think wit a bit of focus about
what they have taken on.

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