[libreoffice-marketing] Re: POSSCON Call for Speakers (Deadline Nov. 16, 2012)

Hi Italo,

Le 2012-11-05 08:00, Italo Vignoli a écrit :
> Il 05/11/2012 13:51, Marc Paré ha scritto:
>
> > Sounds like an excellent plan! I suspect they will now know of it ... I
> > am sure someone at POSSCON will raise the topic after having read this
> > on our list. :-)
>
> Maybe... In 2012 I have been invited to conferences in Tunisia and
> Poland, and in 2013 I have been invited in Oman and Saudi Arabia. By the
> way, these are the ones that I could or I will be able to make according
> to my schedule. These are in addition to those I have filed papers for,
> which have always been accepted. So, ignoring TDF does not seem popular,
> but might be popular in a specific environment. I might understand the
> position though, as the supposedly superior license, which should have
> attracted hundreds of developers, is not attracting, and listening to
> the growth of our developers based on a copyleft license might hurt.

Well, quite honestly, I notice that some of our sponsors take part in 
that particular conference. If we were interested, perhaps a well placed 
call/email could help the adoption to POSSCON a little.

IMO, the whole marketing strategy in N.America (US in particular) is 
different than that of anywhere else. The in-grained "for-profit" 
phylosophy permeates in all areas of N.American life and coming to grips 
with opensource software is a difficult concept with which to come to 
grips for most. The strategy being used elsewhere did very little to 
work in the N.A. scene with OOo. Perhaps it needs a little more tweaking 
for LibreOffice to make substantial inroads. IMO, it should involve a 
two-prongued approach to gathering interest with dev and consumer -- for 
more market penetration, more marketing strategies/emphasis on the 350 
million US consumers.

Re: requests where you are asked to speak. It would be nice if you 
forwarded these events/locations to the marketing list as I add these to 
our international events calendar. I am not sure if these are listed.

Cheers,

Marc

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