[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Funding Wishlist

Le 2012-10-14 09:53, Marc Paré a écrit :
> Le 2012-10-14 06:24, Bjoern Michaelsen a écrit :
>
> > While I agree that this is an important topic, I think it is not one
> > that can
> > easily be bootstrapped effectively with small amount of money. IMHO, the
> > important part is forming a 'critical mass' to ignite a self-sustaining
> > community there. My guess is that would need:
> >
> > - One Hackfest in the US with some of the key contributors (who are
> > mostly in
> > the EU) flown in -- of course, we should also rally whatever we have
> > based in
> > the US as it is cheaper than flying over the pond
> > - Two or three US conferences attended by LibreOffice people before
> > that to
> > rally the people to join the Hackfest (if possible our rare US-based
> > contributors).
> >
> > Ideally the location and time of the Hackfest slipstreams one of the big
> > events, e.g. the weekend right after OSCON in Portland, or the Community
> > Leadership Summit.
> >
> > But that wont be cheap -- and it doesnt make sense to do it 'halfway'.
> > Either
> > you kickstart it into self-suistaining mode with such an event or you
> > spend no
> > money on it and let it grow into self-sustainability itself.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Bjoern
>
> I also agree with this. Although, at first I would suggest that we need
> to fly in key-contributors from the EU project in to help seed the
> project. OSCON seems like the conference most cited from people here and
> it also seems like the most logical place to hold a short LibreOffice
> conference. Flying in key-American contributors to such a conference as
> well would seem to make sense
>
> Growing the community in the US is another big topic of discussion that
> needs to be discussed fully. There is a definite need for US marcons to
> get things going ... the population in the US is nearing 320 million and
> the territory to cover is quite large.
>
> While these are great projects to which plans are needed, as far as the
> subject topic of "Funding Wishlist", we need to make a proposal out of
> this.
>
> If we make try to make it sensible then, propose the following:
>
> =========================
>
> Plan on flying a couple of EU-TDF/LibreOffice representatives to OSCON
> in the year 2013 and put on a short 1-2 day Libreoffice conference? How
> does does sound as a proposal? (OSCON 2013 July 22-26)
>
> This proposal should also include costs for a booth at OSCON and perhaps
> one of the TDF/LibO presenting a paper at the conference.
>
> =========================
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc

As suggested by Bjoern, this should NOT be included as a wishlist item 
(I also agree) as this is more of a large project. But, on the other 
hand perhaps we could still include it on the wishlist as a note to the 
BoD that this should be tagged as a larger project wishlist that should 
be kept in mind when organizing the larger TDF/LibreOffice Conference.

IMO, ideally, we should have both a main "TDF/LibreOffice Global 
Conference" and an "America's TDF LibreOffice Conference". This would in 
fact "regionalize" the globe into two distinct regions where the 
TDF/LibreOffice could meet. We could have the "TDF/LibreOffice America's 
Conference" meet before the "TDF/LibreOffice Global Conference" and have 
"chosen, America's Conference TDF "member-ambassadors" report to the 
Global Conference in person.

The America's Conference could alternate the meetings between North (one 
year) and then South America (the other year). The Global Conference 
could meet in other locales on the globe except for the America's and 
perhaps meet every 5th year somewhere in the America's.

Cheers,

Marc

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