[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Funding Wishlist

Please do not respond to this thread. We are already working on 4 items 
on another thread. If at all possible, let's keep the thread un-broken.

Cheers,

Marc

Le 2012-11-18 09:32, Marc Paré a écrit :
> Hi everyone,
>
> Just a reminder to your teams about this.
>
> We are seriously looking at different teams' wishlists. Please do take a
> little time out of your busy schedule and speak to your teams about any
> funding for items that you think may be of importance to your team or
> the enhance the functioning of your team's work on the project. So far
> there are only the website and marketing teams who are working on some
> items. Feel free to ask if you have any questions regarding this. At
> this point, anything goes, as long as the requests are reasonable. We
> need these items for planning more effective funding drives as well as
> for budgeting. It would really help if your suggestions come along with
> approximate costs where possible.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc
>
> Le 2012-10-13 16:45, Marc.Pare@LibreOffice.org a écrit :
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > In trying to better assess the TDF/LibreOffice funding requirements,
> > we are compiling a wishlist of funding request particular to your
> > team's needs. While there is no guarantee that this will get you
> > funding for any particular item, it will help to better assess and
> > prioritize the project's needs.
> >
> > I have volunteered to take care of setting up, as well as, document
> > (facilitate) the proposal from Florian (below)[1]
> >
> > snip
> > ==========
> >
> > "What we effectively need now is a (senseful) wishlist from the
> > various teams. Think of it as a Christmas wishlist: You write a dozen
> > things on it, eventually you get two or three, which is fantastic!
> >
> > Besides the infrastructure and cost for ongoing operations, I can also
> > imagine some developer machines are required, more travel funding, a
> > marketing campaign, funds to produce collaterals and swags for giving
> > them away, and many more.
> >
> > My proposal is to create a wiki page, asking the various groups to
> > write down their wishes, and eventually "distill" a wishlist out of that.
> >
> > Does that sound senseful? Are there any volunteers for mailing the
> > various lists and compiling an initial wiki page? " (Florian Effenberger)
> >
> > ==========
> >
> > I think the key words in Florian's proposal are "senseful-whishlist".
> > If there are multiple items, you may want to prioritize them in the
> > right order.
> >
> > I have set up a wiki page to collect your team's list[2]. Feel free to
> > add these to the wiki page after discussing it with your team, or, I
> > can also help out with collecting your suggestions by re-visiting this
> > thread and then add them to the wiki page.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > [1]
> > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/6143
> >
> > [2] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Funding_Priorities


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