Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Blogging of items on the Marketing List

Hi all,
On 14/01/2013 21:46, Marc Paré wrote:
[...]

> The FR team is more than welcome to start their (our) own blog and
> marketing team. Nothing has ever stopped us from doing it. Other nl
> groups are doing it. But in the meantime, if you read the thread from
> Florian, there are plans coming.
Sorry to jump here, I'm not a marketer, but I would like to express some
ideas:
Marc, let me disagree here, it's not about the FR project but about a
general way the NL project are seen and the resources that are
offered/provided/requested to/by them. I lose 60% of my audience by
having my blog removed (that doesn't encourage me to go on of course)
but that means also that there is, inside our project, a
misunderstanding or a misconception about language representation and
their impact on the overall communication on the marketing side.
> Taking care of our international EN site is another matter, it speaks
> for the project and does not necessarily follow the schedule of other
> parts of the project.

No, if we don't think to the overall community we are going to lose, or
pass by a lot of people, there is no difference between i18n and
NLprojects and one doesn't speak for another (or tell me what is
happening currently in the Russian project just for example).
That's a long time I said that if we settle a tool, whatever the usage,
it should be available for the overall community, and not only for the
common denominator. We should be equal to all and provide the same
resources for all. Otherwise, it's very discouraging for the isolated
efforts and it needs to double them at any time to only hope to be
visible and more important: to be effective. I know how it's easier to
say that we act for what might be the broader audience, but we deal with
people for people and they have a lot to say if we let them have a
chance to say it. And whatever the language, it's much better than silence.
> > > From a $$ perspective, this limits the number of domains that we need to
> > budget for.
> > And it also gives credibility to the blog posts because it is directly
> > hosted by LibreOffice.

That is important, whatever the blog if it is out of the community, it
will always suffer of lack of recognition or credibility, and it's not a
matter of money. More some projects need to be backed by the community
to make sure their credibility won't be attacked.

Kind regards
Sophie

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Membership & Certification Committee Member - Co-founder
The Document Foundation

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