[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Developer-specific brochure

Le 2013-06-28 17:19, Jean Weber a écrit :

> Well, an "official doc" need not be a trifold brochure, and a
> portrait-oriented fact sheet can look just as official and
> professional as any other marketing document -- or it can look like it
> was "thrown together really quickly" as you put it. Likewise, a
> brochure, however nice in appearance, may have been "thrown together
> really quickly" -- as, indeed, was the one I did about the community.
>
> That said, I agree that having both can be useful, assuming some one
> has the time, interest, and energy to do the work.
>
> BTW, my earlier comment may have left the impression that I intended
> to just print a web page. What I meant was to take the info on that
> page and create a handout. That's essentially what I did with the
> community brochure, but fitting the info into the space available on a
> trifold can be more difficult and time consuming. I was rather
> surprised that everything fit so well with minimal tweaking necessary
> for that one.
>
> --Jean

Sorry, after re-reading my post it sounded a little harsh which was not 
my intention -- such is the dangers of email correspondence. I was only 
hoping that we would speak to both groups rather than just one. I find 
that the project relies a lot on what has always been done and needs to 
try to connect to other new and available groups in other ways.

As to the other group of devs, in our particular case, while we pride 
ourselves on our opensource base and philosophy we never seem to 
acknowledge the "income" side of the project, which, without it (just 
look at our list of Advisory Board and or our list of Companies who now 
have employed certified developers) we would have difficulty in 
surviving. These two lists are really lists of "for income" entities who 
make money off of the project. There is obvious interest by "income" 
groups and we should also make some marketing push towards them as we do 
to the opensource interested groups. There are contributor members to be 
had from this other group.

We need to grow community in different ways.

I will take care of putting the brochure together once I get some free 
time to get to it.

Cheers,

Marc

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