Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Much pleasure - I want to help with the LibreOffice project

Hi Aaron,

LibreOffice is backed by a community of volunteers based on meritocracy,
and this means that everyone is free to contribute according to his
personal preferences.

We do not have a budget for marketing, apart from the people who manage
some day to day activities.

You can make a proposal based on what you think it would be useful for
the project. We will never ask a specific task like writing contents,
because we do not know which content you could write.

Are you a LibreOffice user? If yes, you could probably provide some
ideas about articles targeted to specific user clusters, to increase the
awareness about some features which you consider important.

Are you a SEO expert? If yes, you can probably analyze our websites and
blogs and provide some suggestions to improve search engine ranking.

These are just examples.

Of course, we could create a list of marketing tasks, but the experience
tells us that when we have spent our time to create such a list, people
have not started to contribute because they were expecting a budget
associated with each task.

I would be happy to change my mind, but for the last 15 years - since I
joined the community, suggesting a strategic approach to media relations
- I have seen too many people asking for specific directions, even if we
cannot give directions.

A meritocratic community has no managers, and no list of tasks to be
performed by volunteers (and you would not be a real volunteer if your
tasks were decided by someone else).

I hope to have improved the understanding of the situation.

Best regards, Italo

On 08/07/19 22:51, Aaron L. wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've reached out about assisting with Marketing (writing content, SEO,
> Marketing Automation, etc), but I haven't received a straight response
> on how I can do so.
>
> I've just been seeing emails for non-marketing related topics within
> this email chain.
>
> Best,
> Aaron
>
> On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 12:53 PM karlapati bhaskar
> <karlapati.bhaskar@gmail.com <mailto:karlapati.bhaskar@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Libre development part of work not only marketing team support,... Need
>     more code writers, updates spirit persons,extensions,....etc,..
>     Programming
>     writers services need .still many using MS office, most of old versions
>     pirated suites using ( in our analysis, observations on market ) by
>     lot of
>     again don't know Apache open office, "office suite" birth, .... Again MS
>     competition brand image tries Gsuite also not knows many.
>     Indirectly drives helps for users....?!
>     So marketing terms, other developers get data of firms, industries,
>     departments, etc,... Suggest , inform libre ,office suite values.
>     KBR
>     Web journalist
>
>     On Sat, Jul 6, 2019, 2:53 AM Italo Vignoli <italo@libreoffice.org
>     <mailto:italo@libreoffice.org>> wrote:
>
>     > We are a community of volunteers based on meritocracy. In general, you
>     > should start from your native language community. For instance, if you
>     > want to write articles for the LibreOffice Brazilian magazine, you
>     > should get in touch with the Brazilian community.
>     >
>     > Of course, you are free to write about LibreOffice in your blog,
>     > although I do not see any current relationship between LibreOffice and
>     > Bitcoins (but here I might be biased). In any case, it should be clear
>     > that contributions are always on a volunteer basis.
>     >
>     > Best regards.
>     >
>     > > On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 14:28 -0300, Ricardo Sierban wrote:
>     > >> Hello, here are some information about my experience and what
>     areas I
>     > >> would like to work on.
>     > >>
>     > >> My name is Ricardo Rojas Sierban, I am a Linux and LibreOffice user
>     > >> and a true lover of Free Softtware.
>     > >>
>     > >> I am 45 years old and I am trained in data processing, acting as a
>     > >> teacher in C language (basic) and editor for blogs and websites.
>     > >>
>     > >> I am Brazilian, I live in São Paulo and I write in Portuguese.
>     > >>
>     > >> The reason for my contact is to request the opportunity to create
>     > >> articles for LibreOffice magazine and / or other areas that I can
>     > >> collaborate with.
>     > >>
>     > >> I want to promote LibreOffice on my blog (https://bitcoinmoeda.com)
>     > >> and youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/Bitcoinmoeda).
>     > >>
>     > >> Proover also in my social networks.
>     > >>
>     > >> I await your reply.
>     > >>
>     > >> Thanks for listening
>     > >>
>     > >> Ricardo
>     > >>
>     > >>
>     > >> [image: Mailtrack]
>     > >> <
>     > >>
>     >
>     https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality5&;
>     > >> ;>
>     > >> Remetente
>     > >> notificado por
>     > >> Mailtrack
>     > >> <
>     > >>
>     >
>     https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality5&;
>     > >> ;>
>     > >> 04/07/19
>     > >> 14:28:48
>     > >>
>     > >
>     > >
>     >
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