Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: LO at SCALE in March?

Hi Nigel,

The phenomenon is peculiar to the US and not to Canada, where we have 
volunteer advocates (although not many, but enough to organize 
activities). Outside the US we usually have many communities of 
volunteers, in all continents. For sure, we have volunteers in Mexico, 
and smaller countries such as Costa Rica. We are starting a program to 
identify ambassadors, but of course starting from zero in a huge country 
such as the US is way from ideal. In any case, I will try to organize 
the video chat with organizers of US FOSS events because I think this 
might be a first step to face the issue (unless those copied here will 
tell me that this is a stupid idea).

Briefing people, and inundating them with materials to prepare for the 
meetings at a FOSS event is not a problem. Also, we could send them 
marketing materials, stickers and swag for the visitors, and general 
slide decks to prepare for presentations.

Thanks again for providing an alternative POV to Mike's answer, which 
represents our current situation, as we would love to have a large US 
based LibreOffice community.

Best, Italo

On 1/9/23 19:20, Nigel Verity wrote:
> Hi Italo
>
> Unfortunately, being located in the UK, I cannot put myself forward for SCALE. I would, in any 
> case, need an awful lot of briefing beforehand before I felt sufficiently confident to address the 
> detail of issues likely to be raised by the calibre of people attending SCALE.
>
> I have to say that it comes as a surprise that US participation in LO is mainly limited to a large number of 
> enthusiastic users. Is this a phenomenon peculiar to the US/Canada or representative of the entire world 
> outside Europe? If the latter then perhaps a way needs to be found to identify supporters who may be able to 
> act as regional "ambassadors", for want of a better term, using local languages to further promote 
> active participation in the project.
>
> Easy to come up with "blue sky" ideas like this, of course. I realise it would be a job and a half 
> to implement such a thing. The fact remains though that there is an enormous pool of development skills in 
> North America. There must be some way of tapping into it for the benefit of LO.
>
> Nige
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> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: LO at SCALE in March?
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>
> Hi Nigel, we would love to have a US based community of LibreOffice volunteer advocates, but it 
> looks like in the US we have a large number of users but we completely miss volunteers who show up 
> to help the global project with activities such as staffing a booth at SCALE. TDF is the 
> organization representing the LibreOffice community, and has a budget to help these activities to 
> happen (for instance, we can reimburse travel and lodging expenses for events, and the production 
> of swag for the booth). Unfortunately, the old volunteers coming from the OOo project have retired 
> or have passed away too early, and nobody has shown up to replace them. We have had to sadly turn 
> down similar opportunities at other US FOSS events during 2022, and we don't see how to solve the 
> issue.
>
> We would be happy to work with you and with other organizers of FOSS events in the US to attract 
> volunteer advocates for LibreOffice. Any suggestion? Should we organize a video chat to discuss the 
> topic? I would be happy to organize the video chat, inviting you and other people who can help us, 
> at least with suggestions about actions to address the issue.
>
> Does it sound feasible for you? In any case, thanks for your message, which shows that we have 
> loyal users and followers in the US, and best regards, Italo
>
> On 1/9/23 16:52, Nigel Verity wrote:
>
> Hi Mike Is a representative of TDF the only option? I'm sure there are some top notch LO supporters and/or developers within a reasonable distance of SCALE. With solid briefing from TDF beforehand such manning of a table at the event could 
> demonstrate well the nature of the LO project as truly collaborative rather than a quasi-proprietary product of TDF. Nige Mon Jan 09 15:00:48 GMT+00:00 2023 Mike 
> Saunders<mike.saunders@documentfoundation.org><mailto:mike.saunders@documentfoundation.org>: Hi Ilan! On 09.01.23 15:40, Ilan Rabinovitch wrote: > > Hi Libre Office Team, Any interest in joining us in March? Thanks for the 
> offer of a table! None of us in the TDF Team are in north America, so I don't think anyone can attend in March, I'm afraid. If something changes though, we'll let you know :-) Have a good event! Cheers, Mike -- To unsubscribe e-mail 
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