Re: [us-marketing] Changind the URL for this mailing list from US to NA

Le 2011-06-21 06:00, Florian Effenberger a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> drew wrote on 2011-06-20 22.09:
>
> > Well, it seems to me that the action item I had from May was to explore
> > how much work (or of a hassle) this would be.
> >
> >  From Florian's responses I would say - a good bit.
> >
> > That and given the fact there really does not seem to be consensus on
> > this at the moment I propose we table the idea till the next meeting.
> >
> > Right now there are other more pressing uses of our time and energies,
> > IMO.
>
> it requires a few hours of time for me, but that wouldn't be the 
> problem. I am just curious to hear the reasons. We discussed rather 
> lenghty on why to have "us". I see you feel a need, but how do we 
> organize things? How can we avoid having splitted mailing lists? I 
> don't want to end up with, based on the German example, having "de", 
> "bavaria", "allgaeu" and "schwaben", where two of these will vanish 
> some day, and all is just cluttered.
>
> If there is a compelling reason, I am happy to do the change, but 
> still I do not understand why "northamerican" is so much better than 
> "us". Or, why did you then want to have a specific "us" list in the 
> beginning?
>
> Florian
In the beginning, we thought that we would be able to organize as just 
one US team and I think we have just found that it is easier for us to 
think more as a North American team and including the Mexican and 
Canadian market into our talks. The US touches both of these countries 
in a very BIG way. Having the US mailing list only, labels our mailing 
list as being only US-related and sends the wrong message to the other 
two groups when we try to include them in our planning -- the DVD is a 
good example of this, although there is quite a large ES population in 
the US, the ES version is could easily be attributable to the Mexican 
group and the FR easily attributable to the Canadian group. The "US 
mailing list label" is perhaps too limiting for what we could accomplish 
for the marketing and project development of LibreOffice and some of us 
find it limiting.

IMO, to keep things simple, we could open a new NorthAmerican mailing 
list and see how useful it will get, and, if later down the road, we 
decide that it is more useful, we could merge the past US mailing list 
messages into the NorthAmerican mailing list. This will then lessen the 
work to be done, by having you (Florian) only creating the NorthAmerican 
mailing list and leaving the US mailing list as is.

The NA mailing list will allow us to accomplish more for a market of 
almost 500 million people as more of our project intersect with all 3 
countries.

Cheers

Marc

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Marc Paré
http://www.parEntreprise.com


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