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?
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.saund...@documentfoundation.org><mailto:mike.saund...@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!
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