On 8/24/14, Jörg Schmidt <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de> wrote: >> From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On > >> And that's part of the problem. We need AOO-german nationals to work >> on transfering that communication into english (not only translate but >> present it). Otherwise we are behind a language paywall (and yes I >> know Gtranslate is good for german but still is more than translation) >> is context. > > Yes, but there is also another way of viewing: local working is local and > each of interested in it, must get involved locally. > I know a lot about OpenOffice, but sorry, I'm not a translator and > translations are hard work for me, and make me not fun.
Yes but the damage most time is NOT local. And that makes us act globally and locally. There was a big misstransalation of the news mainly because of sensationalist titles that affect the global perception of Open source (not just OpenOffice). However we are target and we want to clear as much of the fog created by sensationalism and also misstransaltions. Having germans write up (in english) like you are doing right now allow us to have a clearer image of the situation. Unfortunately we dont have much community involvement by the IT people from the Munich council here, which could help us to even clear even more the communication pipes. That said, AOO has the biggest voice, since we can launch a campaing and will target enterprise costumers on what the real details and why AOO has succeed in Munich despite the somewhat erroneous news. > > Please understand me correctly, I mean that it is a practical question weigh > up how to get to the greatest possible success, is often the part of the > international community be possible, but sometimes it's better to focus on > local possibilities. > It is for many of the employees at AOO interested, an important detail, the > language in which they have to perform the communication. If they need to > perform communication in English they will not participate, because they too > difficult. > >> People at the TDF are very active in germany marketing team, yet in >> AOO camp, marketing hasn't been a priority which bring us back to >> questioning what's the aim of AOO for pushing it's brand value into >> organizations. >> >> Unfortunately Apache cares a lot about avoiding being un-represented >> more than the succes of the project. I think is important to evaluate >> the future of AOO beyond the scope of development. > > I read it several times, but am not safe what you mean. > > Do you mean good public relations work for AOO is equally important as good > programming? Then I agree with you. > > > > Greetings, > Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org
