Hi Sam, first off, thx a lot - for engaging in detail, and with constructive criticism!
Just a few comments, to perhaps adjust perception - Sam Tuke wrote: > Drafting a 5 year marketing plan following indecisiveness > from the board is a job for a diplomat, not a marketer. > Guessing and compromising the needs of board members is a recipe > for /strategy by exclusion/ -- "exclude anything contentious". > "Exclude anything that will cause delay". > A more positive look at this is - the board is supposed to be a microcosm, to a large extend a fishbowl with many if not all community interests represented. The drafts we kicked around in the board where contentious; the result now in front of us is a pre-distilled compromise, that hopefully makes iteration into a final plan easier & faster. As you concede in your answer to Michael, it's sometimes helpful to have most of the arguing behind closed doors, especially in volunteer-run NGOs. As such, your depiction of the current plan to be a hollowed-out compromise is not accurate. > As it stands the Marketing Plan seems more like a political project > serving primarily internal needs of alignment of board members, with > TDF staff serving the role of peacemaker. > That _is_ the board's role, to align conflicting interests, to the mutual benefit of all involved. TDF staff was not serving as a peacemaker, but as expert marketeers, turning rough ideas into something actionable & concrete. > I can understand that such a project is extremely important in its > own right. Hence I propose separating that part from the purely > marketing related components. > That is a fair ask, and IMO a good suggestion - as you correctly state, asking for input without granting agency is a waste of everyone's time. > If the process and document cannot be redirected in the short term, > as may be the case for various reasons, then at least let's not > continue pretending that the Plan, as it stands, is primarily about > marketing, or for LibreOffice marketers. > Let's for the moment assume it _is_ possible to redirect. What would you change, just big-picture-wise? Cheers, -- Thorsten
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