Graham Lauder wrote:
Deepankar Datta wrote:
Hi
This is a round up of the linuxworld 2005 expo written by an attendee,
with a sort of negative slant on OOo not attending, seen in these
choice quotes:
"But the biggest surprise wasn't who was there, but who wasn't--the
OpenOffice.org folks."
"The bottom line is that not having a booth hurts OpenOffice.org in
particular, and the whole Open Source movement in general."
The author also goes into Sun's relationship and licencing of OOo, and
IBM's own deriviative.
An interesting read, and the marketing lessons might be something to
think about for the future.
Deepankar
Unfortunately, he is right
It was raised on the list back in May
http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=20446
Something flew under the radar here.
Are we seeing the beginning of the distancing of SUN from OOo.
Or is it simply that we have become so used to Erwin coming onto the
list and asking for volunteers, that when he didn't this time we just
missed it?
Have we become too reliant on SUN people hand feeding us this sort of
stuff?
Do we need a conference team as part of the marketing project whose
responsibility it is to keep the radar up for this sort of thing?
Sun never was directly involved in running the OOo booth in the .ORG
Pavilion. They were helpful. I was the manager & liason with IDG for
the NY/Boston booth (since 2002) and SF to some degree. Personally
passed the OOo banner on in Boston this winter.
(Sun was morally supportive of the .ORG booth -- once coming up with
hardware & support. And they always had a pod in the Sun area -- which
split the effort but was reasonable.)
These conversations are in the archives -- searchable probably 8-10
weeks before and leading up to the respective Expo dates -- to see what
was done. Erwin was always alert about lead-up effort and helpful.
-Sam
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