This I completely understand and is something that I struggle with understanding for myself. That said our PR work is not very good right now. I have posted for people to join me in increasing our PR with press and have gotten little response other than to say I'm posting to the wrong list and the only list they tell me to post to they say is not used anymore. I would hope to have a better response to this at least from the leads. As of now I don't know if anyone has contacts with the press and how they are using them. But I do know that I really only see Louis quoted in articles. I would like to hear from Bruce Byfield who he contacts to get information and what type of people in the organization interests him to quote.
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BTW, we probably also have to define some "rules" regarding public relations activities beyon press releases. I think everybody is open to additional PR, provided we have something interesting to say. However, I'm not a fan of wrong statements or controversial discussions just for the sake of getting press attention. For example, I remember a statement about a specific OpenOffice.org features, its functionality and its naming which were completely wrong and just reflected this person's own preferred strategy. It was not this feature, but a volunteer can't say OpenOffice.org 6.0 will have voice recognition and will run on any device just because I would like to see this happen. I can only make such a statement if I implement the feature myself or know for sure that this will happen.
Here are my thoughts on this. We don't sell a product. We make more money by Novell selling their product and Sun selling StarOffice. We get this money by them wanting to put development time back into OpenOffice. The
It's easy for me to say this, because I'm working for Sun, but this statement is true.
Here is how I feel we should advance with this. Have 4 Main conferences we go to every year. We then have 1 or 2 conferences that we vote on to go to each year. This would allow us to look at new conferences and provide for conferences that are more regional, but important for us to be at.
Focussing on a few major events definitely makes sense. What events do you suggest? BTW, keep in mind that there are people/communities outside of the US and Europe. ;-) All the best, Erwin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
