On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 11:19 -0400, swhiser wrote: > > It's ideal. By the time Office declares support for OpenDocument (say, > next summer leading up to Vista's & Office 12's releases), we will have > the necessary toe-hold, but a coordinated messaging campaign that open > standards have taken up the lead is essential...not a campaign reactive > to Microsoft's message. That requires leadership and coordination. > Calm, collected, determined and certain are the demeanors that win the > day -- and this will play out all through 2005 and 2006. The story will > be: "Which state now has joined Mass? Wow! Here comes Michigan, now New > Jersey, super: California!" We can't just sit here, we need to get every > State CIO's office informed. This is a perfect challenge for our > distributed volunteer ranks. > > Who's going to take up the standard and lead?
Ideally we would have a trusted marketing volunteer in each state that could be the initial contact. Once some interest was shown they could bring in the "Cavalry" with additional support from the Marketing Leads and specialists in ODF such as Gary Edwards. Do we have people in every state? If its down to one or two individuals to try and contact the CTO for each state its a fairly big job. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
