On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:42 +0100, Steven Pauwels wrote: > Hi Ian, > > Any information I get from any volunteer tells me something about the > where OOo stands as a community and as a product. My aim is to find out > how mature it is as a project. If no data is known about usage, we > should launch a survey to get data and at least that gives us an idea > and if we are lucky (data in favor of OOo), it is a fine marketing > persuador as well.
According to IDC OOo has 10% global market share. Forresters put it at 15%. > These are my findings today (some of you might have noticed that I try > to post my findings every day, based on any new info I get, but I do > like my weekends :)) > > - Get a clue on about when a 3.0 release is planned (next year? ....) > and if there is no scheduled moment... get marketing ready asap... > - Create a separate product promotion website to launch 3.0 > - Get data on visitors, office suite usage, downloads, etc... on that > website.. ( a happy user is a great source for data...) why not ask > users who download a new version to help us out by answereing a few key > questions? > - Define marketing goals and means for 3.0 and make them public to the > volunteers and local projects as part of the marketing strategy. > - Get the local projects to inter-act on a marketing level. > - I am sure I am starting to forget some of the things I mentioned > earlier.. > > Here is a thing I would like to discuss with all involved in marketing: > giving the product another name. (.org in a name is confusing, we can > not use OpenOffice without .org, there is a fine example: > Mozilla-->Firefox) Please let me know what you think and how you feel > about the product and community sharing the same name. Changing the name has been discussed at length. The difficulty is there is never enough of a consensus and while Sun holds the copyright and controls anything that costs any money its quite difficult to change the name even if there was a consensus. I think we could spend a lot of time on things that come to nothing. Getting local projects to interact might be the best bet. To an extent I have been doing this with my INGOT project and other community members eg recently I was in Germany with Manfred Reiter who used to be the co-lead of the German Language project. We are working together on the EuroLinux project and that will get OOo to schools throughout Europe. We have 10 countries involved. Regards, -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
