Just thought I would pop in with really a few questions relative to the 
strategic marketing plan.  Like some others on the list, I've been going 
through it recently and trying to figure out where things stand with the 
project.

The first thing I would note, is I agree with some comments relative to a lack 
of details regarding implementation.  Some good high level vision and it even 
moves down the chain a bit.  I would also say making the connection between 
the higher level objectives and some of the lower level strategies is not the 
easiest.

Anyway, a few questions about the strategies section from the end of the 
document:

Item 1.16 - "improve packaging" to make it easier to migrate to OOo versus 
upgrade to MSO.  Anyone know exactly what this means?  Does this have to do 
with the installer - making sure it is easy to install on Windows?  Or is 
there some other packaging this is referring to?

Item 3.8 - Making OOo available in public libraries.  Do we have any 
statistics on this project?

Items 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, and 4.7 - all have to do with marketing to different 
target groups.  Has there been any work to develop marketing materials for 
these specific targets?  I found the brochure on the web site - are there 
others?  Any instructions anywhere on what might best resonate with the 
different target groups?

Item 4.16 - has anybody setup a database of speaker's or maintain a list?

Item 4.22 - supplying statistics about users.  I've seen comments both 
inquiring as to whether this is going on and some discussion that the data is 
perhaps being collected, but no is analyzing it.  Is that correct?

Finally, I know there has been some discussion regarding a specific marketing 
site ala spreadfirefox.com or what some others have done.  I don't know 
whether I agree that needs to be done, but I do think the 
marketing.openoffice.org could be improved to provide more guidance to help 
those who want to "evangilize" for OOo.  

Thanks for reading!

Jeff Causey

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