As I am reading trough the site, I find some of the decisions and their
motivation very unfavorable for marketing... This one is on the Schools
Project Logo, a gull making a gesture meaning ok... as the remark on the
logo says: for some, it has a completely different meaning... not ok....
http://marketing.openoffice.org/education/schools/
I am very sorry Ian, but I find the quote below extremely fuddy duddy
and I think you did not take into account that some of the youngsters in
the next generation actually think alike their parents and find it an
obscene gesture. I believe that in some cultures, it actually is
shocking to make such a gesture...
To be clear: I am not offended... not in the least... however I
generally find drawings like these in my youngest sons one word per page
books that learn them how to read :)
"The image was produced by a schoolboy and voted for by his peers. We
were clear that this was a schools issue and if fuddy duddy adults with
no sense of humour can't handle that its their problem. Getting the next
generation of office suite users the opportunity to use OpenOffice.org
is far more important and our aim is to involve more young people in the
OpenOffice.org community. To do that we have to work to their interests
and culture.".
This is anti-marketing. Very anti-marketing...
"To do that we have to work their interests and culture..." Yes
indeed... to everyones interests and culture...
The amount of immaturity I find spread over the website... If I were a
somehow conservative businessman, even just one who looks at dealing
with mature partners in business, OOo wouldn't stand a chance... My ...
the things that I find when looking at the 'window' of the OOo shop... I
would just move on, smiling and shaking my head....
Some of you ask me a good reason to reorganise website and separate
marketing website from (marketing) community website... the above is
one... that is why I am in favor... Prospects should NEVER have to read
such information... An Open Source project because the software is open
source... ok... but please...
If this would work, girls promoting cars on car exhibits would be
smoking, swearing, spitting and kicking the doors of the jagg they have
to promote (Hmmm this might actually work... maybe not for jagg, but to
sell hummers... hmmmm:))
I mean no offence and sorry Ian, I found this an example of
counter-productivity for the marketing project...
Steven P
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