Shifted this to the Marketing List: On Sunday 05 January 2003 12:37, Graham wrote: > On Saturday 25 November 2006 07:43, Bernd Eilers wrote:
> > > > > > Identify your market > > > > 1.) Developers ( OpenSource as well as commercial ISVs ) which do want > > to create extensions. > > > > 2.) Developers of other Software ( OpenSource developers as well as > > commercial ISVs ) > > which could make use of a component technology that enables them to use > > different programming languages at the same time or some other technical > > features UNO offers inside their own product. > > > > 3.) Creators of complicated OpenOffice.or documents which do enhance > > those documents by using OpenOffice.org´s Application Programming > > Language Interface together with one of the programming languages that´s > > currently supported by UNO the technology inside OpenOffice.org that > > besides doing other things allows end-users to do just that use > > programming to enhance documents. > > > > 4.) ISVs that want to incorporate OpenOffice.org into some specialized > > solution for their customers. > > > > 5.) Developers who are searching for a challenging OpenSource topic to > > contribute to > Then I would suggest that the next ideal moment to sell this would be at the OOo MiniConf at LCA 2007 next Jan. Jim Watson has booked a place for OOo at the Conf and started a wiki page. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/LCA_2007_Miniconf Google. MySQL and others see the value of a large presence at LCA perhaps Sun could find it in their budget to send some Hamburg people out to Sydney to do some presentations on UNO at the OOo Miniconf. > > > Having that "second product" being used in other software would also be > > a good thing because this would most likely result in more developers > > wanting to participate in enhancing that "second product" istself which > > is an integral part of our "main product" benefiting everyone again. > > > > So can we somehow get that "second product" on the main page and > > probably start some other marketing efforts for it? Agreed. To me LCA 07 is an opportunity. Lets grab it. Either by leading a campaign up to that event or launching one from there. Cheers G -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html "GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG" http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant "GET DRESSED - GET OOOGEAR" http://www.ooogear.co.nz Promotional gear for the discerning OOo Advocate --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
