Graham Lauder wrote:
On Friday 28 September 2007 04:23, Alan Lord wrote:
Graham Lauder wrote:
Greetings Alan,
Thanks, and to you too!
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At this point we don't have a process for identifying or "approving"
partners at local level. There are some processes owned by
corporates within the "OOo Family" that do just that. Whether we
borrow such a template or create our own I don't know, although I'm
for the latter myself. We have enough people within the project
who have very high end assessment skills that could put together
something of that nature. However for mine a long term commitment
to the project provable by regular intelligent contribution to the
mail lists and project in general over say at least a year would
have to be a given. The nature of an open source project doesn't
allow us the luxury of sitting down in an interview situation with
a prospective partner and imho we have to be very careful not to
hand out such partnerships with total abandon.
Good points there.
I guess I'll try to drop in some "intelligent" contributions as and when
then ;-)
My business partner, co-owner, and I have been active in OSS for quite a
long time. My biggest contributions have been in the Linux From Scratch
community (for several years now), on the mailing lists and bug
reporting etc. My LFS ID is 216, which is dated around 1999 or 2000.
We have seen the opportunity there is to attract SMEs into this world
here in the UK, hence our new business: The Open Learning Centre.
My blog is a cacophony of Open Source titbits, opinions and news. at
www.theopensourcerer.com. And my partner and I are hosting and
supporting a site to help the BRM for DIS29500 actually sort the 'wood
from the chaff' so they can focus on the comments that *really* need to
be addressed. That site is at www.dis29500.org. Our latest contributor
on there, helping to identify duplicate comments and such, is Miguel de
Icaza.
There is a BizDev project with a mail list and a Global Consultants
list. Adam Piggott seems to be keeping it pretty much up to date
it is however, rather well hidden and probably virtually impossible
for a prospective client to find unless they knew specifically what
they were looking for. Personally I'd like to see the BizDev
project become a sub project of Marketing
Where is the BizDev project located then? Or is it an exercise for the
reader to locate? If you don't want to make it public, you could email
me using my full name (no dots or dashes) at theopenlearningcentre dot com
Cheers
Alan Lord
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