On Friday 28 September 2007 20:07, Alan Lord wrote: > Graham Lauder wrote: > > On Friday 28 September 2007 04:23, Alan Lord wrote: > >> Graham Lauder wrote: > > > > Greetings Alan, > > Thanks, and to you too! > > <snip /> > > > 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 ;-)
Heh, careful, In my own painful experience the chances of me looking like a tosser rises in direct proportion to my attempts to look intelligent! ;) > > 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. I've have checked out the website and it looks impressive. SMEs are a target group that our Strategic Marketing Plan identifies and it's a market that we're very keen to make an impression in. Today's SME's are tomorrow's corporates. > > 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 Heh, it needs to be made public that's the problem, it's buried, although the consultants list is at the top of "OpenOffice Consultants" search on Google. Here's the link I forgot to put in! :/ http://bizdev.openoffice.org You can see how the maillists are not that busy. I subscribe to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list and it hasn't seen any activity in a long time. I'd like to see a lot more activity there. I think that as more and more businesses see the opportunities that come with FOSS, then it may develop. What would be really good is for OOo businesses to work together, so that they can run local initiatives that leverage on a global campaign. The BizDev project would be the ideal place to generate that sort of activity. > > Cheers > > Alan Lord Cheers GL -- "GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG" http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer Moderator New Zealand (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz GET DRESSED GET OOOGEAR http://ooogear.co.nz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
