On Wednesday 03 October 2007 05:13, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi Graham, > > > Ok so now we're being told where and how as well as what and > > how much?? Seems like all decisions are being made by the > > corporate partner and any discussion here was superfluous or am > > I still confused. > > it turned out to be harder than we thought, and the Sun PR agency > offered to bundle a package of advertising. I just don't have any > details yet. :-)
Ok now this is a significant piece of information which wasn't passed on or if it was, I must have missed it. I certainly haven't seen SUN PR posting on the list and the question certainly didn't get put to the .community It is not harder than we thought at all. We were given a ridiculously short time span to do the job. Although given the amount of time the toing and froing of USB drives will take, maybe we would have been faster. We had a number of questions to answer and a number of tasks that needed to be performed that could have been assigned to individuals or teams to report back to the project. We were never given that chance! > > > :-) Heh sack your supplier I had a quote and sample in two days > > > > (Item that is, not art as we haven't made that call yet) and I > > was not pleased it took them that long..... Unless of course > > the supplier is obscenely cheap. > > The problem is, that the Sun US supplier will send me a sample to > Germany to test for speed and reliability of the USB drive - and > that can take a while, due to shipping and customs... :-( If you'll forgive me, that is nuts. When did this decision get made? Did I completely waste a substantial number of hours of my time contributing to this discussion, getting quotes etc. If someone had said "We HAVE to use Suns supplier" I wouldn't have bothered. If there was a need to use Sun's US supplier then why couldn't the testing be done by one of the Marketing team in the US... Benjamin Horst for instance. I would trust Ben to make the call on something as simple as that. He's a member of the community of long and good standing. We are a team, we need to start acting like one. I have to admit to being somewhat peeved right now. This was a chance for the Marketing project to actually do something real and concrete with something resembling a budget and we've been setup to fail. The question is: Is Sun's PR Agency going to do this for free? I think not. In fact they probably see this volunteer project as a threat to their income. I wouldn't like to say that they were lobbying against us in the backrooms at Sun but one has suspicions I would like to know what the deliverables are that are required of the Agency. We don't even know what their campaign looks like, what it's aimed at and how we're going to assess the success or otherwise of it. > > Florian > 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]
