On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:10:11 -0500, NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My recommendation is that you take the t-shirt money and silly OOo on a cereal box ideas and fund the library & education projects. If you want to give t-shirts do it in public libraries and/or schools (where you give *both* CD's *and* learning seminars on how to use OOo in those environments).
This would be unreasonable since first of all public libraries wont be able to fund the distribution channel unless u found a reall wealthy library in a handicap rural area. I think the whole 'poor people' concept is pretty stupid since we are not in a position to decide and aford building the infrastructure. I would rather target just people through already builded distribution channels to regular people.
Not to sound too hardcore but poor peole won't really matter if they care about OOo or not. The original idea was market OOo to third world countries which DOESN'T mean the people there are poor or that we are gonna target the poor people. Third world countries have a gneral population that is not in misery but at the same time have more chances to compete in a less fought market.
I'm back to the users list... you guys are just too bizarre. Bear in mind that these comments are from a very faithful OOo user, I'm pretty shocked and dismayed by the "ideas" suggested here. (also keep in mind that your posts/ideas are open for anyone on the internet to see - so I'm sure that the competition is enjoying the ideas as well).
If it was up to me to fund a campaing to market OOo to poor people, I would have drop it in a beat. I preffer OOo to win in the enterprise than in the rural regions on a very isolated area. Once we got the enterprise, then I will think to go to the more general population, and after that i will think on rural areas in first world countries and after that I will think of targeting third world countries.... and after that I will think on poor people. It doesn't sound smart to waste limited resources on a 'feel good idea' but not really a targeted goal in mind.
Good luck with your marketing campaign.
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