On Saturday 13 October 2007 17:10, NoOp wrote: > On 10/12/2007 12:46 AM, Graham Lauder wrote: > > On Friday 12 October 2007 01:37, Florian Effenberger wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> > >> as promised, we still have the option of doing merchandising with the > >> Sun funds. > > > > I've started a discussion on the wiki at: > > > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Talk:MarketingCampaign_Q3-2007 > > > > Cheers > > GL
Why thank you for your positive contribution to the discussion. > > You marketing folks are just... > > t-shirts on poor kids, CD's on Kellogs cereal boxes; what a concept! > Maybe you could even contact Post Cereal and do a "Honey Bunches of OOo > for poor people" commercial. Unfortunately we are hamstrung by the requirements of the donor. In this particular case, it was to be spent on Merchandise, but then you would have known that if you'd taken the time to do a bit of research > > 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). And how many people would this influence and how many OOo users would this require to give up their time to go to libraries and schools and so forth. Blissfully ignoring the logistics involved in such a plan just shows off your ignorance and makes you look foolish. So for this Plan of yours How do we find the thousands of people to go into the libraries and schools all around the world and do these seminars... for no cost because with this budget we could only pay them a few cents each How do we distribute the Merchandise to these places... all round the world... at no cost. You don't even know how much money we're talking about I dare say > > 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. These are all acceptable marketing strategies, some a little outside the box but not what I would call outrageous, if you don't like them then suggest alternatives. > (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). <sarcasm>I'm sure we never knew that, an open source project caught out being open.</sarcasm> It should be pointed out that the "competition" as you call them, spends on marketing, what we are talking about here, approximately every two minutes, 24/7/365 > > Good luck with your marketing campaign. > > Thank you but your trolling is appreciated no more here than it is on the Users List, and yes I do subscribe. -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Moderator New Zealand www.theingots.org.nz GET DRESSED : GET OOOGEAR Gear for the well dressed OOo Advocate www.ooogear.co.nz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
