Well all emails get recorded and you can search on them. Away from that we alrady have a forum (beta testing for user support). Plus we have IRC meetings for live discussions. However you have to consider how much of the communication will be fork having to pay attention to the forums and the mailing lists.

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:59:56 -0600, Viktor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hey,
Does anyone think that a forum would be a really good place for
discussions and info? It seems like mailing lists are good for
announcements. Emails get lost quickly and deleted too. And it seems
we don't have forum in the support page. Plus, wiki is more of a
library/notebook than a discussion space. If anyone thinks it would be
beneficial for all projects, we can always set it up with free forum
services out there.

viktor

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexandro Colorado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Marketing] Marketing Initiative Proposal

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:23:11 -0600, Italo Vignoli
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Alexandro Colorado wrote:

I agree with you in principle however this idea most be further develop
to be able to aproach and follow steps to get this. I agree that if OOo
gets endorsed by celebrities like Leo Laporte or John C. Dvorak they
will get a lot of plugs for the products. However  developing a
strategy to aprocah this kind of guys really need some kind of know how.
 Talking wtih hungry journalist looking to stir the pot might fire back
to us as we saw during the OOo Conference where just a journalist ride
on the high profile of OOo name to nurture a scandal and draw eyes to
his article.

Alexandro, I have been handling this kind of programs as a consultant
for over 25 years, inside corporations and PR agencies. In Italy, where
I manage such a program, OOo has over 100 articles each month (average)
and a peak of 300 in September. In Italy, MS has fired their MS Office
PR Manager, because he wasn't able to keep OOo pace. Today, the press
stirs the MS Office pot (titles start to affirm that OOo has more users
than MS Office, which is not true at all, but this is their problem and
not our problem).

I think we can scale to a higher level based on the experience we have
had in Italy (over 3 years now).

Best, Italo

Any roadmap? Step by Step program? Even create some strategic
documentation? Wiki on the marketing? Do we cold call writers from tech
mags, invite them to have dinner?

In the past I contact some magazines now I am writing for a couple of
them. However I think this is trying to make a mountain by doing it
yourself. I would more gladly pick up your brains and let other ones build
this mountain for me. I also like dinners :D




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