Ciao Italo, Yes...I have some time and I want to help out. I am not sure this has to be an expensive exercise. What I am seeing is the OO has been very "market-pull-driven" (website, magazine articles, mailing lists, etc). If we want to realize certain objectives (like increasing the market share, etc) maybe we need to start looking at adding "market-push-driven" tactics too. Pro-actively selling seems to be an integral component. Since we all do this as volunteers, maybe we should produce a list of companies/institutions that we consider to be market trendsetters / influencers and then we look into our install base whether we have any insiders to help us achieve the objective of being their preferred choice for Office applications. It seems to me that the next prominent OO adopter should be Oracle. Then maybe we could look at companies that don't seem to get along VERY well with Microsoft (like Cisco, Google, etc.). The same could be done with System Integrators, VARs, Distributors, etc. What do you think? Is this feasible at all? If it's not ... than I will go back to sleep :-D Gian Mob: +31(621)290355 Skype: gianvittorio.zandona
On Sun 03/01/10 23:57 , Italo Vignoli [email protected] sent: > Gianvittorio, evangelization programs cost a huge amount of money, and > we are volunteers. OOo marketing is a zero budget activity, and thus > we must find low cost activities like PR. If you have free time to > devote to the project you are welcome. Ciao, Italo > > Italo Vignoli > mob +39 (348) 5653829 > email italo@ italovignoli.com > skype italovignoli > > Il giorno Jan 3, 2010, alle ore 21:45, Gianvittorio gianv [email protected] > ha scritto: > > > All, > > I am new to the " > [email protected]" so I might be wrong, > but I (so far) have > never heard anything about > anybody trying to > evangelize OO. > > I believe that Marketing is fundamental, but you > need a group of > people to go and meet with people evaluating the > software, making > sure that the evaluation is a success. Or people to > deliver the > message to market influencers like Consultants, > System Integrators, > VARs, Distributors and OEM. > > What do you think? Do you know of anybody doing > that?> Gian > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------> To > unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]> For additional > commands, e-mail: [email protected]> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
