All,
:-( We have only six community entries so far in our attempt to
create an OpenOffice.org community map. None of the entries include
developers. Our goal was to get off to a great start to this project
with many entries in time for OOoCon 2008 in Beijing next week.
I trust more of you were planning to submit an entry, the idea would
be an entry for each contributor - and this really will only take 5
minutes of your time.
I notice that the developer list were missing on the original email
and this is now added.
Please see http://sites.google.com/site/ooocommunity/ for more
information and complete the following form with your profile at a
minimum http://sites.google.com/site/ooocommunity/profiles-and-
stories-questionnaire
Many Thanks to all six of you who already created entries.
Best
Zaheda
On 23 Oct 2008, at 09:59, Zaheda Bhorat wrote:
Thanks for the forward Florian.
I look forwards to seeing entries from everyone, as it would be
great to create a map with lots of entries for the community.
It will help advocate the community contributors to the rest of the
open source world and users of OOo.
The forms are very short to complete and should take 5-10 minutes,
and you will find them here :
* Short story about your contribution, your local community
contribution, or an account of someone you work with that has made
a difference
http://sites.google.com/site/ooocommunity/profiles-and-stories-
questionnaire
* A entry about an OOo milestone - i.e. when your project
launched and you can submit this individually or with your project
team'
http://sites.google.com/site/ooocommunity/welcome
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions
Best
Zaheda
On 21 Oct 2008, at 12:24, Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hello,
I'm forwarding a request from Zaheda. As I'm on the road this week
to present OpenOffice.org at the Systems trade show in Munich,
please reply directly to her in Cc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks!
Quoting Zaheda:
==
Recently I've been working to put together a project that, as far
as I know, is the first of its kind in the open source world. I
talked it over with a few people including the marketing leads,
John and Florian.
Along with some friendly volunteers, and some initial input, I
decided to start a map of the OpenOffice.org story and community,
using personal accounts from contributors and users.
I'm calling this project the OOo Community Mapping Project, and to
make this a success, your participation is absolutely crucial.
We're looking for OOo stories, a message to the OOo community,
your accounts of the great milestones in the project, or your
profile, or a profile of someone you feel did great work but is
too shy to relay this information.
Over the next few weeks or so we want to gather all this data and
map these stories geographically using some Google Earth/Maps. In
the process, showing the global effort that goes into creating
OpenOffice.org. Ideally I would like to show some of the content
in my presentation at this year's OOoCon (in two weeks). Also the
maps, preserving this history, will be made available on the OOo
site.
I felt the best way to help get the word out was to ask the
world's best open source marketing team, so where better to start
than this project ? I hope you can help me get this message out
to as many of the global OpenOffice.org community as possible,
both past and present, through the OOo mailing lists and your
blogs. This way we can capture as much of the community as possible.
To add your information, and find out more about the project,
please go to the OOo Community Mapping site created specifically
to gather data for this project.
To add your profile, story, or an OOo milestone complete one of
the short forms on the site. If you have a short video of any
local activities or photos please add in as a picture can speak
volumes. You can, fill out as many entries as you'd like,
especially of the OOo Milestones that you recall. We may have one
or two shy developers but I hope to see an entry for everyone on
this marketing list and other lists including the native language
lists.
I'm looking forward to reading about all the great contributions,
and compiling as many of them as we can collect, to show at OOoCON
in Beijing on November 5. It should be a fun compilation to watch.
So please get your entries in as soon as you can. There are some
sample entries on the site as a guide, and we're open to creative
input.
There is also a FAQ posted on the OOo Community mapping site. If
there are any questions we haven't answered, please feel free to
email me directly, or through [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am very excited
about this project and hope we can capture this talented,
passionate and dedicated OOo community on a world map.
==
The link is http://sites.google.com/site/ooocommunity/
Please contribute as much as you can!
Thanks
Florian
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