I'd also like to throw my hat in as a media representative. I've done paid PR work for multiple OSS vendors, and I was a marketing contact for OOo for 6 years.
-- Ryan Singer On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Doug Bash <texb...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > --- On Wed, 10/6/10, Drew Jensen <d...@baseanswers.com> wrote: > > From: Drew Jensen <d...@baseanswers.com> > Subject: Re: US Group Status ( was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Media contact for t he > USA ) > To: discuss@documentfoundation.org > Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 12:22 PM > > On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 15:12 -0400, Benjamin Horst wrote: > > Drew, > > > > Thanks for the update--I am looking forward to seeing this group come t og > ether! > > > Hi Ben > > So am I. > > Also, I don't much, in detail, of what Italo is doing. > > I have a very loose understanding, if you be willing to take on the task > of covering > that I think, it would be very beneficial for everyone, I > know, it would for me. > > > Thanks > > Drew > > I'm glad this title changed. > > > > > > > > > > > > > In an early thread that was lost when > Drew had to re-start Nabble, he, (me), and Andre Schnable talked > about setting up an Entity here in the US that could co-ordinate with > the Document Foundation-which is itself still organizing. Andre-who > has now done this twice, pointed out that you had better identify > just what it is that the “community” you are establishing w > ants > to do. As I've looked into the whole non-profit picture, it has > become very clear that while it is fairly easy to start an > organization, sustaining it is much more difficult. Less than 30% of > all registered np's in the US last for two years . > > I agree with Ben > Horst that it's great to have a press pro in position to push our > message. I would like to ensure, though, that we have thought about > the message we wish to push. Drew has been working to set-up a > communication channel. Let's, for right now, try to assess what those > already involved not only want to do, but will work to do, rather > than worry about the world at large. > > > > > IANAL-but I hope that at this stage we > have some interested people who do have a lawyer as a relative, > significant other, or, debtor, whom we can shamelessly exploit. Hey, > we'll buy them a beer. > > > > > PS: I was not at the meeting in > Budapest, but last year, in Italy, those of us who actually lived in > the US were thin on the ground. One was a student, there as a Google > Summer of Code presenter. Through communication with Thorsten at TDF, > she has responded to an email that, though busy, would like to work > with LO. Therefore, I think we can claim we have our first US > core developer. > > Doug Bash > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to > discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org<discuss%2bunsubscr...@document foundation.org> > All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot b e > deleted. > List archives are available at > http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ > > -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
