I would love to be marketing contact for the U.S. On Oct 12, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Graham Lauder wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 Oct 2010 11:20:01 Jean Hollis Weber wrote: >> If someone thinks Canada is a small market, try Australia -- or New >> Zealand! Even together, we're not a large mob. On the other hand, we >> really don't fit in with the other English-speaking markets in many >> ways, and we do have relevant local events and organisations to >> consider, such as Linux.conf.au. So a local marketing group could be >> useful -- assuming there are enough of us to form a group. >> >> I am not offering to be a marketing contact; I'm much too busy with >> documentation, and I don't like talking being a media contact anyway. >> I do enjoy being a booth being at events and helping out behind the >> scenes, and of course as an opinionated senior citizen I can be relied >> on to offer my opinion (or in some cases, "stir" as we call it). >> >> Other than Graham Lauder from NZ, I have no idea how many Aus-NZ people >> are active here at TDF. I did notice Alex Fisher's strongly negative >> comments on the OOo Marketing list. >> >> Graham and others, what do you think? >> >> Cheers, Jean > > > Hi Jean > > I think that's a brilliant Idea. > > In fact how about a Western Pacific group. Looking at reasonably close > timezones, say from WA time to IDT. That includes China Standard Time so > brings Peter Junge in Beijing into the mix as well as Singapore Shanghai and > Japan and all of Oz and NZ of course over a five hour span. Add another hour > past IDT and we add Hawaii as well > > Thinking on a larger scale, that makes Singapore or Darwin or Shanghai or Ho > Chi Minh or Seoul or Honolulu excellent sites for a Zone conference. :) > > Is Jonothan Coombes still active about the place. > > Cheers > G > > -- > Graham Lauder, > OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ > http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html > > OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant. > > INGOTs Assessor Trainer > (International Grades in Open Technologies) > www.theingots.org > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail to [email protected] > List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ > All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail to [email protected] List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted.
