On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 16:29 -0500, Marc Paré wrote: > Personally I think that this type of organisation is a bit too late > unless everyone is on board and most of OOo members are used to working > under the common understanding of Marketing and Design understanding.
You mentioned philosophical differences regarding these terms yourself. There is no common understanding, it seems. > I also do not think that we should try to exclude common practice use of > the words Marketing and Design. So ... I see the organisation, as it > stands, if we are to apply common sense with the structure that we now > have: > > * Marketing is the top tier category > * Design falls under the Marketing umbrella If you define marketing from its original root of being about selling things, it's a strange fit for volunteer work and a product offered for free. Marketing takes the point of view of the producer/provider and has his interests in mind as driving forces. Thus if you place design below marketing, it becomes a mere tool to serve the interests of the producer/provider. If you don't, design can place the interests of users first (user centered design, user experience design). > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Design/TheNameYouWant > > How does this sound? Long. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
