Can a marketing person request a printed LO user guide instead of money? I am approaching a Church School to adopt L O vice MSO. A book to show them in my presentation will help. On Mar 10, 2012 6:24 PM, "Jean Weber" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Tom, > Are you supporting or objecting to having local groups request some of the > money that Friends of OpenDocument is holding? > > Jean > > On 11/03/2012, at 8:55, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi :) > > I thought the plan was to have "local teams", such as the Brazilian, or > the French or wherever, all administering their own finances and then > giving maybe a flat rate as "Affiliation fees" or some such and then maybe > a percentage too. > > > > My personal feeling is that Local teams need to work towards being > self-sufficient and it would be great if they can cover their own sundry > costs without always having to discuss minutia and waiting for TDF's BoD to > approve a sundry expense. I don't see any problem with Local Teams being > affiliated to both OOo and LO at the same time now. I guess some funds may > need to be restricted to one or the other but that is something for the > bookkeeping records and end-of-year financial accounts. > > > > Regards from > > Tom :) > > > > > > --- On Sat, 10/3/12, ol klaus-jürgen weghorn <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > From: ol klaus-jürgen weghorn <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Funds available for marketing > LibreOffice > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Saturday, 10 March, 2012, 8:18 > > > > Hi Jean, all, > > > > Am 10.03.2012 05:13, schrieb Jean Weber: > > > >> Instead of giving the LO money to The Document Foundation > >> for general expenses, we think it is better to make it available to > >> cover expenses that The Document Foundation can't or won't > >> deal with. Some examples might be the cost of marketing > >> materials (including copies of the user guides) for tables at events, > >> attendance at events aimed at potential and actual customers > >> (librarians, educators, etc), or just about anything that would be > >> valuable for spreading awareness and growing the community > >> and the customer base. > > > > 2 thoughts: > > - maybe interesting for the BoD-ml ([email protected]) > too. > > - maybe some part of the money for a travel refund (see point 12 of the > BoD-tasks [1]? "We are not yet in a position to pay these" > > > > [1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Tasks > > > > > > --- > > Grüße > > k-j > > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > [email protected] > > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > [email protected] > > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
