Hello, Le lundi 22 avril 2013 à 14:08 -0400, Jay Lozier a écrit : > On 04/22/2013 01:18 PM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > > Le lundi 22 avril 2013 à 18:41 +0200, Italo Vignoli a écrit : > >> On 4/22/13 6:28 PM, Immanuel Giulea wrote: > >> > >>> The original intent of my message (sorry if I used the wrong mailing list) > >>> was to make a blog post to say that we as a community are aware of the > >>> end-of-life for MSO 2003 that is less than a year away, and here are some > >>> reasons why you should make the switch. > >> Don't worry, the mailing list is OK, although this might also be > >> interesting for marketing people. Let's elaborate the idea, because a > >> simple blog post is probably not enough. We should target magazines and > >> websites covering e-government issues, because IT people might be > >> reading these media. Unfortunately, politicians - who usually take the > >> decisions - are not reading media but are prone to MS lobby efforts. > > Honestly, I'd go for actual ads in newspapers; we are not going to get > > our points across with a brochure. But I welcome input on this. > > > > best, > > > The problem I see is the politicians and in general most users are > probably not aware of the issue. Also, MS FUD would come into play if > any major plans to change were found out. I would hate to see a > politician at some public meeting getting grilled over MS FUD. In the US > this would be a major problem. > > A brochure would probably never reach the important people nor would I > expect to be read if it did reach them. I do not know if an ad would > work unless it is extremely well placed. > > My thought is to try to contact someone in high enough to provide the > proper introduction to the politicians. >
Yes indeed. Several good points have been written here; one which has been repeated is that it is about lobbying/influence or at least creating personal contacts and conversations with the key people or circles at the right level. If there's an interest for this, we may want to have a private mailing list for information exchange on these matters; that is, a mailing list for people who are making contacts with these people and need feedback, assistance, etc. Best, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-Founder & Director, The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- 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
