I have some experience in marketing electrical products. My fundamental skill sets ( may not be useful here) is electronics product design. Over a period of 30 years of professional life, I have acquired various skills, most of them may not be useful here. Basically I am a scientist, filed 4 patents in US and in India. I wanted to contribute some thing back to the open source community. So I volunteered myself. I live in Chennai, India, it is in southern part of India.
With Warm Regards V.Kadal Amutham 919444360480 On 1 December 2012 20:29, Graham Lauder <[email protected]> wrote: > Woohoo, > > I'm AWOL for a few days and the list goes nuts Welcome everyone. My > apologies for not greeting everyone individually my offline work is a bit > insane at the moment, however you've come at the most exciting time. Lot's > happening lots to do. > > Much of what is in progress is on the wiki so signing up there is a good > idea. > > Attachments to the list are allowed for subscribers I think, however they > do > tend to get lost down the list as traffic gets high. As things get closer > to > launch of OO 4 the list will get pretty busy. Attaching stuff on the wiki > means it will hang around and be kept with the appropriate comparable > subject > matter. > > Matters in hand: Most critical right now is the Branding RFP which is on > the > CWiki here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Brand+Contest+RFP > > The goal is to formulate a Request For Proposal that covers the whole > OpenOffice Brand: Philosphy, style, Persona, image projection and of course > the graphical elements. Consider all the questions that a brand designer > should be able to answer and feel free to put them up on the wiki page. > This > is to encourage a broad participation in the creation of the new brand > > The are no bad ideas, they are all open to discussion. I would just ask > that > when you make any edits on the wiki that you make a post to this list so we > can discuss it and come to some consensus. Eventually the draft RFP will > be > presented on the DEV list for final decisions. All decisions are made on > the > list, the wiki is for creating drafts. > > > The old marketing project materials are here: > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Marketing There are collateral pieces > that > need updating, brochures, presentations and the like. The text can be > updated > but the overal branding package will have to nailed down before we finish > them. > > The Old Brand Style Guide is on the wiki here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Branding+Style+Guide > > To give everyone an idea of where we came from > > Some comments on Brand design here: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Branding+Design > > Again welcome everybody introduce yourselves with a little detail and > perhaps > something about what you like to achieve here. > > Once branding is done of course and we have a shiny new product with it's > new > coat we will need to look at the campaign for the launch. It's probably > not > too early to start brainstorming a few ideas for that as well. > > A short intro, My name Graham or Yo or Yorick whichever takes you fancy and > I've been involved in OOo marketing since about '02, not sure exactly but > back > about then. I was MarCon (Marketing Contact) for New Zealand for a chunk > of > that time again not sure when that started, it was a while back. I worked > as > an OOo trainer and Migration consultant for about 5 years but now I'm back > at > my first Industry as a Municipal Maintenance Consultant. I'm on a short > term > contract right now so I may be a bit intermittent until Jan 8 > > Cheers > Graham > > >
