On 8/24/14, Jörg Schmidt <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de> wrote: >> From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On > >> Yes but the damage most time is NOT local. And that makes us act >> globally and locally. There was a big misstransalation of the news >> mainly because of sensationalist titles that affect the global >> perception of Open source (not just OpenOffice). >> >> However we are target and we want to clear as much of the fog created >> by sensationalism and also misstransaltions. Having germans write up >> (in english) like you are doing right now allow us to have a clearer >> image of the situation. Unfortunately we dont have much community >> involvement by the IT people from the Munich council here, which could >> help us to even clear even more the communication pipes. >> >> That said, AOO has the biggest voice, since we can launch a campaing >> and will target enterprise costumers on what the real details and why >> AOO has succeed in Munich despite the somewhat erroneous news. > > You mean that not at all members of the AOO community know what it is in > Munich and we therefore need translations so the situation is > understandable? > > If so, I have been misunderstood, because I believed the situation in Munich > would generally (and internationally) known. > > In the event that it would matter the situation in Munich to make it clear I > could even write something about it, because to me the situation is well > known. Would it be quite useful to do that? Perhaps as a blog post in > https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/?
If you havent really read all the articles, the media is backpedalling from what it was a greatly missconstrude headline news. This article introduce some corrections: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/no-munich-isnt-about-to-ditch-free-software-and-move-back-to-windows/ Of course a week later after the news broke and like we all know, the public end up with the first impressions. > > Greetings, > Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org
