Re: Draft blog post: Call for Marketing Volunteers
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:06 PM, F C. Costero fjcc.apa...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=call_for_marketing_volunteers A minor point about perhaps second only to Linux and Firefox. Can OpenOffice be second to two other products? How about perhaps outdone only by Linux and Firefox in name recognition? You are correct. And I'm thinking that if we consider Android as an open source brand, it is probably more recognizable. So I'll change the text to say that we're among the top open source brands without making more specific claims. -Rob Francis
Re: Draft blog post: Call for Marketing Volunteers
Rob Weir wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=call_for_marketing_volunteers Nice post, and I see it's now published at https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/call_for_marketing_volunteers but I would suggest to consider a couple of items for community development: 1) The call for QA volunteers has now disappeared from the openoffice.org home page. We were getting several new volunteers per day. It would be nice to add a sentence to https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/call_for_marketing_volunteers to say that we are still recruiting QA volunteers, and link to the QA post. 2) Welcoming Marketing volunteers has to be smoother than what happened with QA volunteers (most of them didn't subscribe to ooo-qa and we were constantly resending the same links to the list). It would be great if someone on ooo-marketing can commit to: - Send a short welcome note to new volunteers (and complete it with suggestions on how they can help, if their introduction is interesting) - Check that new volunteers are subscribed to the list and tell them how to do it if they aren't (check for the Delivered-To: moderator header; Rob included instructions in his post, so most volunteers should subscribe before posting) - Engage new volunteers in some marketing-related discussion when several new people have joined, to win the initial shyness of new volunteers. Regards, Andrea.
