All,
(follow-up please on the marketing list...)
the US marketing list has been created to allow local marketing
discussions, event preparation and coordination of marketing activities
in northern America. At the moment Canadian marketing is coordinated on
this list too, until these activities will be strong enough to establish
a Canadian marketing list too.
Even if our general marketing has to be coordinated internationally,
there are good reasons to establish dedicated lists for local or
regional marketing teams:
- They can act and react according to the local conditions.
- They can coordinate local events.
- They can work with local journalists and contacts.
- They can talk to each other and in public in their own language.
While the last point could be achieved by language based marketing
teams, the other three can be very different for marketing in different
areas even though they speak the same language.
Please find out, if we can achieve our goals with the following approach:
1) Create Marketing lists for regions with common marketing interest.
2) Name these lists according to the ISO country code of the most active
group inside this region.
3) If other groups in this marketing area based on a different country
show as much activity to define the need for another marketing list,
this list can be created later on.
4) Keep contact to the neighbors by have some people of the local teams
subscribed to their lists.
5) Most of the languages are mainly spoken in one area only, so there is
no need to differ between language and region. (In these cases ISO code
for language and country are often the same)
Only for languages with wider spread localized activities we need to
create different marketing lists. What I already thought of:
Language: Region: Main (most active) Country: List Name:
Portuguese: Portugal Portugal market...@pt.libreoffice.org
South America Brasil market...@br.libreoffice.org
(with BrOffice might be market...@broffice.org even better)
Spanish: South Western Europe Spain market...@es.libreoffice.org
North/Middle America Mexico market...@mx.libreoffice.org
South America Argentina market...@ar.libreoffice.org
English: North America USA market...@us.libreoffice.org
British Islands England market...@en.libreoffice.org
Australia/Oceania Australia market...@au.libreoffice.org
perhaps India India market...@in.libreoffice.org
perhaps South Africa S. Africa market...@za.libreoffice.org
German: Central Europe Germany market...@de.libreoffice.org
I have no glue about Chinese and South Asian, Arabic or African
languages. Their regional distribution might be localized or
geographically dispersed - but with such an approach we could find a
solution that fits most of the local marketing efforts.
To establish such a local mailing list, there should be a team
interested in local marketing activities.
I didn't find to put this posting in the correct form to create a wiki
page out of the content. If someone else could do, I'd be very happy.
Best regards
Bernhard
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