2007/6/29, Mark Van den Borre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Going above someone's head is something very unfriendly to suggest > after only a quick first contact. Politeness requires us to work with > socialware first and see where that takes us, even if it takes some > time.
Yes. Let's work that way first. > As a young and very decentralised organisation, we're very > vulnerable to "ubuntu-be.org is a group of conspiracy theorist free > software zealots". > > Serge will be working with them the next few days. I suggest: > * asking them to modify their deontology to take ubuntu and free > software in general into account (write out suggestions!) > * documenting some unquestionable case studies of non-profits using > ubuntu &| openoffice.org > * asking them to based upon this skip their yearly evaluation and put > a few links to ubuntu and openoffice.org products in the "available > products" category, maybe even have them offer ubuntu cd's > * offering to create some free publicity about this for them > > We should have a much clearer idea of their position afterwards. I'll wait for more comments and info from the membres of this list. I am on holidays with the family for the following week and I'll read with interest any information thereafter. Thanks, Nicolas -- Nicolas Pettiaux - email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Utiliser des formats ouverts et des logiciels libres - http://www.passeralinux.org. Pour la bureautique, les seuls formats ISO sont ceux de http://fr.openoffice.org -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:[email protected] You can find list info and your subscription configuration options at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
