Re: [OSCOM] Re: Michi resigns from OSCOM [Fwd: [Board] OSCOM ordinary meeting of members minutes]

I think there is a thought here.  I would not call it marketing but 
awareness and case studies.
I think marketing carries a notion of pushing ideas. It would be 
refreshing to see users' perspectives and stories.

I think the most powerful incentives that the open-source modes enable 
are developer-user relationships.

Steven Noels wrote:

> On 26 Feb 2006, at 22:24, Michael Wechner wrote:
>
>> Steven Noels wrote:
>>
>>> On 26 Feb 2006, at 19:51, Seth Gottlieb wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not to talk about myself, but I asked for my feed to be included 
>>>> twice and got the feeling that there was some selection committee 
>>>> for inviting new members.  Anyway, those are my observations as an 
>>>> outsider.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I did as well and it took some time, but I never minded since I knew 
>>> Oscom is mostly a volunteer effort of busy people and that's the way 
>>> things go in volunteer communities.
>>>
>>> However, after seeing your (great) open source CMS whitepaper being 
>>> mentioned here, I sent *you* at least a two mails to ask why Daisy 
>>> wasn't included in it. You never bothered to reply or even 
>>> acknowledge receipt of my mail, so *I* got the feeling of being an 
>>> outsider then. ;-/
>>
>>
>>
>> well, if I would still be a member, then I would suggest you as a 
>> member,
>> which I need to apologize that I haven't done so. So I hope the others
>> will do now.
>
>
> I'm not caring about membership per sé, I'm just pointing out that 
> someone is suggesting selectiveness in adding feeds to Planet Oscom, 
> while doing the same while answering email. Yeah, it's a competitive 
> world out there, and everybody has his own agenda. Given that fact, 
> one can wonder what cross-project OSS communities can prevail unless 
> they're focussing on infrastructure rather than end-user-facing 
> functionality.
>
>> This might solve your problem of feeling like an outsider.
>
>
> Let's be honest: the more important thing for Outerthought as an open 
> source CMS player is that fact that we're able to run our own business 
> successfully. To that end, I've been wondering how Oscom could have 
> helped us in the past. I really don't know.
>
> I agree with Seth's suggestion that a good, positive marketing message 
> about open source towards future potential CMS buyers might be an 
> important goal for an alliance of CMS vendors. Whether that alliance 
> should be OscomNG or something else, and whether functional 
> competitors are able to work in such an alliance, I really don't know, 
> and I've been through some of these alliances already.
>
> </Steven>