Re: Call Conference?

Hi Alexandro,

Alexandro Colorado wrote:
> Will there be any call conference this month for the marketing team?
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Marketing_ConfCalls

you likely have been noticing, that the founding of the TDF has 
significantly reduced contributers to the MP. As well, I have been 
posting a couple of weeks ago, that I'm more or less on sick leave as I 
had an injury with my left hand, consequently I can only use the right 
one (fortunately I'm right-handed) to type. Hence, the page you are 
referring too has the following note on top:
"The next Marketing ConfCall is deferred to an yet unknown point in 
time, due to staffing problems of the Marketing Project"

The splint I'm wearing at the moment is hopefully removed next Tuesday, 
hence I'm hoping to be able to work fully again on Wednesday.

> 
> Looking at the schedule there hasn't been any proposed date for it. 
> AFAIK there were some work being addressed on the Strategic Marketing 
> Plan and updates happening on the branding and tech events.
> 

So, before thinking about ambitious projects like the SMP, I would like 
to do things in the right order. First of all, I want to find out, how 
many active contributers we still have for the MP. If we find out, there 
are still enough, we can resume with the conference calls again.

Before the TDF has happened, I already had an discussion with Florian, 
that it needs more than two continually contributing persons to 
successfully drive the MP. There's indeed a significant basic load in 
administrative work to manage. My idea was --and Florian agreed-- to 
reorganize the MP completely. Rather than continuing the (for the MP) 
insufficient concept of lead and co-lead, it would IMHO be better to 
refine responsibilities in order to be able to assign clearly defined 
topical fields to several people. I'm thinking about categories like 
press officer, standards, education, events, branding, website 
maintenance etc. If we can manage to set-up such team we should also be 
well prepared to work on the SMP.

Best regards,
Peter