Re: Call Conference?

On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:26:41 -0600, Peter Junge <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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


Ok Thanks for the info, hope you can get well soon. I am not sure about  
this multiple titles disemination, but then again would be interesting to  
watch. Maybe it works.

-- 
Alexandro Colorado