Re: US Group Status ( was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Media contact for the USA )

I'd also like to throw my hat in as a media representative. I've done paid
PR work for multiple OSS vendors, and I was a marketing contact for OOo for
6 years.

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Ryan Singer


On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Doug Bash <texbash@yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- On Wed, 10/6/10, Drew Jensen <drew@baseanswers.com> wrote:
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> From: Drew Jensen <drew@baseanswers.com>
> Subject: Re: US Group Status ( was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Media contact for t
he
>  USA )
> To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
> Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 12:22 PM
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> On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 15:12 -0400, Benjamin Horst wrote:
> > Drew,
> >
> > Thanks for the update--I am looking forward to seeing this group come t
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> ether!
> >
> Hi Ben
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> So am I.
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> Also, I don't much, in detail, of what Italo is doing.
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> I have a very loose understanding, if you be willing to take on the task
> of covering
>  that I think, it would be very beneficial for everyone, I
> know, it would for me.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Drew
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> I'm glad this title changed.
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> In an early thread that was lost when
> Drew had to re-start Nabble, he, (me), and Andre Schnable talked
> about setting up an Entity here in the US that could co-ordinate with
> the Document Foundation-which is itself still organizing. Andre-who
> has now done this twice, pointed out that you had better identify
> just what it is that the “community” you are establishing w
> ants
> to do. As I've looked into the whole non-profit picture, it has
> become very clear that while it is fairly easy to start an
> organization, sustaining it is much more difficult. Less than 30% of
> all registered np's in the US last for two years .
>
> I agree with Ben
> Horst that it's great to have a press pro in position to push our
> message. I would like to ensure, though, that we have thought about
> the message we wish to push.  Drew has been working to set-up a
> communication channel. Let's, for right now, try to assess what those
> already involved not only want to do, but will work to do, rather
> than worry about the world at large.
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>  IANAL-but I hope that at this stage we
> have some interested people who do have a lawyer as a relative,
> significant other, or, debtor, whom we can shamelessly exploit.  Hey,
> we'll buy them a beer.
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> PS: I was not at the meeting in
> Budapest, but last year, in Italy, those of us who actually lived in
> the US were thin on the ground.  One was a student, there as a Google
> Summer of Code presenter. Through communication with Thorsten at TDF,
> she has responded to an email that, though busy, would like to work
> with LO. Therefore, I think we can claim we have our first US
> core developer.
>
> Doug Bash
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