Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Defining a marketing strategy

On 07/16/2012 12:53 PM, Jean Weber wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Evans Ikua <ikua.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just wondering, is there something like "regional distribution people"?
> > Evans
> In some cases, yes. North America, for example, at least for DVDs.
>
> --Jean

The LO North American Community DVD project has had DVDs since the mid 
3.3 line.  It is hard to get the DVDs beyond the area of the local 
individuals are living in though.  I have given out 100's of DVDs to 
people, businesses, agencies, government offices, etc., within 10 to 30 
miles of my location in New York State.  I have also sent a few copies 
to people in the EU and India via mail, before there was an "easy" way 
to download the .iso files from LO's download pages.

Regional distribution people are all of us local users that have created 
a CD/DVD to be used as a promotional disc in various events and given to 
local/regional businesses, etc., etc..

The few of us who have promoted LO with the NA-DVDs  do our best to get 
some type of promotional disc to users, local ones or via regional 
events.  The NA-DVD project's English "text" DVDs are a good place to 
start to work on creating a regional one for English or even non-English 
community based distributions. Actually the NA-DVD started out based on 
the German DVD that came out in the spring/summer of last year.  It has 
grown much since then and hopefully one day it will be using French and 
Spanish language text instead of English for the French and Spanish 
users in North America.

Since TDF/LO is not top down promotion, but bottom [user] up, everyone 
of our users who get together with others to promote LO through a disc 
or thumb-drive is a regional promoter.

OSCON is coming up and a Windows/Mac version of the full 
Windows/Mac/Linux NA-DVD seems will be handed out at that event, or so I 
hear.  These people who are getting the DVDs/thumb-drives made and 
giving them to people at that event are Regional distribution people, or 
at least in my view.

There are a lot of local/regional people/groups that are handing out 
discs with LO installs and other "stuff" that are geared to their local 
needs and language.  NA-DVD and the German DVD are the only ones that 
seem to be talked about, but there are other projects that could use a 
"Thanks for doing that" from our users and promoters.  They need 
encouragement from us, but we do not hear from them "much".




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