Gary Edwards wrote:
> wrote:
>
>>Comment from:
>>
>>Name: Doug Morrison-Cleary
>>Regarding Specification: OpenDocument
>>
>>We need a logo and web banners/buttons to advertise OpenDocument. While I use OOo exclusively, I would like to advertise on my websites (like <hildormen.org>) that most documents are available in OpenDocument format! That way users of KOffice, etc would be encouraged to use OpenDocument also.
>>
>>Think of the marketing. The standard itself should become popular, not just its most well-known user of the standard.
>>
>>Doug
>>
>>
> Hi Doug,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to comment. The members of the
> OpenDocument TC share your concerns and have been discussing the
> marketing issues. The OpenDoc TC is however, very concerned about
> pushing the specification forward technically. And given our limited
> resources, there no doubt where our focus must remain. So what we've
> recently undertaken is an effort to establish a collaborative dialog
> with the growing OpenDocument community to jointly address the many
> marketing issues we all expect to become increasingly important.
>
> Last week i posted a message to the OpenOffice.org Marketing Group
> discussion list outlining some of the concerns that have been
> discussed by the OpenDoc TC (list serve:
> ). The OOo Marketing Group has been
> working on OpenDoc logo's and marketing issues for some time now, but
> these efforts tend to be focused on OpenOffice.org marketing
> concerns. As you suggest in your post Doug, OpenDoc would be better
> served by a highly coordinated marketing effort where "all" interested
> participants could pool their efforts, and come up with a solid, clear
> and unwavering message to the marketplace that OpenDocument is ready
> to take on the important work of collaborative computing.
>
> I believe that the OpenOffice.org Marketing Group will rise to the
> occasion, and take on the diplomatic challenge of reaching out to the
> many OpenDoc participants, and coordinating with the OpenDocument TC
> to put in motion the cooperative arbitration of important marketing
> issues that face our corporate, open source community, business, and
> organizational partners.
>
> These are great challenges Doug. Please feel free to jump into the
> OOo Marketing discussion, your contribution is greatly appreciated.
> And thanks for the consideration,
> ~ge~
>
> Gary Edwards
>
> OpenOffice.org volunteer serving on the OASIS OpenDocument Technical
> Committee
>
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