[Mageia-discuss] An introduction from a Marketing guy

Tue Sep 21 15:36:17 CEST 2010

This is by way of an introduction and putting my hand up
+I've been the MarCon (Marketing Contact) for New Zealand for OOo since about 
+2005 and been around the OOo project since the early days.  
+
+My original introduction to Linux was Mandrake 8.0 but became a little 
+disenchanted with it around the 10.1 period and I moved to SuSE, however I've 
+always been a fan of many of the features that made it unique.
+
+I have long wished for a true community driven, Desktop  RPM distribution that 
+is Simple End-User friendly.  MCC set Mandrake/Mandriva apart for 
+unsophisticated users and I think that forking at this point is great.
+
+Obviously my strength is in marketing and training and I'd like to get a 
+Mageia  marketing project of the ground right now, gather together some like 
+minded marketing enthusiasts and take Mageia to a world of new users.
+
+A marketing project would be useful to the project at this juncture to create 
+branding, formulate a strategic market plan, source graphic art and build 
+community.
+
+If there is general agreement with this proposal, I would then like to request 
+a marketing ML so we can keep the prattling about strategies and branding and 
+logos and all that stuff off the devs list. I have server space available to 
+set up a marketing Wiki and Art repository and for Docs as well if required.
+
+Cheers
+GL
+
+-- 
+Graham Lauder,
+OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ
+http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html
+
+OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant.
+
+INGOTs Assessor Trainer
+(International Grades in Open Technologies)
+www.theingots.org
+