Re: Guadec and Dutch government plans for OSS and desktop

[Sanne te Meerman <sanne opensourceadvies nl>]

Hi,

I've gimped a littlebit with a picture of the outline of the DWR plans. 
Please bear in mind that although the document was in itself not 
intended to be private, this is my personal translation, quick & dirty, 
unofficial, and it might cause problems if it's published. For use only 
within Gnome!

it's a rather small PDF so I've attached it. I've translated only the 
very cryptical stuff. The rest should be understandable. Suggestions 
from my part for the content of a possible press-release would be:
-praise the dutch government for their consulation of the the community 
and involving them like this. Make it positive so the publicity is good 
for them too. As far as I know it's pretty unique, but I'm not sure. 
Anyone knows of similar public consultations?
-point out possible dangers too, and things like the opportunity to 
focus more on usability issues like Brian suggested.
-Express that we're looking forward to Guadec and might 'shape an 
opportunity' to meet government officials before or during the 
conference to discuss opportunities etc. if possible using words that 
emphasise that a possible session before the conference is an option 
with their 'involvement' (financially as well).

regards,
Sanne
ps. just some suggestions from the top of my head. As I said,I'm not 
particularly experienced in this area and the involvement from those who 
are would be great.
ps. about the mailinglist: you probably know best which team could pick 
this up best.


Stormy Peters schreef:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Sanne te Meerman 
> <sanne opensourceadvies nl <mailto:sanne opensourceadvies nl>> wrote:
>
>
>         Marketing Team, who should work on the response?
>
>
>     I can translate interesting parts tomorrow, and give my thoughts
>     on what I personally would think is important in a response. But
>     especially about the technical merits of i.e. Kerberos, LDAP that
>     they're planning to use, I don't have anything wise to say (or
>     anything to say at all). I'm also not very experienced with these
>     type of press releases so anyone with experience would be very
>     welcome to help out.
>
> I don't think I'm the best person either.
>
> Perhaps we should reach out to a different team? The release team? The 
> desktop mailing list?
>
> Stormy

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