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== Public Info on the programm ==
 
== Public Info on the programm ==
 
While this page is for organising stuff, people interested to join, mentor, support the programm, can go to the page [[OpenOffice.org_Internship]].
 
While this page is for organising stuff, people interested to join, mentor, support the programm, can go to the page [[OpenOffice.org_Internship]].
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== The programm ==
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* proposals
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* solicitation of applications
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* mentor/mentee pairs
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** ask for mentors at project_leads@OOo
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* budget for the bounties
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** marketing and development budget
  
  

Revision as of 21:19, 6 May 2009

Preparing edition 2009

As follow up on the effort in the past year here the preparations for 2009 are made.

In a first discussion on dev@OOo and dev@marketing.OOo , various ideas/issues were mentioned for better promotion and better support.

This page started with that info and will help us keeping record of ideas and tasks.

Public Info on the programm

While this page is for organising stuff, people interested to join, mentor, support the programm, can go to the page OpenOffice.org_Internship.

The programm

  • proposals
  • solicitation of applications
  • mentor/mentee pairs
    • ask for mentors at project_leads@OOo
  • budget for the bounties
    • marketing and development budget


Marketing

  • promoting it on the main page (www.openoffice.org)
  • add an item on contributung page (contributing.openoffice.org)
  • start a twitter account and get 1000+ followers. post a link.
  • post to digg
  • tell a few high profile bloggers about it.
  • encourage people to blog about it
  • a lot of promoting and press releases
  • inform writers/editors on tech news sites, like wired.com
  • send notices to computer science departments at universities


Support

  • promote clearly how people can get support, if they need it, to make the start
  • have a prominent link to the predone VirtualBox ubuntu images of cl, so the issue of getting the thing compiled would be already solved
  • have some really easy bugs available for fixing to get some results


Planning

  • Wait till the university exam period is done
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