Marketing/OOoInternship

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.

TODO

1. find mentors
   1. involve project_leads@ooo, dev@openoffice.org (st)
2. list of tasks
   1. involve project_leads@ooo, dev@openoffice.org (st)
3. for the planning
   1. revive mentoring@openoffice.org for the planning (st)
4. rules
   1. finish the draft - see below (all)
5. promote the programm
   1. starting June 22 (cornouws, floeff)

Planning

1. budget for the bounties (marketing and development budget) : done
2. first announcements :
3. network marketing :
4. end of submitting proposals :
5. selection of the proposals :
6. make mentor/mentee pairs :
7. solicitation of applications :
8. start of the programm :
9. end of the programm :
10. payment of contributors :
11. promotion of results, contributers :

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