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, education project, dev@openoffice.org (st)
2. list of tasks
   1. involve project_leads@ooo, education project, 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 collecting and discussing proposals :
5. submitting of applications :
6. ranking and accepting applications :
7. make mentor/mentee pairs :
8. start of the programm :
9. mid-term evaluations :
10. end of the programm :
11. payment of contributors :
12. 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

Rules - DRAFT

(FOR WORKING ON THE DRAFT, also see rules CIP 2008 )

1. Eligible are developers who can work full-time for a period of ~3 month on a task;
2. Participants have to comply with the OpenOffice.org guidelines (incl. SCA), see XXX;
3. For each successfully finished task an award of 4000 EUR is offered;
4. Proposals have to be send to XXX and will are collected on a wiki page;
5. The poposals (suggested tasks and own ideas) are discussed by applicants and mentors on the project lists XXX;
6. Applications are send via survey service XXX;
7. Involved mentors plus organizing team rank and accept applications;
8. There will be a mid-term evaluations by mentors (supervisor or meeting);
9. At the end of the project there will be final evaluations;
   1. Success of participant is determined by mentor plus formal compliance with rules;
   2. In case of doubt, the participipant and the mentor contact the (supervisor or meeting);
10. Payments to the participant will be done immediately after the programm.

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