Business Development Project Manifesto
First I wan to thanks Louis and the rest of the the mailing list users for agreen on my proposal to become co-lead. And even if not much has happened since then I have been hard at work on having an outlook that i will present for Bizdev.
I would like to combine the efforts of the community and make it grow on their target market. I think this is a real great and tangible opportunities to grow on ways that the community expect and represent for itself.
I had been interviewing with current and past members of the community and I guess I had came up with a clearer view on which goals this project originally had. I will list some of the goals that I also want to add and get most of these information as accesible and prosper as the rest.
- Show the viability of OpenOffice.org as an open development platform for new products.
- Show the popularity and advantages for third party development to OOo
- Push the needs of third parties into the mainstream project as well as a better communication
- Develop process and systems to handle third parties requests and needs
- Make OpenOffice.org BizDev communication more secure and with higher standards for conducting sensitive information protecting product releases, and competitive information private.
- Make clear on the type of people we want to talk to and have more specific camaigns to target them.
- Get this project localized in at least 3 languages.
- Design a partnership program and industry standards
For the past years we have seen a series of big development around the globe and the internet as well as companies working each other in this mesh network of making businesses live inside other busiensses (2nd life, Facebook). We believe OpenOffice.org is a great product to provide services and additional products that can survive of the popularity that OOo is achieving and creating vehiecles of making money through convenience and advantage of the services.
Feel free to address your comments on improving this manifesto at the BizDev mailing list or at my email jza at openoffice.org --JZA 01:36, 7 December 2008 (CET)
