Archive for March, 2008

First Japanese News-Coverage for OSMPA

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Just found this: The good news about OSMPA has reached Japan. I don't really know what the text says, but maybe the author will be so kind and let us know lateron? It is also a great pleasure for me to see the Weblog-Stats, showing lots of downloads of our invitation ...

Kai Altenfelder joins OSMPA

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Kai is owner of Altenfelder Services Consulting, Foundation Coach at the OSBF (Open Source Business Foundation) and former Director Support Services at SuSE Linux and Novell. In his own words: Hi, Oliver told me about the newly founded association and here I am: I am a selfemployed management consultant, specialized in services management ...

Andreas Milles of Spreadshirt joins OSMPA

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Andreas is a/the so called "brand evangelist" at spreadshirt.net where he runs Open Marketing stuff like the Open Logo Project (Spreadshirts new Logo invented by the crowd), LaFraise (ongoing t-shirt design competitin) a great german weblog called "Companice" (first weblog with a "b-side" i know) about marketing in times ...

Matthias Stuermer of ch-open joins OSMPA

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

So now we have members from all DACH-Countries at OSMPA. Warm Welcome to Matthias Stuermer of ch-open who writes to OSMPA: Hi I didn't really understand what your activities will be. Nevermind, reading "Open Source" and "Marketing" kind of fits my initiatives such as OpenExpo, OSS at schools, Ubuntu Swiss Remix and ...

Hal Steger of Funambol joins OSMPA

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

From our Inbox: Hi OSMPA: I'd be happy to join, here is the info requested. If anymore info is needed, just let me know. Thx / regards, Hal Steger 1. Who I am -- Hal Steger, VP Marketing, Funambol 2. How I intend to contribute -- I can share our marketing experiences as the #1 ...

OSMPA Inbox: Gregory Gerhardt of Amazee

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Gregory writes to OSMP: Hi OSMPs Helge Brzoska just sent me a message via xing... great initiative! The Amazees will be happy to associate as "friends and folks" and help you spread the word throughout the galaxy. Who we are: Amazee, a Social Collaboration platform being built on a Drupal framework (release of ...

Andy Lenz, Marc J. Miller, Peter Prohaska, Lisa Rokusek, Kevin Schueler, Guy Smith join OSMPA

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Olivers and Peters invitation to their contacts brought us a whole bunch of interesting new members over the weekend and today. Here they are alphabetically: Andreas Lenz (T3N), in his own words .. hello helge, i´d like to have a talk to you and i´d like to join osmpa. who you are: ------------ -> T3N Magazine ...

Oliver Nachtrab sent out invitation to join OSMPA to his network

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Oliver Nachtrab, one of the founding members, announced OSMPA to his network and invited them to participate. It included also a lot of US and international folks as the invitation has been sent out by Xing and for those, who are not connected through Xing, via Email. @Colleagues, Partner, Friends and Folks, ...

Dorit Weber, Pascal Chevrel, Jane Finette, Charles Lumpkin join OSMPA

Friday, March 14th, 2008

To continue where I stopped in my last post: The 2-min-after member is Pascal Chevrel, our first member from france. In his own words: Hi, I am French, I work for Mozilla on web localization (worldwide) and community development (Europe). You can have a look at my public LinkedIn profile for more details. I ...

OSMPA Inbox: Paul Kim

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Paul Kim, VP Marketing for Mozilla wrote us: hi helge - thanks for the kind email and invitation. i'm a little swamped right now working on the firefox 3 launch so i'll politely decline to join right now but will definitely keep my eyes out for progress at your site. i've also ...