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 mobile open source project.
Welcome, Hal! Great to have you with us. - Helge
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 public beta beginning of May)How we’ll contribute the the project:
Spread the word!Our contact information:
amazee.com (blog)
amazee.net (private beta)
Amazee Ltd., Zurich, SwitzerlandWe wish you lots of success!
Gregory–
Gregory Gerhardt
Chief Executive Officer
Hello Gregory - thanks for that lightning-fast response and the wishes. Lots of success for your OS-backed Platform, too!
- Helge
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:
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-> T3N Magazine for Open Source & Web (Publisher & Founder)
-> TYPO3 Press Responsible Germanyhow you intend to contribute to the project:
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-> Offer T3N as a communication channel
-> Press Releases
-> Event interaction (LinuxTag, Open Source Expo, CeBIT Open Source 2009, etc.)
Marc J. Miller (SpikeSource) ..
I am Marc J. Miller, have been working as an OSMP for the past 8 years. My most recent challenge has been working at a SaaS organization called SpikeSource, and designing new software and services for open source software companies.
I would like to use the OSMPA to help open source companies understand how to convert free downloads to paying customers, as I’ve identified that as a key need for most OSMP’s.
Peter Prohaska, who is just launching opensourceaustria.at these days (could not find EN-Content over there, where is it Peter?).
Lisa Rokusek (AgentHR) ..
I am in the Midwest in the US, and I am a recruiter and trainer who focusing on the uses of social and online media and marketing for business. I am happy to share knowledge and information and to work with you folks in a variety of ways. I’d like to find out more.
Kevin Schueler (Host Europe) ..
Hello,
I am Kevin Schueler and I like to join to OSMPA.
As Product Manager Hosting & Services from Host Europe I can give many impressions from the hosters point of view to the association.
Guy Smith (Silicon Strategies Marketing) ..
1.who you are,
Guy Smith, Silicon Strategies Marketing
2.how you intend to contribute to the project,
Uncertain. Oli emailed me and it sounds interesting. My background with SuSE, Open-Xchange, VA Software and others should give me some helpful insights to share
A warm welcome to all of you! - Helge
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, who received the Email/Invitation:
please take a look at:
http://osmpa.org/weblog/osmpa-invitation/
Best, Oliver
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 am mostly curious about what the OSMPA activities will be and how they could be relevant to my activities. I do not intend to contribute actively in the 3 or 4 months to come per lack of time (new product launch), but I may contribute more in the future when I get more time.
Pascal
Next one from Mozilla was: Jane Finette, Mozillas Director European Marketing. In her own words (part 1):
Dear Helge,
Paul Kim forwarded your email to me. I head up EU Marketing for Mozilla. Please let me know how I can help you. Would love to get involved where I can, and I’ll be sure to read your blog for ideas too! We are in the middle of Firefox 3 launch planning - so I’ll do my best but might not be quite so active in the first few months.
Warm wishes from London!
Jane
(part 2):
Hi Helge,
Lovely to hear back from you - and I think OSMPA is a GREAT idea! Many congratulations on starting such a well worth initiative. I already see you have some great members such as Maria Sipka, Florian Effenberger, as well as some Mozilla folks like Paul Kim and Zak Greant. Really looking forward to see what we can do together.
(part 3):
I have to thank you for starting OSMPA - sounds like just what a lot of us Open Source Marketing folks need! I’m really looking forward to see what we can do together and the sharing of ideas and experiences.
You already to have a number of great folks signed up - and I’m sure there will be a lot of banter. :)
Look forward to contributing - and learning a lot too!
Wow, jane — THAT was marketing for OSMPA. Really glad to have you with us!
And then we have .. Dorit Weber, in her own words:
Hi,
First of all I want to thank you for the invitation to the OSMPA – I am very flattered!
My name is Dorit Weber and I am currently working as a project manager at Saint Elmo’s Interaction in Berlin. I finished my masters in international marketing in the summer of 2006 with a thesis on Open Source Marketing. My thesis developed out of my interest for changes in the marketing environment and my fascination of open source methods and alternative copyright law. Since then, I have tried to follow all developments in this area, keep myself up to date and incorporate these ideas in my working projects.
I am convinced OSMPA will develop into a great platform for open source marketers and others interested in this area. I am very much looking forward to our exchanges and will contribute as much as I can.Cheers,
Dorit
Dorit, we all are flattered because of you joining us! Now we get observed by someone who also knows the theory of what we’re all doing ;-) Great Weblog btw. and: Welcome to OSMPA!
Last but not at all least for today: Charles Lumpkin, in his own words:
Fellow Marketers,
This is a fabulous idea. My name is Charles Lumpkin. I’m a partner in Snowcap Labs. We are a team of Internet Marketers an Developers in the United States. We’ve been practicing what we’d like to call “open source” principals in many our marketing campaigns. Knowledge should be freely passed freely and without restriction not only in just software. I’d love to help you guys build up a knowledge base of online marketing techniques and best practices.We also have some software that we use to manage online marketing campaigns and market research. It’s in Ruby on Rails and some pretty cool stuff. I think this might make a nice addition to an open source marketing community.
I see you are using WordPress. Maybe we can help you put a little shine on the site.
Again, great idea! I’m excited about helping out.
Cheers,
Charles Lumpkin
Partner, Snowcap Labs
Good to see the first participant from the SEO-scenery out there. I especially like the idea of a best-practice knowledge base. Welcome, Charles — welcome y’all ! That was a really great day4 for OSMPA. I am already excited what will happen at the weekend. I’ll tell you on Monday ;-)
- Helge
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 shared your note with a few of my european colleagues at mozilla, so you may be hearing from them soon.
congratulations on your new association and a great idea!
best
paul
2 mins later we had the first one (and our first french member) joining. I’ll blog on that (amongst other news) later.
And thanks so much to Paul - and all the best for Firefox-3-Launch! Keep rocking!
- Helge
Daniel Hinderink writes to OSMPA:
hi,
my name is Daniel Hinderink and I have contributed nothing but strategy and marketing knowledge to the TYPO3 project, a wide-spread PHP-based CMS in Europe and beyond. In the more recent past I have concentrated on conducting a branding project for TYPO3, to my knowledge the first of it’s kind run by a community-driven open source project (as opposed to vendor-driven) with the help of Interbrand and other very inspiring experts. For the next few months my plan is to push the new kid on the block, FLOW3, TYPO3’s very own development framework, and to communicate the migration path and administer the change management needed for making TYPO3 5.0, a breakthrough in our development, a roaring success. I am looking forward to the exchange with Open Source believers as myself, that are also no developers. Actually I can’t wait :-)
You can ask Sandro Groganz about me, if you need some more information from a different perspective.
Hey and thanks for getting this started!
cheers
Daniel
Cool to have you with us, Daniel! Welcome to the Ʌ-Team.
- Helge
Good news in the morning of day4 - Tara Hunt joins OSMPA although she is no joiner at all. Had this in the OSMPA-Inbox:
What Chris said…this is a great idea. I don’t know how much input I can give until later in May, but good job!
Tara
Thanx a lot, Tara and I am sure we all feel honored even if your input starts in june ;-) OSMPA will still be there ..
Have Fun with the Rest of the Ʌ-Team.
cheers, Helge
Third day of OSMPA was exactly as exciting as the ones before. Again we have new members to announce:
Besides these two Maria Sipka wrote the following via Mail:
Dear Helge,
Congratulations on your initiative. It looks very exciting and promising. I’d love to participate in this once we’ve successfully launched Linqia. (..) I like to participate in activities I can contribute and at the moment I wouldn’t even have time to read emails.
For those who don’t know Maria: She started a 10K member community on XING connecting Global Business Women. Right now she starts her own venture Linquia. Maybe OSMPA-Group will be listed there in the future?
Ok - so what about day 4?
Day2 again brought us really interesting new members for our “Λ-Team”:
Let’s see what Day3 will bring. If anyone out there has ideas who else we should immediately invite, pls simply write a comment and we’ll send him or her a personal invitation.
