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Terrence Barr about Java Mobile Community Advocacy

 
“One of the most valuable things you can get from a community is that you can cut through all the middlemen and you talk directly to the people who actually use your stuff.”

Terrence Barr is Community Advocate, Java Mobile&Embedded Platform at Sun Microsystems where he helped start a community from nothing that two years later collaborates on 180 projects and is highly active. In this interview, Terrence describes how to successfully build a community, how to monitor success and how a community contributes to a company's revenue.

 

Florian Effenberger about Marketing OpenOffice.org

 
“One advantage of marketing Open Source projects is that you can do a kind of honest marketing.”

Florian Effenberger is the OpenOffice.org marketing project co-lead, resonsible for global marketing and he also serves as the German marketing contact. In this interview, Florian provides first-hand information about marketing the OpenOffice.org project. He sheds a light on partner relationships, the marketing stunt for the upcoming OpenOffice.org 3.0 release, co-operation with Sun Microsystems.

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