Dimitri,
> I agree. My understanding of your question about the apparent french
> success in reaching out to the press was limited to the community effort
> as opposed to the corporate press, and it seems to me that the answer
> you got is all about corporate press and throwing corporate money at it.
>
> My aim here was to make it obvious how to separate the two categories so
> that any french lesson on this PR effort would be limited to what we did
> actually achieve as a community: nothing impressive when compared to the
> other countries and organisations.
From my perspective, the companies are *part* of our community. So if
we got a lot of press in France because we had companies echoing the
press release message, then maybe that *is* something to emulate elsewhere.
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Josh Berkus
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