Cvander:

Last thursday we meet in Buda Bar with Jeremiah Owyang, an interesting guy from the Bay Area that is doing some blogger dinners everywhere he goes. It is his second time in Barcelona, since he had his honeymoon here a few years ago.

There were some familiar faces and good networking. The evening ended in Ciudad Comdal (my favorite Tapas place in Barna) were we started talking about some OpenSoftware projects, and the lack of marketing that the majority of projects have to achieve the mainstream.

It was a great discussion about the need of a team of marketing and business professionals to help the Open Source community. Since the Open(whatever) is fashionable this days, we ended up talking about OpenMarketing.

Imagine this team that will focus on asking the right questions to the developers of OpenSource projects. It is about making marketing mix plans and adding value to projects. The main concern is with the profitability for the team, but this marketing has to be Open and a learning excersice for developers. I am sure that the ones that help will get good promotion for their names -branding is as important as cash-. Surgeons and lawyers do complicated work pro bono, so lets share the Open Source culture to the marketing world.

Anyway, Jeremiah left some thoughts about the meeting in his blog and also some pics in flickr:barcelonabloggernov07.