[art] marketing blog
Hello Florian, I'm a relatively new member in the OpenOffice marketing group, earlier I posted regarding assisting with moving images, film and animation. I also work as a freelance writer for travel and have previously been writing for IT (server software). I would gladly help out with regular writing for your blog! Best regards, Paul Subject: marketing blog From: Florian Effenberger flo...@openoffice.org Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:11:30 +0100 To: d...@marketing.openoffice.org, art@marketing.openoffice.org To: d...@marketing.openoffice.org, art@marketing.openoffice.org Hello, I hope everyone had a beautiful start into the year -- health, success and happiness to all of you in 2010! As the new year starts, I'd love to talk again about the marketing blog that has been in service for two years now. Thanks to the great efforts of Gabriel Gurley, we had some very interesting posts recently. However, the blog still is not attractive at all in terms of layout, and still, we have not many contributions. As the marketing blog is considered an official part of the marketing project, thus representing OOo, we should put more efforts into it. Are there interested contributors for writing regular blog entries? Are there members from the art project who like to contribute with a fresh design? If we don't manage to bring the marketing blog to a higher level, I'm in favor of archiving the current entries and shutting the blog down until we have something that is much more representative. What do you think? Florian
Re: [art] marketing blog
Hi Paul, I'm a relatively new member in the OpenOffice marketing group, earlier I posted regarding assisting with moving images, film and animation. I also work as a freelance writer for travel and have previously been writing for IT (server software). I would gladly help out with regular writing for your blog! welcome on board! That would be greatly appreciated -- feel free to send in postings to me and then I can publish them. If things work, I am also happy to give you an account that enables you to post yourself. BTW, I propose we move this discussion to d...@marketing :-) Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: art-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: art-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
Re: [art] marketing blog
Hi Brian, thank you for your mail. I'm just a bit confused, since the link works for me... However, I added the original mail content at the bottom. Have a nice day! Christoph Am Sonntag, den 03.01.2010, 10:36 -0800 schrieb Brian Coale: Please read on here (and come back for the rest of the mail *g*): http://website.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=devmsgNo=11193 FYI: This link didn't work for me... The text ... From: Christoph Noack noack.christ...@googlemail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:56:16 +0100 Subject: Save our planet! :-) Hi everyone, I'm sure you all know OpenOffice.org Planet and enjoy the aggregation of single messages in one place. But, at least to me, some things seem to be sub-optimal. Fortunately, I had the chance to discuss some of my observations with the current administrator (mh). An example: The blog messages of the UX community are published via Blogspot and collected by the Planet. I already know that certain formatting gets lost (e.g. bold or colored text), so I cannot improve the readability of the text right from the beginning :-( Additionally, the Planet keeps the postings for a certain time only - this is a pity, since we lose the detailed history of longer lasting activities within OpenOffice.org (e.g. Renaissance). Finally, the only chance is to refer to other information sources like GullFOSS (they have a message archive), but it is only accessible for Sun employees. However, I think you got the point... At the end of the talk we came to the conclusion that a little bit help might work wonders :-) I naively asked whether there has ever been a request to website-dev. It seems not ... so I proposed to ask you for some help. So, are you - or a small group - ready to make the Planet more visible, easier to use, and more reliable? That would be sooo great! The first step is as easy as answering on this mail :-) To provide a bit inspiration, here is what the competition does: * http://planet.gnome.org/ * http://planetkde.org/ * http://fridge.ubuntu.com/ * http://planet.fedoraproject.org/ * http://www.planetsuse.org/ * ... Did you know that it is also possible to provide sub-planets (like [1])? Marketing has one since quite some time [2], and the NLC too [3]. But both seem separated from the main Planet. Ah, separate is a good keyword. I am also fully separated from any information how the planet is technically realized. At the moment, I'm the one asking for help ... ;-) By the way, does anybody know why there is an additional one? http://www.planetopenoffice.org/ Thanks in advance! Christoph [1] http://planet.services.openoffice.org/ux [2] http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/ [3] http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/ -- Usability * Productivity * Enjoyment OpenOffice.org User Experience Team http://ux.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: art-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: art-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
Re: [art] OpenOffice.org Identity a little close to that of Coffee Sweetener?
Hi Brian, all, sorry for responding late, but the family deserves more time these days... Brian Coale schrieb: Ok, don't hate me for this, no - never ;-) but am I the only one who's noticed that the OOo3 splash screen, web buttons, and other materials using that same theme are strikingly similar to Equal's (the sugar substitute) packaging and identity? As we can't buy Equal in Austria and Germany, I for one didn't know about the similarity. Consider this: http://briancoale.com/stuff/Equal-OOo3.png If you compare the images directly, you see the differences - and I don't think there is any chance to change Equal's branding ... But I don't want to change our own branding without a really good reason because many people recognize OOo by it's graphical representation. If we want/wanted to avoid this resemblance, we should have done it before this splash screen become official - or we should change it when OOo branding is reconsidered/reworked from the basis with the new branding project. In fact, from my POV it's a positive result of OOo branding, if you think of OOo when you see Equal's advertisements. :-) Thanks for letting us know! Best regards Bernhard - To unsubscribe, e-mail: art-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: art-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
