On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Chaosun <sunc...@redoffice.com> wrote:
> Naming issue again. It makes no sense arguing somehow. Name is a name > anyway. People actually don't care about the names, if it changed, may cause > confusing or unconfortable. Let's please focus on the office suit itself > instead of those ichiness. > Wow people don't care about the name... seems you never study branding in marketing. Most of the time the brand "Google" can make an office suite matter more than when it was called writley. > > Chao > > > > >On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Ben Pracht <ben.pra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I still say it'd be better to use something other than .org, even if it > > meant a name change to something close but not trademarked. I don't > think > > names are a light issue either, especially since really, that's the first > > exposure someone's going to have to the product. > > > > Ben > > > > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Christoph Noack <christ...@dogmatux.com > > >wrote: > > > > > Hi Ben, > > > > > > I know that this sometimes is a bit ... strange. Especially since > nobody > > > really cares about the proper naming (e.g. in the press). However, here > > > is the reason: http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-other.html#4 > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Christoph > > > > > > Am Dienstag, den 18.05.2010, 15:59 -0500 schrieb Ben Pracht: > > > > There's something that's bothered me since I started using OpenOffice > > > which > > > > I wish also got changed, which was the use of OOo or appending .org > at > > > the > > > > end of it. The first one reminds me of the acronym for Out of > Office, > > or > > > > some sort of impolite personal accident. Appending .org seems > > > superfluous. > > > > It's also easier to roll off your tongue if you can just say > OpenOffice > > > or > > > > something like that. I'd suggest the next time branding issues come > up > > > in a > > > > somewhat major way to take up investigating this. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ben > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Christoph Noack < > > christ...@dogmatux.com > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Sophie, hi Miroslav! > > > > > > > > > > Miroslav, you asked for the colors in the ODF icons. As I > understood > > > > > Sophie, there might be a chance to improve the usability and > branding > > > of > > > > > the currently ODF-only icons. Personally, I don't know ... there > have > > > > > been many questions, but no real comment by one of the team > members. > > So > > > > > if this is important to you (as it is to me), please follow > Sophie's > > > > > hint to join the branding effort and help us to drive that topic. > > > > > > > > > > In the meantime, there has been a request by Bernhard to the > > Community > > > > > Council. He asks why there hasn't been any community involvement > with > > > > > regard to the ODF icons ... currently there are (slow) discussions > > > going > > > > > on. [1] > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > Christoph > > > > > > > > > > [1] > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Agenda > > > > > (2010-04-29#2< > > > > > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Agenda%0A%282010-04-29#2 > > >Missing > > > OOo desktop presence) > > > > > > > > > > Am Dienstag, den 18.05.2010, 20:23 +0200 schrieb Sophie: > > > > > > Hi Miroslav, > > > > > > Miroslav Mazel wrote: > > > > > > > We've been discussing the omission of color pretty thoroughly > > since > > > > > > the OOo > > > > > > > branding was changed, but it seems that it lead to... nothing. > Is > > > > > > the lack > > > > > > > of color in application icons and file icons final? Could we > have > > > an > > > > > > > official vote on this? > > > > > > > > > > > > This is not final and if you want to follow/help on this, the > > > > > > discussions happen on the branding list > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > OpenOffice.org Español > http://es.openoffice.org > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español http://es.openoffice.org
