[libreoffice-design] Re: [libo-marketing-priv] Blog post to involve esyhackers

[Mike Saunders]

Hi Heiko,

That's a great idea. I've gone through the blog post and cleaned up a 
bit of the English. As Cor notes, it's a good idea to present the easy 
hacks as fun, and highlight from the start that they don't take up much 
time. Lots of people would like to get involved in open source but only 
have an hour or so each week.


Similarly, I've found that you can get people interested by talking 
about the experience they'll gain. Think of computer science students 
who will be in the job market soon and want to have some impressive 
stuff on their CVs. Anyone can set up their own SourceForge or GitHub 
project -- but if you've had your work included in a major FOSS project 
like LibreOffice, Firefox or the Linux kernel, potential employees will 
take more note!


Once the blog post is up, I'll promote it via our usual channels.

Mike


On 15.06.2016 11:10, Heiko Tietze wrote:

Hi all,

I prepared a blog post with the intention to find more people doing
easyhacks. The idea is that we have tickets that require not much
coding skill. But even this might feel as a hurdle. When we find
people for the graphical only task it could be a first step.

Please read the (really short) draft at

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lgAD-aE54IswyAwg6yJ6MeTstCjznPvQR1nV_R95OXs/edit?usp=sharing

I'm open to all comments and refinements. For convenience I draft blog
post in Google Docs. The final posting will be on
http://design.blog.documentfoundation.org.

Cheers,
Heiko


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Re: [libreoffice-design] Social media and website banners

[Mike Saunders]

Hi K-J,

On 23.02.2016 16:47, K-J LibreOffice wrote:


Branding [1]:
"If the LibreOffice Logo is used by people not representing The
Document Foundation, by single community members or outside the
community, a logo without the subline "The Document Foundation" should
be used."


That's a good point -- thanks!


Some times ago I made some badges [2] based on Nik's proposal

[2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:K-j/Drafts#Badges


Actually, those look great! Have you done any promotion with them? It'd 
be great to get a campaign going so that everyone involved with LO puts 
something like that on their site/blog/social media profile.


Also, is there any particular significance to the different colours of 
the corners on the shields (in the left column)? Like, bronze, silver 
and gold?


Mike




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[libreoffice-design] Social media and website banners

[Mike Saunders]

Hi everyone,

I'm working as the new Marketing Assistant for The Document Foundation 
(https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/02/18/marketing-project-new-marketing-assistant/) 
and I've just put together some banners that developers, supporters and 
translators can use on their websites and in social media:


https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding/Social_Media_Banners

If anyone from the design team has any input or suggestions, please give 
me a shout! I'm thinking of adding an icon to each one, like in the bug 
fixing banner. Eg a smiley face for donations, or a speech bubble for 
translations.


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Re: [libreoffice-design] Results from the Draw Survey

[Mike Saunders]

Hi Heiko,

On 23.03.2016 17:51, Heiko Tietze wrote:


As usual the English is a shame and needs proof-reading from natives.


Not a shame; the English is mostly great! But I'm a native speaker and 
can do a few cleanups if you like -- just grant access to my Google 
account (oka...@gmail.com) and I'll do it.


Cheers,
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Re: [libreoffice-design] Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2016-04-01

[Mike Saunders]

Hi,

On 01.04.2016 21:53, Jan Holesovsky wrote:


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XknvPqz58hYc_NeY2-Ky-L92MkLdYqs7SJCCxC3DX6w/edit#heading=h.rwnqe5haxk5v
+ hope to publish it the next week
+ please read it & review, will affect our HIG


Good work. Just to say that I've been through it and tidied up the 
English a bit!


Mike

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Re: [libreoffice-design] Results from the Draw Survey

[Mike Saunders]

Hi Heiko,

OK, I've gone through the document now and done a few small English 
cleanups. The only bit I didn't understand was this: "Remark: Goes to 
figure caption of the legend"


Anyway, it's a fascinating read so when you make it live on the Design 
blog I can generate some interest around it on Twitter, Reddit, Hacker 
News etc.


Cheers,
Mike


On 24.03.2016 17:27, Heiko Tietze wrote:

Hi Mike,

I suspect Google to always change my setting. Pretty sure that I 
enabled at

least commenting. Anyway, now it should be okay.
And I'm glad to have you onboard since the documentation part is mostly 
a

communication and marketing thing.

All the best,
Heiko

On Donnerstag, 24. März 2016 13:30:58 CET Mike Saunders wrote:

Hi Heiko,

On 23.03.2016 17:51, Heiko Tietze wrote:
> As usual the English is a shame and needs proof-reading from natives.

Not a shame; the English is mostly great! But I'm a native speaker and
can do a few cleanups if you like -- just grant access to my Google
account (oka...@gmail.com) and I'll do it.

Cheers,
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[libreoffice-design] LibreOffice barnstars for design community contributions

[Mike Saunders]

Hi design team,

Some of you may have already seen our Month of LibreOffice promotion 
campaign, where we're encouraging community members to award each other 
barnstars for their contributions:


https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Barnstars/2016-05

This campaign runs through May, and it would be awesome to have a bunch 
of barnstars by the end. So if you want to credit someone else in the 
design community for their work, please award them a barnstar and we can 
celebrate the awesomeness at the end. Thanks!


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Re: [libreoffice-design] Blog post to welcome GSoC students

[Mike Saunders]

Hi,

Looks good. I've made a few language tweaks and left a comment about 
referring to LO as an "organization".


Cheers,
Mike


On 02.05.2016 17:19, Heiko Tietze wrote:

Hi all,

many mentoring organizations welcome their students (or rather
students say Hello), so we should do as well. That's also a good way
to inform the community about ongoing projects. Here is my proposal:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c3OTgCVx5hETmXk5n4btmSXpM5QjdahxL2WTlbobx14/edit?usp=sharing

All kind of comments are welcome. We should decide about the
publication this Friday.

Cheers,
Heiko


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[libreoffice-design] Position of Impress slide management buttons on toolbar

[Mike Saunders]

Hi everyone,

I just saw this comment on a Slashdot article, talking about the Impress UI:

"In Powerpoint there's a big button marked "New Slide", on the left hand
side of the ribbon. On Impress it's buried in the toolbar somewhere on
the right and not given any particular importance. One of the most basic
actions is less usable in one tool over the other. A succession of
little things like this compound the hassle of using the tool."

Looking at it in LO 5.3, in the top toolbar, there are 26 buttons before
the trio of slide operations (new, duplicate, remove) appear. Would it
make sense to move these closer to the left, given their importance?
Another option would be to have a big "New slide" button under the slide
thumbnails on the left.

Of course, I'm not a UX guy so there may well be a reason for those
icons being where they are. Just some thoughts, in any case :-)

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[libreoffice-design] LibreOffice infobar - text inconsistencies

[Mike Saunders]

Hi,

Regarding: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DF0TT5cXsAAh7hx.jpg

A couple of inconsistencies:

* The red line has "This Document" whereas the blue one has "This
document" (I think both should "document")

* The yellow line has "ok" and the green one "Okay". For consistency
with the rest of the app, both should be "OK"

Minor nit-picking, but if someone has a pointer where these strings are,
I can try to fix them myself (and learn more about LO dev in the process)

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Re: [libreoffice-design] Branding 6.0

[Mike Saunders]

On 24/07/2017 15:01, K-J LibreOffice wrote:
> Am 24.07.2017 um 14:38 schrieb Heiko Tietze:
>> The vegur font is still the default branding font. I just used
>> Liberation Mono for the 6 at the two Windows installer images, which
>> doesn't qualifies for another default font IMHO.
> 
> Of course. And especially the marketing team uses this or that or an
> other font for their stuff. Mostly without providing or even telling the
> font.

OK, guilty as charged :-) I do use Vegur often but sometimes Liberation
Sans as an alternative. In any case, if you want to settle on an
official second font, we will be more consistent with it in future.

Mike

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Re: [libreoffice-design] LibreOffice infobar - text inconsistencies

[Mike Saunders]

Hi Heiko,

Thanks for all the pointers. I'm now setting up a fresh VM to go through
the process of building LO, noting any steps that are especially
difficult or not well documented on the wiki.

Then I'll try to update these text strings and let you know how it
goes... :-)

Mike


On 29/07/2017 10:41, Heiko Tietze wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> the infobar is defined in sfx2/source/dialog/infobar.cxx (headers in 
> include/sfx2/infobar.hxx). The constructor is defined as
> 
> SfxInfoBarWindow( vcl::Window* parent, const OUString& sId,
>   const OUString& sMessage,
>   InfoBarType infoBarType,
>   WinBits nMessageStyle);
> 
> meaning you add the infobar text as a parameter, happening in 
> sfx2/source/doc/objserv.cxx with AppendInfoBar("signature", sMessage, 
> aInfoBarType) where sMessage comes from sMessage = 
> SfxResId(STR_SIGNATURE_BROKEN) which is a constant defined in 
> include/sfx2/strings.hrc - and, to cut the long story short, implemented by 
> Caolan on the introduction of gettext() with the correct sentence style 
> capitalization.
> 
> The button is added to the infobar per pInfoBar->addButton(xBtn) having a 
> text set via xBtn->SetText(SfxResId(STR_SIGNATURE_SHOW)); (all in objserv.cxx 
> for signatures). The green bar was a temporary implementation by me to show 
> the green color for the success type but I don't remember any code for a 
> button, more likely I just overrode another call. But searching for the text 
> with https://opengrok.libreoffice.org returns no result.
> 
> Hopefully you now start with your first easyhack :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Heiko

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Re: [libreoffice-design] LibreOffice infobar - text inconsistencies

[Mike Saunders]

Hi,

Just to note that someone has already fixed those inconsistencies --
thanks! So I don't need to make a patch now. Still, I am interested in
doing an Easy Hack of some kind, to learn about (and document) the
process... Maybe I'll try the German comments...

Mike


On 28/07/2017 13:06, Mike Saunders wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Regarding: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DF0TT5cXsAAh7hx.jpg
> 
> A couple of inconsistencies:
> 
> * The red line has "This Document" whereas the blue one has "This
> document" (I think both should "document")
> 
> * The yellow line has "ok" and the green one "Okay". For consistency
> with the rest of the app, both should be "OK"
> 
> Minor nit-picking, but if someone has a pointer where these strings are,
> I can try to fix them myself (and learn more about LO dev in the process)
> 

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Re: [libreoffice-design] Updated LibreOffice donate page on website for beautifying

[Mike Saunders]

Hi Jan,

Just to let you know that I've finally had time to work on a HTML and
CSS version of this:

https://www.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/donate-newdesign.html

It's not quite as pretty as your mockup, but I think most of the content
is there and this implementation doesn't use JavaScript which is a bonus.

We'll look at implementing it into the main donate page now.

Thanks,
Mike


On 22/04/2017 14:49, jan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there progress on this issue and/or anything I could help with?
> Or has it been stalled?
> 
> Jan

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[libreoffice-design] Notebookbar status for LibreOffice 6.1

[Mike Saunders]

Hello!

So the release of LibreOffice 6.1 is still a couple of months away, but
we in the marketing community are starting to plan the release
announcement, videos and other materials.

How is the Notebookbar looking? I assume it'll still be experimental in
6.1? I recall someone (Andreas?) saying that one of the Notebookbar
variants is getting close to completion, however, so we could mention
that in the press release / video.

Indeed, I could make a separate video showing how to try it. The two
things to bear in mind are:

1) It must be easy to revert to the "normal" layout
2) If there are many different Notebookbar variants in the experimental
mode, we need to be careful that users don't accidentally enable the
wrong one, and complain...

Cheers,
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[libreoffice-design] Interview about icons and Notebookbar on the blog

[Mike Saunders]

Hello,

Many of you have probably seen this already, but just in case:

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/06/05/libreoffice-interview-andreas-kainz-talks-about-new-icons-and-the-notebookbar/

I'm spreading the word on social media, Reddit etc. so hopefully we'll
get more feedback and can really polish the Notebookbar for an upcoming
release...

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Re: [libreoffice-design] Banner for AMA and 6.1 release

[Mike Saunders]

Hello,

On 24/07/2018 17:55, Heiko Tietze wrote:
>
> Of course ASAP (AMA is scheduled a week after release of 6.1 which is in the 
> week Aug-06 to 12).

Actually the "Ask me (us) Anything" is planned for the day after the
release, to get the most attention. Basically, various members of the
TDF team and LibreOffice community will be around to answer questions
about the release. We did something similar back in September and it was
very popular:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/72zm5a/we_are_the_document_foundation_and_the/

Mike

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Re: [libreoffice-design] Banner for AMA and 6.1 release

[Mike Saunders]

On 02/08/2018 11:59, Cor Nouws wrote:
> 
> I understand and support that you add LibreOffice. Isn't the Reddit logo
> in the O of our trade mark a bit too much, however?

Our branding best practices do indeed discourage from adding things
inside the logo:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding#Guidelines_and_Best_Practices

Mike

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Re: [libreoffice-design] Banner for AMA and 6.1 release

[Mike Saunders]

On 27/07/2018 17:49, K-J LibreOffice wrote>>
>> Actually the "Ask me (us) Anything" is planned for the day after the
>> release, to get the most attention.
> 
> Ahhh "The day after" [1].
> 
> So it is 09/08/2018 ?!

Hah! The reason I was being vague is, in case the release date slips for
any reason ;-)

Mike

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[libreoffice-design] Design ideas wanted! Open Badges for LibreOffice contributions

[Mike Saunders]

Hello,

I'm working with Sophie Gautier on implementing the Open Badges system
in our community: https://openbadges.org

In short, it lets us recognise achievements of community members, by
issuing badges when certain targets are reached (eg after a certain
number of code commits, or updates to the wiki). We're working with the
infra team to see what's possible, but in the meantime, we'd like to get
some design ideas for badges!

I've gone through the process of issuing a badge, but the standard
design isn't very exciting:

https://newdesign.libreoffice.org/rookie-badge-issuer.png

We'd like to have something with much more LibreOffice identify, based
on the branding and colour guidelines here:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding

If anyone wants to try a few concepts or mockups, that'd be great :-)
The main design requirement is that they fit into a square, and have a
transparent background, like the example above.

Thanks :-)

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Re: [libreoffice-design] Design ideas wanted! Open Badges for LibreOffice contributions

[Mike Saunders]

Thanks Franklin! Although indeed, the design list filters attachments,
so I've uploaded it to the wiki:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/d/d8/Fweng_openbadges_proposal.png

(We can also use the wiki for future ideas.) I like the design, although
the text around the edge may be hard to read when the badge is shown at
a smaller size... What do others think?

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[libreoffice-design] Sticker designs and merchandise ideas for FOSDEM

[Mike Saunders]

Hello everyone,

At events such as FOSDEM, we give out LibreOffice stickers, such as the
ones on the wiki here:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Material#Stickers_.28designs_for.29

For the upcoming FOSDEM event in February, we'd like to print some more
stickers, but with a new design -- so we'd appreciate some ideas and
input! Like, it'd be good to have stickers with a different shape,
although we still need to adhere to the branding guidelines:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding#Guidelines_and_Best_Practices

If anyone has ideas or mockups, we'd love to see them :-)

Also, we're thinking of other merchandise ideas for our booth at FOSDEM.
What else could we give away? Balloons is one idea, and I think the
Gnome booth had socks this year! Of course, we have to think about
budget too -- stickers are cheap enough that we can give them to every
visitor, but for some things, we may only be able to give to a handful
of people...

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

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Re: [libreoffice-design] Open Badges

[Mike Saunders]

Hi Andreas,

This is a slightly late follow-up, but I just wanted to say, thanks a
lot for the great work on the badge designs! After being busy with some
other tasks, I'm now focusing a lot of my efforts on getting Open Badges
up and running, and I'd like to use your ideas. I'll get in touch with
more details soon!

Cheers,
Mike


On 09/08/2019 10:14, kainz.a wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have some proposals for badges
> 
> As we need around 100 different badges and it's much work and not really
> flexible to make for each subsection a new badge I recommend to use Text to
> make the different badges. This will help us to make individual badges and
> we have a unified look.
> 
> SysAdmin badge there you can see it's for LibreOffice (it use also the LO
> shape) for SysAdmin work you get 3 stars and it's part of the InfraTeam.
> It's clear simple, use the LO brands and will fit also an proposal for new
> app icons.
> https://imgur.com/PrXC2dx
> 
> This is how it would look like for the Group Design Team. Each Team has an
> specific shape in the center.
> https://imgur.com/qFd1CX1
> 
> Variant with different shapes
> https://imgur.com/LNLvsE4 (I like this more than the next one)
> https://imgur.com/TPMPr14
> "problem" is that with 3 out of 5 stars the badget get an rating (you could
> be better)
> 
> If you like different colors for the rating, this is how it would look
> like.
> https://imgur.com/zcalfnK
> 
> If you will have something that's more wide than high,
> similar to the LibO branding (maybe branding issues)
> https://imgur.com/a5jQoIG
> with the shield
> https://imgur.com/JFs40hN
> 
> All the images will work also very well as sticker for our sticker contest.
> All Images are available here https://imgur.com/a/wSUx6xo
> 
> Thanks
> Andreas_K
> 
> Am Mo., 29. Juli 2019 um 15:47 Uhr schrieb sophi :
> 
>> Hi Leo,
>> Le 29/07/2019 à 14:50, Leo Moons a écrit :
>>> Hej friends,
>>>
>>> I would add another "chapter": Conference: Attending conference, giving
>>> a presentation during the conference, organising a conference,
>>> organising an activity during/after conference, ...
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback, part of your suggestion is already under
>> Community/Social Marketing, but I'll add: organizing during/after and
>> also helping in organization.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Sophie
>>
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[libreoffice-design] LibreOffice Branding Colour Palette for Inkscape and GIMP

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Hello,

@meetdilip1 on Twitter has created this colour palette, based on our
branding guidelines:

https://github.com/meetdilip/Libre-Office-Colours

It could be especially useful for participants in the 10/20 logo contest:

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/10/01/libreoffice-10-20-logo-community-contest/

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[libreoffice-design] LibreOffice Impress Template Contest by the Indonesian Community

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Hi everyone,

Check this out:

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/libreoffice-impress-template-contest-by-the-indonesian-community/

https://lumbung.libreoffice.id

IMO it'd be great to have some of them included in LO by default. What
do you think?

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[libreoffice-design] openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference 2020 Will Take Place Online

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Hello everyone,

You may have already seen it, but we've announced that the joint
openSUSE + LibreOffice Conference 2020 will now take place online.

The uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on
travel, conference planning, logistics and possibility for attendees to
come to the event were reasons for shifting the event from a physical
event to an online event.

Nonetheless, moving the conference online is good news and the
organisers intend to provide a great conference that is filled with
insightful talks, technical presentations and sessions dedicated for
those who want to socialise during the event.

Learn more on the blog, and check out the Call for Papers and
Mini-summit opportunities:

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/06/02/opensuse-libreoffice-conference-2020-will-take-place-online/

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Re: [libreoffice-design] Suggestion: Change LibreOffice Icon

[Mike Saunders]

Hi Never,

On 09/12/2020 23:05, nevergames...@t-online.de wrote:
>  
> I'm fairly new to LibreOffice so I hope I'm sending this to the right 
> place!

You are indeed! Welcome to the community :-)

> I'll attatch the .ico to this mail so you can have a look at it. I found it 
> here:
> 

Attachments aren't allowed on these mailing lists, but thanks for
sharing the link. Note that we have guidelines and best practices for
logos here:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding#Guidelines_and_Best_Practices

So putting things inside the document symbol is generally frowned upon.
Also, and this is just my personal taste: the icon you shared is perhaps
more interesting than the plain white document, but on a small
taskbar/dock, I think the "The Document Foundation" text would be too
hard to read.

But that's just my take -- what do others think?

Mike

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[libreoffice-design] Small and creative design job: "Proud contributor" stickers

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Hi everyone,

A while back, we created some "Proud contributor" stickers like on the
right-hand side here:

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/month_of_libreoffice_may2018_posting.jpg

We'd like to make some new ones, especially for the current Month of
LibreOffice. So design mockups and suggestions would be very welcome!

The stickers are 11x3 cm in size. Branding elements can be found here:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding#Resources

It would be cool to use the LO 7.0 branding in some way:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding#LibreOffice_7.0_series

In any case, thanks in advance for any help/mockups :-)

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[libreoffice-design] Design the LibreOffice Conference 2021 logo!

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Hi everyone,

Show off your design skills and help us to create a logo for the
LibreOffice Conference 2021:

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/06/22/design-the-libreoffice-conference-2021-logo/

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Re: [libreoffice-design] A Chinese student need some help

[Mike Saunders]

Hello,

On 09.07.21 14:10, free-...@tuta.io wrote:
>
> Dear Libreoffice:I am a senior high school student in Shanghai,China.I am 
> very interested in the Libreoffice.I need to write a paper. This will give me 
> a chance to advertise the Libreoffice at my school's Hall.

Mike here from The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind
LibreOffice. That's great! We have a flyer specifically for schools and
universities:

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/03/09/new-generation-flyer-for-schools-and-universities/

Currently we don't have a Chinese translation, but if you'd like to
contribute one, we could then get some flyers printed. And now to your
questions:

> (1)Do you know there are how many users using the Libreoffice?

We estimate around 200 million users, based on downloads, market share
and other statistics/factors.

> (2)How is the developing situation of Libreoffice?Are you lack of labour or 
> money?

LibreOffice is developed by a worldwide community. Many features are
implemented by volunteers, and the localisation and documentation
projects especially have lots of volunteers.

A large portion of code commits is from certified developers and
companies in the LibreOffice ecosystem:

https://www.documentfoundation.org/gethelp/developers/

https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/

The community is healthy and lots is going on, but we certainly
appreciate more contributions from volunteers!

> (3)Do you think the Libreoffice will be better than the commercial software 
> like Microsoft Office?

Well, maybe I'm biased, but I think it's already better in many ways.
You can see a detailed comparison here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_LibreOffice_-_Microsoft_Office

> (4)What do you think is the biggest advantage of Libreoffice?

It's free and open source software, available on many platforms, and
supports a huge range of file formats:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGkKq3f9aps

> (5)Can you earn profits?If you can，how do you get the profit?

The Document Foundation is a non-profit entity, and most of its income
comes from donations by individual users. You can find details about
where the money goes in the ledgers:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Ledgers

> (6)Are you trying new ways about advertising or developing?

For advertising, specifically marketing, we are trying to tell the world
that LibreOffice is more than just an office suite -- it's a community
with many projects, and a place to build up skills and meet new people.
Having 200 million users is nice, but it's also important to have a
strong community behind the software, to ensure it has a healthy future.

Re: developing, from the side of The Document Foundation, we have a new
Developer Community Architect who's helping to bring on board more code
contributors:

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/06/16/hossein-nourikhah-joins-the-tdf-team-as-developer-community-architect/

Then there is the ecosystem of companies that I mentioned before, that
contribute many new features. You can see the company names in brackets
next to the features here:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.2

We're implementing an updated Marketing Plan to better credit the work
of these ecosystem members, and encourage enterprise users of
LibreOffice to get the software from them. This benefits all users, as
the features that are added by the ecosystem make their way into the
codebase too.

I hope that helps!

Cheers,
Mike Saunders
Marketing & Community Coordinator, The Document Foundation

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[libreoffice-design] LibreOffice community members: Have your say in our survey!

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LibreOffice community members: Have your say in our survey!

Hello everyone! At The Document Foundation, we try to grow and
strengthen our community in many ways. We’d like to improve our support
for existing community members who’re working on LibreOffice, but also
increase the number of contributors (and TDF members).

To achieve this, we’ve created a survey for active members inside the
LibreOffice community, to identify areas where focused activity is
needed, and address the needs of local projects around the world.

There are 17 questions in the survey, and it runs from today until
September 8. So, if you’re active in the LibreOffice or Document
Liberation projects, let us know what you think! We appreciate all feedback:

https://survey.documentfoundation.org/161628

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[libreoffice-design] Let's do awesome things! Get support for your projects and ideas from our budget

[Mike Saunders]

Want to organise a local (or online) LibreOffice event? Need some 
merchandise to boost your project or community? Then we can help you! 
The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice, is backed by 
contributions from ecosystem members and volunteers, as well as 
donations from end-users. This helps us to maintain TDF, but we can do a 
lot more too. And next year, we want to do a lot of projects again!


Each year, we set a budget that LibreOffice projects and communities can 
use for financial support. Some examples:


* Booking a location, and travel refunds for a local event (eg a 
translation sprint)

* Merchandise for community members, to use at events and conferences
* Infrastructure to start a new project (or help an existing one)

So if you have some ideas for a meetup, project or activity that could 
benefit from financial help, let us know! We can also assist you in 
other ways: our team members are there to help you, and enable you to do 
exciting and interesting things.


You don't need to work out all the technical details right now - the 
main thing is that we have an overview. To help us with planning, we 
kindly ask you to send your ideas by the end of November, as we try to 
prepare the 2022 annual budget during December.


You can send your proposal (with estimated costs) to 
budg...@documentfoundation.org and we'll take a look. Of course, can't 
guarantee that everything will be approved, but we'd love to hear your 
ideas!


Further reading:

Travel: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Policies/Travel
Refunding: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Policies/Refunding
Community Refunding: 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Policies/Community_Refunds


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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-design] Moving to LibreOffice 8?

[Mike Saunders]

Hello,

On 06.04.23 22:12, Eyal Rozenberg wrote:


Great, what's the problem? Why should we be in a rush to get existing 
users to upgrade from 7.5 to 7.6?


Well, one argument is that we have very limited resources to support two 
branches. LibreOffice 7.5 won't be around forever, so at some point 
we'll need to push people to update to 7.6/8.0, as the previous version 
won't be maintained and could potentially have security issues.


On Reddit, social media etc. we see lots of posts from people using 
ancient versions of LibreOffice, and have no idea that there are newer 
major releases. There are various reasons for that, but IMO we need to 
keep people up-to-date. Not for quarterly sales targets as a 
CompuGlobalHyperMegaCorp, as you say, but because it's better for us all 
in the project when people are using maintained and supported versions.


So, 
we should be at least skeptical about copying MS behavior regarding MSO 
in which their marketing wing is calling the shots.


Agreed that we shouldn't copy problematic behaviour, but if our goal is 
to raise awareness of LibreOffice as much as possible, and get it into 
as many hands as possible (and I know not everyone agrees with that), 
then we have to be aware of the market in which we're operating, and 
competing.


IMO, it's a lot like the whole "using proprietary services to reach 
users" debate. Arguably, as a FOSS project, we should avoid closed 
platforms like Twitter and Facebook. But we make a compromise and are 
active on those platforms, because they are very effective for reaching 
new users and communicating with them.


So I think our marketing has to balance these things. If we only care 
about the technical side, we could use XTerm-style numbering (just keep 
bumping a single number with every release). But as if we want to reach 
Microsoft Office users and make a compelling argument to them, our 
marketing has to fit.


And I know that Italo has a ton of experience and knowledge in this 
field, so his perspective on this is very valuable IMO.


Cheers,
Mike

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[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Moving to LibreOffice 8?

[Mike Saunders]

Hi Kelvene,

On 28.03.23 00:27, Kelvene Requiroso wrote:


Culturally, 8 in Asia is a lucky number, signifying prosperity and 
blessing. It might hit a soft spot in the region, which is the world's 
largest market. I like the concept. It fits with the idea of Libre.


By the way, I'm new to the team -- just joined the other day 
electronically.


Thanks for the insight about the Asian markets, and welcome to the 
project! Good to have you on board :-)


Cheers,
Mike at TDF

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