Re: [Marketing] spring IRC meetings

2005-10-06 Thread Jacqueline McNally
Hello Bernhard, * Bernhard Dippold wrote: Hi, Jacqueline McNally [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I would like to call our second MP meeting for tomorrow, Thursday 6 September at 1300 UTC. I'd really like to come, but I have to work this night and must sleep sometime :-( You too :)

Re: [Marketing] San Jose Mercury News Article

2005-10-06 Thread Jacqueline McNally
Ian Lynch wrote: [...] I replied as follows Hi Dawn, But these OpenOffice glitches are enough to deter one analyst who shares research with clients from using it on reports, for fear of circulating a flawed document. That's a major hurdle for Sun and Google to overcome. To be fair, the

Re: [Marketing] spring IRC meetings

2005-10-06 Thread Jacqueline McNally
Kazunari Hirano wrote: Hi Jacqueline, I've got it :) So if you have a log, please let us know. Here you go: http://www.transwift.net/pukiwikiooopukiwiki/?ircmeeting20050908 I have attached the log ircmeeting20050908.txt to the page above. Please find the text file at the bottom of the page.

Re: [Marketing] Good OpenOffice.org practices in Balkans

2005-10-06 Thread Jacqueline McNally
Thank you Görkem for your good news. Görkem Çetin wrote: [...] The pilot municipality in the project was Kardjali (www.kardjali.bg and http://kardjali.foss.bg). Kardjali is one of the 28 regional cities in Bulgaria. Located in the south of the country, and close to the border with Turkey and

Re: [Marketing] Conference inspired marketing thoughts

2005-10-06 Thread Jacqueline McNally
Hello Ian Thanks for all your thoughts - quite a brain dump :) It will take me a little while to think them through, as we already have in place much of what you suggested except for bringing to the fore your suggestion of promoting StarOffice and OpenOffice.org. The reason you give is

[Marketing] Friends of OpenOffice.org (FOOo)

2005-10-06 Thread Jacqueline McNally
Hello I am beginning to digest and act on some of the feedback from what is considered by many, the most successful OOoCon ever :) Also, it is nearly a year since I posted to this and other OOo lists about Friends of OpenOffice.org (FOOo). See:

Re: [Marketing] Conference inspired marketing thoughts

2005-10-06 Thread Erwin Tenhumberg
I think collaboration/co-marketing makes a lot of sense. I even could imagine doing some work together with KOffice, AbiWord and other projects that support OpenDocument. Yes, on a feature level OpenOffice.org is competing with KOffice, but the success of OpenDocument is critical to both

Re: [Marketing] Thanks for a fabulous OOoConf

2005-10-06 Thread Graham Lauder
Jacqueline McNally wrote: I had this as an agenda item (http://council.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discussmsgNo=674) for the CC meeting: 4. next OOoCon: I suggest we announce the next OOoCon now, and propose, following Jacqueline's lead, that we make it Lyon.. Given that Asia is

Re: [Marketing] Conference inspired marketing thoughts

2005-10-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On Oct 6, 2005, at 5:52 AM, Erwin Tenhumberg wrote: I think collaboration/co-marketing makes a lot of sense. I even could imagine doing some work together with KOffice, AbiWord and other projects that support OpenDocument. I have already contacted KOffice about this; not ABIWord: no

Re: [Marketing] Thanks for a fabulous OOoConf

2005-10-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, On Oct 6, 2005, at 6:05 AM, Graham Lauder wrote: Jacqueline McNally wrote: I had this as an agenda item (http://council.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg? list=discussmsgNo=674) for the CC meeting: 4. next OOoCon: I suggest we announce the next OOoCon now, and propose, following

Re: [Marketing] Conference inspired marketing thoughts

2005-10-06 Thread John McCreesh
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 20:19 +1300, Ian Laurenson wrote: To me the focus of our marketing should be on the Open Document Format (ODF). I believe there are two distinct products to be marketed here. We are familiar with marketing OOo the product; one of the new features it has in 2.0 is support

Re: [Marketing] Thanks for a fabulous OOoConf

2005-10-06 Thread Harris
Graham Lauder wrote: Jacqueline McNally wrote: I had this as an agenda item (http://council.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discussmsgNo=674) for the CC meeting: 4. next OOoCon: I suggest we announce the next OOoCon now, and propose, following Jacqueline's lead, that we make it Lyon..

Re: [Marketing] Thanks for a fabulous OOoConf

2005-10-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:34 +0100, Harris wrote: I really think Singapore would be a good start. As being a Singaporean myself, I trust the public support on new innovations. There are a few annual computer events held in Singapore which attracts alot of people. If we can hope the OOocon

Re: [Marketing] Thanks for a fabulous OOoConf

2005-10-06 Thread Graham Lauder
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hi all, On Oct 6, 2005, at 6:05 AM, Graham Lauder wrote: Jacqueline McNally wrote: I had this as an agenda item (http://council.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg? list=discussmsgNo=674) for the CC meeting: 4. next OOoCon: I suggest we announce the next OOoCon

Re: [Marketing] Conference inspired marketing thoughts

2005-10-06 Thread Ian Laurenson
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:06 +0100, John McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 20:19 +1300, Ian Laurenson wrote: To me the focus of our marketing should be on the Open Document Format (ODF). I believe there are two distinct products to be marketed here. We are familiar with marketing OOo

[Marketing] Marketing budget for what?

2005-10-06 Thread Ian Laurenson
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:06 +0100, John McCreesh wrote: On the point about budgets - if we had a pot of money to spend now, what would you (or anyone else) suggest we spend it on? In a word advertising: * Television (I don't watch it but I think I am a minority) * Radio * Newspapers *