Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread Finn Gruwier Larsen
Cristian Driga skrev: Some more suggestions for the campaign: +1 to all Christians suggestions :-) Finn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Cristian Driga wrote: John McCreesh wrote: Comments please on http://why.openoffice.org/get_legal.html Some more suggestions for the campaign: [...] +1 to Cristian's suggestions. --Jean - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread Cristian Driga
Hi, John McCreesh wrote: Comments please on http://why.openoffice.org/get_legal.html Some more suggestions for the campaign: 1. Building translated get_legal.html pages. (possibly hosted on the NLC sites if not on why.OOo site in a /get_legal/ sub-folder ?) 2. Creating translated buttons

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread Cor Nouws
John McCreesh wrote: I've moved things about a bit on the latest version One more suggestion. "..similar in functionality to MS-Office. OpenOffice.org 2 does everything you need.." Obvious that some will come up with the question for e-mail or PIM (see [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I think it would be

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 00:14 +1000, Mike Williams wrote: > On Saturday 29 April 2006 06:02, John McCreesh wrote: > > Comments please on http://why.openoffice.org/get_legal.html > > Hi John, > > "so you don't need to type anything in again" makes sense to me, but I had to > think for a few seconds

Re: [Marketing] Get legal - get OpenOffice.org

2006-04-30 Thread Bernhard Dippold
John McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 01:38 +0200, Bernhard Dippold wrote: Hi, as nobody replies on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I show the seemingly more interested people here, what I did from your comments. I included a fourth draft in the website linked below. +1 for the third draft ... and

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread Mike Williams
On Saturday 29 April 2006 06:02, John McCreesh wrote: > Comments please on http://why.openoffice.org/get_legal.html Hi John, "so you don't need to type anything in again" makes sense to me, but I had to think for a few seconds. I think it's ambiguous and would be clearer as "so you don't have t

[Marketing] Bruce Schneier recommends OpenOffice...

2006-04-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
Okay, that's a bit of an exageration, but in his "security tips" he did say "Look into one of the free office suites as an alternative to Microsoft Office." http://www.schneier.com/essay-078.html In a similar vein, his tips include: * Replace Windows by Linux or Mac. * Replace IE by anything e

[Marketing] Report on OOo demo to writers etc

2006-04-30 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Apologies for the lateness of this report. Before Easter I mentioned that I was going to be demonstrating OOo to some writers, editors, and publishers at a science-fiction convention in Australia. As often happens, things didn't work out quite as planned. Despite that, I am quite happy with t

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 11:53 +0100, John McCreesh wrote: > > The slogan for the campaign is "Get Legal - Get OpenOffice.org" so I'd > like with it. Stick with it - simpler is usually better. -- Ian Lynch www.theINGOTs.org www.opendocumentfellowship.org www.schoolforge.org.uk

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 12:35 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: > Hi John, > > John McCreesh wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 00:02 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: > >>One warning: when talking about this with some business-people (month or > >>so ago), it turned out that they could become offended. As if I > >>sug

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi John, John McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 00:02 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: One warning: when talking about this with some business-people (month or so ago), it turned out that they could become offended. As if I suggested that they would do illegal business ... Good point - I've adde

Re: [Marketing] Get legal - get OpenOffice.org

2006-04-30 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 11:04 +0100, John McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 01:38 +0200, Bernhard Dippold wrote: > > Hi, > > > > as nobody replies on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I show the seemingly more > > interested people here, what I did from your comments. I included a > > fourth draft in the we

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 10:46 +0100, John McCreesh wrote: [snip] > I like this - let's park it for today while we finish Get Legal. Rening > me later if I forget about it :-) d'oh - s/Rening/Remind/ This keyboard can't spell ;-) John --

Re: [Marketing] Get legal - get OpenOffice.org

2006-04-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 01:38 +0200, Bernhard Dippold wrote: > Hi, > > as nobody replies on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I show the seemingly more > interested people here, what I did from your comments. I included a > fourth draft in the website linked below. +1 for the third draft John -

Re: [Marketing] Get legal - get OpenOffice.org

2006-04-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 11:15 +0200, charles-h.schulz wrote: > Hello, > > the get legal campaign is a very good idea. Maybe a small PR > operation would help it rise up in the media, who knows. > As for the risk that we may encounter due to the potential > "agressive" nature of the message, I think

Re: [Marketing] Get legal - get OpenOffice.org

2006-04-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:00 +0200, Finn Gruwier Larsen wrote: [snip] > We also have > to take into account that the effect of the slogan mainly comes from the > fact that it's actually a bit provocative. I think a marketing has to be > a bit provocative, but of course not too provocative. It's a

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 22:59 +, jonathon wrote: > Cor Nouws wrote: > > >it turned out that they could become offended. As if I suggested that they > >would do illegal business ... > > That might happen. > > OTOH, those same people are even more offended when it turns out that > their office

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 00:02 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: > Hi all, > > John McCreesh wrote: > > > Comments please on http://why.openoffice.org/get_legal.html > > > > Please comment only on the message on this list - I'm going to look for > > volunteers on the art project to turn it into a web page :-

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 00:42 +0300, Cristian Driga wrote: > Hi John, > > It's a great idea and the draft looks good. More below... > > John McCreesh wrote: > > Comments please on http://why.openoffice.org/get_legal.html > > Some suggested changes: > > ===1=== > > "OpenOffice.org 2 is a world-cl

Re: [Marketing] Get legal - get OpenOffice.org

2006-04-30 Thread Cor Nouws
Finn Gruwier Larsen wrote: Bernhard Dippold skrev: as nobody replies on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I show the seemingly more interested people here, what I did from your comments. I included a fourth draft in the website linked below. I still prefer number two - with uppercase letters and exclamatio