Re: [marketing] dial-in details for phone conference
Hi, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello everybody, here are the dial-in details for the marketing phone conference: http://www.talkyoo.net/main/telefonkonferenz_internationale_rufnummern [...] As a reminder, the conference takes place in one week, Monday, January 25th, 1800 UTC+1 and lasts for a maximum of one hour. well that time slot is not too convenient for the APAC area. 1:00 AM in China, 2:00 AM in Japan, 3:00 AM in East-Australia and 5:00 AM in New Zealand. Best regards, Peter - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
Re: [marketing] The name OpenOffice.org
Hi Lee, Heavlin, Lee wrote: > It is a trademark issue. Someone else has OpenOffice trademarked. > > See TechRepublic at: > http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6055020.html > Thanks for the info and link. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
RE: [marketing] The name OpenOffice.org
It is a trademark issue. Someone else has OpenOffice trademarked. See TechRepublic at: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6055020.html Here is an excerpt: Where did OpenOffice.org 2.0 come from? Let's start with a history lesson. Even though you've been a Microsoft Office user, chances are good that you've heard the name OpenOffice.org before. However, you probably assumed that the office suite was primarily used to promote the use of Linux as a viable desktop operating system worthy of competing with Windows. To some extent that's probably true. While it would be much easier to simply call the product OpenOffice, that name is trademarked by another company. As such, the official name of the product is OpenOffice.org, which naturally leads to the unique abbreviation of OOo. However, OpenOffice.org was actually born out of Sun Microsystems' 1999 acquisition of a German company called Star Division that had created a notable office suite called StarOffice. Sun purchased StarOffice as a means to compete with Microsoft for a share of the office suite market. In 2000, Sun launched StarOffice into the open-source arena as OpenOffice.org in order to increase its popularity and to promote innovative design from the open source community. In addition to Sun programmers and a cadre of open source developers, Red Hat, Novell, Intel, and a company called Propylon, which focuses on automation solutions for legislative and regulatory documentation, all work together on the creation of OpenOffice.org While OpenOffice.org is free, Sun, which is the primary sponsor of the project, still offers a commercial version of StarOffice that gets its code-base from OpenOffice.org. From time to time, Sun takes the OpenOffice.org code base, integrates proprietary features, and releases the combined product as a new version of StarOffice. In fact, a month before OpenOffice.org 2.0 was released, Sun released StarOffice 8, which includes all of the new features found in OpenOffice.org 2.0 as well as a host of additional features." Hope this helps Lee Heavlin -Original Message- From: Andy Brown [mailto:a...@the-martin-byrd.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 2:51 PM To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org Subject: [marketing] The name OpenOffice.org I know that there is an explanation somewhere as to why OpenOffice.org is used but can not seem to find it. Can someone send me a link? Thanks in advance. Andy - 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
[marketing] The name OpenOffice.org
I know that there is an explanation somewhere as to why OpenOffice.org is used but can not seem to find it. Can someone send me a link? Thanks in advance. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference
Confirming we have the funds available for the booth. Plus additional funds are available for incidentals if needed. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:15 AM, WorldLabel.com wrote: > There has been some discussion off-list about ODF. I think it would be a > great idea to include information on the format at the booth also. I will > make contact with some folks at the Opendocumentfellowship and ODFalliance > to see if we can gather some help from them. Thoughts would welcomed. > > > > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Andy Brown wrote: > >> Drew Jensen wrote: >> > Howdy, >> > >> > Had a chance to talk with Mr. Widick at the ALA. >> > >> > Details at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/US/Home/ALA-2010 >> > >> > Drew >> > >> >> Drew, >> >> I found one small problem on the wiki. Seems the link to my web page >> has a '|' at end that seem to cause a problem when trying to follow the >> link. I am not sure how to go about editing so wanted to drop you a >> message. >> >> >> -- >> Andy Brown >> La Mesa, CA 91942 >> www.the-martin-byrd.net/openoffice.org.html >> OpenOffice.org Community Distributor >> CD/OEM Distribution Project member >> Documentation Project member >> Marketing Project member >> User Experience Project member >> >> - >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org >> >> >
Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference
There has been some discussion off-list about ODF. I think it would be a great idea to include information on the format at the booth also. I will make contact with some folks at the Opendocumentfellowship and ODFalliance to see if we can gather some help from them. Thoughts would welcomed. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Andy Brown wrote: > Drew Jensen wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > Had a chance to talk with Mr. Widick at the ALA. > > > > Details at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/US/Home/ALA-2010 > > > > Drew > > > > Drew, > > I found one small problem on the wiki. Seems the link to my web page > has a '|' at end that seem to cause a problem when trying to follow the > link. I am not sure how to go about editing so wanted to drop you a > message. > > > -- > Andy Brown > La Mesa, CA 91942 > www.the-martin-byrd.net/openoffice.org.html > OpenOffice.org Community Distributor > CD/OEM Distribution Project member > Documentation Project member > Marketing Project member > User Experience Project member > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org > >
Re: [marketing] Request for funding to go to Scale in Los Angeles
Hi, Alexandro Colorado wrote on 2010-01-19 12.04: have we reached an agreement for this, I really need an approve from John since the event will be in less than a month and I am not sure I would be able to find a price under the 500 that I initially found at. he's not online at the moment due to his move. Maybe you drop him a text message (SMS) on his mobile phone if he can look into it? Formally, he has to approve, no on else can. Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
Re: [marketing] Request for funding to go to Scale in Los Angeles
have we reached an agreement for this, I really need an approve from John since the event will be in less than a month and I am not sure I would be able to find a price under the 500 that I initially found at. On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:32 PM, eric b wrote: I forgot : If my vote is valid (not sure), I'd add a +1 for Alexandro. Regards, Eric Bachard, Lead, OpenOffice.org Education Project -- qɔᴉɹə -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: j...@jabber.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [marketing] Re: [marcon] swag for Bengali-Bangladesh (bn-BD) team
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Juergen Schmidt wrote: > On 1/16/10 11:04 PM, Bernhard Dippold wrote: > >> Hi mak, all, >> >> mak schrieb: >> >>> >>> Here is a draft of details, we can flex as per budget you may allow. >>> * >>> DVD (500 pcs. X 50 bdt) = 25,000 bdt* >>> >> As 100 bdt are around 1 Euro, this means 250 € for 500 DVD. >> >> Generally CDs and DVDs are not given away for free, but for a small >> amount of money - either the costs we have or a small donation. >> > i would say that it is always appreciated but not a fixed requirement or > always necessary. Especailly in some countries i would give them for free > and i am sure it is worth the investment. > And it really depends if you give CD's to everyone or only after some talk > with interested people. > That's a sure thing we do, without minimum interest / enthu no one is going to get a DVD for free. Thanks Schimdt for comprehending the need to giving away DVD for free, I can't visualize the circumstances in my country to the people living on other hemisphere. The unique selling point of FOSS isn't the same for me. Anyway, my organization is sharing the cost of the DVD. > Juergen > > >> This avoids people to take them as free gifts and throw them away >> afterwards. >> In Europe about 1 Euro is not really much - everybody interested in a >> copy of OOo will be able to pay that much, but for Bangladesh I don't >> know if it is reasonable to ask for money at all or what would be a >> comparable amount of money. >> >> 1 Euro in Europe means about 1/2000 of the money an average employee >> takes home every month. >> >>> *T-Shirt (20 X 100 bdt) = 2,000 bdt * >>> This is for active OO.o volunteer, mostly l10n contributors, this >>> would be >>> the first time we can reconcile their efforts. >>> >> +1 >> >> The other proposed expenses seem reasonable for me (it's not comparable >> to European prices), so I'd support your request. >> >> Dear Florian, if it's ok from all and you, can you tell me the exact amount you are considering, so that I can initiate producing the swags locally. > Best regards >> >> Bernhard >> >> - >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org >> >> > > -- > Sun Microsystems GmbHJuergen Schmidt > Nagelsweg 55 Technical Lead Programmability > 20097 Hamburg, Germany > > Registered Office: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 > Kirchheim-Heimstetten > Commercial register of the Local Court of Munich: HRB 161028 > Managing Directors: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boemer > Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Martin Haering > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org > > -- --- Mahay Alam Khan gpg key: 4FDD30FB http://twitpic.com/photos/mahayalamkhan
