Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference
Drew, all, I have the files needed to get started on the CDs for the conference. I just need an idea of how many I need to burn. How do I go about getting the labels? Still waiting on the Art project for the banner art, trying to tie in with the 10 anniversary. I finally have a good pamphlet, how may do we need? Any idea how many of the Library flyers we will need? 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
:) Again, only my 3cents... Still, all validated by my personal/professional experience in terms of 'what really works'. As always, thanks for listening... ~Christine - Original Message - From: Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 7:42 PM Subject: Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference Andy, Sign - no. Joyce got a quote for a 3 ft banner today, but she hasn't gotten that to me yet. Flier - ah, tell you the truth I didn't really have to time to look that over, I will do so this weekend OK. Thanks Drew - 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 -- Sun Microsystems GmbHJuergen Schmidt Nagelsweg 55 Technical Lead Programmability 20097 Hamburg, Germany Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht M¸nchen: HRB 161028 Gesch‰ftsf¸hrer: Thomas Schrˆder, Wolfgang Engels Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin H‰ring - 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
I apologize for lagging behind in this (and related) conversations... however I am in the midst of a somewhat intense agenda which it is going to take me a couple of days to complete. And... this is not uncommon smile... thus my routine response to such requests as -- I would like to see what you would do with (X) on a show card -- that'll take a couple of weeks smile. But I can tell you that I would first think about 'international icons and symbols' that are already in use around the world that 'communicate' the 'core values' of the product (OOo -- both the productivity suite and the community) that we see as 'highly important' to the audience (prospective client) we which to intice... Then, we must design the visual image to communicate with them in terms they (the client) appreciate, connect-with and understand. For example, the document referenced below would be rated by some as 'highly technical' and by others as 'basic information'... relative to their own field of expertise. The objective of a showcard is to take such infomation and condense it to bulletpoints that both the sophisticated and the noviciate have (as much as possible) the equal opportunity to grasp... Anyway... as to Where can I find information on printing banners in OpenOffice.org? I do not know, except inside my head smile... that is, I know that excellent (temporary, one-time-use, fun) banners may be created with MSWord ugh and tho I have not done a banner it with OOo I have worked sufficiently with the application to 'assume' (dangerous, I know) that I should be able to produce the same high quality with OOo. If I ever get the time to write out a set of instructions I will certainly pass along or if you experiment and come up with specific questions I will do my best to answer. Gotta scoot... ~Christine Original Message - From: Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 5:46 PM Subject: Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference Hi Christine, Christine Louise Beems wrote: About flyers, printing and promotional/show materials in general... I strongly recommend (to my paying clients smile) that hard-copy publication of documents for promotional distribution be kept to a critical minimum for reasons of marketing effectiveness and responsible stewardship of resources. In this interest, there is only 1 printed document is produced in mass quantity to hand out at a show. This can be either a flyer or a showcard with outstanding graphic design (ie: curb appeal) that succinctly communicates the features, advantages and benefits of the service/product being promoted and clearly points the way to a website where comprehensive information is easily found. I would like to see what you would do with http://opendocumentfellowship.com/libraries to get it on a show card. The site has a ODT and PDF version of the flyer that we are talking about. In addition, one of the things we *should* be thinking about and developing (as immediately as possible) is a 'promotional calendar'. This is accomplished by starting with the date of the event (in this case June 24-30, 2010 -- yes?) and backtracking to line-item what must be done by when. For example, we would want to aim for a 'media saturation campaign' during the entire month of June. This means that we would have to get 'news release' event announcements and promotional blurbs distributed to 'trade publications' (and various others) by no later than April 15 as it takes a minimum of 6 weeks lead time for such announcement to have the realistic possiblity of making print. Do we have someone that will take this on? Russell has already posted a group of links that would be a good starting point for this. Which brings up another point I've been meaning to raise for a while... in that it takes me something like a dozen clicks (and I have to somewhat know where I am going) to get from the OOo homepage to the archive of our news releases... and in terms of making things easy for reporters to access the kind of infomation they need in order to convey accurate information about us to their readers, our news release archive section should easily accessible from just about every page of the whole OOo site smile. The link to the wiki has been posted here several time, http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/US/Home/ALA-2010 . And about banners... think how kewl it would be to 'print our own' (totally awesome) banner(s) using OOo to do the design and then be able to say to show attendees... 'see, look what can be easily done with OOo... and you can do it too!!!' Where can I find information on printing banners in OpenOffice.org? This would be very useful in my current job. But I am worried that such a banner would not be professional looking. Thanks for your time. Andy - To unsubscribe, e
Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference
Hi Christine, Christine Louise Beems wrote: About flyers, printing and promotional/show materials in general... I strongly recommend (to my paying clients smile) that hard-copy publication of documents for promotional distribution be kept to a critical minimum for reasons of marketing effectiveness and responsible stewardship of resources. In this interest, there is only 1 printed document is produced in mass quantity to hand out at a show. This can be either a flyer or a showcard with outstanding graphic design (ie: curb appeal) that succinctly communicates the features, advantages and benefits of the service/product being promoted and clearly points the way to a website where comprehensive information is easily found. I would like to see what you would do with http://opendocumentfellowship.com/libraries to get it on a show card. The site has a ODT and PDF version of the flyer that we are talking about. In addition, one of the things we *should* be thinking about and developing (as immediately as possible) is a 'promotional calendar'. This is accomplished by starting with the date of the event (in this case June 24-30, 2010 -- yes?) and backtracking to line-item what must be done by when. For example, we would want to aim for a 'media saturation campaign' during the entire month of June. This means that we would have to get 'news release' event announcements and promotional blurbs distributed to 'trade publications' (and various others) by no later than April 15 as it takes a minimum of 6 weeks lead time for such announcement to have the realistic possiblity of making print. Do we have someone that will take this on? Russell has already posted a group of links that would be a good starting point for this. Which brings up another point I've been meaning to raise for a while... in that it takes me something like a dozen clicks (and I have to somewhat know where I am going) to get from the OOo homepage to the archive of our news releases... and in terms of making things easy for reporters to access the kind of infomation they need in order to convey accurate information about us to their readers, our news release archive section should easily accessible from just about every page of the whole OOo site smile. The link to the wiki has been posted here several time, http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/US/Home/ALA-2010 . And about banners... think how kewl it would be to 'print our own' (totally awesome) banner(s) using OOo to do the design and then be able to say to show attendees... 'see, look what can be easily done with OOo... and you can do it too!!!' Where can I find information on printing banners in OpenOffice.org? This would be very useful in my current job. But I am worried that such a banner would not be professional looking. Thanks for your time. 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
Hi Andy I agree that we need to start having a presents at these and other like events. Yes, at somepoint we got to try and reach out to the larger corporate sponsors so this can happen. I agree, but how to incorporate it in the sign? My thought are two signs, a very large bold one for OpenOffice.org, obviously smaller and hanging away from the OOo sign, the ODF one. This way we can bring some focus to the format i.e. safe secure for long term archiving (ISO approved) and allows for Open Access for everyone forever. Regarding Kiosk and Librarians using OOo, perhaps there are opportunities to have OOo on a disk on the shelf for patrons to rent, take home and load to their computers. This concept, however might be better suited for 3rd world counties with limited Broadband and probably involves more expensive packaging? Russell On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.netwrote: Hi Russell, WorldLabel.com wrote: Hi Some ideas and thoughts. Pls excuse my writing as I am dyslexic I know how that goes as I have the same problem. reusable, sign for around $51.00. I say reusable so that it can be used for, hopefully, other events during the year. Yes, we should try for the ALA conference every year or alternate year. We can also exhibit at a ALA regional event in between the national ALA conference. It would be a good idea to try and get other larger sponsors to help with this effort. Showing face consistently at these exhibits can only help show that we are really around and serious. One hit might not have much impact. I agree that we need to start having a presents at these and other like events. Some signage for ODF would also be good. I think Louis is correct, ODF is a tactical tool to help OOo get adopted. A display showing the success of ODF adoption in other countries including OOo and/or a presentation I think would be beneficial. In fact, it might surprise many to see just how wide spread the adoption of ODF is and hence make our effort more convincing. I agree, but how to incorporate it in the sign? Open Access is a popular movement amongst many Librarians and getting stronger. It is obvious that the dominant Office Suite restricts Open Access. This might be one point/theme we would want to put emphasis on. I have just mailed out 30 disk to a university in PA for an Open Source panel discussion that is planed for next month. I hope to be able get the poc there to help develop some marketing ideas for other such groups. In general, I believe we would have better success pitching the adoption of OOo at the conference to poorer rural libraries that visit the booth, than large ones with huge IT teams i.e. NY Public library I believe your right and that is who we need to reach. 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
WorldLabel.com wrote: Yes, at somepoint we got to try and reach out to the larger corporate sponsors so this can happen. Are there any contacts with companies that support or maintain or train Evergreen, Koha or Greenstone? Those are FOSS integrated library systems. It would makes sense to try to work together with them especially. /Lars - 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
Lars Nooden wrote: WorldLabel.com wrote: Yes, at somepoint we got to try and reach out to the larger corporate sponsors so this can happen. Are there any contacts with companies that support or maintain or train Evergreen, Koha or Greenstone? Those are FOSS integrated library systems. It would makes sense to try to work together with them especially. /Lars Hi Lars, Equinox is listed as having a booth at the expo. http://www.esilibrary.com/esi/ (Evergreen, FOSS cataloging software) That is only direct knowledge I have. Drew
Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference
WorldLabel.com wrote: Open Access is a popular movement amongst many Librarians and getting stronger. It is obvious that the dominant Office Suite restricts Open Access. This might be one point/theme we would want to put emphasis on. Or that OOo and ODF enable OpenAccess. The written material produced by University faculty is the university's most valuable and most expensive asset and open formats extend the lifespan of those assets, thus . Even if the new competitor to ODF were open, an 8000 page specification with virtually zero re-use of existing standards is in practice unimplementable. Seeing as the proponent of that competing specification can't even implement it, it can be dismissed and those floating it as an option can be dismissed either as unserious or unknowledgeable or both -- albeit in a more diplomatic manner. /Lars - 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
WorldLabel.com wrote: In general, I believe we would have better success pitching the adoption of OOo at the conference to poorer rural libraries that visit the booth, than large ones with huge IT teams i.e. NY Public library The larger urban libraries would probably benefit most from OOo. I've seen some that are still running Windows and have no IT staff to speak of anymore, though salaries are still consumed under that line item. Live CDs and LTSP would be of great advantages to public libraries. An increasing number of public libraries and public schools around the world use LTSP. There is a very large LTSP community in the US and since in many districts the public libraries are in the same administrative or budgetary unit. /Lars - 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
Yes Lars... thank you for summarizing smile. Thanks also to those who expressed appreciation for my participation on this list. It makes me very happy to know that my thinking is useful and beneficial. I chose to get involved with OOo because I have long been a proponent of Open Source 'philosophical' standards regarding community self-governance, open process, and collaborative flexibility and it brings me great personal pleasure to see those ideals actualized in conversations and actions here. About printed materials, a 'showcard' is the one piece of literature that I see as essential. This handout is 8.5x3.6, printed on medium-weight cardstock. Given 'no bleed' in the design layout, three handouts are printed on one sheet of 8.5x11 cardstock (which is highly cost-effective). One side is 'graphically intense' and the other is 'information oriented'. The graphic side should 'ask' (not answer) a question... so as to stimulate curiosity in the mind of the person who sees the showcard laying on a table or desk. The information side should concisely enumerate the features, advantages, and benefits (FAB) of the product, program, business or organziation and (this is really important) point to a website which resembles the graphic side of the card in design (in the interest of brand-recognition) and has well organized access to those materials (PDFs, other webpages, cheat-sheets, etc.) which support the FAB assertions made on the informational side of the card. Also, in context specifically of OOo (or any 'international' client), the 'curb appeal' side of the card should be graphically inclusive of all nationalities (so that this design-identity may be redundantly used to build 'brand name recognition' around the world) and the informational side of the card should be as readily translateable as possible to any language. Again, simply my take on things smile. Please feel free to adopt what is useful and leave the rest behind. ~Christine - Original Message - From: Lars Nooden larsnoo...@openoffice.org To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 9:25 AM Subject: Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference Christine Louise Beems wrote: I strongly recommend ... If I interpret correctly ... +1 for keeping printed handouts and brochures to a minimum (or avoiding) +1 for having hands-on kiosks /Lars - 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
Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference
Hello Folks, FYI - updated http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/US/Home/ALA-2010 with final show schedule, some suggestions regarding a booth location, show media..etc. Also updated http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Talk:US/Home/ALA-2010 During the day I'll be updating both pages - including updating the talk page with subjects from this ML thread...*PLEASE* feel free to do so yourselves @Christine, Lars, Andy - sorry, I have not had a good chance to email you directly. @Christine feel free to kick that off if you like, Lots of stuff in the last few emails from everyone to touch on; Including goals - @Lars you and others, I think have been hitting on that, particularly, with some remarks. IMO having goals more precisely enumerated is a must -again- lets try and get this moved to the wiki page(s) if we can. For the next couple of hours I'll be on task (budget, project plan) and lurking at IRC channel irc://freenode/oooregional (Football starts in 3 hours...*grin*...and a guy has to have priorities!) Otherwise, planing on dialing into tomorrows phone conference, to listen and in case there any questions on this. Thanks Drew - 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
Hi Lars The written material produced by University faculty is the university's most valuable and most expensive asset. The larger urban libraries would probably benefit most from OOo. I would guess then there would be a different approach to discussing OOo and ODF to academic/Institutional libraries and the use of OOo in a public library setting? Russell On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Folks, FYI - updated http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/US/Home/ALA-2010with final show schedule, some suggestions regarding a booth location, show media..etc. Also updated http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Talk:US/Home/ALA-2010 During the day I'll be updating both pages - including updating the talk page with subjects from this ML thread...*PLEASE* feel free to do so yourselves @Christine, Lars, Andy - sorry, I have not had a good chance to email you directly. @Christine feel free to kick that off if you like, Lots of stuff in the last few emails from everyone to touch on; Including goals - @Lars you and others, I think have been hitting on that, particularly, with some remarks. IMO having goals more precisely enumerated is a must -again- lets try and get this moved to the wiki page(s) if we can. For the next couple of hours I'll be on task (budget, project plan) and lurking at IRC channel irc://freenode/oooregional (Football starts in 3 hours...*grin*...and a guy has to have priorities!) Otherwise, planing on dialing into tomorrows phone conference, to listen and in case there any questions on this. Thanks Drew - 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
Hi Drew, all, Drew Jensen schrieb: Hello Folks, [...] @Christine, Lars, Andy - sorry, I have not had a good chance to email you directly. @Christine feel free to kick that off if you like, From what I read in this thread I don't like to have the organizational discussions offlist. Here we found lots of proposals and informations that fit not only other events too, but touch general marketing topics. If you don't have confident content to share I'd propose to use a marketing mailing list for organizational activities, so organizators of other events (or for a follow-up next year) could profit from your experiences. If this stuff is not relevant for the vast majority of subscribers to this list, I'd recommend to re-activate eve...@marketing.openoffice.org or establish another similar one. Best regards Bernhard - 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
Hi Some ideas and thoughts. Pls excuse my writing as I am dyslexic reusable, sign for around $51.00. I say reusable so that it can be used for, hopefully, other events during the year. Yes, we should try for the ALA conference every year or alternate year. We can also exhibit at a ALA regional event in between the national ALA conference. It would be a good idea to try and get other larger sponsors to help with this effort. Showing face consistently at these exhibits can only help show that we are really around and serious. One hit might not have much impact. Some signage for ODF would also be good. I think Louis is correct, ODF is a tactical tool to help OOo get adopted. A display showing the success of ODF adoption in other countries including OOo and/or a presentation I think would be beneficial. In fact, it might surprise many to see just how wide spread the adoption of ODF is and hence make our effort more convincing. Open Access is a popular movement amongst many Librarians and getting stronger. It is obvious that the dominant Office Suite restricts Open Access. This might be one point/theme we would want to put emphasis on. In general, I believe we would have better success pitching the adoption of OOo at the conference to poorer rural libraries that visit the booth, than large ones with huge IT teams i.e. NY Public library Russell On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.netwrote: Drew Jensen wrote: I will be glad to do it. Don't worry about the cost as I think I can cover that. If we do as others have with the CDs then we can recover at least some of the cost. Do you have the lead time needed for the printer after they 'acceptable' the art? For some reason I am thinking it is a week, but I have an email in to get a better answer. - 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
About flyers, printing and promotional/show materials in general... I strongly recommend (to my paying clients smile) that hard-copy publication of documents for promotional distribution be kept to a critical minimum for reasons of marketing effectiveness and responsible stewardship of resources. In this interest, there is only 1 printed document is produced in mass quantity to hand out at a show. This can be either a flyer or a showcard with outstanding graphic design (ie: curb appeal) that succinctly communicates the features, advantages and benefits of the service/product being promoted and clearly points the way to a website where comprehensive information is easily found. In light of the (excellent) idea Drew proposed (I was thinking we could offer the workstation/PCS as a public access kiosk for the attendees, say for someone that needs to print a resume. For those that have the 'deer in the headlights look' when they realize it's not MS we have a real live person there to get them started.) and the extensive reference materials that are avaialble, my suggestion would be to print several comprehensive sets of all readily available documents and assemble these (in page protectors) in a 3-ring binder. Make these binders available at the show table and also make it possible for someone who wants a hard copy to print it there at the booth... while at the same time pointing out that if they will go to the website referenced on the showcard, all the documents in the 3-ring binder are readily available for download smile. In addition, one of the things we *should* be thinking about and developing (as immediately as possible) is a 'promotional calendar'. This is accomplished by starting with the date of the event (in this case June 24-30, 2010 -- yes?) and backtracking to line-item what must be done by when. For example, we would want to aim for a 'media saturation campaign' during the entire month of June. This means that we would have to get 'news release' event announcements and promotional blurbs distributed to 'trade publications' (and various others) by no later than April 15 as it takes a minimum of 6 weeks lead time for such announcement to have the realistic possiblity of making print. And there are other things (like printing shipping deadlines) that must be considered and factored into an overall calendar/agenda of activities (which I know at present I should be posting to a wiki somewhere, but confess I simply get lost when wading my way through the OOo related webspace). Which brings up another point I've been meaning to raise for a while... in that it takes me something like a dozen clicks (and I have to somewhat know where I am going) to get from the OOo homepage to the archive of our news releases... and in terms of making things easy for reporters to access the kind of infomation they need in order to convey accurate information about us to their readers, our news release archive section should easily accessible from just about every page of the whole OOo site smile. And about banners... think how kewl it would be to 'print our own' (totally awesome) banner(s) using OOo to do the design and then be able to say to show attendees... 'see, look what can be easily done with OOo... and you can do it too!!!' Again, only my 3cents... Still, all validated by my personal/professional experience in terms of 'what really works'. As always, thanks for listening... ~Christine - Original Message - From: Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 7:42 PM Subject: Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference Andy, Sign - no. Joyce got a quote for a 3 ft banner today, but she hasn't gotten that to me yet. Flier - ah, tell you the truth I didn't really have to time to look that over, I will do so this weekend OK. Thanks Drew - 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
Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference
Follow up: Andy Brown wrote: Drew Jensen wrote: I will be glad to do it. Don't worry about the cost as I think I can cover that. If we do as others have with the CDs then we can recover at least some of the cost. Do you have the lead time needed for the printer after they 'acceptable' the art? For some reason I am thinking it is a week, but I have an email in to get a better answer. The time is variable from 3 to 21 days. The shorter the time the higher the shipping and processing cost. So the sooner I can get the order in the better. 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
Hi Russell, WorldLabel.com wrote: Hi Some ideas and thoughts. Pls excuse my writing as I am dyslexic I know how that goes as I have the same problem. reusable, sign for around $51.00. I say reusable so that it can be used for, hopefully, other events during the year. Yes, we should try for the ALA conference every year or alternate year. We can also exhibit at a ALA regional event in between the national ALA conference. It would be a good idea to try and get other larger sponsors to help with this effort. Showing face consistently at these exhibits can only help show that we are really around and serious. One hit might not have much impact. I agree that we need to start having a presents at these and other like events. Some signage for ODF would also be good. I think Louis is correct, ODF is a tactical tool to help OOo get adopted. A display showing the success of ODF adoption in other countries including OOo and/or a presentation I think would be beneficial. In fact, it might surprise many to see just how wide spread the adoption of ODF is and hence make our effort more convincing. I agree, but how to incorporate it in the sign? Open Access is a popular movement amongst many Librarians and getting stronger. It is obvious that the dominant Office Suite restricts Open Access. This might be one point/theme we would want to put emphasis on. I have just mailed out 30 disk to a university in PA for an Open Source panel discussion that is planed for next month. I hope to be able get the poc there to help develop some marketing ideas for other such groups. In general, I believe we would have better success pitching the adoption of OOo at the conference to poorer rural libraries that visit the booth, than large ones with huge IT teams i.e. NY Public library I believe your right and that is who we need to reach. 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
Andy: If you are going to be using these brochures for multiple conferences and will have a steady stream of orders coming from OpenOffice.org as a corporate identity, we offer just in time print on demand for a series of products. We support some very large Fortune 500 companies that use our digital center and fulfillment resources. Some use us for outfitting conference attendees with everything they need, shipped to conference center/hotel or to their office/home. Volume is what makes the difference. Let me know. Lee Heavlin Business Manager PBM GRAPHICS, INC. 3700 S Miami Blvd Durham, NC 27703 Office: 919-595-7612 Cell:919-741-0582 -Original Message- From: Andy Brown [mailto:a...@the-martin-byrd.net] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 8:41 PM To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org Subject: Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference WorldLabel.com wrote: Jean Hollis Weber just forwarded these links on ODF for libraries which will be usefull: http://www.friendsofopendocument.com/resources/ODF-for-libraries-Oct06.o dt http://www.friendsofopendocument.com/resources/ODF-for-libraries-Oct06.p df Russell I just got the links myself. I will see what I can do to get them printed and ready. 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
Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference
Heavlin, Lee wrote: Andy: If you are going to be using these brochures for multiple conferences and will have a steady stream of orders coming from OpenOffice.org as a corporate identity, we offer just in time print on demand for a series of products. We support some very large Fortune 500 companies that use our digital center and fulfillment resources. Some use us for outfitting conference attendees with everything they need, shipped to conference center/hotel or to their office/home. Volume is what makes the difference. Let me know. Morning Lee, This runs into two problems. The first is that OpenOffice.org does not order them. The second is that this could be a one time thing. Thanks for the offer though. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Drew Jensen wrote: Hi, Is that the layout of the flyer or the actual production of the flyers? Thanks Drew Drew, Have you have time to look at the flyer? Contact me off list. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Im listing here some other organizations and bloggers who can possibly help this effort: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/default.htm http://www.oss4lib.org/ (very active open source group for libraries) http://www.webjunction.org http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/ (information wants to be free) http://www.techsoupforlibraries.org/ http://www.libraryjournal.com/ (largest publication for libraries) http://www.educause.edu/ http://www.arl.org/sparc/ http://www.cni.org/ I will approach these entities at some point closer to the conference date to see if they can get the word out to help us. If you know any other organizations and/or librarian bloggers to approach, please advise. Russell On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.netwrote: Drew Jensen wrote: Hi, Is that the layout of the flyer or the actual production of the flyers? Thanks Drew Drew, Have you have time to look at the flyer? Contact me off list. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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WorldLabel.com wrote: Im listing here some other organizations and bloggers who can possibly help this effort: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/default.htm http://www.oss4lib.org/ (very active open source group for libraries) http://www.webjunction.org http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/ (information wants to be free) http://www.techsoupforlibraries.org/ http://www.libraryjournal.com/ (largest publication for libraries) http://www.educause.edu/ http://www.arl.org/sparc/ http://www.cni.org/ I will approach these entities at some point closer to the conference date to see if they can get the word out to help us. If you know any other organizations and/or librarian bloggers to approach, please advise. Russell Russell, Thanks for the links. I am not sure how we can add these to this mission, maybe adding another page to the flyer from Jean, but they will help on a local project I am working on. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Hi Andy I was thinking mostly in terms of letting them know OOo will be exhibiting (free CDs and downloading available) and information on ODF will be available, so hopefully they would help us get the word out that we will be there though thier media outlets. Best Russell On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.netwrote: WorldLabel.com wrote: Im listing here some other organizations and bloggers who can possibly help this effort: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/default.htm http://www.oss4lib.org/ (very active open source group for libraries) http://www.webjunction.org http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/ (information wants to be free) http://www.techsoupforlibraries.org/ http://www.libraryjournal.com/ (largest publication for libraries) http://www.educause.edu/ http://www.arl.org/sparc/ http://www.cni.org/ I will approach these entities at some point closer to the conference date to see if they can get the word out to help us. If you know any other organizations and/or librarian bloggers to approach, please advise. Russell Russell, Thanks for the links. I am not sure how we can add these to this mission, maybe adding another page to the flyer from Jean, but they will help on a local project I am working on. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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WorldLabel.com wrote: Hi Andy I was thinking mostly in terms of letting them know OOo will be exhibiting (free CDs and downloading available) and information on ODF will be available, so hopefully they would help us get the word out that we will be there though thier media outlets. Best Russell Hi Russell, Sorry, I misunderstood. That sounds great. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Hi Drew This is great: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/File:Booth.odg Noticed all the work stations are Linux, i think we should definitely consider a Windows station also :( Russell On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.netwrote: WorldLabel.com wrote: Hi Andy I was thinking mostly in terms of letting them know OOo will be exhibiting (free CDs and downloading available) and information on ODF will be available, so hopefully they would help us get the word out that we will be there though thier media outlets. Best Russell Hi Russell, Sorry, I misunderstood. That sounds great. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Hi I agree ... while we should be encouraging people to use Linux, we have to realise that Windows is just as important platform because so many more people use Windows than Linux. We should be doing our best to increase OOo usage, no matter what platform the user uses and by having maybe one Windows-based station will show that OOo works fine on platforms other than Linux. Hamish -Original Message- From: WorldLabel.com worldla...@gmail.com Reply-to: dev@marketing.openoffice.org To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org Subject: Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:28:33 -0500 Hi Drew This is great: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/File:Booth.odg Noticed all the work stations are Linux, i think we should definitely consider a Windows station also :( Russell - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Hamish Bell wrote: Hi I agree ... while we should be encouraging people to use Linux, we have to realise that Windows is just as important platform because so many more people use Windows than Linux. We should be doing our best to increase OOo usage, no matter what platform the user uses and by having maybe one Windows-based station will show that OOo works fine on platforms other than Linux. Hamish, Russell, Well, if you look the station with key number [2] = Virtualized Desktop. The two screens [1]and[2] would be running off an OpenSolaris server with virtualbox. The console [2] can run OpenSolaris, Linux, Win 7 desktops as needed. Additionally the screen can accept a secondary input, so bring your own laptop. Would that cover us? Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Additionally the screen can accept a secondary input, so bring your own laptop. meant - so if anyone brings a Mac laptop? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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WorldLabel.com wrote: Im listing here some other organizations and bloggers who can possibly help this effort: http://www.techsoupforlibraries.org/ This site has a very interesting page, http://www.techsoup.org/stock/libraries/ . Sun is listed as donating servers and MS as donating software, with restrictions. If someone has the pull maybe OpenOffice.org could get list, unless MS has a contract that prevents it. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Preventing software donations.. thats a concept :) On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: WorldLabel.com wrote: Im listing here some other organizations and bloggers who can possibly help this effort: http://www.techsoupforlibraries.org/ This site has a very interesting page, http://www.techsoup.org/stock/libraries/ . Sun is listed as donating servers and MS as donating software, with restrictions. If someone has the pull maybe OpenOffice.org could get list, unless MS has a contract that prevents it. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Espantilde;ol IM: j...@jabber.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
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Knowing MS, I would not put it past them. Alexandro Colorado wrote: Preventing software donations.. thats a concept :) On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: WorldLabel.com wrote: Im listing here some other organizations and bloggers who can possibly help this effort: http://www.techsoupforlibraries.org/ This site has a very interesting page, http://www.techsoup.org/stock/libraries/ . Sun is listed as donating servers and MS as donating software, with restrictions. If someone has the pull maybe OpenOffice.org could get list, unless MS has a contract that prevents it. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Drew Jensen wrote: Hi, Is that the layout of the flyer or the actual production of the flyers? Thanks Drew Drew, On the wiki page you ask for someone to make the print the flyers. Since the flyer is three pages and most black white let me know how many you think will be needed and I will do them. Also do you have a sign yet? If not I will see what I can come up with. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Hamish, Russel Thanks again for prompting me to think a little more here. My last trip cross country, I needed to use the public access computer kiosks at a couple of small town libraries (as in middle of Wyoming small). Both cases they had really nice printers (I was surprised a little) but the computers where a good 5-6 years old. (As an aside: one had a copy of OO.o 3 installed - when asked the Librarian said a local high school kid asked to install it - and - he was a good kid, so fine with her...but she didn't know anything about it ) My intention is to bring just such a machine, an older Compaq, with Linux/OO.o - this machine would not handle Win7/MSO 2010. I was thinking that it's one thing to say that Linux/OO.o breaths performance back into older hardware, it's another to let them see for themselves. Also - I was thinking we could offer the workstation/PCS as a public access kiosk for the attendees, say for someone that needs to print a resume. For those that have the 'deer in the headlights look' when they realize it's not MS we have a real live person there to get them started. [might be a dumb idea ??] Anyway, I'm just throwing out ideas here. Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Drew, interesting ideas Yes, I've noticed when I use Ubuntu it is a lot faster than Win 7 (I have previously used the Win 7 RC). Windows requires about 1 GB RAM and 16GB HDD and Ubuntu requires only 384 MB RAM and 8GB HDD. I think letting people use a Linux PC with OO.o (doesn't matter too much what Linux distribution, but you should use the latest OOo) will let them see how fast easy it is to use. But you've also got to remember OOo is using the conference to promote OpenOffice.org and not so much Linux. Also, remember if we let lots of people print off their resume/CV the cost could end up rising, but yes I like the idea of something like that. Cheers Hamish - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Drew Jensen wrote: Hamish, Russel Thanks again for prompting me to think a little more here. My last trip cross country, I needed to use the public access computer kiosks at a couple of small town libraries (as in middle of Wyoming small). Both cases they had really nice printers (I was surprised a little) but the computers where a good 5-6 years old. (As an aside: one had a copy of OO.o 3 installed - when asked the Librarian said a local high school kid asked to install it - and - he was a good kid, so fine with her...but she didn't know anything about it ) My intention is to bring just such a machine, an older Compaq, with Linux/OO.o - this machine would not handle Win7/MSO 2010. I was thinking that it's one thing to say that Linux/OO.o breaths performance back into older hardware, it's another to let them see for themselves. Also - I was thinking we could offer the workstation/PCS as a public access kiosk for the attendees, say for someone that needs to print a resume. For those that have the 'deer in the headlights look' when they realize it's not MS we have a real live person there to get them started. [might be a dumb idea ??] Anyway, I'm just throwing out ideas here. Drew Drew, It sound good and reasonable to me. Back in the old days sysops from local bbs would meet up at the computer shows and pass out a bbs list and sometimes have a demo bbs setup for new users to play with. It was great. :) Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Drew Jensen wrote: Andy, Sign - no. Joyce got a quote for a 3 ft banner today, but she hasn't gotten that to me yet. Flier - ah, tell you the truth I didn't really have to time to look that over, I will do so this weekend OK. Thanks Drew Drew, As a reference, I can get a 6ft by 2.5ft heavy duty, reusable, sign for around $51.00. I say reusable so that it can be used for, hopefully, other events during the year. Anytime on the flyer will be fine. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Drew, As a reference, I can get a 6ft by 2.5ft heavy duty, reusable, sign for around $51.00. I say reusable so that it can be used for, hopefully, other events during the year. Tell you what - can you take this as yours and coordinate with folks in the art project (I see you sent an email already) I will just pencil in $55.00 for a banner under projected costs and you as the owner, if that's alright? (it would really be nice to have a banner before June 14th 6 foot would be a good size) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Drew Jensen wrote: Tell you what - can you take this as yours and coordinate with folks in the art project (I see you sent an email already) I will just pencil in $55.00 for a banner under projected costs and you as the owner, if that's alright? (it would really be nice to have a banner before June 14th 6 foot would be a good size) I will be glad to do it. Don't worry about the cost as I think I can cover that. If we do as others have with the CDs then we can recover at least some of the cost. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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I will be glad to do it. Don't worry about the cost as I think I can cover that. If we do as others have with the CDs then we can recover at least some of the cost. Do you have the lead time needed for the printer after they 'acceptable' the art? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Drew Jensen wrote on 2010-01-14 18.31: Also, setup a wiki page http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/US/Home/ALA-2010 as a collection point for details. sorry for my late reply, currently a bit behind my Inbox, but working on it. :-) Can someone bring me up to date? Did I get it right that we have a fixed team of at least three people who can staff the booth and take care of organizing things, producing collaterals etc.? I.e., it only depends on the funding process that we can attend, is that right? Hello Florian, Booth staffing commitments: now at 4 persons (this includes Marino Marcich from the ODFAlliance organization) Team responsibilities: I will take responsibility for the booth ( setup, tear-down, staffing schedule, supply needed computing equipment for displays and demos ) Looking for: someone that will take responsibility for the 'content' we want on those computer screens Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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On 1/21/10, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Drew Jensen wrote on 2010-01-14 18.31: Also, setup a wiki page http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/US/Home/ALA-2010 as a collection point for details. sorry for my late reply, currently a bit behind my Inbox, but working on it. :-) Can someone bring me up to date? Did I get it right that we have a fixed team of at least three people who can staff the booth and take care of organizing things, producing collaterals etc.? I.e., it only depends on the funding process that we can attend, is that right? Hello Florian, Booth staffing commitments: now at 4 persons (this includes Marino Marcich from the ODFAlliance organization) Team responsibilities: I will take responsibility for the booth ( setup, tear-down, staffing schedule, supply needed computing equipment for displays and demos ) Looking for: someone that will take responsibility for the 'content' we want on those computer screens There is some new material that will be shown on FOSDEM. Also I sent you some from the education project. Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Espantilde;ol IM: j...@jabber.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Hey Drew... re: someone that will take responsibility for the 'content' we want on those computer screens I will participate with content development (graphic design, promotional copy, marketing materials/strategy) however I may be useful and am capable, and we should probably discuss this further off-list (christ...@gozarks.com). Just know that I will do whatever I can to support your exhibit efforts at this conference. Thanks for all you are doing to 'get the word out' grin... ~Christine - Original Message - From: Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 8:40 AM Subject: Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Drew Jensen wrote on 2010-01-14 18.31: Also, setup a wiki page http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/US/Home/ALA-2010 as a collection point for details. sorry for my late reply, currently a bit behind my Inbox, but working on it. :-) Can someone bring me up to date? Did I get it right that we have a fixed team of at least three people who can staff the booth and take care of organizing things, producing collaterals etc.? I.e., it only depends on the funding process that we can attend, is that right? Hello Florian, Booth staffing commitments: now at 4 persons (this includes Marino Marcich from the ODFAlliance organization) Team responsibilities: I will take responsibility for the booth ( setup, tear-down, staffing schedule, supply needed computing equipment for displays and demos ) Looking for: someone that will take responsibility for the 'content' we want on those computer screens Drew - 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
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Christine Louise Beems wrote: Hey Drew... re: someone that will take responsibility for the 'content' we want on those computer screens I will participate with content development (graphic design, promotional copy, marketing materials/strategy) however I may be useful and am capable, and we should probably discuss this further off-list (christ...@gozarks.com). Just know that I will do whatever I can to support your exhibit efforts at this conference. Thanks for all you are doing to 'get the word out' grin... ~Christine Outstanding - I will touch base with you directly. Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Hi Jean Hollis Weber will arrange What is OpenDocument Format and Why Should You Care? flyers for us to hand out. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Christine Louise Beems christ...@gozarks.com wrote: Hey Drew... re: someone that will take responsibility for the 'content' we want on those computer screens I will participate with content development (graphic design, promotional copy, marketing materials/strategy) however I may be useful and am capable, and we should probably discuss this further off-list ( christ...@gozarks.com). Just know that I will do whatever I can to support your exhibit efforts at this conference. Thanks for all you are doing to 'get the word out' grin... ~Christine - Original Message - From: Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 8:40 AM Subject: Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Drew Jensen wrote on 2010-01-14 18.31: Also, setup a wiki page http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/US/Home/ALA-2010 as a collection point for details. sorry for my late reply, currently a bit behind my Inbox, but working on it. :-) Can someone bring me up to date? Did I get it right that we have a fixed team of at least three people who can staff the booth and take care of organizing things, producing collaterals etc.? I.e., it only depends on the funding process that we can attend, is that right? Hello Florian, Booth staffing commitments: now at 4 persons (this includes Marino Marcich from the ODFAlliance organization) Team responsibilities: I will take responsibility for the booth ( setup, tear-down, staffing schedule, supply needed computing equipment for displays and demos ) Looking for: someone that will take responsibility for the 'content' we want on those computer screens Drew - 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
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WorldLabel.com wrote: Hi Jean Hollis Weber will arrange What is OpenDocument Format and Why Should You Care? flyers for us to hand out. Hi, Is that the layout of the flyer or the actual production of the flyers? Thanks Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Drew Jensen wrote: Christine Louise Beems wrote: Hey Drew... re: someone that will take responsibility for the 'content' we want on those computer screens I will participate with content development (graphic design, promotional copy, marketing materials/strategy) however I may be useful and am capable, and we should probably discuss this further off-list (christ...@gozarks.com). Just know that I will do whatever I can to support your exhibit efforts at this conference. Thanks for all you are doing to 'get the word out' grin... ~Christine Outstanding - I will touch base with you directly. I would not mind being in on Cc:s. I would go to the DC event if I were in the area. The planning would be useful for other events and I do still have contact with European libraries and librarians, having for a while worked as one. /Lars - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Hello Lars, I would not mind being in on Cc:s. I would go to the DC event if I were in the area. The planning would be useful for other events and I do still have contact with European libraries and librarians, having for a while worked as one. Sounds good to me. Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Alexandro Colorado wrote: There is some new material that will be shown on FOSDEM. Also I sent you some from the education project. Hello Alexandro, Would you like to be cc'd on the email exchange with Christine, Lars and myself? Also: I wanted to bring up the Business Development project with regards to this endeavor. US Consultants list. You and I have spoken about this before and I realize that *I* dropped the ball on this after our last exchange. However, it seems to me that this becomes a big issue that needs fixed BEFORE the show. First - so that the US consultants list is again on-line, purged of the junk entries, and with links that go to something at the external site regarding OO.o. Second - that we touch base with every entity on that list in advance of the show, with enough lead time so that if they are interested, they can contribute. Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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On 1/21/10, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote: There is some new material that will be shown on FOSDEM. Also I sent you some from the education project. Hello Alexandro, Would you like to be cc'd on the email exchange with Christine, Lars and myself? Yes count me in. Also: I wanted to bring up the Business Development project with regards to this endeavor. This would be a great idea. We definetly need to get the wheels turning there. US Consultants list. You and I have spoken about this before and I realize that *I* dropped the ball on this after our last exchange. That is fine, we can get back to it and still get it done. However, it seems to me that this becomes a big issue that needs fixed BEFORE the show. Ok feel free to ping me whenever you are ready. First - so that the US consultants list is again on-line, purged of the junk entries, and with links that go to something at the external site regarding OO.o. Second - that we touch base with every entity on that list in advance of the show, with enough lead time so that if they are interested, they can contribute. Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Espantilde;ol IM: j...@jabber.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Drew Jensen wrote: WorldLabel.com wrote: Hi Jean Hollis Weber will arrange What is OpenDocument Format and Why Should You Care? flyers for us to hand out. Hi, Is that the layout of the flyer or the actual production of the flyers? Thanks Drew Drew, I would assume that it would be the layout as Jean is in Australia. I will contact her and see about get a copy of the flyer. I am working on some other flyers so I can add this one to the mix as well. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Jean Hollis Weber just forwarded these links on ODF for libraries which will be usefull: http://www.friendsofopendocument.com/resources/ODF-for-libraries-Oct06.odt http://www.friendsofopendocument.com/resources/ODF-for-libraries-Oct06.pdf Russell On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.netwrote: Drew Jensen wrote: WorldLabel.com wrote: Hi Jean Hollis Weber will arrange What is OpenDocument Format and Why Should You Care? flyers for us to hand out. Hi, Is that the layout of the flyer or the actual production of the flyers? Thanks Drew Drew, I would assume that it would be the layout as Jean is in Australia. I will contact her and see about get a copy of the flyer. I am working on some other flyers so I can add this one to the mix as well. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Hi, Drew Jensen wrote on 2010-01-14 18.31: Also, setup a wiki page http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/US/Home/ALA-2010 as a collection point for details. sorry for my late reply, currently a bit behind my Inbox, but working on it. :-) Can someone bring me up to date? Did I get it right that we have a fixed team of at least three people who can staff the booth and take care of organizing things, producing collaterals etc.? I.e., it only depends on the funding process that we can attend, is that right? I'll look into the offlist mails and the funding thing soon, didn't find time yet. Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Hi, On 2010-01-19, at 09:15 , 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. Well, I've been involved in those discussions, as I'm on two Oasis Technical Committees advocating the use and normalization of ODF (Oasis is the org. that maintains the standard) and I promote the development of the standard around the world. ODF is supported by a wide consortium of public and private enterprises. It is seen as the wedge by which other public goods, such as OOo, can be introduced to otherwise closed shops. It's thus pretty important, both in itself and as a tactical tool. And it's something that librarians and archivists, around the world, really like. Engaging the ALA (and also, I'd think) in the global campaign to move to a true open standard like the ODF is, I think, a solid tactic and might be a stronger one than focusing on OOo alone. (OOo is the implementation and is not commensurate with the standard; it, OOo, can implement--and does--other formats. The format is not the same as the application that implements it.) I've been trying to get the Canadian equivalent of the ALA to adopt the ODF, and have also worked with the Swedish equivalent and others. The tide is turning--and I'm delighted to say, to a rational solution that favours open standards and sustainable tools. Cheers, Louis On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.netwrote: 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
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Hi Mr. Marino Marcich from http://www.odfalliance.org/ has confirmed he will help us at the booth. Russell On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Lars Nooden larsnoo...@openoffice.orgwrote: Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Engaging the ALA (and also, I'd think) in the global campaign to move to a true open standard like the ODF is, I think, a solid tactic and might be a stronger one than focusing on OOo alone. (OOo is the implementation and is not commensurate with the standard; it, OOo, can implement--and does--other formats. The format is not the same as the application that implements it.) There is also the American Association of School Librarians, which would have benefit from OOo and ODF. Like ALA there is also a AASL bill of rights somewhere. /Lars - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Lars Nooden wrote: IFLA would be another organization to work through. Open Standards and open source are in line with, one might say prerequisite to, the organizational goals. That's true especially for ALA, which has a codified 'bill of rights' that could be brought up, dusted off and looked at. It was a really hot topic for discussion through the 1990's This link addresses the current state of awareness and compliance. http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/statementsif/librarybillrights.cfm /Lars Lars, The link above ends up with a Page not found error. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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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 a...@the-martin-byrd.netwrote: 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
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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 worldla...@gmail.comwrote: 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 a...@the-martin-byrd.netwrote: 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
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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 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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FYI ALA has a group: LITA Open Source Interest Group (advocates) http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/lita/litamembership/litaigs/opensourcesystem/opensourcesystems.cfm They mostly interested in FOSS library management systems, but based on conversations I have had with them in the past (couple of years ago) they would also be interested in advocating OOo. So if this exhibit is a go, it would be a good idea to contact them to see how they could help our effort. Russell On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.comwrote: 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 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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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
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Hi Russell, WorldLabel.com wrote on 2010-01-11 18.28: I would be interested in helping (Donate) some funds for Openoffice exhibiting at http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/annual/index.cfm In general I think attending and/or exhibiting at Linux/open source shows, besides trying to recruit help, is preaching to the choir. thanks a lot for your generous offer, that is much appreciated! I'm currently working on Christmas email backlog, thus I didn't follow the whole thread, so bear with me if I missed some information. I'm happy to support this plan from the marketing project. We need a team taking care of the exhibition, logistics, collaterals etc. I see that some seem to be interested -- any fixed team yet? Can someone clarify what funding in total would be required for the things you need? Then we can see what we have and what we need. :-) Thanks again Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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On 1/14/2010 6:37 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Russell, WorldLabel.com wrote on 2010-01-11 18.28: I would be interested in helping (Donate) some funds for Openoffice exhibiting at http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/annual/index.cfm In general I think attending and/or exhibiting at Linux/open source shows, besides trying to recruit help, is preaching to the choir. thanks a lot for your generous offer, that is much appreciated! I'm currently working on Christmas email backlog, thus I didn't follow the whole thread, so bear with me if I missed some information. I'm happy to support this plan from the marketing project. Thanks Florian We need a team taking care of the exhibition, logistics, collaterals etc. I see that some seem to be interested -- any fixed team yet? I don't think so, but a spark of one at this point. Can someone clarify what funding in total would be required for the things you need? Then we can see what we have and what we need. :-) Jan 29th is the deadline for registration - 15 days. I suppose we, anyone interested, needs to get together and figure this out. I don't suppose that the main marketing list, here, is for that - this list being where we report back to with plans/requests, yes? Sophie suggested we use an irc channel going forward for a regional initiative of #oooregional, sounds reasonable to me. Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Also, setup a wiki page http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/US/Home/ALA-2010 as a collection point for details. Thanks Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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On 1/11/2010 4:37 PM, WorldLabel.com wrote: Some quick thoughts regarding this. $2,025 is the cost and from what I see that does not include a floor pass for both workers I would help with some of that. And, there are other expenses, duplication of OOo CDs, signs, flyers on why.openoffice.org ect. I spoke to Richard Widick who handles sales of booths for ALA, he advised that they would as a special for openoffice give us a small table on press row for USD800 as an alternative if we wish. Im not sure how effective the small table will be. Hello Russell, Would you touch base with the person you spoke with from the event and find out if they would have any problems with us setting up a WiFi hotspot in the booth. The idea would be to allow folks to connect directly to a local server, no internet access, and download directly to their laptops our binaries and other materials. It's an idea I've been working on and would like to propose, but if they would not allow it then we can save discussing it. Thanks Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.comwrote: On 1/11/2010 4:37 PM, WorldLabel.com wrote: Some quick thoughts regarding this. $2,025 is the cost and from what I see that does not include a floor pass for both workers I would help with some of that. And, there are other expenses, duplication of OOo CDs, signs, flyers on why.openoffice.org ect. I spoke to Richard Widick who handles sales of booths for ALA, he advised that they would as a special for openoffice give us a small table on press row for USD800 as an alternative if we wish. Im not sure how effective the small table will be. Hello Russell, Would you touch base with the person you spoke with from the event and find out if they would have any problems with us setting up a WiFi hotspot in the booth. The idea would be to allow folks to connect directly to a local server, no internet access, and download directly to their laptops our binaries and other materials. It's an idea I've been working on and would like to propose, but if they would not allow it then we can save discussing it. Thanks Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Hi Drew WiFi hotspot in the booth. This can be done, however, they would have to set it up for us and would cost USD900. There are WiFi spots around the conference center but none in the exhibit halls. That of course does not help us, Russell On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.comwrote: On 1/11/2010 4:37 PM, WorldLabel.com wrote: Some quick thoughts regarding this. $2,025 is the cost and from what I see that does not include a floor pass for both workers I would help with some of that. And, there are other expenses, duplication of OOo CDs, signs, flyers on why.openoffice.org ect. I spoke to Richard Widick who handles sales of booths for ALA, he advised that they would as a special for openoffice give us a small table on press row for USD800 as an alternative if we wish. Im not sure how effective the small table will be. Hello Russell, Would you touch base with the person you spoke with from the event and find out if they would have any problems with us setting up a WiFi hotspot in the booth. The idea would be to allow folks to connect directly to a local server, no internet access, and download directly to their laptops our binaries and other materials. It's an idea I've been working on and would like to propose, but if they would not allow it then we can save discussing it. Thanks Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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On 1/14/2010 1:11 PM, WorldLabel.com wrote: Hi Drew WiFi hotspot in the booth. This can be done, however, they would have to set it up for us and would cost USD900. There are WiFi spots around the conference center but none in the exhibit halls. That of course does not help us, Russell hmmm - perhaps this is a miss communication. Sound like they are offering us a gateway to the internet. I am talking about a wholly self contained system - think of it as a tether if you will. Still, I was afraid that a large event might prohibit this. I talked with a LinuxFest organizer yesterday and they would be all for it..different crowd. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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On 1/14/2010 1:19 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: On 1/14/2010 1:11 PM, WorldLabel.com wrote: Hi Drew WiFi hotspot in the booth. This can be done, however, they would have to set it up for us and would cost USD900. There are WiFi spots around the conference center but none in the exhibit halls. That of course does not help us, Russell hmmm - perhaps this is a miss communication. Sound like they are offering us a gateway to the internet. I am talking about a wholly self contained system - think of it as a tether if you will. Still, I was afraid that a large event might prohibit this. I talked with a LinuxFest organizer yesterday and they would be all for it..different crowd. Just in case you are talking with him again and to be clear We would NOT be setting up a gateway to the internet - ONLY setting up our own single domain network with WiFi connection in and around the booth. Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Hi Everyone I would be interested in helping (Donate) some funds for Openoffice exhibiting at http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/annual/index.cfm In general I think attending and/or exhibiting at Linux/open source shows, besides trying to recruit help, is preaching to the choir. Im a firm believer that it is the libraries in communities which can plant a lot of seeds for OOO to grow. More info is available here: http://exhibitors.ala.org/ Russell Ossendryver
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WorldLabel.com wrote: Hi Everyone I would be interested in helping (Donate) some funds for Openoffice exhibiting at http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/annual/index.cfm In general I think attending and/or exhibiting at Linux/open source shows, besides trying to recruit help, is preaching to the choir. Im a firm believer that it is the libraries in communities which can plant a lot of seeds for OOO to grow. More info is available here: http://exhibitors.ala.org/ Russell Ossendryver +1 for OpenOffice.org to have someone there as I agree that we need to spread the word outside of the OS community. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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I strongly agree. Education should be a very fertile market for our promotional work. This ALA conference is in Washington DC, so it's possibly within range for me. Anthony is near DC as well, so if he's available that could be great. Ben Sent from my iPhone On Jan 11, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: WorldLabel.com wrote: Hi Everyone I would be interested in helping (Donate) some funds for Openoffice exhibiting at http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/annual/index.cfm In general I think attending and/or exhibiting at Linux/open source shows, besides trying to recruit help, is preaching to the choir. Im a firm believer that it is the libraries in communities which can plant a lot of seeds for OOO to grow. More info is available here: http://exhibitors.ala.org/ Russell Ossendryver +1 for OpenOffice.org to have someone there as I agree that we need to spread the word outside of the OS community. 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
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Benjamin Horst wrote: I strongly agree. Education should be a very fertile market for our promotional work. This ALA conference is in Washington DC, so it's possibly within range for me. Anthony is near DC as well, so if he's available that could be great. June 24 - 29, personally I've been looking at the Linuxfest in SC the weekend before for a trip, but given the location and lead time I would certainly be available to help. Perhaps, for the entire week, and most likely I can just stay with friends in town for the period. That said: Jan 29th is the deadline for acquiring a booth - not a lot of time for reasoned discussion. (echoing other posts about long range planning ) $2,025 is the cost and from what I see that does not include a floor pass for both workers? That is a good bite of cash. If we could put this together any ideas on what exactly we would do with a 10 x 10 space and 3-4 bodies? Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Some quick thoughts regarding this. $2,025 is the cost and from what I see that does not include a floor pass for both workers I would help with some of that. And, there are other expenses, duplication of OOo CDs, signs, flyers on why.openoffice.org ect. I spoke to Richard Widick who handles sales of booths for ALA, he advised that they would as a special for openoffice give us a small table on press row for USD800 as an alternative if we wish. Im not sure how effective the small table will be. If we could put this together any ideas on what exactly we would do with a 10 x 10 space and 3-4 bodies? My guess is we would need someone to drive this as a mini-project. I wish i could but my organizations skills are horrendous and very limited time. ALA conference is high exposure and would be a great opportunity for Openoffice. My guess is we would need a few computer terminals for demonstrating, handing out CDs, explaining the OOo community and all the resources it has to offer. How libraries can benefit and how patrons can use OOo to their advantage. Perhaps have a well done video going continually. 10 x 10 space and 3-4 bodies There are so many exhibitors, one can walk around handing out CDs, info ;-) so we can use more bodies than just handling the booth... Perhaps a program can be developed and distributed on teaching librarians how to teach patrons how to use OOo Some interesting info on marketing to libraries: http://marketing.openoffice.org/pa/ On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.comwrote: Benjamin Horst wrote: I strongly agree. Education should be a very fertile market for our promotional work. This ALA conference is in Washington DC, so it's possibly within range for me. Anthony is near DC as well, so if he's available that could be great. June 24 - 29, personally I've been looking at the Linuxfest in SC the weekend before for a trip, but given the location and lead time I would certainly be available to help. Perhaps, for the entire week, and most likely I can just stay with friends in town for the period. That said: Jan 29th is the deadline for acquiring a booth - not a lot of time for reasoned discussion. (echoing other posts about long range planning ) $2,025 is the cost and from what I see that does not include a floor pass for both workers? That is a good bite of cash. If we could put this together any ideas on what exactly we would do with a 10 x 10 space and 3-4 bodies? Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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WorldLabel.com wrote: I would help with some of that. And, there are other expenses, duplication of OOo CDs, signs, flyers on why.openoffice.org ect. I spoke to Richard Widick who handles sales of booths for ALA, he advised that they would as a special for openoffice give us a small table on press row for USD800 as an alternative if we wish. Im not sure how effective the small table will be. I can assist with the OO.o CDs so that would be a no cost. All I would need is a address to ship them and an estimate on how many would be needed. I would start on the CDs as soon as v3.2 is released. -- 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
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Andy Brown wrote: WorldLabel.com wrote: I would help with some of that. And, there are other expenses, duplication of OOo CDs, signs, flyers on why.openoffice.org ect. I spoke to Richard Widick who handles sales of booths for ALA, he advised that they would as a special for openoffice give us a small table on press row for USD800 as an alternative if we wish. Im not sure how effective the small table will be. I can assist with the OO.o CDs so that would be a no cost. All I would need is a address to ship them and an estimate on how many would be needed. I would start on the CDs as soon as v3.2 is released. Being only a few hours drive (mini-van) I could certainly act as an early collection point. Not trying to say a small table wouldn't be fine, but Logistics wise I can also furnish: [One note - I really would like to see the shows policy regarding security first, but assuming it's a locked facility at night] 32 LCD Display (Sony HD TV/Monitor) 22 LCD Display (HP 2207) 8/gig dual core server to drive both displays 2 - pc workstations 1 - HP PSC Networking - wiFi router / switch Commercial grade drop lines for a power run, some spot lighting equipment used in craft show displays. (Just in case there might be nice banner to highlight maybe :) Good skirting for tables if needed. ( dark blue (my choice) and/or moca brown ) Alright - it's only 10x10 and that's probably way too much equipment but just saying I would be willing to help by bringing what we need. Drew
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Drew Jensen wrote: Andy Brown wrote: I can assist with the OO.o CDs so that would be a no cost. All I would need is a address to ship them and an estimate on how many would be needed. I would start on the CDs as soon as v3.2 is released. Being only a few hours drive (mini-van) I could certainly act as an early collection point. Drop me an email off list with your mailing address and a guess on the number and OS you think would be good. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Some of the info you seek about exhibiting may be found at http://exhibitors.ala.org/files/AN10-SpaceApplication.pdf Note for the record that whoever said they were offering you a 'special' deal was toying with you as this is the regular price that anyone would pay for a 'small press table'. Still, at $2025 for a 10x10 space (add $175 for a corner booth) this is really a pretty good deal... IF they deliver on attendance. And by my count (based on http://exhibitors.ala.org/files/ALA-AN10-Exhibitor-List.pdf ) they are a long way from having the 6000+ exhibitors they've had previous annual events... so before I would plunk any dinero down I would want to get some serious assurance that their registration rate is on track with prior years, especially as their closing date is January 29. And personally (as it is well known on this list -- or should be grin -- that I am a chronic stumper for getting the word out to the technophobe-nation), I think that a wham-bam dog and pony show with blazing wide-screens, humming work stations, dazzling banners (about this being OOo's 10th happy birthday tah-dah!) topped off with the classy Presentation Kit we've previously discussed and the illustrious exhuberance of a few folks like Drew Andy would be a marvelous way to spend marketing dollars... ~Christine - Original Message - From: Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 5:48 PM Subject: Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference Andy Brown wrote: WorldLabel.com wrote: I would help with some of that. And, there are other expenses, duplication of OOo CDs, signs, flyers on why.openoffice.org ect. I spoke to Richard Widick who handles sales of booths for ALA, he advised that they would as a special for openoffice give us a small table on press row for USD800 as an alternative if we wish. Im not sure how effective the small table will be. I can assist with the OO.o CDs so that would be a no cost. All I would need is a address to ship them and an estimate on how many would be needed. I would start on the CDs as soon as v3.2 is released. Being only a few hours drive (mini-van) I could certainly act as an early collection point. Not trying to say a small table wouldn't be fine, but Logistics wise I can also furnish: [One note - I really would like to see the shows policy regarding security first, but assuming it's a locked facility at night] 32 LCD Display (Sony HD TV/Monitor) 22 LCD Display (HP 2207) 8/gig dual core server to drive both displays 2 - pc workstations 1 - HP PSC Networking - wiFi router / switch Commercial grade drop lines for a power run, some spot lighting equipment used in craft show displays. (Just in case there might be nice banner to highlight maybe :) Good skirting for tables if needed. ( dark blue (my choice) and/or moca brown ) Alright - it's only 10x10 and that's probably way too much equipment but just saying I would be willing to help by bringing what we need. Drew - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
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Ancillary promotional benefits of ALA2010 (note unlimited FREE guest passes): a.. Unlimited VIP guest passes for you to invite your customers and prospects; b.. A free listing, product description and product category listings in the Exhibit Directory Buyer's Guide, which reinforces your message and serves as a valuable post-show reference for attendees; c.. Your free listing on the ALA World Wide Web site located at http://www.ala.org and the opportunity to establish a hot link back to your web page; d.. A daily, on-site show newspaper where you can promote new products and services; e.. Pre and post-show access to our exclusive registration lists for your own promotional mailings f.. 26 total exhibit hours! - Original Message - From: WorldLabel.com worldla...@gmail.com To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 3:37 PM Subject: Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference Some quick thoughts regarding this. $2,025 is the cost and from what I see that does not include a floor pass for both workers I would help with some of that. And, there are other expenses, duplication of OOo CDs, signs, flyers on why.openoffice.org ect. I spoke to Richard Widick who handles sales of booths for ALA, he advised that they would as a special for openoffice give us a small table on press row for USD800 as an alternative if we wish. Im not sure how effective the small table will be. If we could put this together any ideas on what exactly we would do with a 10 x 10 space and 3-4 bodies? My guess is we would need someone to drive this as a mini-project. I wish i could but my organizations skills are horrendous and very limited time. ALA conference is high exposure and would be a great opportunity for Openoffice. My guess is we would need a few computer terminals for demonstrating, handing out CDs, explaining the OOo community and all the resources it has to offer. How libraries can benefit and how patrons can use OOo to their advantage. Perhaps have a well done video going continually. 10 x 10 space and 3-4 bodies There are so many exhibitors, one can walk around handing out CDs, info ;-) so we can use more bodies than just handling the booth... Perhaps a program can be developed and distributed on teaching librarians how to teach patrons how to use OOo Some interesting info on marketing to libraries: http://marketing.openoffice.org/pa/ On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.comwrote: Benjamin Horst wrote: I strongly agree. Education should be a very fertile market for our promotional work. This ALA conference is in Washington DC, so it's possibly within range for me. Anthony is near DC as well, so if he's available that could be great. June 24 - 29, personally I've been looking at the Linuxfest in SC the weekend before for a trip, but given the location and lead time I would certainly be available to help. Perhaps, for the entire week, and most likely I can just stay with friends in town for the period. That said: Jan 29th is the deadline for acquiring a booth - not a lot of time for reasoned discussion. (echoing other posts about long range planning ) $2,025 is the cost and from what I see that does not include a floor pass for both workers? That is a good bite of cash. If we could put this together any ideas on what exactly we would do with a 10 x 10 space and 3-4 bodies? Drew - 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
