Re: [tdf-discuss] First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support for LibreOffice

[Italo Vignoli]

On 6/16/11 2:05 AM, Robert Derman wrote:


I noticed in the following list that there is no one from North America.
I am just a bit concerned about this. Should I be?


I am generally managing contacts with journalists based in the US, 
although this sometimes means that I have to work quite late at night. I 
easily cover up to 6PM EST (3PM PST), but sometimes even later.


Yesterday I had a Skype conversation with a journalist based in San 
Francisco at 4PM PST (1AM CET).


I personally don't see a real problem. US media are the most 
sophisticated (when we look at technology), and we don't have any media 
professional inside our US community. Of course, we can provide a media 
training (and this is something that we will organize at the conference 
in Paris, and we could organize the first time I will cross the ocean).


For the time being, US journalists are starting to consider myself as 
their TDF media interface.


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Re: [tdf-discuss] First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support for LibreOffice

[Robert Derman]

Florian Effenberger wrote:
First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support 
for LibreOffice


Strong backing for a truly free and vendor-neutral office suite
The Document Foundation provides solid grounds to build upon

The Document Foundation today announced the first members of its 
Advisory Board: Google, SUSE, Red Hat, Freies Office Deutschland e.V., 
Software in the Public Interest, and the Free Software Foundation. The 
new appointees will serve for an initial term of one year.


The body represents The Document Foundation's sponsors, with each 
sponsor having the right to one representative. They will provide the 
future Board of Directors with advice, guidance and proposals, and 
will consult regularly on the further development of the Foundation 
and its associated projects.
I am truly gratified to see such a wide and important group of sponsors 
supporting The Document Foundation.  It gives me a lot of confidence 
that TDF will do at least as good a job with supporting and improving LO 
as the former OOo did with OpenOffice. 


"We're very proud, and warmly welcome the first members of the 
Advisory Board. Its composition shows that LibreOffice is a 
vendor-neutral, truly-free office suite, and confirms that The 
Document Foundation has created a solid base to build upon, for the 
community, for corporations and enterprises, and for adopters and 
end-users," said Florian Effenberger on behalf of The Document 
Foundation's Steering Committee. "With LibreOffice being downloaded 
from all over the world, with the community growing quickly, and with 
organizations and corporations showing strong support, The Document 
Foundation has succeeded in creating a safe, stable and secure base to 
ensure the future of free office suites," he added.




I myself am mostly just one of the huge number of end users.   I 
recently downloaded LO and put it on my second computer.  While I have 
not had much chance to use it yet, so far it seems to be significantly 
improved from the last release of OOo that I was using.  I think I speak 
for most small (Non corporate) end users when I say that I think that 
OOo has basically become irrelevant.  As in who cares what Apache does 
with it, LO is where its at now. 



I have a few observations to make, as to future changes/improvements.  I 
for one am very reluctant to frequently upgrade any major software 
application that must be downloaded and replaced in its entirety, 
particularly if there is not a published list of the improvements in the 
new release.  This is why I do not upgrade my copy of Apple iTunes, 
particularly when it is an incremental upgrade, for example version 
5.3.7 to 5.3.8 as opposed to major upgrades like from 5.x to 6.x.  This 
is particularly true when there are components you could loose like the 
personal dictionary that goes with the spell checker.  I really think 
that it should be made a priority at some point to get LO to where 
"Incremental Upgrades" are possible, that is only the parts of the 
entire office suite that are actually being changed would be downloaded 
and installed, not the entire thing, and personal modifications, like 
settings and personal dictionaries would be left undisturbed. 



I think that it would be a good idea at some point to do a survey of 
users to find out how many of them actually use only one of the modules 
of the suite, example Writer, Calc, Math, Base, and which one that is.  
For example, I use only Writer, I never use any of the other modules.  
So that if we were to find that a large percentage of users only use 
Writer, or Calc for instance, it might make sense to break those modules 
out and offer them as a separate program without any of the other 
modules.  I know that this was frequently discussed on the OOo Discuss 
list, and the OOo suite was too highly integrated for this to be 
practical,  but perhaps at some point this might become feasible with LO. 




I noticed in the following list that there is no one from North 
America.   I am just a bit concerned about this.  Should I be?


Press and Media Contacts

Florian Effenberger (based near Munich, Germany, UTC+1)
Phone: +49 8341 99660880
Mobile: +49 151 14424108
E-mail: flo...@documentfoundation.org
Skype: floeff

Olivier Hallot (based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, UTC-3)
Mobile: +55 21 88228812
E-mail: olivier.hal...@documentfoundation.org

Charles H. Schulz (based in Paris, France, UTC+1)
Mobile: +33 6 98655424
E-mail: charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org

Italo Vignoli (based in Milan, Italy, UTC+1)
Phone: +39 02 320621813
Mobile: +39 348 5653829
E-mail: italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org
Skype: italovignoli
Google Talk: italo.vign...@gmail.com
Finally, I would like to be able to help with semi-technical 
improvements to LO Writer, like getting a better word list into the 
Spell Checker, or adding more functionality to the Auto-correct 
function, like having it automatically capitalize all the days of the 
week, and 

Re: [tdf-discuss] First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support for LibreOffice

[Simon Phipps]

On 15 Jun 2011, at 13:54, Volker Merschmann wrote:

> So it must be the way blogging->copying the link->pasting to
> mail->sending the announcement with the link. Not nice, but possible.

In WordPress, the URL is known before publication, so there's no need to blog 
first. Nice & clean :-)

S.


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Re: [tdf-discuss] First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support for LibreOffice

[Volker Merschmann]

Hi,

2011/6/15 klaus-jürgen weghorn ol :
> I'd like to make a request. It is much, much easier to report on these things 
> quickly if there is a URL in the press release that points to the news.
>
> Is it possible in future to include such a URL in the news item please? Given 
> you are using WordPress to publish the news, it's easy to know the URL in 
> advance and it will make it far easier to tweet, report and generally talk 
> about if it's there at the bottom of the release, as:
>
> News story: 
> http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/06/15/first-tdf-advisory-board-members-demonstrate-wide-corporate-support-for-libreoffice/
>>> you can always point to the Archive-Link from the mail-header, in this
>> case Archived-At:
>> 
>
> But there you get a 404 mistake (broken link).
>
> I reported this last week.
>
And I forgot about the issue although knowing from the website-list.

And Simon is right, the journalists shouldn't be recommended to do so,
I was thinking of us inside the project.

So it must be the way blogging->copying the link->pasting to
mail->sending the announcement with the link. Not nice, but possible.



Volker


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Re: [tdf-discuss] First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support for LibreOffice

[klaus-jürgen weghorn ol]

Am 15.06.2011 14:28, schrieb Volker Merschmann:

Hi Simon,

2011/6/15 Simon Phipps:

I'd like to make a request. It is much, much easier to report on these things 
quickly if there is a URL in the press release that points to the news.

Is it possible in future to include such a URL in the news item please? Given 
you are using WordPress to publish the news, it's easy to know the URL in 
advance and it will make it far easier to tweet, report and generally talk 
about if it's there at the bottom of the release, as:

News story: 
http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/06/15/first-tdf-advisory-board-members-demonstrate-wide-corporate-support-for-libreoffice/

Thanks!


you can always point to the Archive-Link from the mail-header, in this
case Archived-At:



But there you get a 404 mistake (broken link).

I reported this last week.


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Re: [tdf-discuss] First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support for LibreOffice

[Simon Phipps]

On 15 Jun 2011, at 13:28, Volker Merschmann wrote:

> Hi Simon,
> 
> 2011/6/15 Simon Phipps :
>> I'd like to make a request. It is much, much easier to report on these 
>> things quickly if there is a URL in the press release that points to the 
>> news.
>> 
>> Is it possible in future to include such a URL in the news item please? 
>> Given you are using WordPress to publish the news, it's easy to know the URL 
>> in advance and it will make it far easier to tweet, report and generally 
>> talk about if it's there at the bottom of the release, as:
>> 
>> News story: 
>> http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/06/15/first-tdf-advisory-board-members-demonstrate-wide-corporate-support-for-libreoffice/
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
> you can always point to the Archive-Link from the mail-header, in this
> case Archived-At:
> 

Thanks.  While that's true, I don't think it's something we should expect 
journalists to know :-)

S.


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Re: [tdf-discuss] First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support for LibreOffice

[Volker Merschmann]

Hi Simon,

2011/6/15 Simon Phipps :
> I'd like to make a request. It is much, much easier to report on these things 
> quickly if there is a URL in the press release that points to the news.
>
> Is it possible in future to include such a URL in the news item please? Given 
> you are using WordPress to publish the news, it's easy to know the URL in 
> advance and it will make it far easier to tweet, report and generally talk 
> about if it's there at the bottom of the release, as:
>
> News story: 
> http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/06/15/first-tdf-advisory-board-members-demonstrate-wide-corporate-support-for-libreoffice/
>
> Thanks!
>
you can always point to the Archive-Link from the mail-header, in this
case Archived-At:


Bye

Volker


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Re: [tdf-discuss] First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support for LibreOffice

[Simon Phipps]

I'd like to make a request. It is much, much easier to report on these things 
quickly if there is a URL in the press release that points to the news.  

Is it possible in future to include such a URL in the news item please? Given 
you are using WordPress to publish the news, it's easy to know the URL in 
advance and it will make it far easier to tweet, report and generally talk 
about if it's there at the bottom of the release, as:

News story: 
http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/06/15/first-tdf-advisory-board-members-demonstrate-wide-corporate-support-for-libreoffice/

Thanks!

S.


On 15 Jun 2011, at 10:00, Florian Effenberger wrote:

> First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support for 
> LibreOffice
> 
> Strong backing for a truly free and vendor-neutral office suite
> The Document Foundation provides solid grounds to build upon
> 
> The Document Foundation today announced the first members of its Advisory 
> Board: Google, SUSE, Red Hat, Freies Office Deutschland e.V., Software in the 
> Public Interest, and the Free Software Foundation. The new appointees will 
> serve for an initial term of one year.
> 
> The body represents The Document Foundation's sponsors, with each sponsor 
> having the right to one representative. They will provide the future Board of 
> Directors with advice, guidance and proposals, and will consult regularly on 
> the further development of the Foundation and its associated projects.
> 
> "We're very proud, and warmly welcome the first members of the Advisory 
> Board. Its composition shows that LibreOffice is a vendor-neutral, truly-free 
> office suite, and confirms that The Document Foundation has created a solid 
> base to build upon, for the community, for corporations and enterprises, and 
> for adopters and end-users," said Florian Effenberger on behalf of The 
> Document Foundation's Steering Committee. "With LibreOffice being downloaded 
> from all over the world, with the community growing quickly, and with 
> organizations and corporations showing strong support, The Document 
> Foundation has succeeded in creating a safe, stable and secure base to ensure 
> the future of free office suites," he added.
> 
> Thomas Krumbein, Chairman of the German non-profit organization Freies Office 
> Deutschland e.V., commented, "Freies Office Deutschland e.V. has been in 
> existence since 2004. We have been closely cooperating with end-users, 
> organizations and businesses in Germany and, over the last two years, have 
> organized a dedicated congress for business and administration. The founding 
> of The Document Foundation has been very well received, especially by those 
> looking for safety and stability. We are honored to serve on the Advisory 
> Board and to help shape what we believe is the ideal home for a truly-free 
> office suite."
> 
> Holger Dyroff, Vice President Business Development for SUSE, stated, "SUSE 
> recognises the value of community governance and is very pleased to help fund 
> as well as provide advice to The Document Foundation. I look forward to 
> representing SUSE on the inaugural Advisory Board. This will assure that our 
> customers and users views and priorities are represented to the leadership of 
> The Document Foundation."
> 
> "The Document Foundation shares the objectives of openness, transparency, 
> interoperability and user choice that are reflected in Red Hat's core 
> values," said Brian Stevens, CTO and vice president, Worldwide Engineering, 
> Red Hat. "We are pleased to participate on the Advisory Board and to 
> highlight the importance of continued community contributions and potential 
> benefits from the availability of a free office suite."
> 
> Jeremy Allison, co-founder of Samba and member of Google's Open Source 
> Programs Office, added, "The creation of The Document Foundation's Advisory 
> board is a great step forward for the organization. Google is pleased to be a 
> supporter of The Document Foundation, and to provide funding and advice to 
> advance their work."
> 
> Bdale Garbee, President of Software in the Public Interest added, "Software 
> in the Public Interest is pleased to have The Document Foundation's 
> LibreOffice as an associated project. TDF and LibreOffice match well with our 
> mission, and we are pleased to be able to provide funding services and 
> contribute advice for TDF's future."
> 
> John Sullivan, Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation, concluded, 
> "The Free Software Foundation is pleased to offer its advise to The Document 
> Foundation. We applaud TDF's demonstrated commitment to user freedom, and 
> will do our best to help it achieve its free software goals going forward."
> 
> 
> Press and Media Contacts
> 
> Florian Effenberger (based near Munich, Germany, UTC+1)
> Phone: +49 8341 99660880
> Mobile: +49 151 14424108
> E-mail: flo...@documentfoundation.org
> Skype: floeff
> 
> Olivier Hallot (based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, UTC-3)
> Mobile:

[tdf-discuss] First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support for LibreOffice

[Florian Effenberger]

First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support for 
LibreOffice


Strong backing for a truly free and vendor-neutral office suite
The Document Foundation provides solid grounds to build upon

The Document Foundation today announced the first members of its 
Advisory Board: Google, SUSE, Red Hat, Freies Office Deutschland e.V., 
Software in the Public Interest, and the Free Software Foundation. The 
new appointees will serve for an initial term of one year.


The body represents The Document Foundation's sponsors, with each 
sponsor having the right to one representative. They will provide the 
future Board of Directors with advice, guidance and proposals, and will 
consult regularly on the further development of the Foundation and its 
associated projects.


"We're very proud, and warmly welcome the first members of the Advisory 
Board. Its composition shows that LibreOffice is a vendor-neutral, 
truly-free office suite, and confirms that The Document Foundation has 
created a solid base to build upon, for the community, for corporations 
and enterprises, and for adopters and end-users," said Florian 
Effenberger on behalf of The Document Foundation's Steering Committee. 
"With LibreOffice being downloaded from all over the world, with the 
community growing quickly, and with organizations and corporations 
showing strong support, The Document Foundation has succeeded in 
creating a safe, stable and secure base to ensure the future of free 
office suites," he added.


Thomas Krumbein, Chairman of the German non-profit organization Freies 
Office Deutschland e.V., commented, "Freies Office Deutschland e.V. has 
been in existence since 2004. We have been closely cooperating with 
end-users, organizations and businesses in Germany and, over the last 
two years, have organized a dedicated congress for business and 
administration. The founding of The Document Foundation has been very 
well received, especially by those looking for safety and stability. We 
are honored to serve on the Advisory Board and to help shape what we 
believe is the ideal home for a truly-free office suite."


Holger Dyroff, Vice President Business Development for SUSE, stated, 
"SUSE recognises the value of community governance and is very pleased 
to help fund as well as provide advice to The Document Foundation. I 
look forward to representing SUSE on the inaugural Advisory Board. This 
will assure that our customers and users views and priorities are 
represented to the leadership of The Document Foundation."


"The Document Foundation shares the objectives of openness, 
transparency, interoperability and user choice that are reflected in Red 
Hat's core values," said Brian Stevens, CTO and vice president, 
Worldwide Engineering, Red Hat. "We are pleased to participate on the 
Advisory Board and to highlight the importance of continued community 
contributions and potential benefits from the availability of a free 
office suite."


Jeremy Allison, co-founder of Samba and member of Google's Open Source 
Programs Office, added, "The creation of The Document Foundation's 
Advisory board is a great step forward for the organization. Google is 
pleased to be a supporter of The Document Foundation, and to provide 
funding and advice to advance their work."


Bdale Garbee, President of Software in the Public Interest added, 
"Software in the Public Interest is pleased to have The Document 
Foundation's LibreOffice as an associated project. TDF and LibreOffice 
match well with our mission, and we are pleased to be able to provide 
funding services and contribute advice for TDF's future."


John Sullivan, Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation, 
concluded, "The Free Software Foundation is pleased to offer its advise 
to The Document Foundation. We applaud TDF's demonstrated commitment to 
user freedom, and will do our best to help it achieve its free software 
goals going forward."



Press and Media Contacts

Florian Effenberger (based near Munich, Germany, UTC+1)
Phone: +49 8341 99660880
Mobile: +49 151 14424108
E-mail: flo...@documentfoundation.org
Skype: floeff

Olivier Hallot (based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, UTC-3)
Mobile: +55 21 88228812
E-mail: olivier.hal...@documentfoundation.org

Charles H. Schulz (based in Paris, France, UTC+1)
Mobile: +33 6 98655424
E-mail: charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org

Italo Vignoli (based in Milan, Italy, UTC+1)
Phone: +39 02 320621813
Mobile: +39 348 5653829
E-mail: italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org
Skype: italovignoli
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