[libreoffice-marketing] ownCloud 6 beta 1: Google-Docs-like collaboration
Greetings; I read the following on the VarGuy and thought of the LibreOffice community. How is our cloud collaboration piece coming? Best, -Craig The chief selling point of ownCloud, the open source private cloud storage platform, has been its ability to build a cloud entirely on in-house, behind-the-firewall servers. Now, the company has gone a step further by introducing a feature for live, collaborative document editing. How does it stand up against better known alternatives such as Google Docs? Here's a look. http://thevarguy.com/cloud-computing-services-and-business-solutions/owncloud-adds-open-source-document-collaboration-pri -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Open-Xchange to launch open-source, browser-based office suite
On 03/21/2013 11:43 AM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 21/03/13 12:29 PM, Benjamin Horst a écrit : http://www.itworld.com/enterprise-software/348971/open-xchange-launch-open-source-browser-based-office-suite This looks promising. If you visit the demo site, you can click around and use a real, pre-release version of the app now. It looks good and seems to work well. Ben I wonder who the OOo devs could be? It would have been neat if they had contributed to the LibreOffice project. Cheers, Marc Is anyone in Marketing in a position to post a congratulations and, by the way, this is where we are with in-browser LibO? (cc'ing Italo) -Craig -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Open-Xchange to launch open-source, browser-based office suite
Sorry - I guess my wording was too abrupt. The congratulations I would hope, would be sincere. Following up w/our browser project's status (or positioning) just reminds everyone that we know this space is important and that, in fact, we're in it too... hth, -Craig On Mar 21, 2013 12:55 PM, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Craig, My two cents : you catch more flies with honey :-) Best, Charles. Craig Olofson c.olof...@gmail.com a écrit : On 03/21/2013 11:43 AM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 21/03/13 12:29 PM, Benjamin Horst a écrit : http://www.itworld.com/enterprise-software/348971/open-xchange-launch-open-source-browser-based-office-suite This looks promising. If you visit the demo site, you can click around and use a real, pre-release version of the app now. It looks good and seems to work well. **Ben I wonder who the OOo devs could be? It would have been neat if they had contributed to the LibreOffice project. Cheers, Marc Is anyone in Marketing in a position to post a congratulations and, by the way, this is where we are with in-browser LibO? (cc'ing Italo) -Craig -- Envoyé de mon téléphone avec Kaiten Mail. Excusez la brièveté. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Wikipedia editing.
Jeff; Sophie does flesh out in a bit more detail who, in the French government, are using LibreOffice but there are still no numbers. Googling only finds unattributed 500 000. I'll keep looking but, until then, here's the fuller story: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/msg03450.html On 02/13/2013 10:26 AM, Sophie Gautier wrote: On 13/02/2013 19:05, Jeff Fortin wrote: You may have missed Sophie's post? Try here: [http://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/mimo/] Is this it? Ah, not really... this website is only about downloading premade libreoffice bundles (or learning the tech specs of the bundles). It is not a (citeable) announcement of a mass deployment (with numbers and all that). Most of the ministries using this version a cited on this site which is the one for official publication by the French government. You won't find anything else in France. The European commission has however a publication here https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/case/mimo-working-group-french-ministries-certify-libreoffice-release-0 Kind regards Sophie -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] TechCrunch!
Tweeted commented on Italo's blog (thx Marc). Congratulations TDF. -Craig On Feb 7, 2013 7:51 AM, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: We're waiting for a few more (hopefully): http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/07/libreoffice-4-0-released-just-in-time-for-office-365-refugees/ -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder Director, The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint Mobile Number: +33 (0)6 98 65 54 24. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: IMPORTANT !!! NEW Marketing Call Doodle January
Howdy; I missed the meeting by having used Doodle's timezone conversion. This ended up scheduling the event one hour late, PST. Anyone else experience this? (Problem report submitted). Apart from that, will there be any minutes or recording made available? tia, -Craig screenshot_164.pnghttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByN4iaZRdxfYQVFRXzAwMkJ2MGM/edit On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Guys, Had signed up for this call on the first doodle, but not on the second. Won't be possible to join the call tomorrow. Next time, the fates willing, I will. Best wishes, //drew On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hello everyone, Just a reminder for everyone that tomorrow at 19:00 CET (18:00 GMT) we will have our marketing call. To dial in you can use the various numbers according to your locations: http://www.talkyoo.net/main/telefonkonferenz_internationale_rufnummern Then you need to dial in the access code of the room: 53 71 38 Introduce yourself even if you only plan to listen, and you're set. See you there! -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-Founder Director, The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of business ready use and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS
Fyi Canonical changed LTS support for the desktop from 3 to 5 years, starting with 12.04, to better accommodate their OEM customers. Normal Ubuntu releases are supported for 18 months. Previous Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) releases are supported for 3 years on the desktop and 5 years on the server. Starting with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, LTS releases will be supported for 5 years on both the desktop and the server. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases hth, -Craig On 06/05/2012 01:42 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Ubuntu LTS lasts for 3 years (for desktops) but are released every 2 years. This gives orgs the 1 year of testing they need before migrating from the previous LTS and moving to the new one. If they gave 3 years support and released every 3 years then orgs would have a 1 year gap running an unsupported LTS while they were still testing the new one. Now i understand why the 1 year overlap is so important to Ubuntu. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 5/6/12, Marc Parém...@marcpare.com wrote: From: Marc Parém...@marcpare.com Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of business ready use and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 5 June, 2012, 21:23 Hi Charles, Le 2012-06-05 09:12, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Thank you for bringing that up, it's an interesting discussion. Here's what I think reading your message. You're asking in fact two questions. One of which might already have been answered by a few of our corporate members/sponsors. * LTS obviously means long term support. Both support and long term deserve careful consideration. I will in this email first focus on the term support. If we speak of support, we must think of a support provider. In this case, does this mean we should think -as TDF, as a project- of providing professional support to users (obviously for a fee)? I don't think it's your idea, but I thought I would highlight the implications of such a matter. * Have we studied what some of the existing support/service providers on LibreOffice already offer? I am not so sure but I'm under the impression that you can order support (and in this case a LTS kind of support) from Suse and Canonical (there are others) on one specific version of LibreOffice. That is, these vendors have one reference version of LibreOffice, say the 3.4.5, and they provide support and services on it making it their de facto LTS version. Yes, this is fine as they will guarantee that LibreNormal Ubuntu releases are supported for 18 months. Previous Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) releases are supported for 3 years on the desktop and 5 years on the server. Starting with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, LTS releases will be supported for 5 years on both the desktop and the server. Office will work on their systems and they will take care of any dependencies and network-ability. But I don't think they would undertake any code revision and code features into their LTS versions, not unless they have a large team of coders, which in this case would make them competitors to our work/product (read fork). This would take us back to the days of the many different versions of OOo -- the same situation that drew all of these different groups into one LibreOffice community. Leaving support/service providers to develop an LTS version, in my opinion, is not the right strategy to adopt. Back to your suggestion: do you mean we should relabel the older branch LTS, knowing that each of our releases in one branch really works like a service pack? If we had the ability to provide incremental updates (we will one day) we would have the feelings we have two versions, and sometimes maintenance updates. So at some point, say the 3.5.4, we label it LTS, because we're close to open a new branch, the 3.6, and we can suggest service providers to base their support offers on this one for the time being. Did I get you right? No. I suggest that at some point, the TDF/LibreOffice should designate an LTS version for large/small organizations/businesses. These would have developers oversee the fixing of bugs for a fixed term (let's say a 3 year period) after which time another LTS version would be designated. The LTS maintenance would NOT introduce any new functions to the distro but only service bug correction. IMO, if any business entity would like to add any new functionality, then this is where a support/service provider would step in and, hopefully, contribute any development of code back to the community. I don't really think this is a new concept as even Mozilla-Firefox offers its own Extended Support Release (ESR) version for corporate users[1]. When critical software packages are installed in large corporations, a lot of energy in investment of time, training and documentation is expended in order to get employees up to speed. LibreOffice certainly falls into this category (critical software --
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] is there a file for this poster?
Good question. First off, I really like the QR's design. From color to insertion of graphic: distinctive and still functional. Tip of the hat. But... This particular QR points to the download page of LO. Maybe I'm alone in this but: 1. I've always, only scanned a QR w/my mobile device 2. The only software downloads via QR were specific to the mobile device Expectation is pretty important wrt QR's. Based on that, for QR's I generate, I've taken to: - Adding one-line captions alerting where the QR leads - The QR's always lead to mobile-appropriate urls (which must add value - not teasers) I can see fringe cases where scanning the download linky to my mobile might be advantageous. Otherwise, I'm missing something. All that aside, Simon, thanks again for showing an aesthetically distinctive appealing QR code. No small trick! ;-) -Craig On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:08 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: What can we do with it, really? I do not think my smart phone can deal with these things. I use a LG-500 prepaid with limited online abilities. I never really know what such a icon is used for. Some demos tell you to take a picture of the icon and it will go to a screen showing you where the item is in the store. Another demo commercial had you take a picture of the icon and you bought the item and you just had to type in your card number and billing/shipping address. SO what would LO user do with the icon? Or is it just a cute graphic? On 03/16/2012 03:32 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: On 15 Mar 2012, at 13:24, Christian Lohmaier wrote: I'd love to see an (artistic) QR-Code that features the paperclip logo as part of the code... (or failing having an artistic version, a plain one...) I made this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/**1792694/lo_qr_code.gifhttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/1792694/lo_qr_code.gif here: http://beqrious.com/qr-code-**generator/http://beqrious.com/qr-code-generator/ S. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Open Source in medical science
This story is for whenever we forget about the principles underlying F/OSS... fyi, -Craig How does cancer know it’s cancer?http://blog.ted.com/2011/10/27/open-source-cancer-research-jay-bradner-on-ted-com/At Jay Bradner’s lab, they found a molecule that might hold the answer, JQ1 — and instead of patenting JQ1, they published their findings and mailed samples to 40 other labs to work on. An inspiring look at the open-source future of medical research. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] 3.4.2 - will target enterprise deployments - is limiting the market?
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 6:48 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: The LibreOffice download page has the following statement: quote Safely for production need by most users - LibreOffice 3.4.2, available at the end of July, will target enterprise deployments. unquote ... So the question really is, once 3.4.2 comes out, should I/we start promoting it to businesses or continue promoting the 3.3.x line? Thanks for bringing this up, Tim. The best explanation, for us and the larger community is the 3.4.1 blog announcementhttp://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/07/01/libreoffice-3-4-1-provides-stable-new-features-for-every-user/by Italo. Large enterprises deploying LibreOffice on desktop PCs, are still recommended to deploy LibreOffice 3.3.3, which has been tested over several months by thousands of people worldwide, and are encouraged to call on professional support services. LibreOffice 3.4.2, available at the end of July, will target enterprise deployments. I think, though, that we need to refine messages such as these further; specifically for simplicity and clarity. The reason I believe this is necessary is that enough writers are picking up on the wrong message that we should double-check how we are messaging. Some sample headlines: LibreOffice 3.4 nears enterprise-ready statehttp://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/7/1/libreoffice-34-nears-enterprise-ready-state/ LibreOffice 3.4.1 fixes bugs, still not ready for eterpriseshttp://www.betanews.com/article/LibreOffice-341-fixes-bugs-still-not-ready-for-enterprises/1309528388 LibreOffice 3.4.1 released, not for enterprises yethttp://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/LibreOffice-3-4-1-released-not-for-enterprises-yet-1271466.html In re-reading the announcement, yet again, it appears to me to be actually three announcements: - TDF is now using a time-based release schedule for LibO - LibO will now have two versions released at all times: early adopter and institutional - Early adopter version 3.4.1 is now available This might explain some of the muddled interpretations that we are seeing. The first announcement is, arguably the biggest. If I am responsible for any institution of any size, it is inarguable: TDF is now moving to the same release model as Ubuntu: Frequent calendar-driven versions, interspersed with regular LTS releases. This is a big message and it really should stand on its own. (And for any of us who've been following the Mozilla Foundation's development cycle announcements, this should be a wake-up call.) What's missing, then, in this first announcement is the calendaring for future releases. The second announcement is dependent on the first but, still, should stand on its own: One track for the fast furious and one track for the CIO. There's a lot of feature-benefit which can be fleshed out here. The third last announcement is the type which should reinforce the previous two: Here's the 'cutting edge.' Here's the brief feature-benefit. As you can see, this release reinforces our dual-release strategy and hints at soon-to-come institutional functionality. If I've misread things, apologies. Regards, -Craig -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Donation website - how to name it ?
This looks like a good choice. Thank you for owning the issue. Best, -Craig On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: Hi all, as neither the international nor any local marketing team seems to prefer any of my proposals, I'm going to request the website team to create the structure for the third proposal. It seems to be the most natural and easiest to remember approach for our users - and Christian's comment shows, that it fits better with Silverstripe's way of handling translations: Bernhard Dippold schrieb: [...] Now we should have a more generic URL for donations, and I propose http://donate.documentfoundation.org [...] If we try to ease the access to this page for localized users, a third possibility comes to my mind: http://translation for donate.documentfoundation.org e.g. German: http://spenden.documentfoundation.org French: http://donner.documentfoundation.org Spanish: http://donar.documentfoundation.org Italian: http://donare.documentfoundation.org This would be the shortest version without the necessity for sub-pages. In some cases we might need to handle different languages containing the same word for donate by technical means (reading the browser's language etc) and a language selector. [...] Best regards Bernhard -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Oracle to cast off OOo
Excuse me if this is old news but; Even though the cynic in me expected this development, I'm still surprised. I look forward to our council's statement. fyi, -Craig Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice Friday's news is a massive turnaround by a company that just seven months ago refused to relinquish power over the OpenOffice project that it inherited from Sun Microsystems. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/15/oracle_letting_openoffice_go/ -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
