Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Let's do awesome things! Get support for your projects and ideas from our budget
There are already slide decks about the history of LibreOffice, LibreOffice Technology, the sustainability of the LibreOffice project, LibreOffice and Digital Sovereignty, ODF characteristics, ODF vs OOXML, issues of OOXML, shared on Nextcloud. I am updating them, and creating videos with suggestions for presenters (I have tried to add notes but they do not sound as meaningful as a commented video). On 10/19/21 10:21 AM, Nigel Verity wrote: Hi Following Mike's email of last week one idea springs to my mind If I were to create a short presentation about the history, features and benefits of LibreOffice it would be very different to such a presentation created by anybody else given the same brief. There would be things I miss which somebody else includes and vice versa. Somebody who doesn't use Calc, say, as much as Writer and Impress would doubtless overlook some key Calc functionality. Etc, etc How about creating a standard (but evolving) crowd-sourced presentation, along with speaking notes - translated into multiple languages - which could be used to enable a supporter to give a talk at conferences and other events? In many countries there are business networking groups where representatives from new and/or local businesses congregate to generate contacts and provide mutual advice with a view to developing it into a business opportunity. A 10 minute talk on LO would be well suited to that kind of forum. Such a presentation would inevitably need to address the issue of MS Office compatibility, but primarily the aim would be to spread awareness and sell the idea of LO as the office suite of choice for businesses and other organisations, as well as for individuals. From my own experience as a very reluctant public speaker I know that having comprehensive notes and slides that cover all the angles are a great confidence booster. Using my own home-made presentation I would be afraid of missing important items and leaving myself open to questions I cannot answer, thereby undermining the very aim of the presentation. The availability of a professional quality presentation, created by subject experts, would for me be the difference between giving a presentation and not giving one. I imagine other LO supporters may be in a similar situation. Regards Nige LibreOffice - Free and open source office suite: LibreOffice Website<https://www.libreoffice.org> Respects your privacy, and gives you back control over your data From: Mike Saunders Sent: 15 October 2021 09:47 To: Marketing list Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Let's do awesome things! Get support for your projects and ideas from our budget Want to organise a local (or online) LibreOffice event? Need some merchandise to boost your project or community? Then we can help you! The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice, is backed by contributions from ecosystem members and volunteers, as well as donations from end-users. This helps us to maintain TDF, but we can do a lot more too. And next year, we want to do a lot of projects again! Each year, we set a budget that LibreOffice projects and communities can use for financial support. Some examples: * Booking a location, and travel refunds for a local event (eg a translation sprint) * Merchandise for community members, to use at events and conferences * Infrastructure to start a new project (or help an existing one) So if you have some ideas for a meetup, project or activity that could benefit from financial help, let us know! We can also assist you in other ways: our team members are there to help you, and enable you to do exciting and interesting things. You don't need to work out all the technical details right now - the main thing is that we have an overview. To help us with planning, we kindly ask you to send your ideas by the end of November, as we try to prepare the 2022 annual budget during December. You can send your proposal (with estimated costs) to budg...@documentfoundation.org and we'll take a look. Of course, can't guarantee that everything will be approved, but we'd love to hear your ideas! Further reading: Travel: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.documentfoundation.org%2FTDF%2FPolicies%2FTraveldata=04%7C01%7C%7Cf1b7ae6190c44b34421e08d98fb8aa4a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637698845561409727%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000sdata=HZm0kKshZOzZH2cCAontOHYzXi2gWbXwNEZO%2BlPqOow%3Dreserved=0 Refunding: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.documentfoundation.org%2FTDF%2FPolicies%2FRefundingdata=04%7C01%7C%7Cf1b7ae6190c44b34421e08d98fb8aa4a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637698845561409727%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000sdata=M8I%2FKiQlOu%2BHsg58
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Let's do awesome things! Get support for your projects and ideas from our budget
Hi Following Mike's email of last week one idea springs to my mind If I were to create a short presentation about the history, features and benefits of LibreOffice it would be very different to such a presentation created by anybody else given the same brief. There would be things I miss which somebody else includes and vice versa. Somebody who doesn't use Calc, say, as much as Writer and Impress would doubtless overlook some key Calc functionality. Etc, etc How about creating a standard (but evolving) crowd-sourced presentation, along with speaking notes - translated into multiple languages - which could be used to enable a supporter to give a talk at conferences and other events? In many countries there are business networking groups where representatives from new and/or local businesses congregate to generate contacts and provide mutual advice with a view to developing it into a business opportunity. A 10 minute talk on LO would be well suited to that kind of forum. Such a presentation would inevitably need to address the issue of MS Office compatibility, but primarily the aim would be to spread awareness and sell the idea of LO as the office suite of choice for businesses and other organisations, as well as for individuals. >From my own experience as a very reluctant public speaker I know that having >comprehensive notes and slides that cover all the angles are a great >confidence booster. Using my own home-made presentation I would be afraid of >missing important items and leaving myself open to questions I cannot answer, >thereby undermining the very aim of the presentation. The availability of a >professional quality presentation, created by subject experts, would for me be >the difference between giving a presentation and not giving one. I imagine >other LO supporters may be in a similar situation. Regards Nige LibreOffice - Free and open source office suite: LibreOffice Website<https://www.libreoffice.org> Respects your privacy, and gives you back control over your data From: Mike Saunders Sent: 15 October 2021 09:47 To: Marketing list Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Let's do awesome things! Get support for your projects and ideas from our budget Want to organise a local (or online) LibreOffice event? Need some merchandise to boost your project or community? Then we can help you! The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice, is backed by contributions from ecosystem members and volunteers, as well as donations from end-users. This helps us to maintain TDF, but we can do a lot more too. And next year, we want to do a lot of projects again! Each year, we set a budget that LibreOffice projects and communities can use for financial support. Some examples: * Booking a location, and travel refunds for a local event (eg a translation sprint) * Merchandise for community members, to use at events and conferences * Infrastructure to start a new project (or help an existing one) So if you have some ideas for a meetup, project or activity that could benefit from financial help, let us know! We can also assist you in other ways: our team members are there to help you, and enable you to do exciting and interesting things. You don't need to work out all the technical details right now - the main thing is that we have an overview. To help us with planning, we kindly ask you to send your ideas by the end of November, as we try to prepare the 2022 annual budget during December. You can send your proposal (with estimated costs) to budg...@documentfoundation.org and we'll take a look. Of course, can't guarantee that everything will be approved, but we'd love to hear your ideas! Further reading: Travel: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.documentfoundation.org%2FTDF%2FPolicies%2FTraveldata=04%7C01%7C%7Cf1b7ae6190c44b34421e08d98fb8aa4a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637698845561409727%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000sdata=HZm0kKshZOzZH2cCAontOHYzXi2gWbXwNEZO%2BlPqOow%3Dreserved=0 Refunding: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.documentfoundation.org%2FTDF%2FPolicies%2FRefundingdata=04%7C01%7C%7Cf1b7ae6190c44b34421e08d98fb8aa4a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637698845561409727%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000sdata=M8I%2FKiQlOu%2BHsg58BSRdSU%2Fhqok24evkngBG1Zr8lBs%3Dreserved=0 Community Refunding: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.documentfoundation.org%2FTDF%2FPolicies%2FCommunity_Refundsdata=04%7C01%7C%7Cf1b7ae6190c44b34421e08d98fb8aa4a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435%7C1%7C0%7C637698845561409727%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000sdata=ud%2BismiV96HjDj6FqJrfBTugdV
[libreoffice-marketing] Let's do awesome things! Get support for your projects and ideas from our budget
Want to organise a local (or online) LibreOffice event? Need some merchandise to boost your project or community? Then we can help you! The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind LibreOffice, is backed by contributions from ecosystem members and volunteers, as well as donations from end-users. This helps us to maintain TDF, but we can do a lot more too. And next year, we want to do a lot of projects again! Each year, we set a budget that LibreOffice projects and communities can use for financial support. Some examples: * Booking a location, and travel refunds for a local event (eg a translation sprint) * Merchandise for community members, to use at events and conferences * Infrastructure to start a new project (or help an existing one) So if you have some ideas for a meetup, project or activity that could benefit from financial help, let us know! We can also assist you in other ways: our team members are there to help you, and enable you to do exciting and interesting things. You don't need to work out all the technical details right now - the main thing is that we have an overview. To help us with planning, we kindly ask you to send your ideas by the end of November, as we try to prepare the 2022 annual budget during December. You can send your proposal (with estimated costs) to budg...@documentfoundation.org and we'll take a look. Of course, can't guarantee that everything will be approved, but we'd love to hear your ideas! Further reading: Travel: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Policies/Travel Refunding: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Policies/Refunding Community Refunding: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Policies/Community_Refunds -- Mike Saunders, Marketing and Community Coordinator The Document Foundation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
