Re: [Marketing] Please vote: Official positioner for OOo2.0?

2005-09-26 Thread Chad Smith
My votes are: Your company. Your data. Your Office. (A, C, D) - 1 Free Your Files (A) - 2 Upgrade to Open Standards (A, B, C) - 3 Hackers Wanted (C, G) - 4 Open. For Business. (A, C, D) - 5 Today's Office. Tomorrow's Standard. (A, B, D) - 6 (Maybe reworded to Tomorrow's Standard in Today's

[Marketing] No interest in official positioner?

2005-09-26 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi, even if Steven Sheldon and myself think it to be important having a single official positioner for corporate and visual identity reasons (I wanted to put a logo with positioner for download at the logo gallery) most of you seem not interested in that theme. (During my writing Konrad did

Re: [Marketing] No interest in official positioner?

2005-09-26 Thread Chad Smith
On 9/26/05, Bernhard Dippold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, even if Steven Sheldon and myself think it to be important having a single official positioner for corporate and visual identity reasons (I wanted to put a logo with positioner for download at the logo gallery) most of you seem not

[Marketing] More articles to read

2005-09-26 Thread Deepankar Datta
Hi Two more articles to point out: (1) The Minnesota Daily writes about the waste on MSO when OOo could have been used at university http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/09/23/65277 http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2005/09/university-wastes-millions-on-software.html (2) Massachusetts Makes

[Marketing] South Africa open-source tender

2005-09-26 Thread Deepankar Datta
THE largest tender yet issued for open-source software has been released by the State Information Technology Agency (Sita), formalising its plans to switch from brand-name packages to the free-to-use alternatives. Sita is offering three-year deals to supply software and technical support so that

Re: [Marketing] More articles to read

2005-09-26 Thread Benjamin Horst
On Sep 26, 2005, at 5:15 AM, Deepankar Datta wrote: Hi Two more articles to point out: (1) The Minnesota Daily writes about the waste on MSO when OOo could have been used at university http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/09/23/65277

Re: [Marketing] No interest in official positioner?

2005-09-26 Thread Steven Shelton
Bernhard Dippold wrote: I wanted the CC to discuss this topic at Koper, therefore close the voting tonight. By now this seems not to be possible, so tell me what to do: - nothing at all (drop the idea of a central positioner) - wait until tonight for many many postings - extend the time for

Re: [Marketing] No interest in official positioner?

2005-09-26 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Chad, * Chad Smith wrote: On 9/26/05, Bernhard Dippold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, even if Steven Sheldon and myself think it to be important having a single official positioner for corporate and visual identity reasons (I wanted to put a logo with positioner for download at the

Re: [Marketing] Please vote: Official positioner for OOo2.0?

2005-09-26 Thread Mark Harrison
I hope I've understood the voting algorithm. I am excercising my right to only use some of my votes :-) For what it's worth, I've also included comments on some of those for which I didn't vote. Open. For Business. (A, C, D) 10 points - clear winner for me. Passion Unleashed (A, G) 5 points

Re: [Marketing] No interest in official positioner?

2005-09-26 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Steven Shelton wrote: Bernhard Dippold wrote: I wanted the CC to discuss this topic at Koper, therefore close the voting tonight. By now this seems not to be possible, so tell me what to do: - nothing at all (drop the idea of a central positioner) - wait until tonight for many many

Re: [Marketing] Please vote: Official positioner for OOo2.0?

2005-09-26 Thread Adam Moore
Open. For Business. (A, C, D) 10 Free Your Files (A) 9 Can't really choose from the rest, yes even mine. ;) -- Adam Moore Community Volunteer OOo blog: AdamMooreOOo.blogspot.com http://AdamMooreOOo.blogspot.com

Re: [Marketing] Please vote: Official positioner for OOo2.0?

2005-09-26 Thread Chad Smith
Please reverse my votes - I misunderstood the voting structure. -Chad On 9/26/05, Chad Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My votes are: Your company. Your data. Your Office. (A, C, D) - 1 Free Your Files (A) - 2 Upgrade to Open Standards (A, B, C) - 3 Hackers Wanted (C, G) - 4 Open. For

Re: [Marketing] Please vote: Official positioner for OOo2.0?

2005-09-26 Thread Adam Moore
Forwarded Jeans so it has the subject of the rest of the votes so it will be easy to find all the votes. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jean Hollis Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sep 26, 2005 2:49 AM Subject: Re: [Marketing] No interest in official positioner? To:

Re: [Marketing] No interest in official positioner?

2005-09-26 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Chad Smith wrote: On 9/26/05, Bernhard Dippold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope voting is less confusing by now. - 10 points for the best positioner - 9 points for the second - 8 for the third ... - 2 for the ninth best - 1 for the tenth best In that case, please reverse my votes. :-)

Re: [Marketing] Please vote: Official positioner for OOo2.0?

2005-09-26 Thread Steven Shelton
Chad Smith wrote: Today's Office. Tomorrow's Standard. (A, B, D) - 6 (Maybe reworded to Tomorrow's Standard in Today's Office. - lead with the future. So it's like The future - today. instead of Today is the future.) I like that, too. :-) AND PEOPLE, IT'S SHELTON! WITH A FRICKIN' T!!!

Re: [Marketing] No interest in official positioner?

2005-09-26 Thread John McCreesh
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 15:31 +0200, Bernhard Dippold wrote: [snip] Do you know the schedule of the CC meeting? I don't know even the day they meet. And we'll have to include it in the Style Manual before they decide about it. [snip] It's Wednesday afternoon: