Re: [Marketing] Conference inspired marketing thoughts

2005-10-07 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
John McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 20:19 +1300, Ian Laurenson wrote: To me the focus of our marketing should be on the Open Document Format (ODF). I believe there are two distinct products to be marketed here. We are familiar with marketing OOo the product; one of the new features

[Marketing] 140,000 desktops

2005-10-07 Thread Jacqueline McNally
China Awards Six-Figure Desktop Linux Rollout [Tom Dunlap, Yahoo News, 5 Oct 2005] http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20051006/tc_cmp/171203414 A Chinese software vendor has won a contract to deliver one of the nation's biggest Linux deployments to date, including more than 140,000 desktop PCs.

Re: [Marketing] Thanks for a fabulous OOoConf

2005-10-07 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, just one more thought: The comments about Koper mention the fact, that people did join lectures from different places in Koper wherever the presentations were. What do you think about a combined OOoCon in Europe, Asia and America? With the marvelous media work from Koper it should

Re: [Marketing] Marketing budget for what?

2005-10-07 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 15:50 +1300, Ian Laurenson wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:06 +0100, John McCreesh wrote: On the point about budgets - if we had a pot of money to spend now, what would you (or anyone else) suggest we spend it on? Depends on how much. In a word advertising: *

Re: [Marketing] 140,000 desktops

2005-10-07 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 08:30:31 +0100, Jacqueline McNally [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: China Awards Six-Figure Desktop Linux Rollout [Tom Dunlap, Yahoo News, 5 Oct 2005] http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20051006/tc_cmp/171203414 A Chinese software vendor has won a contract to deliver one of the

[Marketing] [Fwd: [FOSS-PDI] Japan aims to boost state use of free Linux software]

2005-10-07 Thread Graham Lauder
Forward from the FOSS PDI Maillist http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051006/tc_afp/japanitsoftwarelinuxcompanymicrosoft TOKYO (AFP) - Japan aims to switch some government computers to the free Linux operating system and reduce its dependence on Microsoft Windows Japan is drawing up guidelines

[Fwd: Re: [Marketing] 140,000 desktops]

2005-10-07 Thread Charles-H.Schulz
Hi, I'm forwarding this to Pui-Lam Wong.. Charles. Original Message Subject:Re: [Marketing] 140,000 desktops Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:36:28 +0100 From: Alexandro Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org Organization: OpenOffice.org

Re: [Marketing] Conference inspired marketing thoughts

2005-10-07 Thread John McCreesh
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 10:27 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: [snip] Actually, the full name is OASIS OpenDocument Format for Office Applications. You *have* to abreviate it. I think that OpenDocument is the abreviation that is closest to the name and is still short. OpenDoc should be

Re: [Marketing] Abiword and OpenDocument

2005-10-07 Thread Jonathon Blake
On 10/5/05, Deepankar Datta wrote: Something else of interest is the English grammar checker they now have Until grammr checkers can correctly punctuate a sentance such s the following, a knowledge of grammar will be required: John where James had had had had had had had had had had had the

Re: [Marketing] Conference inspired marketing thoughts

2005-10-07 Thread John McCreesh
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 15:50 +1300, Ian Laurenson wrote: [snip] As a Marcon a business may approach me about using OOo, but would like the level of support/stability that a large organisation can provide, and/or the automatic conversion of Excel macros. At this point I have become the point of

Re: [Marketing] Abiword and OpenDocument

2005-10-07 Thread Chad Smith
On 10/7/05, Jonathon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/5/05, Deepankar Datta wrote: Something else of interest is the English grammar checker they now have Until grammr checkers can correctly punctuate a sentance such s the following, a knowledge of grammar will be required: What is

Re: [Marketing] Abiword and OpenDocument

2005-10-07 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chad wrote: What is your point? Until a grammar checker can correctly punctuate a sentence such as the one I gave, it is gauranteed to provide corrections that are incorrect. xan jonathon -- Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards?

Re: [Marketing] Abiword and OpenDocument

2005-10-07 Thread Steven Shelton
Chad Smith wrote: What is your point? A Grammar Checker can still be used. The existance of a calculator does not preclude the need for basic math skills. The existance of a spell checker does not mean one needn't worry about learning to spell. A radio does not get rid of the need for reading

Re: [Marketing] Abiword and OpenDocument

2005-10-07 Thread Alex Fisher
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 04:53, Steven Shelton wrote: Chad Smith wrote: What is your point? A Grammar Checker can still be used. The existance of a calculator does not preclude the need for basic math skills. The existance of a spell checker does not mean one needn't worry about learning to

Re: [Marketing] Abiword and OpenDocument

2005-10-07 Thread Alex Fisher
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 06:13, Chad Smith wrote: On 10/7/05, Alex Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Oct 2005 04:53, Steven Shelton wrote: IMHO, a grammar checker is a great idea for a third-party add-on, but not for the core. The is where they belong - an option for those who are

[Marketing] Spread OpenDocument

2005-10-07 Thread Jacqueline McNally
Hello I'm aware that some of you have visited and blogged about www.spreadopendocument.org but I haven't seen a mention of it here yet. The home page and logo are very visual. I also like how the links to further information are displayed: learn believe use develop promote contribute I