[Marketing] Changes to main Marketing Wiki page

2006-02-22 Thread RealGrouchy (CAM)
Hi, all. As per the instructions that I just finished revising, I am announcing here on the list the changes I made on the Marketing Wiki main page. I have removed a lot of direct links to sections of m.OO.o, as well as the list of links that are now on the Marketing Project template. I reworked

[Marketing] Guidelines for this mailing list

2006-02-22 Thread John McCreesh
Following good suggestions from Alex and Cristian, I've updated the description of this mailing list: This is the main Marketing Project discussion list. Please monitor or subscribe to this mailing list before you join any other! Please remember that there are many on the lists who are not nativ

Re: [Marketing] things should change. vote of confidence and capability.

2006-02-22 Thread Chad Smith
Hi Charles, On 2/22/06, Charles-H.Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My memory must have shortcomings then. :-) What were your contributions? Daniel has done a good many things for OpenOffice.org, as have been listed. Documentation, testing, QA, he created an installer for an OS he doesn't ev

Re: [Marketing] things should change. vote of confidence and capability.

2006-02-22 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 15:04 +0200, Cristian Driga wrote: > Also, from what I know we can have an edit of the description of the > mailing list and we can include there a link to such a page near each > mailing list. > > Alex, many thanks. > > > Yes, thank you Alex. +1 -- Ian Lynch www.theING

Re: [Marketing] things should change. vote of confidence and capability.

2006-02-22 Thread Cristian Driga
Hi John, Alex, John McCreesh wrote: Can I please ask everyone subscribed to this list to print off Alex's email, blu-tack it to their monitor, and read it slowly before they read any postings on the list. John, can we go further with this and put a text derrived from Alex's excellent recom

Re: [Marketing] things should change. vote of confidence and capability.

2006-02-22 Thread John McCreesh
On Wed, February 22, 2006 12:35, Alex Fisher wrote: [snip] > May I suggest that in the future, when anyone makes any suggestion in what > may > seem to be an "aggressive" (for lack of a better term) tone, that everyone > take a deep breath, consider whether the poster is a native English > speaker,

Re: [Marketing] things should change. vote of confidence and capability.

2006-02-22 Thread Alex Fisher
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:59, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > > My memory must have shortcomings then. :-) What were your contributions? > > Well, you should remember the codenames because we talked about those > recently. There's also QA, tech support (users list), IRC talks, websi

Re: [Marketing] things should change. vote of confidence and capability.

2006-02-22 Thread Alex Fisher
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:22, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > Ian Lynch wrote: > >On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 00:56 +0200, Cristian Driga wrote: > >>I would've loved if you had looked in the existing to-dos, if you had > >>checked what others tried to bring new using the wiki lately and helped > >>them wh

Re: [Marketing] things should change. vote of confidence and capability.

2006-02-22 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 12:01 +0100, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > Daniel, you made my day look better. Every week or so I wonder what I > did useful for OOo ; now I'll be more tolerant to myself (and others). Ok Charles so you personally hate Daniel. We all know this now and probably many of us well b

Re: [Marketing] Manos's OOo Box project

2006-02-22 Thread Manos Batsis
Quoting "RealGrouchy (CAM)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Again, more long-term. Yup, i dont think this will make it to the first version :-/ > Perhaps you can create a wiki page for this project that includes > the > specifications (i.e. box size, what manual to use, what programs to > include)? That

Re: [Marketing] Manos's OOo Box project

2006-02-22 Thread Manos Batsis
Hello Charles, Thanks for your reply. Quoting "Charles-H.Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No, language packs provide the actual localizations. As for > dictionnaries, you can download them from the office suite itself by > doing this: File>Wizards>Download dictionnaries. Ok, so it is possible to

Re: [Marketing] things should change. vote of confidence and capability.

2006-02-22 Thread Daniel Carrera
Charles-H.Schulz wrote: If you call the fact of being supportive of the idea a contribution yes, you are a contributor. We've been through this. I originated the idea and did most of the work and I held the vote on my website. Daniel, you made my day look better. Always happy to bring sun

Re: [Marketing] things should change. vote of confidence and capability.

2006-02-22 Thread Charles-H.Schulz
Daniel Carrera wrote: > Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > >> My memory must have shortcomings then. :-) What were your >> contributions? > > > Well, you should remember the codenames because we talked about those > recently. If you call the fact of being supportive of the idea a contribution yes, you a

Re: [Marketing] things should change. vote of confidence and capability.

2006-02-22 Thread Daniel Carrera
Daniel Carrera wrote: Well, you should remember the codenames because we talked about those recently. There's also QA, tech support (users list), IRC talks, website and documentation. Oh, did I mention that I was elected for the community council? At least a few people thought I did something

Re: [Marketing] things should change. vote of confidence and capability.

2006-02-22 Thread Daniel Carrera
Charles-H.Schulz wrote: My memory must have shortcomings then. :-) What were your contributions? Well, you should remember the codenames because we talked about those recently. There's also QA, tech support (users list), IRC talks, website and documentation. Daniel. -- /\/`) http://op

Re: [Marketing] things should change. vote of confidence and capability.

2006-02-22 Thread Charles-H.Schulz
Hi, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > >> What? This is a joke right? What did he do, seriously? > > > Well, someone things I did something useful because my name is in the > OOo credits :) That's alright. This isn't the first time this month > that you forget my contributions. My

Re: [Marketing] things should change. vote of confidence and capability.

2006-02-22 Thread Daniel Carrera
Charles-H.Schulz wrote: What? This is a joke right? What did he do, seriously? Well, someone things I did something useful because my name is in the OOo credits :) That's alright. This isn't the first time this month that you forget my contributions. Cheers, Daniel. -- /\/`) http://ope

Re: [Marketing] Manos's OOo Box project

2006-02-22 Thread Charles-H.Schulz
Hello Manos, Manos Batsis wrote: >Hi Chad, Charles, > >Quoting Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>On 2/21/06, Charles-H.Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>I do not know if this would be useful to you, but maybe Language >>> >>> >>packs >> >> >>>are what you need? >>>

Re: [Marketing] things should change. vote of confidence and capability.

2006-02-22 Thread Charles-H.Schulz
Hi, Ian Lynch wrote: >On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 00:56 +0200, Cristian Driga wrote: > > > >>I would've loved if you had looked in the existing to-dos, if you had >>checked what others tried to bring new using the wiki lately and helped >>them where you could. But no, seems that moving a site aroun

Re: [Marketing] things should change. vote of confidence and capability.

2006-02-22 Thread Cristian Driga
Ian Lynch wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 00:56 +0200, Cristian Driga wrote: I would've loved if you had looked in the existing to-dos, if you had checked what others tried to bring new using the wiki lately and helped them where you could. But no, seems that moving a site around is more import