Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 00:42 +0300, Cristian Driga wrote: Hi John, It's a great idea and the draft looks good. More below... John McCreesh wrote: Comments please on http://why.openoffice.org/get_legal.html Some suggested changes: ===1=== OpenOffice.org 2 is a world-class

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 00:02 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi all, John McCreesh wrote: Comments please on http://why.openoffice.org/get_legal.html Please comment only on the message on this list - I'm going to look for volunteers on the art project to turn it into a web page :-) Good

Re: [Marketing] Get legal - get OpenOffice.org

2006-04-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:00 +0200, Finn Gruwier Larsen wrote: [snip] We also have to take into account that the effect of the slogan mainly comes from the fact that it's actually a bit provocative. I think a marketing has to be a bit provocative, but of course not too provocative. It's a

Re: [Marketing] Get legal - get OpenOffice.org

2006-04-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 11:15 +0200, charles-h.schulz wrote: Hello, the get legal campaign is a very good idea. Maybe a small PR operation would help it rise up in the media, who knows. As for the risk that we may encounter due to the potential agressive nature of the message, I think we

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 10:46 +0100, John McCreesh wrote: [snip] I like this - let's park it for today while we finish Get Legal. Rening me later if I forget about it :-) d'oh - s/Rening/Remind/ This keyboard can't spell ;-) John

Re: [Marketing] Get legal - get OpenOffice.org

2006-04-30 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 11:04 +0100, John McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 01:38 +0200, Bernhard Dippold wrote: Hi, as nobody replies on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I show the seemingly more interested people here, what I did from your comments. I included a fourth draft in the website

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi John, John McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 00:02 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: One warning: when talking about this with some business-people (month or so ago), it turned out that they could become offended. As if I suggested that they would do illegal business ... Good point - I've

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 12:35 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi John, John McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 00:02 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: One warning: when talking about this with some business-people (month or so ago), it turned out that they could become offended. As if I suggested that

[Marketing] Report on OOo demo to writers etc

2006-04-30 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Apologies for the lateness of this report. Before Easter I mentioned that I was going to be demonstrating OOo to some writers, editors, and publishers at a science-fiction convention in Australia. As often happens, things didn't work out quite as planned. Despite that, I am quite happy with

[Marketing] Bruce Schneier recommends OpenOffice...

2006-04-30 Thread Daniel Carrera
Okay, that's a bit of an exageration, but in his security tips he did say Look into one of the free office suites as an alternative to Microsoft Office. http://www.schneier.com/essay-078.html In a similar vein, his tips include: * Replace Windows by Linux or Mac. * Replace IE by anything

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread Mike Williams
On Saturday 29 April 2006 06:02, John McCreesh wrote: Comments please on http://why.openoffice.org/get_legal.html Hi John, so you don't need to type anything in again makes sense to me, but I had to think for a few seconds. I think it's ambiguous and would be clearer as so you don't have to

Re: [Marketing] Get legal - get OpenOffice.org

2006-04-30 Thread Bernhard Dippold
John McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 01:38 +0200, Bernhard Dippold wrote: Hi, as nobody replies on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I show the seemingly more interested people here, what I did from your comments. I included a fourth draft in the website linked below. +1 for the third draft ...

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 00:14 +1000, Mike Williams wrote: On Saturday 29 April 2006 06:02, John McCreesh wrote: Comments please on http://why.openoffice.org/get_legal.html Hi John, so you don't need to type anything in again makes sense to me, but I had to think for a few seconds. I think

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - draft message

2006-04-30 Thread Cor Nouws
John McCreesh wrote: I've moved things about a bit on the latest version One more suggestion. ..similar in functionality to MS-Office. OpenOffice.org 2 does everything you need.. Obvious that some will come up with the question for e-mail or PIM (see [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I think it would be