[marketing] FOSDEM 2009: Call for Papers for our OpenOffice.org DevRoom

2009-01-06 Thread Juergen Schmidt
FOSDEM - the Free and Open Source Developer's European Meeting - is nearly upon us. FOSDEM is the most developer-focused FOSS conference, and will take place in Brussels, Belgium on 6th/7th February (not forgetting the FOSDEM beer event on the Friday night :) . Geeks from all the major FOSS

Re: [marketing] FOSDEM: We need a T-Shirts slogan/design ...

2009-01-06 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Cor Nouws wrote: Cor Nouws wrote (29-12-2008 10:58) Cor, feel free to contact your local vendor for a quote. I just send out a request for a quotation. Maybe they have advice on colours and printing as well. They mailed before oldnew that they would answer soon in this first week. I

[marketing] Problem in using open office

2009-01-06 Thread Vikram Gaur
Hi, while using openoffice.org 3.0 on windows platform, some problems are being faced: 1.When two persons are opening same document in network both gets the document in writable mode. 2.In Calc filter utility doesn't allow to filter more than 2 rows.

[marketing] Labels for DVD and CD of OOo 3.0

2009-01-06 Thread Mechtilde
Hello, I'm looking for Labels for DVD and CD with the design of OpenOffice.org 3.0. Can someone give me a hint where I can find some? I see one fpr the german Prooo-box but there I must change to much for my propose Kind regards Mechtilde -- Dipl. Ing. Mechtilde Stehmann ##

Re: [marketing] Problem in using open office

2009-01-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 15:23 +0530, Vikram Gaur wrote: Hi, while using openoffice.org 3.0 on windows platform, some problems are being faced: 1.When two persons are opening same document in network both gets the document in writable mode. 2.In Calc filter utility doesn't allow

[marketing] video contest idea

2009-01-06 Thread Rosana Ardila Biela
Happy new Year to everybody! Thank you for your answers, I will get into more detail now so we can discuss the video contest idea. I think the first thing to do is to find out how important such a contest could be for OOo. Is there a real need for marketing material, like promotional videos?

Re: [marketing] Problem in using open office

2009-01-06 Thread Mike Williams
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 15:23 +0530, Vikram Gaur wrote: Hi, while using openoffice.org 3.0 on windows platform, some problems are being faced: 1.When two persons are opening same document in network both gets the document in writable mode. Are the documents on a share? If so, this is a

Re: [marketing] Labels for DVD and CD of OOo 3.0

2009-01-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello Mechtilde, I'm looking for Labels for DVD and CD with the design of OpenOffice.org 3.0. Can someone give me a hint where I can find some? I guess there exists none yet. But maybe you can ask on a...@marketing, the list is usually were helpful. :-) Florian

Re: [marketing] video contest idea

2009-01-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello Rosana, thanks for your mail. Thank you for your answers, I will get into more detail now so we can discuss the video contest idea. I think the first thing to do is to find out how important such a contest could be for OOo. Is there a real need for marketing material, like promotional

[marketing] Obama, FLOSS and the Environment

2009-01-06 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Just want to share a recent discussion I had on a different medium and again could be related somewhat to a marketing campaing that OOo could leverage. For people not following US politics, president elect Barack Obama has done a weekly videoblog of the changes and proposals on its

[marketing] VietNamNet - Vietnam to widely use open source software

2009-01-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
To us, this is not exactly news, but to the world it is. Congratulations to Clytie Siddall, and the many who have made this not just possible but necessary. Cheers and happy new year, Louis http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/01/822425/

Re: [marketing] VietNamNet - Vietnam to widely use open source software

2009-01-06 Thread Wunna Ko Ko
Congratulation Clytie. Regards, Wunna On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts louis.suarez-po...@sun.com wrote: To us, this is not exactly news, but to the world it is. Congratulations to Clytie Siddall, and the many who have made this not just possible but necessary. Cheers

Re: [marketing] VietNamNet - Vietnam to widely use open source software

2009-01-06 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: To us, this is not exactly news, but to the world it is. Congratulations to Clytie Siddall, and the many who have made this not just possible but necessary. indeed good news, congratulations from me as well. Juergen

Re: [marketing] video contest idea

2009-01-06 Thread Anvay Lonkar
Hi, First let me introduce myself. I am an Indian software engineer, working in Singapore. I have been scouting around OOo mailing list's for some time looking for way's to contribute, and would like to share some thoughts on this video contest and more generally on promoting OOo via video's. 1.