[marketing] OpenOffice.org activities in North America - A town hall meeting

2010-01-01 Thread Drew Jensen
Greetings, Earlier this year a number of OpenOffice.org supporters discussed via email the subject of a US or North America Regional conference. Those efforts went into hibernation for a period :>) The last few weeks another exchange of emails/IMs regarding misc. upcoming events in the US an

[marketing] Perception -

2010-01-01 Thread Drew Jensen
Hello, I've been meaning to send this email for a couple of months now..so here goes. An earlier email about my trip to the Ohio LinuxFest this past September. There was something that came up a few times during my visit there that merits being passed along to this list, IMO - if it had come

[marketing] The world

2010-01-01 Thread Drew Jensen
HI, Recently I wanted to know if there are requests for custom programming jobs hitting the 'job sites' (rent-a-coder, Elance, etc) with OpenOffice.org as part of the requirements. So, did a little research and there are a few - most of them (the ones I found at least) came out of India. Indi

Re: [marketing] Proposed change of Marketing Project Lead

2010-01-01 Thread Drew Jensen
Cor Nouws wrote: John McCreesh wrote (01-01-10 20:37) So, I would ask you all to confirm whether you are happy to endorse this change of Lead, and if so, please welcome Florian and give him your support as he takes up this challenging position. + 1 for Florian as lead And +1 for John's continu

Re: [marketing] countdown to 10 year celebration

2010-01-01 Thread Jens Habermann
A happy new year! I will surely support this with graphics for numbers and background. regards Jens - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoff

Re: [marketing] Proposed change of Marketing Project Lead

2010-01-01 Thread Cor Nouws
John McCreesh wrote (01-01-10 20:37) So, I would ask you all to confirm whether you are happy to endorse this change of Lead, and if so, please welcome Florian and give him your support as he takes up this challenging position. + 1 for Florian as lead And +1 for John's continued support as co-l

Re: [marketing] Proposed change of Marketing Project Lead

2010-01-01 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello John, First of all +1 for Florian, without hesitation. Second... why are you leaving? Will you be staying inside the OOo project? Happy new year & thank you for everything you have done for OOo, Charles. Le 1 janv. 2010 à 21:38, Alexandro Colorado a écrit : > > > On Fri, Jan 1, 2010

Re: [marketing] Proposed change of Marketing Project Lead

2010-01-01 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 2:00 PM, eric b wrote: Hi John, Le 1 janv. 10 à 20:37, John McCreesh a écrit : As we're entering a busy period (3.2 to launch, OOoCon 2011 to award, MS-Office 2010 to compete with..) I have offered to stay on as co-Lead until Florian finds co-Lead(s) to help him. .

Re: [marketing] Proposed change of Marketing Project Lead

2010-01-01 Thread eric b
Hi John, Le 1 janv. 10 à 20:37, John McCreesh a écrit : As we're entering a busy period (3.2 to launch, OOoCon 2011 to award, MS-Office 2010 to compete with..) I have offered to stay on as co-Lead until Florian finds co-Lead(s) to help him. ... So, I would ask you all to confirm whether

Re: [marketing] Proposed change of Marketing Project Lead

2010-01-01 Thread Andy Brown
John McCreesh wrote: > Those of you with long memories may remember that Jacqueline asked me to > become co-lead of the Marketing Project in April 2004. One of my first > tasks was to compile a strategy for the MP, which was published at OOoCon > 2004 as "The OpenOffice.org Strategic Marketing Plan

RE: [marketing] Proposed change of Marketing Project Lead

2010-01-01 Thread Hamish Bell
John, thanks for all your hard work as the Project Head and good luck for where the future takes you! Welcome and good luck also to Florian! Hamish -Original Message- From: John McCreesh [mailto:jp...@openoffice.org] Sent: Saturday, 2 January 2010 08:37 To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org

Re: [marketing] countdown to 10 year celebration

2010-01-01 Thread Andy Brown
Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hello, > > as we had New Year's celebration last night, I had a little idea: How > about a little countdown to our 10th anniversary on October 13th? We can > enhance it with a nice dedicated website later on, but what do you think > about the general countdown idea? Ma

RE: [marketing] marketing blog

2010-01-01 Thread Hamish Bell
I enjoy writing and would be interested in helping to write some articles for the marketing blog. I write for another volunteer organisation in New Zealand and I would be keen to extend my writing to another organisation with an entirely different purpose. Hamish -Original Message- Fro

[marketing] Proposed change of Marketing Project Lead

2010-01-01 Thread John McCreesh
Those of you with long memories may remember that Jacqueline asked me to become co-lead of the Marketing Project in April 2004. One of my first tasks was to compile a strategy for the MP, which was published at OOoCon 2004 as "The OpenOffice.org Strategic Marketing Plan 2005-2010". I then became Le

[marketing] countdown to 10 year celebration

2010-01-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, as we had New Year's celebration last night, I had a little idea: How about a little countdown to our 10th anniversary on October 13th? We can enhance it with a nice dedicated website later on, but what do you think about the general countdown idea? Maybe not in January, as it's too ea

[marketing] marketing blog

2010-01-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, I hope everyone had a beautiful start into the year -- health, success and happiness to all of you in 2010! As the new year starts, I'd love to talk again about the marketing blog that has been in service for two years now. Thanks to the great efforts of Gabriel Gurley, we had some ve