Re: [marketing] marketing confcall in March

2010-03-14 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Drew, Drew Jensen wrote on 2010-03-14 01.54: Updated doodle. Added some suggestions to http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Talk:Marketing_ConfCalls thanks! Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[marketing] report on CeBIT and funding request

2010-03-14 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello fellow MarCons, I'd like to share my impressions of CeBIT with you. Ever since, the German OpenOffice.org project has attended CeBIT, one of the world's largest and most important trade shows, taking place in Hannover, Germany. This year, it took place from March 2nd to March 6th. For

Re: [marketing] report on CeBIT and funding request

2010-03-14 Thread Drew Jensen
Florian Effenberger wrote: but for us, it has such an important marketing impact, that we shouldn't miss it. Being there is just a necessity -- and makes a lot of fun. :-) + 1 to that idea. Hello Florian, Since it appears that what is going on there, with OO.o D. e.v., is working,

Re: [marketing] report on CeBIT and funding request

2010-03-14 Thread Lars Nooden
On 2010-3-14 4:06 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: ... CeBIT is very expensive, but for us, it has such an important marketing impact, that we shouldn't miss it. Being there is just a necessity ... +1 It is hard to overstate the importance of having a high profile at CeBIT. I expect we should

Re: [marketing] report on CeBIT and funding request

2010-03-14 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Florian, all, thanks for this detailed feedback! Florian Effenberger schrieb: Hello fellow MarCons, and the normal marketing project members ;-) I'd like to share my impressions of CeBIT with you. [...] Unfortunately, CeBIT has a large drawback: It is fairly expensive. Like the last

[marketing] Follow MS Office branding with 11 single applications or go an independent way?

2010-03-14 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, OOo branding is what I'm trying to improve, but working on that topic I stumbled across the MS Office branding page [1] that raises a quite important question for me: During the last ten years we've been very successful in being as similar to MS Office as possible. We copied their

Re: [marketing] report on CeBIT and funding request

2010-03-14 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Florian! Thanks for the great summary - especially for the links to RadioTux! I didn't notice that some people tried to escape from the booth duty ;-) However, for those who are interested in some more experiences with e.g. the KOffice guys, please have a look at the blog posting: