Re: [Marketing] Article: Why technical writers aren't using FOSS

2006-04-14 Thread Bruce Byfield
simple that you should be able to export to .doc format without any trouble in most cases. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 Burnaby, BC, Canada http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield "And we'll rise where shadows fall, And we'll fly where money crawls, Looking out for a higher love, Not g

Re: [Marketing] new download page

2006-03-08 Thread Bruce Byfield
includes JRE, or the download is for a Windows system > that already has JRE on it? For that matter, people whom I've urged to try OOo have asked me what "JRE" means. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 Burnaby, BC, Canada http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield "If they ask you

Re: [Marketing] Some suggestions...

2005-08-30 Thread Bruce Byfield
man tendency to think and speak well of those who help them. At some conferences, outreach to journalists may even be the main reason for attending. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421.7177 http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield - To unsubs

Re: [Marketing] article: "LinuxWorld 2005 Thursday"

2005-08-16 Thread Bruce Byfield
ions with them, the stories they wrote, and what subjects they were interested in. With this information, I could contact the right people for each story I was trying to get out. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield "Inspiration and craft plus time and effort minus

Re: [Marketing] article: "LinuxWorld 2005 Thursday"

2005-08-16 Thread Bruce Byfield
th. All of which brings up another point: before sending out a message to the media, you need to know what you want to accomplish, and whether you're likely to. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421.7177 http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield ---

Re: [Marketing] article: "LinuxWorld 2005 Thursday"

2005-08-16 Thread Bruce Byfield
utable media outlet, it's also a waste of time to write a story that's really a hidden news release. At Newsforge, for example, I believe that such submissions automatically get bounced. At best, they get put into the NewsVac column. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421.7177 http://members.axion.net/

Re: [Marketing] article: "LinuxWorld 2005 Thursday"

2005-08-16 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 07:47 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Bruce Byfield wrote: > [snip] > > That means learning what makes a good story, and making sure that people > > like me hear about it. > > Strife. That's what the mainstream seem

Re: [Marketing] article: "LinuxWorld 2005 Thursday"

2005-08-16 Thread Bruce Byfield
x27;t feel right about that, and I doubt my editors would, either. For these reasons, I think that both OOo and I would be better served if I kept my help to an advisory role. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421.7177 http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield -

Re: [Marketing] article: "LinuxWorld 2005 Thursday"

2005-08-15 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 01:25 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Bruce Byfield wrote: > > > OOo had a good start about 15 months ago when Robin Miller from the OSTG > > group (Newsforge, Slashdot) gave an IRC seminar in how to write an > > effective news release. Unfortunately

Re: [Marketing] article: "LinuxWorld 2005 Thursday"

2005-08-15 Thread Bruce Byfield
with everything in the project, because I have other things to write about as well. OOo had a good start about 15 months ago when Robin Miller from the OSTG group (Newsforge, Slashdot) gave an IRC seminar in how to write an effective news release. Unfortunately, nobody in OOo seems

[Marketing] OOo and Java

2005-03-30 Thread Bruce Byfield
that about 50 people decide what software to use based on his recommendations. He said that he couldn't recommend OOo with Java, so that's a bunch of new users lost. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield

[Marketing] OOo and Java

2005-03-29 Thread Bruce Byfield
e success, but not, so far, total success. And, of course, until the final version is out, the group doing the work (who seem largely Red Hat employees) may still have to make adjustments once they succeed. Still, it does seem the way to go. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 http://members.a

[Marketing] OOo and Java

2005-03-29 Thread Bruce Byfield
Hat is already working towards this goal, and it would be worth helping just to defuse the issue. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

[Marketing] OOo and Java

2005-03-29 Thread Bruce Byfield
, all that would be needed is for OOo to cooperate with the people already doing the work. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e

[Marketing] OOo and Java

2005-03-28 Thread Bruce Byfield
and I suspect they will). -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Marketing] OOo Review

2005-03-01 Thread Bruce Byfield
My review for version 2.0 on Newsforge has been Slashdotted. There's a few questions and misconceptions flying in the comments, so if anyone has any time, they might want to answer them. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7177 http://members.axion.net/~bby

[Marketing] Font OOo logo

2005-01-20 Thread Bruce Byfield
ra Sans is that it's shipped with OOo. BTW, the font editor I mentioned used to called pfaedit. It's now FontForge, and as good as I remember it. Maybe it would be relatively quick to design a font using only the letters of OpenOffice.org - it would only need 10 glyphs, if I'm countin

[Marketing] Font OOo logo

2005-01-20 Thread Bruce Byfield
As a replacement for Frutiger, what about Bitstream Vera Sans? It is very close to Frutiger in design, although the letters are somewhat wider. -- Bruce Byfield http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield - To unsubscribe, e-mail: