Re: [Marketing] OO Text

2005-08-31 Thread Ian Lynch
> And put up a first suggestion. Ok, let's get the artists to work. Don't ask me! I am to art what George Bush is to use of the English language :-) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe,

Re: [Marketing] MassGov declares for OpenDocument

2005-09-01 Thread Ian Lynch
ODF support. Come on MS implement it as the default for the next release of MSO and show you are willing to compete on an even footing with everyone else. Fact is if you don't you will be competing on your own when the EU do

Re: [Marketing] MassGov declares for OpenDocument

2005-09-01 Thread Ian Lynch
eting environment. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] MassGov declares for OpenDocument

2005-09-01 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 15:00 -0400, swhiser wrote: > Adam Moore wrote: > > >On 9/1/05, Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 12:31 -0400, swhiser wrote: > >> > >>BTW, we were talking about PR and OOo spo

Re: [Marketing] MassGov declares for OpenDocument

2005-09-02 Thread Ian Lynch
act as OpenOffice.org > officials and hopefully don't say nonsense, they are free to > write, say and blog what they want. > > BTW, the news about MA's decision haven't spread in Germany > yet, So maybe someone who speaks German should make sure it happens ;-) > bu

Re: [Marketing] MassGov declares for OpenDocument

2005-09-02 Thread Ian Lynch
ey messages we want > to talk about? What will be our news, to make sure the press > picks up what we have/want to say? I think first we need to know why this doesn't appear to be happening now and what needs to be changed to make it happen. The specific messages are not really the issue. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] MassGov declares for OpenDocument

2005-09-02 Thread Ian Lynch
it allows quick > responses to events) > I think that both (a) and (b) are very important. This is fine, but I would like to see the various people being discussed in the discussion or we can make all the suggestions in the world and nothing w

Re: [Marketing] [Fwd: Re: Microsoft declares war]

2005-09-03 Thread Ian Lynch
quickly, for too little effort are prone to tantrums when things don't go their way. I'd be surprised if we don't see it more often. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [Marketing] Re: what do you think of Massachusetts' proposal to adopt OpenDocument format

2005-09-03 Thread Ian Lynch
corporate and government customers if they would prefer MS to standardise on ODF would be pretty easy to do. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Re: what do you think of Massachusetts' proposal to adopt OpenDocument format

2005-09-03 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 11:22 -0400, swhiser wrote: > The FUD will be loud and it (we) will embarass them, because people get > this now. Question: Would it be feasible to set up a petition of MS customers who would like them to adopt ODF as the default in the next version of office? -

Re: [Marketing] Re: what do you think of Massachusetts' proposal to adopt OpenDocument format

2005-09-03 Thread Ian Lynch
could easily get people to register their company name on a web site to say they were in favour. If a lot of people did this it woould put a lot of pressure on MS to do what their customers are asking them to do. Like the press release. Maybe needs to be cut down a bit. Usu

Re: [Marketing] MassGov & OpenDocument

2005-09-04 Thread Ian Lynch
specialists in ODF such as Gary Edwards. Do we have people in every state? If its down to one or two individuals to try and contact the CTO for each state its a fairly big job. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] MassGov & OpenDocument

2005-09-04 Thread Ian Lynch
s with 1.1.5 so why can't MS? They are not exactly short of resources to do it. Why not give customers what they want rather than just try and lock out competition? > one Microsoft executive said this week after the report

Re: [Marketing] MassGov & OpenDocument

2005-09-04 Thread Ian Lynch
oach and set of procedures for dealing with objections etc. There is no blinding hurry for this. I'd say get the volunteers in place first. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] spring has sprung

2005-09-07 Thread Ian Lynch
be missed in Slovenia. Regards. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] "U offers nearly free Office suite"

2005-09-08 Thread Ian Lynch
ing back to its students, who for years have been beset by rising tuition costs." No wonder the tuition fees are high if they pay $2.3m for stuff they could get for nothing ;-) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --

Re: [Marketing] "U offers nearly free Office suite"

2005-09-08 Thread Ian Lynch
g and you still have all that license key stuff to get in the way. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Comments on Sep 7, "U offers nearly free Office suite" article

2005-09-14 Thread Ian Lynch
erable difference but also brings its own headaches. So to make marketing to large scale organisations effective, get a strategy to finance doing it. Just being able to pay expenses for someone to go and talk to the people would be a start. -- Ian Lynch <[EM

Re: [Marketing] 1.1.5 announcement

2005-09-15 Thread Ian Lynch
n't really afford to squander them. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Comments on Sep 7, "U offers nearly free Office suite" article

2005-09-15 Thread Ian Lynch
h community? Chinese? Collectively the other languages could be bigger users than English now but I doubt that is the case individually. > OOo Marketing must continue to define OOo by what it is, not by the fact > that it-isn't-Microsoft. But equally we are in competition with MS

[Marketing] Opening the potential of OpenOffice.org

2005-09-18 Thread Ian Lynch
Intersting article by Jono Bacon, a well-known Linux contributor in the UK. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7834 -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comma

[Marketing] Competition is changing MS

2005-09-27 Thread Ian Lynch
Competition is forcing some change. http://www.smartofficenews.com.au/Computing/Platforms_And_Applications?article=/Computing/Platforms%20And%20Applications/News/E5T7U6H8 -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsub

Re: [Marketing] San Jose Mercury News Article

2005-10-05 Thread Ian Lynch
roducts no matter how good and low cost the competition. It is in all customers' interests to insist that MS adopt and support the internationally agreed standard and then we can all choose our software tools on the basis of price and

Re: [Marketing] Thanks for a fabulous OOoConf

2005-10-06 Thread Ian Lynch
its not a bad idea if not for the main conference at least for a regiCon. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Marketing budget for what?

2005-10-07 Thread Ian Lynch
mount that would pay for TV advertising - if that is thought to be the goal - would make some sense. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Marketing budget for what?

2005-10-09 Thread Ian Lynch
a massive dream, dream that Fox will air it during > Prime Time.] :-) All of this is partly what inspired me to start the INGOTs. At least there is some chance of getting an income stream to do something rather than wishing on a rainbow ;-) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL ---

Re: [Marketing] Marketing budget for what?

2005-10-09 Thread Ian Lynch
. Unless Sun under-writes it I can't see who else is going to pay. Selling merchandise on the day, based on the experiment I did with Adam isn't going to come close to covering the costs. In a nutshell, the marketing project needs a revenue stream. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Marketing] Group Forms to Promote OpenDocument

2005-10-10 Thread Ian Lynch
hoolforge Uk and Mark Taylor who is the CEO of the Open Source Consortium of companies. Its important to get members from a broad range of interest groups to demonstrate that ODF is a universal standard for all to use. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL -

Re: [Marketing] Group Forms to Promote OpenDocument

2005-10-11 Thread Ian Lynch
the UK. Just for info, ODF has members in Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, USA, UK. Its early days yet but it would be wrong to think this was just a few people with limited global support. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL

Re: [Marketing] Group Forms to Promote OpenDocument

2005-10-11 Thread Ian Lynch
mat. I don't think there is too much to worry about on the subject of donations. If ODF raises significant funds, its not likely to be from passive donations, much more likely from providing services or from larger donations from individuals and/or companies who really

[Marketing] OOo evaluated bt Manheim

2005-10-15 Thread Ian Lynch
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=172301140 -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Marketing] CTO article

2005-10-18 Thread Ian Lynch
example. If one or two start installing OOo and advertising it, hopefully the others will too. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] It₼s hard to beat Office king

2005-10-18 Thread Ian Lynch
ns preloaded, rather than being able to use my own > laptop.) Take a Knoppix disc and run OOo from the live CD so you can run in Impress. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fo

Re: [Marketing] It₼s hard to beat Office king

2005-10-20 Thread Ian Lynch
he person you are talking to and sell to that individual on the value systems they respond to. Some markets are more price sensitive than others but only a fool has disregard for costs in business. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] CTO article

2005-10-20 Thread Ian Lynch
big limiting factor. If I can get my business plan progressed I'll create more time to follow these things up with a better strategy. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Marketing] Demand OpenDocument! Sign the petition.

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Lynch
isted run. A random sample will determine this with pretty reasonable accuracy and I bet the vast majority are running at least some MS software. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Demand OpenDocument! Sign the petition.

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Lynch
arate for publicity. Just keep posting Chad, its good for morale to have a laugh. Its getting to the stage where if Chad says is sucks, it must be a good idea :-) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Demand OpenDocument! Sign the petition.

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Lynch
ODF look more > > desparate for publicity. > > Over 1,000 people disagree with you :-) So far and its only been going a couple of days. Go on Chad, do the right thing, sign the petition :-) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --

Re: [Marketing] Demand OpenDocument! Sign the petition.

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Lynch
tomers are asking for, and generally > respond. Except that they can say whatever they like about that to suit themselves. The point of an independent public petition is just that. Its independent and public. Whether or not this has any effect remains to be seen but certainly not tryi

Re: [Marketing] Demand OpenDocument! Sign the petition.

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Lynch
f people take part in it its because they believe its important. If they don't the thread will die anyway. The only recent thread drawing similar interest is "Its hard to beat office king" I would have said that was a much more worthy candidate to go to social. Apart from that t

Re: [Marketing] Demand OpenDocument! Sign the petition.

2005-10-21 Thread Ian Lynch
file format is supported by all the significant office suites in the world. So its on topic for marketing. I think that now its probably run through most of the associated issues so it can probably terminate unless others have significant relevant things to add. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Marketing] Demand OpenDocument! Sign the petition.

2005-10-22 Thread Ian Lynch
and overlap of common interests of individuals. If you want to discuss further I'm quite happy to take it to private E-mail. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Marketing] Proposals

2005-10-23 Thread Ian Lynch
reason to please gear conversation back to marketing OpenOffice. So what do you suggest we need to do to maximise the marketing effort of 2.0? Or have you a specific proposal to further something in the marketing plan? -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL

RE: [Marketing] Proposals

2005-10-23 Thread Ian Lynch
x27;d say that in a marketing project with no money, we need more simple low cost initiatives that don't take too much in the way of resources but help keep the product profile in people's minds. We could do with being at as many IT shows as possible but these cost money even if the volun

Re: [Marketing] marketing educational drawing / design software

2005-10-25 Thread Ian Lynch
the noise. OOo linkage will do that to some extent. It will also help to have trial sites which will give you endorsements and show others that it really works in the environment you are targeting. Hope this helps. -- Ian Lynch <[E

Re: [Marketing] "Is Massachusetts' OpenDocument decision on the rocks?"

2005-10-25 Thread Ian Lynch
standards. This list is about marketing OOo, not squealing with delight at any prospect that OOo might fail, your bad manners and contempt of the other people in here are lamentable. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --

[Marketing] Vote for Florian Mueller in European elections

2005-10-31 Thread Ian Lynch
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/ev50/vote.html If Florian is elected European of the year it will give great publicity to the anti-swpat lobby which can only help OOo. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --

Re: [Marketing] SUPER PC

2005-11-07 Thread Ian Lynch
ck on how many discs you distribute. The more the better :-) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Marketing] UK Education win for OOo

2005-11-12 Thread Ian Lynch
and heavily MS dependent. They have announced they will be removing their dependence on MS Office formats and will be providing support for OpenOffice.org in future so another cut in the death by a thousand cuts for the MSO monopoly :-) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[Marketing] Kent School goes OOo

2005-11-13 Thread Ian Lynch
no access to MS Office at all now and she has a full Linux suite that gets used a lot! ;) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Top national advocate for the disabled sets terms for endorsement of OpenDocument Format

2005-11-19 Thread Ian Lynch
up "good bye Freedom Scientific" as a side-effect of the main thrust if indeed they are over-priced. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Top national advocate for the disabled sets terms for endorsement of OpenDocument Format

2005-11-19 Thread Ian Lynch
> afterwards. +1 -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Top national advocate for the disabled sets terms for endorsement of OpenDocument Format

2005-11-19 Thread Ian Lynch
ncommon for them to say one tihng and do another. I think there is at least a 50:50 chance that MS will change its mind over supporting ODF, particularly if it looks like they might lose out on sales if governments start adopting applications and every other major player in the IT industry promo

Re: [Marketing] Writely supports OpenDocument

2005-11-21 Thread Ian Lynch
lt to compete with collective tools that will provide much more user flexibility. The good news is that this won't happen overnight so there is some time, but the longer its left, the more likely that the boat will be missed. This is where design

Re: [Marketing] the beginning of the end for closed documents

2005-11-25 Thread Ian Lynch
n adding an extension to lock it in to MSO whenever a file is opened or saved? What is the motivation behind inventing a different yet functionally almost identical standard to the one that already exists and was backed by every other player? If they intend to be truly open that doesn't make any

Re: [Marketing] the beginning of the end for closed documents

2005-11-25 Thread Ian Lynch
make minor changes that have major effect hafter milking the PR. We need to challenge that every step of the way. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Re: Inquiring about Marketing and Distributing opportunities

2005-11-26 Thread Ian Lynch
al control. > So welcome aboard, and if you have some concrete ideas please let us know... Yes, some fresh ideas from somone trained in the area would be really useful. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd -

Re: [Marketing] Vote for official positioner (slogan) reopened

2005-11-28 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 00:33 +0100, Bernhard Dippold wrote: "For a world of freedom and choice!" I vote with 10 points for this option. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAI

Re: [Marketing] Writely supports OpenDocument

2005-11-29 Thread Ian Lynch
r doubt I want to support OOo, or you no > longer think that I might? It means you have confirmed his suspicions that the majority of your posts can not be taken seriously. Regards, -- Ian > -- > - Chad Smith > http://www.gimpshop.net/ > Because everyone loves free softw

Re: [Marketing] Re: Writely supports OpenDocument

2005-11-30 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 15:18 +, Andrew Brown wrote: > Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > >> So does that mean you no longer doubt I want to support OOo, or you no > >> longer think that I might? > > > > It mea

Re: [Marketing] user acceptance

2005-12-01 Thread Ian Lynch
community" or something. > Stories like this are users that we can really count. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] user acceptance

2005-12-01 Thread Ian Lynch
> I confirm this, Nvu if there is no user profile, at startup it prompts a > similar display. This could be a good solution. > > Andrea S. Whatever is simplest that ensures there are no duplicates recorded. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [Marketing] Handheld Computing Magazine

2005-12-09 Thread Ian Lynch
ctronics, there is little room for large software license fees. Bear in mind that mobile phones are outselling desktop computers at least 3:1. On that basis the potential for OOo on ARM is bigger than it is on i586. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd --

Re: [Marketing] The "org" extension to OpenOffice.org

2005-12-10 Thread Ian Lynch
a marketing point of view. +1 -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] The "org" extension to OpenOffice.org

2005-12-10 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 18:12 +, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Ian Lynch wrote: > >>The .org in the productname directly makes clear this is an Open Source > >>project and people are tempted to try out the name in a browser to see > >>more about the product. So actua

Re: [Marketing] The "org" extension to OpenOffice.org

2005-12-10 Thread Ian Lynch
its very unlikely that there will be a change in the ownership of the name Open Office so ita all academic. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] The "org" extension to OpenOffice.org

2005-12-11 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 20:33 +, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Ian Lynch wrote: > >>Nah, I don't like the .org at all. And I don't think it conveys "open > >>souce" in the slightest. > > > > In the slightest? How slight is slight? More intern

Re: [Marketing] The "org" extension to OpenOffice.org

2005-12-11 Thread Ian Lynch
ng or development as .org really is a very minor issue. So what othername would you choose that was better? -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] The "org" extension to OpenOffice.org

2005-12-11 Thread Ian Lynch
ness Machines International Grades in Office Technology Hmmm... -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] The "org" extension to OpenOffice.org

2005-12-11 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 12:11 +, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Ian Lynch wrote: > > Awkward :-) Schwarzenegger is pretty awkward but it doesn't seem to have > > held him back that much. > > Arnie is not a typical case. What is a typical case? Arnie could easily have change

Re: [Marketing] The "org" extension to OpenOffice.org

2005-12-11 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 12:40 +, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Ian Lynch wrote: > > The main argument is really that its too trivial an issue to waste any > > resources on. I'd say if there is any significant cost at all its not > > worth it. There are far higher priorities

Re: [Marketing] The "org" extension to OpenOffice.org

2005-12-11 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 12:56 +, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Ian Lynch wrote: > >>Arnie is not a typical case. > > > > What is a typical case? > > Most famous objects, people and ideas do not become famous by having a > complicated name. Equally plenty of

Re: [Marketing] OOo and ODF - a marketing theme? / MarCons on fairs

2005-12-17 Thread Ian Lynch
d concentrate on increasing the take up of OOo and just accept that its not possible to centrally control a volunteer community that is more rooted in the anarchy of the bazaar than the hierarchy of the cathedral. Regards, -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd -

Re: [Marketing] OOo and ODF - a marketing theme? / MarCons on fairs

2005-12-17 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 11:30 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > Hello, > > Ian Lynch wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 16:27 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > [snip] > > Let's get away from personal invective and concentrate on > > increasing the take

Re: [Marketing] OOo and ODF - a marketing theme? / MarCons on fairs

2005-12-18 Thread Ian Lynch
t leads and the Community Manager - all the three of them > give their best to further OOo and the marketing project. > > (And I'm quite sure that nobody will withdraw his/her affirmation to > the other points I wrote about because of this statement.) Of course not. BTW, +1 bel

Re: [Marketing] Goodbye and Good Luck

2005-12-21 Thread Ian Lynch
associated with. Its more like a centrally controlled dictatorship. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Info

2005-12-23 Thread Ian Lynch
tical and is proprietary to Sun. > I wonder if the new version is also included this database or it was > replace by another one. Is there a specific name for this database? Or > is it a Sun database solution? The new database is called BASE. Its a Java application and completely different from A

Re: [Marketing] Goodbye and Good Luck

2005-12-24 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 06:44 +0800, Jacqueline McNally wrote: > Ian Lynch wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 13:26 +0800, Jacqueline McNally wrote: > > > > > >> I contacted Ryan privately explaining why we were revoking the > >> MarCon role. > >> &

Re: [Marketing] PlexNex: "Microsoft's File Format Lock Slackens"

2006-01-02 Thread Ian Lynch
to lock-in will over time lead to a decline and an end to the use of proprietary formats but it will take a while. After all some people still use typewriters. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] PlexNex: "Microsoft's File Format Lock Slackens"

2006-01-02 Thread Ian Lynch
dominant office suite, an open format would be less good (from the OOo marketing point of view) because it would tend to promote competition from other software that also adopts the open format. I guess some people would say that would be good as a driving force for improving OOo and it would prob

Re: [Marketing] a marketing idea

2006-01-24 Thread Ian Lynch
icle for Computer Trade Only magazine in the UK 'Adding Value With Open Source' about how OEMs can add value by bundling open source software. Not specifically OOo but I'm sure it can feature :-) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd

[Marketing] [Fwd: [sf-uk-discuss] Time to complain for OpenOffice.org supporters...

2006-01-24 Thread Ian Lynch
fice.org 2's actual real, as in happended, release has not been mentioned (last and only mentioned was in a website round-up (?!) when 2 was still in beta). The programme's other sins I will address separately (like no mention of StarOffice 8 either...). Cheers Chris

Re: [Marketing] a marketing idea

2006-01-25 Thread Ian Lynch
s only a lot > better and nicer :-) That is a good point. I'll see if I can fit it in one of the "Box outs". -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] I want to....

2006-01-25 Thread Ian Lynch
owing up What we'll have > to show is how OOo satisfies their needs and then some; answer > questions they may have about liability, use, support, etc., as well > as the fact that OOo is a project, too, and thus something that they

Re: [Marketing] OOo marketing in The Netherlands

2006-01-30 Thread Ian Lynch
er than solving a problem here but I have given it a lot of thought over the last two years and I don't see that there is an obvious solution. > If this is the general marketing list... I hope all Local projects read > and help out... as Finn says: I know this worked... why don&

Re: [Marketing] OOo marketing in The Netherlands

2006-01-30 Thread Ian Lynch
ead of the German Language project. We are working together on the EuroLinux project and that will get OOo to schools throughout Europe. We have 10 countries involved. Regards, -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Community Council statements

2006-01-30 Thread Ian Lynch
ferences for > OpenOffice.org to attend etc. > > * distributes OpenOffice.org press releases if applicable to their > region. > > * conducts presentations and seminars if requested. > > * shares ideas, thoughts, plans, what has worked and not worked w

Re: [Marketing] OOo marketing in The Netherlands

2006-01-31 Thread Ian Lynch
he mountain seems too high to climb no-one even sets out to try. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Mailing lists in the Marketing project

2006-02-01 Thread Ian Lynch
t is that we should be a lot less constrained by these things but that doeas not mean we should have no formal structures or management systems. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] another reason...

2006-02-01 Thread Ian Lynch
e and > > operating system > > I'll take a look. I'm sure I can write that, though it won't be right > away. I'm visiting my family and my mom will grow fangs if I spend all > my time at the computer. You can have time to do

Re: [Marketing] quote...

2006-02-01 Thread Ian Lynch
he OOo site because it will probably involve using Moodle and a whole other set of things that would make it difficult to implement on the main site. Also these things will need resources to sustain them so I'm working on ways of doing that too. > >If the whole point of your email was

Re: [Marketing] Mailing lists in the Marketing project

2006-02-01 Thread Ian Lynch
tant :-) If you want to focus on getting things done you have to take care of the complaints first and get people on-side who are not. The complaints are part and parcel of the deal - its why management is not easy. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] quote...

2006-02-02 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 08:23 +0100, Finn Gruwier Larsen wrote: > Ian Lynch skrev: > > >>>And, again, I feel that your attack on Otto and on Ian's statements as > >>>being > >>>very anti-marketing are uncalled for and wrong. First of all, that pa

Re: [Marketing] LCA 2006 report

2006-02-02 Thread Ian Lynch
could have got down under again - maybe next year :-) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Re: [marketing-events] Re: [Marketing] LCA 2006 report

2006-02-02 Thread Ian Lynch
s signatories to a bank account and get started. When the main decisions are clear about a foundation there is no reason why the company can not be dissolved after transferring its assets to the foundation. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd --

Re: [Marketing] bank account

2006-02-02 Thread Ian Lynch
make things better. Change might or might not work but the thing is that the status quo isn't working. Otherwise why did Graham post and say as much? > For the immediate, then, I'd suggest doing what Graham and I just > did, and pitch particular events and conferences, highlighting

Re: [Marketing] bank account

2006-02-02 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 12:24 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > But Ian, let's proceed in a > rational manner :-) My Name is Ian R Lynch. The R stands for rational. I'm trained as a physicist, how else could I be ;-) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL

[Marketing] Re: [marketing-events] Possible Events for OOo

2006-02-03 Thread Ian Lynch
e it free space. I will be at the others most probably with INGOTs so I will be busy all the time but I can provide advice if it helps. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] OOo - where should it go...

2006-02-04 Thread Ian Lynch
dvantage would be that it would be easier to contribute and any lowering of the barriers to participation has to be a good thing. Regards, -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Marketing] OOo - where should it go...

2006-02-04 Thread Ian Lynch
uploaded on the main OOo site on a > regular basis. Multumesc, Christian. Also more intuitive URLS. > > Lowering the barriers to participation is the first thing to do... The > > CC has to open them! > > > They are lowering day by day, but it seems that this should be > advertised better so that everybody sees it. And discussions like this help high-light them so they have value. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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