[marketing] Re: OpenOffice history and milestones

2010-04-19 Thread John McCreesh
their newsroom service it was much easier to use theirs (one less site to maintain). They let us use the service free of charge. John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project co-Lead - OpenOffice.org The 2010 office software of choice - http://why.openoffice.org

Re: [marketing] how planet is maintained?

2010-03-17 Thread John McCreesh
/planet/planet.sh The source code is from http://www.planetplanet.org/ John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project co-Lead - OpenOffice.org The 2010 office software of choice - http://why.openoffice.org On Tue, March 16, 2010 12:35 am, Maho NAKATA wrote: Hi John, How planet is maintained? Are you

[marketing] Re: [council-discuss] Call for Nominations for Community Council Seats

2010-03-15 Thread John McCreesh
members to nominate those they think would best contribute both to the Council and to OpenOffice.org. You may nominate yourself. [snip] I'd like to nominate John McCreesh, Co-Lead of the Marketing Project and its former Lead, for a second term. John has ever since been working in the spirit

Re: [marketing] Funding request for a Visual Identity meeting in Hamburg

2010-01-12 Thread John McCreesh
This request has provoked some very interesting discussion on the dev@ list which I am sure Florian will take forward. After reading the email chain, my judgment is that the MP has not turned down this request, so I'll pass it on the the CC treasurer for processing. John -- John McCreesh

[marketing] OpenOffice complaints from Danish Students

2010-01-09 Thread John McCreesh
Can it be true that a school union complained to the Danish Lyngby-Taarbaek Municipality council and mayor after they put the schools on to FOSS productivity software? http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,100567,10014804o-2000673651b,00.htm John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project co-Lead

[marketing] Proposed change of Marketing Project Lead

2010-01-01 Thread John McCreesh
welcome Florian and give him your support as he takes up this challenging position. John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org The 2010 office software of choice - http://why.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e

Re: [marketing] Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So

2009-12-31 Thread John McCreesh
On Thu, December 31, 2009 11:49 am, Cor Nouws wrote: John McCreesh wrote (29-12-09 17:16) ...until now, most people have tended to dismiss the open source office project as a distant runner-up to Microsoft Office, and certainly not a serious contender. Microsoft obviously feels otherwise, which

[marketing] Why does Microsoft fear OpenOffice.org?

2009-12-30 Thread John McCreesh
Year's blog, may I suggest this one ;-) John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org

[marketing] Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So

2009-12-29 Thread John McCreesh
/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2712blogid=14 John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr

[marketing] Download statistics

2009-12-24 Thread John McCreesh
to MB for the launch of 3.2. Once we have accumulated some history we'll be looking at ways of using the data - especially the 'by country' data, which we have never had in the past. I'd like to thank Peter Pöml for his efforts in getting MB up and running for us. Great work, Peter! John -- John

Re: [marketing] Virtual OOoCon 2011?

2009-12-19 Thread John McCreesh
in Brazil via video link. Maybe we should ask them to share their experience? John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev

Re: [marketing] Virtual OOoCon 2011?

2009-12-16 Thread John McCreesh
America, where our presence is comparatively weak. I don't know whether a virtual OOoCon would be more successful in building the community. It would certainly cause less damage to the planet. I think this is a valuable discussion, and would encourage others to join in! John -- John McCreesh

[marketing] T-Shirts for FOSDEM etc

2009-12-16 Thread John McCreesh
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[marketing] OpenOffice.org Tops The Best of PRWeb for 2009

2009-12-15 Thread John McCreesh
been recognised. Let's see if we can do it again in 2010 when we announce 3.2! John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev

[marketing] OOo Presentation Kit

2009-12-15 Thread John McCreesh
of these would have the detailed description of the application. Any comments? Thanks - John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev

[marketing] Virtual OOoCon 2011?

2009-12-14 Thread John McCreesh
It's approaching the time of year when we start asking for proposals for OOoCon (OOoCon 2011 this time). As our contribution to reducing OOo's carbon footprint, should we go for a virtual conference instead? http://www.montanalinux.org/review-red-hat-virtual-experience-2009.html John -- John

[marketing] Status of 3.2 release

2009-12-14 Thread John McCreesh
From taody's releases meeting: We are in good shape based on todays status to release OOo 3.2 RC1 end of this week. that will be the OOO320m8 If there are no showstoppers in the RC, this would suggest public availability of 3.2 in 2nd week of January 2010. John -- John McCreesh - Marketing

Re: [marketing] OOo Pamphlet?

2009-12-11 Thread John McCreesh
/ photocopy black and white A4 inserts in the local language - for a large consumer event we could have one insert per 'application' (Writer, Calc, etc) printed full colour The folder could also contain a product DVD if appropriate. Feedback welcomed - would this work? Thanks - John -- John

Re: [marketing] Design ideas/slogan ...

2009-12-09 Thread John McCreesh
/marketing_bouncer_faq.html John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e

Re: [marketing] Statistics on good-day.net

2009-12-07 Thread John McCreesh
On Mon, December 7, 2009 12:55 pm, Cor Nouws wrote: John McCreesh wrote (4-12-2009 13:25) Is there a problem? For me there is: no download data was recoreded on the day you specified, 05 Dec 2009. The last date when the latest download log was updated was 29 Nov 2009. Takashi

Re: [marketing] [Fwd: [releases] 3.2 New Features page]

2009-12-06 Thread John McCreesh
this makes it easier for people to 'skim read' the page on the web if they are just after highlights. Folks, thanks for all your comments. I've been asked by translators to get the text finalised by close of business today so that they can get busy... Thanks - John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project

Re: [marketing] [Fwd: [releases] 3.2 New Features page]

2009-12-06 Thread John McCreesh
OK, how's this: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.2/beta.html#general_file John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org On Fri, December 4, 2009 5:39 pm, Makoto Takizawa wrote: Hi John. I know just

[marketing] 3.2 New Features page ready for translators

2009-12-06 Thread John McCreesh
/beta.html :-) John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail

Re: [marketing] [Fwd: [releases] 3.2 New Features page]

2009-12-04 Thread John McCreesh
text for anything you don't like. My brain starts to go dead after a few days of this :-) John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e

Re: [marketing] [Fwd: [releases] 3.2 New Features page]

2009-12-04 Thread John McCreesh
I couldn't see this in http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO320_m6_snapshot.html Can you give me some more information? Thanks - John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org On Fri, December 4, 2009 3:21 am

Re: [marketing] [Fwd: [releases] 3.2 New Features page]

2009-12-04 Thread John McCreesh
On Fri, December 4, 2009 7:31 am, Malte Timmermann wrote: John McCreesh wrote, On 12/03/09 22:58: On Thu, December 3, 2009 2:13 pm, Malte Timmermann wrote: Well, not really a feature, but: Shouldn't we mention the improved startup-performance (cold start)? Yes! Have we some figures? I

Re: [marketing] [Fwd: [releases] 3.2 New Features page]

2009-12-04 Thread John McCreesh
Looks good. Are those for XP? Thanks -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org On Fri, December 4, 2009 9:25 am, Malte Timmermann wrote: Maybe the Wiki page created from RF2000 is good enough? http

Re: [marketing] [Fwd: [releases] 3.2 New Features page]

2009-12-04 Thread John McCreesh
On Fri, December 4, 2009 11:30 am, Malte Timmermann wrote: John McCreesh wrote, On 12/04/09 11:22: Looks good. Are those for XP? Details here: http://performance.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=devmsgNo=359 http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.2/beta.html#general_speed Thanks

Re: [marketing] Statistics on good-day.net

2009-12-04 Thread John McCreesh
Is there a problem? Thanks - John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org On Fri, December 4, 2009 12:03 pm, Leif Lodahl wrote: Hi, Does anyone know why the statistics on good-day.net hasn't been updated for days now

Re: [marketing] [Fwd: [releases] 3.2 New Features page]

2009-12-03 Thread John McCreesh
peeves; if I want to print a table, I have to export it to Calc or something instead of just hitting PRINT.) Interesting idea ... I'm not aware anyone's working on it. John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org

Re: [marketing] [Fwd: [releases] 3.2 New Features page]

2009-12-03 Thread John McCreesh
On Wed, December 2, 2009 9:05 pm, Ivan M wrote: Hi John, One more typo: Encription (wrong spelling) under the heading Proprietary file support Thanks - John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org

Re: [marketing] [Fwd: [releases] 3.2 New Features page]

2009-12-03 Thread John McCreesh
On Thu, December 3, 2009 2:13 pm, Malte Timmermann wrote: Well, not really a feature, but: Shouldn't we mention the improved startup-performance (cold start)? Yes! Have we some figures? Thanks - John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http

[marketing] We're through to the top three

2009-12-02 Thread John McCreesh
of people vote for us - it would be good publicity for the Community. John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr

[marketing] [Fwd: [releases] 3.2 New Features page]

2009-12-02 Thread John McCreesh
Original Message Subject: [releases] 3.2 New Features page From:John McCreesh jp...@openoffice.org Date:Wed, December 2, 2009 6:31 pm To: relea...@openoffice.org

Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo

2009-11-30 Thread John McCreesh
supporting applications on their desktops. So IMHO having all those applications sharing a standard set of desktop icons is not terribly useful. Users need to know what application will start when they click an icon. John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org shortlisted for Best Online News Releases 2009 award

2009-11-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Thu, November 26, 2009 9:45 am, Lars Nooden wrote: John McCreesh wrote: http://www.prweb.com/pr/best-online-news-releases-2009.html Congratulations. What where the evaluation criteria for the selection? http://www.prweb.com/pr/best-of-faq.html John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project

Re: [marketing] OOoCon 2009 presentations

2009-11-30 Thread John McCreesh
the most interesting... John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional

Re: [marketing] OOoCon Videos

2009-11-30 Thread John McCreesh
of conference sessions, and as you say it would be great if some kind person could chop each file into separate conference sessions. We could then store each .ogg file on the web site alongside the presentation. John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred

[marketing] OpenOffice.org shortlisted for Best Online News Releases 2009 award

2009-11-26 Thread John McCreesh
http://www.prweb.com/pr/best-online-news-releases-2009.html John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Join the hundred million - http://why.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr

[marketing] Re: [project leads] updates on OOMouse

2009-11-09 Thread John McCreesh
On Mon, November 9, 2009 5:46 pm, Frank Loehmann wrote: Hi Louis, Thank you for clarifying this. Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: The latest from Theo of OOMouse is that he is making the changes in his PR copy and site that more accurately reflect the relationship between OpenOffice.org and his

[marketing] Oracle's plans for OpenOffice.org

2009-10-28 Thread John McCreesh
://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-clarifies-plans-for-Java-tools-and-OpenOffice-843661.html John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Come to OOoCon in November - http://www.ooocon.org - To unsubscribe

[marketing] German City Münster Launches Pilot Project For its Schools To Adopt Open Source Software

2009-10-07 Thread John McCreesh
John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Come to OOoCon in November - http://www.ooocon.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h

Re: [marketing] MS patent on XML documents ??

2009-08-12 Thread John McCreesh
found it had willfully infringed a patent relating to XML custom formatting. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/12/texas_oulaws_word/ John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html On Wed, August 12, 2009 11

[marketing] Chinese Microsoft Office Web Apps Rival Launching Soon

2009-08-12 Thread John McCreesh
less. Now the company sees its rivals moving online, and it is designing a Web version of its suite to compete with the likes of Google Docs and Microsoft's upcoming Office Web apps. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2009/tc2009089_897536.htm John -- John McCreesh - Marketing

Re: [marketing] Chinese Microsoft Office Web Apps Rival Launching Soon

2009-08-12 Thread John McCreesh
On Wed, August 12, 2009 19:22, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:14:10 -0500, John McCreesh jp...@openoffice.org wrote: A Chinese company that offers a rival suite to Microsoft Office is following industry trends by turning its software into a Web-based service. Evermore

[marketing] Twenty million downloads

2009-08-08 Thread John McCreesh
The version 3.1 download counter on the Marketing Planet http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/ passed the twenty million mark yesterday - another landmark! John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html

Re: [marketing] A so called tutorial about OpenOffice.org on Linux.com

2009-08-05 Thread John McCreesh
friends come round for dinner, they expect meat-free meals. Howveer, when I go to their place, they don't put their beliefs aside and serve me a nice juicy steak... John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org

Re: [marketing] A so called tutorial about OpenOffice.org on Linux.com

2009-08-05 Thread John McCreesh
On Wed, August 5, 2009 16:29, Drew Jensen wrote: John McCreesh wrote: On Tue, August 4, 2009 20:49, MÁTÉ Gergely wrote: [snip] I usually send PDF files, and attach the ODF if the other party is supposed to edit it. In the worst case scenario I send RTF. It is something like vegetarianism

Re: [marketing] new why page

2009-07-16 Thread John McCreesh
think there might be some information there that visitors to the why.OOo website might be interested in. Good points. I agree with all of them :-) John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html

Re: [marketing] new why page

2009-07-15 Thread John McCreesh
? Regards, Ivan. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Per Erikssonpereriks...@openoffice.org wrote: John McCreesh skrev: On Tue, July 14, 2009 20:35, Per Eriksson wrote: Hello, John McCreesh skrev: I like the layout, but I'm wondering: * who is this page aimed at * what do we want

Re: [marketing] new why page

2009-07-14 Thread John McCreesh
I like the layout, but I'm wondering: * who is this page aimed at * what do we want them to do as a result of reading it * what reasons do we give them for doing so If we can answer these, I think we can sharpen the page up a bit. John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org

Re: [marketing] new why page

2009-07-14 Thread John McCreesh
On Tue, July 14, 2009 20:35, Per Eriksson wrote: Hello, John McCreesh skrev: I like the layout, but I'm wondering: * who is this page aimed at * what do we want them to do as a result of reading it * what reasons do we give them for doing so If we can answer these, I think we can sharpen

Re: [marketing] MS fires back - new free MS Office expected next year

2009-07-13 Thread John McCreesh
for it. There's an 'ideas for Why' section in the wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Why John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html

[marketing] MS-Office - the office of last resort

2009-07-08 Thread John McCreesh
-productivity food chain. http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2009/07/microsoft_offic_4.html even if he does refer to the discredited InfoWorld Office-compatibility torture test... John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org

Re: [marketing] Download counter and chart generater for localized versions

2009-06-13 Thread John McCreesh
On Thu, June 11, 2009 21:33, Takashi NAKAMOTO wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:17:40 +0100 (BST) John McCreesh jp...@openoffice.org wrote: On Thu, June 11, 2009 18:57, Takashi NAKAMOTO wrote: [snip] Could you take care of this problem, John? The accumulated download counts on 9th Jun

Re: [marketing] Download counter and chart generater for localized versions

2009-06-11 Thread John McCreesh
- there may be a connection :-) I can't fix it tonight, but will rerun it over the weekend John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html

Re: [marketing] Updates to the Dashboard Concept

2009-06-03 Thread John McCreesh
go ahead and do it! Great work Ben - I'll certainly be blogging about this. John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html Thanks, Ben Sent from my iPhone On Jun 3, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Charles-H. Schulz

Re: [marketing] New wiki page for screenshots

2009-05-24 Thread John McCreesh
that people can port them to different operating systems, translate to different languages, etc? John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html

Re: [marketing] Download counts for localized versions

2009-05-20 Thread John McCreesh
me know and I can set up a cron to update them daily John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr

[marketing] OOo 3.2 features

2009-05-20 Thread John McCreesh
Original Message Subject: Re: [releases] OOo 3.2 features From:Martin Hollmichel martin.hollmic...@sun.com Date:Wed, May 20, 2009 09:05 To: relea...@openoffice.org

Re: [marketing] Download counts for localized versions

2009-05-18 Thread John McCreesh
website for other people to analyse. John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr

[marketing] Re: Fwd: Linux Journal 2009 Reader's Choice Awards

2009-05-01 Thread John McCreesh
Some good news for the holiday weekend. I'll be posting this on the news and awards pages John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html On Fri, May 1, 2009 13:50, James Walker wrote: Got this in my inbox

Re: [marketing] Re: [releases] What's new in 3.1?

2009-04-28 Thread John McCreesh
On Mon, April 27, 2009 22:46, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi John, John McCreesh wrote (15-3-2009 11:36) The usual New Features page is now available for 3.1 at http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.1/ This page is intended as a more 'user friendly' supplement to the full release notes http

[marketing] Impress versus PowerPoint

2009-04-16 Thread John McCreesh
I've been asked by a journalist Do you have a comparison sheet that shows which features are in Impress versus PowerPoint 2007? I'm not aware of one ... has anyone done anything like this please? Thanks - John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see

Re: [marketing] IBM + Sun Next Week : Time to wait? or time for proposals?

2009-04-09 Thread John McCreesh
on the current codebase. John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org

Re: [marketing] Time to get a new Office Suite?

2009-04-09 Thread John McCreesh
OpenOffice.org. Any bloggers interested? Good idea! Maybe we need to revive the 'Your Choice' campaign we ran a few years ago: http://why.openoffice.org/yourchoice.html John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html

Re: [marketing] IBM + Sun Next Week : Time to wait? or time for proposals?

2009-04-06 Thread John McCreesh
something: I do not work for Sun, nor for IBM and I do not know anything else about the buyout rumour than what the press says. John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html

[marketing] A double celebration

2009-03-26 Thread John McCreesh
Yesterday - Document Freedom Day 2009 - we reached our 50 millionth download of OpenOffice.org from http://download.openoffice.org since 3.0 was released Celebrate! John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org

[marketing] Re: [releases] What's new in 3.1?

2009-03-15 Thread John McCreesh
favourite new feature has been missed out or misrepresented. Thanks -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html On Mon, February 23, 2009 10:37, Eugene Savitsky wrote: Hi! Does OOo provides userfriendly

Re: [marketing] Article on French Gendarmerie and OSS

2009-03-13 Thread John McCreesh
, says John McCreesh, marketing project lead of OpenOffice.org. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/12/open-source-apps I hope this doesn't sound too racist - I am a closet Francophile ;-) John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http

Re: [marketing] Re: Information about OOo in Australia

2009-03-10 Thread John McCreesh
in the pipeline. John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org

[marketing] Information about OOo in Australia

2009-03-08 Thread John McCreesh
, particularly among consumers, before 2008; or any data on the as the number of downloads or distribution of CD's of OpenOffice to users in Australia. Can anyone help please? Thanks - John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http

Re: [marketing] How does OOo stand on the UK FLOSS plan?

2009-03-06 Thread John McCreesh
. It would be useful for marketing in the UK (and beyond) to be on a UK Government approved list... John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html

[marketing] Re: [releases] What's new in 3.1?

2009-03-02 Thread John McCreesh
that indox.html becomes index.html when the page is ready ;-) John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr

[marketing] Know any developers who would like to work on OOo for Sun?

2009-02-26 Thread John McCreesh
Software Engineer Web 2.0 Development (m/f) Position in Hamburg/Germany available. Currently looking for SW Engineers for the OpenOffice.org / StarOffice development team. http://www.sun.com/corp_emp/search.cgi?loc=DEreq=DE0203104u=p= John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead

[marketing] Information about OOo in Norway

2009-02-23 Thread John McCreesh
We're facing some trademark difficulties in Norway. We have been asked to produce evidence that OpenOffice.org was a well known name in Norway, particularly among consumers, before 2008. Can anyone help please? Thanks - John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers

[marketing] OOoCon?

2009-02-13 Thread John McCreesh
Are you hoping to go to OOoCon 2009 or 2010? See: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announcemsgNo=385 John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html

Re: [marketing] extending the OpenOffice BugBounty Programm

2009-02-06 Thread John McCreesh
I would suggest contacting the folks at FOSDEM and getting them to photocopy and handout leaflets tomorrow... John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html Martin Hollmichel wrote: Hi, last year we

Re: [marketing] video contest idea / chat meeting?

2009-02-04 Thread John McCreesh
of the ones who said quotes to and got filmed. The Digital Tipping Point http://www.archive.org/browse.php?field=subjectmediatype=moviescollection=digitaltippingpoint John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html

Re: [marketing] A different Market focus

2009-01-30 Thread John McCreesh
On Fri, January 30, 2009 10:21, Ian Lynch wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 07:44 +, John McCreesh wrote: On Fri, January 30, 2009 01:16, Graham Lauder wrote: [snip] The Obama administration is not going endorse any product. So in terms of raising brand awareness such a letter would

[marketing] Computerbild

2009-01-29 Thread John McCreesh
http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/computerbild-top-250-download-award.html Can you aadd this to the awards page please? Thanks - John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html

Re: [marketing] Where does OOo stand.

2009-01-29 Thread John McCreesh
The blog seems to be talking about the various products' contributions to Sun's bottom line. I don't know how much revenue Sun derives from SO / OOo products and services, but it gains a massive amount of exposure to people who otherwise would never hear the name Sun Microsystems... John -- John

Re: [marketing] A different Market focus

2009-01-29 Thread John McCreesh
to endorse specific brands and that after all is our problem. The Obama campaign could teach us a thing or two about creating / raising brand awareness - Obama is now one of the biggest brands on the planet. John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see

Re: [marketing] A different Market focus

2009-01-27 Thread John McCreesh
' - i.e. addressing the FOSS-aware. We would get better results by talking about OOo to birdwatchers, stamp collectors, Rotaries ... John -- John McCreesh Marketing Project Lead OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org blocked in Microsoft Live Search

2009-01-26 Thread John McCreesh
datacenter to help better serve ... download.openoffice.org/680/?intcmp=1235 · Cached page Coonspiracy? or just a rubbish search engine? John -- John McCreesh Marketing Project Lead OpenOffice.org On Mon, January 26, 2009 11:22, Italo Vignoli wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash

[marketing] Reminder: proposals for OOoCon

2009-01-18 Thread John McCreesh
running 2010 would be expected to 'shadow' the 2009 team, to help them with the 2009 event, and prepare better for their own OOoCon the following year. So please think not just about 2009, but also 2010! Thanks - John -- John McCreesh Marketing Project Lead OpenOffice.org

[marketing] Call for Location for OOoCon 2009

2008-12-29 Thread John McCreesh
Please note that the Call for Location for OOoCon 2009 has been posted today: http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2009/cfl/cfl.html John -- John McCreesh Marketing Project Lead OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev

Re: [marketing] [OT] Merry Xmass

2008-12-25 Thread John McCreesh
And a special greeting to the person who today will have triggered the 25 millionth download of OpenOffice.org since we launched 3.0 - see http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/ John Gabriel Gurley wrote: Happy Holidays everyone. :-) I wish you and your family a wonderful holiday season.

Re: [marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

2008-12-17 Thread John McCreesh
Or like what the o...@www project is doing? http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org/ John -- John McCreesh Marketing Project Lead OpenOffice.org On Wed, December 17, 2008 10:15, Vikram Gaur wrote: That will not be an issue if we decide to do. On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:02 +, Richard Rothwell

Re: [marketing] Colourlovers label exhibit with Openoffice.org templates

2008-12-17 Thread John McCreesh
/The Colourlovers community has about 160K members so OOo should get some promotional bennifit with them. Please feel free to use this exhibition anyway you can to help promote OOo Cool! Thank you. John -- John McCreesh Marketing Project Lead OpenOffice.org

[marketing] Screenshots [was: why.openoffice.org]

2008-12-13 Thread John McCreesh
:-) and I can send you links to the 'source code'. Thanks - John -- John McCreesh Marketing Project Lead OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h

Re: [marketing] Xmass theme for OOo Site

2008-12-13 Thread John McCreesh
is simple - let's not stop at Christmas. If anyone wants to create images for Eid, Diwali etc - great - the more the better. John -- John McCreesh Marketing Project Lead OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr

RE: [marketing] Upgrading to OOo 3.0 screencast

2008-12-01 Thread John McCreesh
On Tue, November 25, 2008 13:41, Tim Godfrey wrote: Were would we find other video tutorials that demonstrate how to use OOo? For example: http://inpics.net/ John -- John McCreesh Marketing Project Lead OpenOffice.org

[marketing] Norwegian Government commits 2 million kroner to OOo adoption

2008-11-18 Thread John McCreesh
. Instead of general promotion of open source software, the funds are specifically earmarked for adopting and promoting use of the OpenOffice suite of productivity applications in government offices. http://ostatic.com/177021-blog/norway-pledges-funds-for-government-open-source-usage John -- John

[marketing] Re: [marcon] Campaign on the Economic Crisis

2008-10-27 Thread John McCreesh
Alexandro Colorado wrote: So I thought this will be talked out more. It would be interesting if we start a campaign on how can OOo help u survive the economical crisis by saving on proprietary software. It's notable how many reviews pick up on this point. John

[marketing] Three million

2008-10-20 Thread John McCreesh
in the community who have tested it, translated it, supported it, and told the world about it. A week of three million downloads - what a great start to the year of three! John p.s. further data on my blog http://www.mealldubh.org -- John McCreesh Marketing Project Lead OpenOffice.org

Re: [marketing] Three million

2008-10-20 Thread John McCreesh
On Mon, October 20, 2008 09:54, Lars Noodén wrote: John McCreesh wrote: In the first week since we formally announced the availability of OpenOffice.org 3.0, we have recorded an astonishing three million downloads on the bouncer logs. I agree that this is excellent news. There are some

[marketing] Microsoft: OpenOffice better than Google Apps

2008-10-17 Thread John McCreesh
OpenOffice.org since we released 3.0? John -- John McCreesh Marketing Project Lead OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FW: [marketing] Site is down?

2008-10-13 Thread John McCreesh
podcast and portal for IT service providers http://www.theforcefield.net Apologies - our servers are struggling to cope with the unprecedented demand. The technical guys are trying to come up with a solution. Thank you for your patience John -- John McCreesh Marketing Project Lead OpenOffice.org

[marketing] CeBIT trade show, March 3-8, 2009, Hannover, Germany

2008-10-01 Thread John McCreesh
a booth at CeBIT? Thanks - John -- John McCreesh Marketing Project Lead OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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