[marketing] Don't you love this image?

/webinar_may_28th_1200pm_edt_di.php Should we copy the idea and create our own image (why open office skid)? K - -- Kaj Kandler Conficio - http://www.conficio.com/ Phone: +1 (781) 632 5773 *** Technical support for non technical users of OpenOffice.org *** *** http://plan-b-for-openoffice.org

[marketing] OOo Quote in unusual place

dard equipment. Thanks Mr. Baines. :-) - -- Kaj Kandler Conficio - http://www.conficio.com/ Phone: +1 (781) 632 5773 *** Technical support for non technical users of OpenOffice.org *** *** http://plan-b-for-openoffice.org/ *** -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versi

[Marketing] Vietnam going Open Office big time

for cost reasons and are happy with it. Should be worth a case study. http://english.vietnamnet.vn/reports/2007/10/749003/ Kaj - -- Kaj Kandler Conficio - http://www.conficio.com/ Phone: +1 (781) 632 5773 *** Technical support for non technical users of OpenOffice.org *** *** http://plan-b-for

Re: [Marketing] Marketshare Memes (was "Interesting study about price sensitivity of students")

write articles about it, comment on > blogs, email editors of articles like this one, and publish our numbers > as much as possible! Please, everyone get in touch with the author of > today's article--there's a comment link at the bottom! > > -Ben > &

[Marketing] Interesting study about rice sensitivity of students

differentiator, but safety that the product is maintained and will be around in a few years. Kaj - -- Kaj Kandler Conficio - http://www.conficio.com/ Phone: +1 (781) 632 5773 *** Technical support for non technical users of OpenOffice.org *** *** http://plan-b-for-openoffice.org/

[Marketing] Interesting study about rice sensitivity of students

differentiator, but safety that the product is maintained and will be around in a few years. Kaj - -- Kaj Kandler Conficio - http://www.conficio.com/ Phone: +1 (781) 632 5773 *** Technical support for non technical users of OpenOffice.org *** *** http://plan-b-for-openoffice.org/

Re: [Marketing] Marketing of OpenIffice through my Personnel Website that Supports Open Source

ciated > Requet u guys to join the forums and update more on OpenOffice stuff > > Thanx and Regards, > Tejesh > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-ma

[Marketing] Orange UK with marketing campaign for "Open Office"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have you seen this? Orange (the phone company?) in the UK seems to have started a marketing campaign about an "Open Office". http://www1.orange.co.uk/business/openoffice/index.html?WT.mc_id=BusOpeTeTec_1859 Kaj - -- Kaj Kandler Confi

[Marketing] Have you voted for the most important OSS proejct?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 An informal survey from O'Reilley http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/survey_three_mo.html Take charge, Kaj - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://conficio.blogspot.com/ | We teach software one screen

Re: [Marketing] advertising open office

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anybody know of standard fields that can be accessed to claim the program version (OpenOffice.org/StarOffice/NovellOffice/NeoOffice/...) for such purposes and also the version number of the product used? I know those exist in the help-documentatio

Re: [Marketing] concerns about naming a magazine "OpenOffice.org magazine"

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Bernhard, you did a great job summarizing the kinds of concerns. I'd like to chime in with some magazine titles, such as "OpenOffice.org Times" or "OpenOffice.org Bulletin". I'd also suggest that the positioning as a magazine for OOo users coul

Re: [Marketing] Updated Product flyers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 One more, at the bottom of the large flyer, OpenOffice.org is the leading office productivity suite to store all documents in OpenDocument V1.0 format (ODF). Format should be capitalized? Kaj Graham wrote: > I've updated the two A4/A3 product flyer

Re: [Marketing] Updated Product flyers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Graham, good work! A few things I personally would change. The headline is a bit to most, most, most for my taste. I'd just leave all the superlatives out and present the case as is. Also, I think before publishing we should review the Trademark s

Re: [Marketing] Possible Scam Email?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, Jim Watson wrote: > > On 18/11/2006, at 8:28 AM, Elke Hughes wrote: > >> I just got this email: >> >> The survey is conducted online. Please click on the following URL to >> take the survey now: >> >> ** http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/74052

Re: [Marketing] OOo product flyer update

Graham wrote: > OOoops!! Sorry caps sensitive try these: > > http://ooogear.co.nz/pub/OOo_banner.png > > http://ooogear.co.nz/pub/OOo_banner2.png > > http://ooogear.co.nz/pub/OOo_banner3.png > > > Cheers > +1 for banner2 - The others feel crowded > Yo > > > ---

Re: [Marketing] Promote OO

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Clinton, do you mean an online banner? Look for it at the art project, part of the marketing project http://marketing.openoffice.org/art/galleries/marketing/web_buttons/ I hope that helps. K Clinton Evans wrote: > Hey Guys. > > > > Just a q

Re: [Marketing] OOo product flyer update [was: Missing link]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Lars, funny you mention "Now key packages like music notation software are missing" I just recently blogged about the LilliPond OOo macros http://conficio.blogspot.com/2006/11/writing-sheet-music-with-openofficeorg.html Hope to see those soon as an

Re: [Marketing] OOo product flyer update [was: Missing link]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Lars, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > The DRM issue is difficult to cover in a sound-bite, but is nonetheless > a key advantage. Maybe a one line explanation or witicism will turn up. > If the DRM issue is difficult to cover in a one liner. May be we sho

Re: [Marketing] OOo product flyer update [was: Missing link]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Yo, I feel bad that my small edit seems to have triggered so much work for you. But I feel excited that it triggered this process, because I think it is important. I wanted to say thanks that you are taking on this job. You are doing great work he

Re: [Marketing] OOo product flyer update [was: Missing link]

n Sat, 2006-11-11 at 11:12 +0100, Bernhard Dippold wrote: >> Hi Kay, John, * >> >> Kaj Kandler wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>> Find attached my edited version of the A4 Flyer. >>> >>> I modified the last section about ODF to reflect that it

Re: [Marketing] Happy New Year from Microsoft

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles and John, may I suggest that this is the English marketing list. You might find a better suitable audience on the latin marketing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) Erare humanum est! (The extent of my latin copied straight from Asterix and Obelix!)

[Marketing] Is 2.0.4 final released?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I read some confusing reports that 2.0.4 is out as final? http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4496&ref=y Any comments? Kaj - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://conficio.blogspot.com/ |

Re: [Marketing] Looking for information

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Travis, Travis Newton wrote: > Hello, > > My school is using a mixed environment of Office XP-2003 and, just > recently this summer, OpenOffice.org 2.0. I also work for my school's > technology department and I said I could try and get the inform

Re: [Marketing] Missing link

? I guess I take the *.odt files a starting point and review them and edit what I think needs editing. Should I publish them to this list for feedback? Thanks, Kaj P.S.: we can take the detail off-line, unless you think this is of general interest. John McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 2006-08-27 at

Re: [Marketing] Missing link

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Should we update this material with the fact that OOo is now ISO 26300 compliant? I did not see that on the flier(s). Might also mention how that impacts some customers. K John McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 10:44 -0400, Henrique Pinto wrote

Re: [Marketing] Coupons/vouchers for free copy of OOo

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ben, hi Lars, reading Ben's comments I think OOo should think about making campaigns on MySpace and Facebook (and other popular social networking sites). Why not: * create a profile for OOo? * tell the story? * find real users to comment how they us

[Marketing] Interesting data about APAC Public IT spending

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here is an interesting data point http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/24/0155217 K - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://conficio.blogspot.com/ | We teach software one screencast at a time |

[Marketing] Re-Branding Office 2007 as luxury product...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, while reading this comment "While it is true that OpenOffice.org doesn't quite have every feature of Microsoft Office, for 90%+ of users OpenOffice.org is the perfect solution for their office suite needs." on http://thenewmarketing.com/blog

Re: [Marketing] reviews of OOo 2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Lars, if I interpret the recent Office 2007 Review in FCW correctly, you can simply propose (submit) a review of your own. The Office 2007 review is written by a P Marchall with an e-mail address at 101com.com. This suggests the editor accepts outsi

Re: [Marketing] language and antional organization (openoffice apparel)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Charles, Charles Schulz wrote: > -I had, some time ago, organized a vote inside the NLC in order to know > how people would feel about the opening of an english NL project. The > vote was negative. Let me repeat it so that it can be clear once an

Re: [Marketing] openoffice apparel

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Alex, in my experience (being married to a woman that was born and raised in Brazil), the ability to communicate between Brazilians and Portuguese people depends on education level. College educated people have a large enough vocabulary to understan

[Marketing] StarOffice SDK vs. OpenOffice SDK

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, just stumbled upon this updated article about the StarOffice SDK http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/desktop/reference/techart/staroffice_sdk.html Is the same SDK usable for OpenOffice.org? Kind regards K - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://con

[Marketing] Another "Why OOo" campaign luriking?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, according to eWeek [0] MS is not supporting VB for Office Macros on the Mac in the next Office for Mac version. That means cross platform compatibility between Office versions will be more difficult to come by. See also the slashdot discussi

Re: [Marketing] www-openoffice.com are they authorised to sell at $49

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Chad, great you chime in on this. However, I think if you do what you are saying should there not be an obligation to change at least the name of the "product". Also, I do read the LGPL differently, "There's nothing in the LGPL saying the source co

Re: [Marketing] www-openoffice.com are they authorised to sell at $49

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry I'm no lawyer, but I think the LGPL does permit the advertisement and sale of the software. The following only says in the *copy* all license information must be replicated. "1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Library's comple

[Marketing] Usage of OOo in UK Higher Education declined 2003 - 2006

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, according to a survey by OSS watch[1], the use of OOo in UK's higher education declined from 38% to 23% and in further education from 24% to 23% (Table 26 following). Not to good a result for OOo and also kind of surprising. One should keep

[Marketing] Spanish region Extremadura expanding its use of OOo

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I thought you wanted to know about this development in Spain. http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsID=6558 - --- The Spanish region of Extremadura has gone open source, deciding to move its entire administratrion to Linux

Re: [Marketing] OpenOffice.org Metro ad running today in New York

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Congratulations Ben, for a job well done. Question: How do we measure the reaction? Do we have means to: * measure higher levels of openoffice.org website access/download numbers? * Can we geo-code this access to demonstrate higher access numbers from

Re: [Marketing] Singapore Armed Forces Adopt OpenOffice

tries study (security issues). http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/5695/528 This puts the defense ministries study in perspective for me. Kaj John McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 07:55 -0400, Kaj Kandler wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> &

Re: [Marketing] Singapore Armed Forces Adopt OpenOffice

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Benson, thanks for sharing this information with us. I'm interested in more details of this decision. Is there any further resources I could read (press release, news paper article, ...). I'd like to know the timetable and the number of users they

Re: [Marketing] extra office features

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, I read with interest your discussion on more features/applications for OOo. My feeling is it is all so entrenched in existing application types. Outlook stinks because it is awfully slow and only proprietary MS exchange makes it what it is.