[marketing-dev] Interlude

2011-06-08 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
dominion every where. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Manager OpenOffice.org -- - To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional

[marketing-dev] Re: Resigning as Marketing Project Lead

2011-06-08 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Ah, good to be corrected on such a matter! Cheers, Louis On 2011-06-08, at 21:07 , Peter Junge wrote: Hi Louis, Am 07.06.2011 02:27, schrieb Louis Suarez-Potts: On 2011-06-06, at 12:07 , Peter Junge wrote: [...] I will continue to contribute to OOo as time allows it and also

[marketing-dev] Re: Resigning as Marketing Project Lead

2011-06-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
test… Dear Peter and everyone else, On 2011-06-06, at 12:07 , Peter Junge wrote: Hi everyone, I have to resign as OOo Marketing Project Lead because a new professional engagement I took several weeks ago will not leave me with enough time to appropriately care about my duties.

[marketing-dev] Re: Resigning as Marketing Project Lead

2011-06-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Dear Peter and everyone else, On 2011-06-06, at 12:07 , Peter Junge wrote: Hi everyone, I have to resign as OOo Marketing Project Lead because a new professional engagement I took several weeks ago will not leave me with enough time to appropriately care about my duties. Especially the

[marketing-dev] Re: OpenOffice.org to become an Apache Foundation Incubator Project

2011-06-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, On 2011-06-01, at 11:56 , Peter Junge wrote: Hi anyone, have you already been reading the news today: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/statements-on-openofficeorg-contribution-to-apache-nasdaq-orcl-1521400.htm No comments from my side so far, as I found it right before

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks, Florian for the long message :-) But, can I request that we have such advocations (not sure that's a word) presented in a more neutral space? My reasoning, besides the obvious, that this is OOo-land, has to do with simply having a suitable forum for what is likely to be a protracted and

[marketing-dev] Re: Why TDF should be the place for one united Community

2011-05-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
concerns. Louis On 2011-05-25, at 10:29 , Sophie wrote: Hi Florian, all, On 25/05/2011 17:00, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Louis, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote on 2011-05-25 14.33: Thanks, Florian for the long message :-) But, can I request that we have such advocations (not sure that's

[marketing-dev] Re: ping

2011-05-23 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
. Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hi, On 2011-05-13, at 04:39 , Ian Lynch wrote: I know this might be a bit of an emotive topic for some, but wouldn't it be an idea to open up dialogue with the LibreOffice people? A split community was never an ideal situation from a simple logical point of view

[marketing-dev] Re: Fwd: Fwd: Re: ping

2011-05-23 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
not subscribet do the list (following the discussion via mail-archive .com) From: Louis Suarez-Potts Date: 2011/5/23 Subject: [marketing-dev] Re: ping To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org Let me start by stating that we, Stefan Taxhet, André Schnabel, Florian Effenberger, and I, will be holding

[marketing-dev] Further connections

2011-05-23 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
One thing that keeps escaping me relates to my work connection to the former lead of Marketing, Florian Effenberger: He and I now work together, as associates/partners for a marketing, community development (and other good stuff) company. We do a fairly good job of keeping our interests

[marketing-dev] Re: openoffice.ca about to expire

2011-05-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, I replied to Mike directly. BTW, distressingly enough, but also practically, my normal contact information is widely available not just from spammers but also from our friend Google search. Cheers Louis PS: YES I think we ought to secure the domain in Canada, land of persistent

[marketing-dev] Re: ping

2011-05-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts lsuarezpo...@gmail.com wrote: I would love for there to be clarity. I am not alone. The burden of providing that clarification, however, does not rest with us who have no knowledge but on those who do. The areas where some clarity would be useful

[marketing-dev] Re: ping

2011-05-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
:-) I am. My strategies are, obviously, to invoke the established stakeholders—IBM, Red Hat, to name but two, but also Google—in the gambit. But the issue is even more interesting than money alone. Much of the secret of OOo's sauce lies not in the recipe, which is open, but in the makers, who

[marketing-dev] Re: ping

2011-05-12 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I would love for there to be clarity. I am not alone. The burden of providing that clarification, however, does not rest with us who have no knowledge but on those who do. The areas where some clarity would be useful (to put it mildly) include: license, ownership of copyright, developer

[marketing-dev] Re: OpenOffice.org status and v3.4 final release

2011-04-26 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2011-04-26, at 10:23 , Allen Pulsifer wrote: Greetings, Normally the OpenOffice.org holds a Release Status Meeting every Monday and reports the minutes at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ReleaseStatus_Minutes . I notice that no meeting has been held the last two Mondays. Is

[marketing-dev] Re: Interesting News

2011-04-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2011-04-16, at 07:40 , Ian Lynch wrote: On 16 April 2011 04:34, Louis Suarez-Potts lsuarezpo...@gmail.com wrote: All, As others have noted… well, this is interesting news.* And it comes as news, indeed. It also comes unattached with any actual explication as to what it means

[marketing-dev] Interesting News

2011-04-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
, and the vision of the community, as I understand it, must be free and open. Best, Louis * http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Oracle-Announces-Its-Intention-to-Move-OpenOfficeorg-to-a-Community-Based-Project-NASDAQ-ORCL-1428324.htm Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Manager Chair

[marketing-dev] Interesting News

2011-04-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
, and the vision of the community, as I understand it, must be free and open. Best, Louis * http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Oracle-Announces-Its-Intention-to-Move-OpenOfficeorg-to-a-Community-Based-Project-NASDAQ-ORCL-1428324.htm Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Manager Chair

[marketing-dev] Interesting News

2011-04-15 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
, and the vision of the community, as I understand it, must be free and open. Best, Louis * http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Oracle-Announces-Its-Intention-to-Move-OpenOfficeorg-to-a-Community-Based-Project-NASDAQ-ORCL-1428324.htm Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Manager Chair

[marketing-dev] Re: [native-lang-com] Japan Earthquake: Kazunari Hirano needs our help

2011-03-23 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
this call for donations is of course welcome. Best, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Development Manager OpenOffice.org -- - To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands send

[marketing] Updates....

2011-02-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
means that, as always, I remain attentive to what you need, want, desire, wish for, and will try my best to communicate those desires to whomever must hear them. Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Chair, Community Council Co-Lead, Marketing (and several other) Lead, Native Language

Re: [marketing] Updates....

2011-02-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
if we work with the engineers, not with the tenders of the last car, the caboose. From there, you can only see the past. Been there. Me, I want to do the future thing. Good luck, Peter Thanks, Louis On 02/11/2011 09:58 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: All, I've left Oracle but continue

Re: [marketing] Updates....

2011-02-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2011-02-11, at 10:33 , Benjamin Horst wrote: Congrats, Louis! I look forward to working with you in your new capacity. Thanks; me too. Then let's start. :-) More later…. Cheers louis -Ben On Feb 11, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hi On 2011-02-11, at 09:09

[marketing] Re: [native-lang] Re: [marketing] What to do for 10 years OpenOffice.org?

2010-06-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Danishka, On 2010-06-27, at 03:20 , Danishka Navin wrote: Folks, I suggest to have a survey in addition to all proposed and planned activities. Would you do the actual survey work of setting it up and putting it on? and the questions you ask below are far too vague to be useful, as a

[marketing] Re: [marcon] Re: [marketing] Fund request for top page renewal at ja.oo.o, Terada-san

2010-06-17 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2010-06-17, at 03:26 , Peter Junge wrote: Hi Maho, Maho NAKATA wrote: Hello, Florian, John, Cor and Italo, (Cc: Terada-san) I'm the project lead of ja.oo.o, and I'd like to request 1000 Euro for Terada-san's top page renewal work for http://ja.openoffice.org/ . I see one really big

[marketing] Re: [marcon] Re: [marketing] Fund request for top page renewal at ja.oo.o, Terada-san

2010-06-17 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2010-06-17, at 10:55 , Cor Nouws wrote: There will be some draft for funding approval guidelines soon (..). So I think that is a good moment to look at details: what can reasonably be considered useful to fund. of course. for anything like this, careful scrutiny and strong argument is

Re: [marketing] Microsoft Office online free for all ...

2010-06-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
So? Read, for instance, http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2010/06/10/microsoft-office-now-free.aspx relevant cool section: Now, I'm a heavy Word and Excel user. As a writer and analyst at the Fool, I use them every day in the office. I don't have these expensive programs installed on my

[marketing] Re: [marcon] Re: marketing conference call in May

2010-05-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks. BTW, where is the agenda posted? I'd like to see, even if I cannot attend this conference, that we focus on some points, such as the internship programme, OOoCon, ODF, and so on and on, now that I think of it…. Louis On 2010-05-16, at 05:55 , Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, I'd

[marketing] Re: [marcon] OOo precense at MITA events

2010-04-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Warren, On 2010-04-29, at 14:07 , Warren wrote: Hi all, Tommorrow at 2pm (gmt+2) I will be attending and presenting topics of opensource software infront of the maltese public, the maltese government and some eu representatives, Great! I should add that one of our first Marketing

[marketing] Re: [branding] April ConfCall next Monday

2010-04-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Wow, this time I might actually be able to make it! Thanks for setting this up, Louis On 2010-04-19, at 04:13 , Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello, the date for our April marketing conference call is now fixed. It will be Monday, April 26th, 14:00 CEST (UTC+2) To see the date

[marketing] Re: [marcon] ConfCall recording available

2010-03-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks! My apologies for not joining this call; it was important, but I had a conflict that prevented me, unfortunately. Louis On 2010-03-18, at 03:27 , Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello, the ConfCall recording from yesterday is now available:

[marketing] Re: [xml-dev] DFD this March 30th - What we going to do about it?

2010-03-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, I'd like to see if we can coordinate a press release for DFD on p...@marketing…. Louis On 2010-03-08, at 17:28 , Alexandro Colorado wrote: On March 30th the Document Freedom day is happening and I think we are in good time to start to work on a campaign to show our support on the

[marketing] Re: [marcon] marketing confcall in March

2010-03-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks, Florian. I will try to make this… louis On 2010-03-11, at 04:01 , Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello, it's March already, and that means a new conference call is waiting. :-) I've set up a poll at http://doodle.com/h5f55szed89aa7ph and invite everyone to cast your vote for

[marketing] Re: [marcon] GSOC 2010?

2010-03-05 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Others on the CC and I have asked the relevant people at Google and have not received a positive answer regarding OOo. The CC takes the GSoC opportunity (at least for some) quite seriously, and we will continue follow up. BTW, last time was by no means a PR disaster, unless you look at the

[marketing] iPhone App for news on OOo?

2010-02-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
How difficult would it be to create an iPhone App that notifies dedicated fans of new releases, extensions, news, etc.? I don't mean an app that works like the holy grail and puts OOo on the phone. I mean simply an information relay/node. -louis

[marketing] Fwd: About.com Reader's Choice Awards 2010

2010-02-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, Please read the below :-) It's good news. Cheers Louis Begin forwarded message: From: Tom Nelson Date: 29 Jan 2010 12:46:09 EST To: lo...@openoffice.org Subject: About.com Reader's Choice Awards 2010 Hello Mac Office Suite Developer, Congratulations! One of your products,

Re: [marketing] Reminder: OpenOffice.org Marketing Conference Call

2010-01-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Unfortunately, it turns out that I won't be able to make the call--ugh! This is, however, what I hope to be a regular convention Cheers, Louis On 2010-01-25, at 11:25 , Florian Effenberger wrote: FYI: The agenda is quite long, so I will try to shorten it in time before the call. I

Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference

2010-01-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2010-01-19, at 09:15 , WorldLabel.com wrote: There has been some discussion off-list about ODF. I think it would be a great idea to include information on the format at the booth also. I will make contact with some folks at the Opendocumentfellowship and ODFalliance to see if we can

Re: [marketing] newslet...@marketing.openoffice.org mailing list

2010-01-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2010-01-16, at 08:37 , Juergen Schmidt wrote: On 1/16/10 12:08 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello, my perception is that the newslet...@marketing.openoffice.org mailing list isn't widely used anymore. It was dedicated to the compilation for the newsletter and for sending news

[marketing] The SCALE 8X Call For Papers | SCALE 8x - 2010 Southern California Linux Expo

2009-12-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
SCALE 8X is next February and as with previous years, they've invited us to be there. The problem is, Who? I'm actually not sure there are any active community members in the Southern California area who could put on (or help put on) a meaningful presence--even a booth. If OOo people do exist

Re: [marketing] openoffice....@fosdem 2010

2009-11-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks! Louis PS, Juergen et al., let's see if we can produce collateral that can be widely reused, so as to save money. On 2009-11-11, at 05:44 , Juergen Schmidt wrote: Hi, i just want o inform you that i have requested an OpenOffice.org stand and again an OpenOffice.org Developer

[marketing] updates on OOMouse

2009-11-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
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 work. I'll review these changes shortly, after the US site has woken up and finalized them. It's still too early for much of

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

2009-11-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2009-11-09, at 12:46 , 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 work. I

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

2009-11-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Ciao, Italo, On 2009-11-09, at 14:22 , Italo Vignoli wrote: Louis Suarez-Potts ha scritto: I have asked the members of the CC to clarify our--OOo's-- relation to oomouse. Theo is free to include OpenOffice.org in the product and free to ask for supportive quotes and free to use both

[marketing] Fwd: Google Alert - openoffice

2009-11-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, Well, I came back from a really wonderful OOoCon to read these review about oomouse, the multibutton mouse that includes OpenOffice.org . (Like many, I have a Google alert on openoffice. What a surprise. oomouse is by no means official, as the PR seems to have it. It should not

[marketing] [council-discuss] Final draft of Vote 2009 November

2009-11-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
. If you run into problems feel free to contact the commissary and observers. Commissary: Louis Suarez-Potts Observers: Drew Jensen, Mechtilde Stehmann, Stefan Taxhet Ciao, - Louis (on behalf of the OpenOffice.org Community Council) -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager, Sun Microsystems

[marketing] Community Council/Items/Candidates October 2009 - OpenOffice.org Wiki

2009-10-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/Election_Process_Proposal [2] http://council.openoffice.org/#council -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org

[marketing] Fwd: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au Call for Papers are now open!

2009-07-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Not sure if others caught this. louis Begin forwarded message: From: linux.conf.au Announcements lca-annou...@lists.linux.org.au Date: 28 Jun 2009 11:07:36 GMT-04:00 To: lca-annou...@lists.linux.org.au Subject: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au Call for Papers are now open! Reply-To:

[marketing] Home - Software Freedom Day Wiki

2009-07-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
OpenOffice.org has always celebrated Software Freedom Day (SFD). And this year should prove no exception. I would like to see about posting links and icons related to it on the public pages, to announce to the world the importance we attribute to software freedom. As well, we can use that

[marketing] SFD project registration

2009-07-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I began the process of registering OOo as a team for SFD but had to abandon it mid-doing. We already have from previous years a page, http://softwarefreedomday.org/OpenOffice . But need one for the teams. See, http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/register.html Feel free to finish the job; I

[marketing] Fwd: Community Choice Awards: Voting Link

2009-06-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hello, all! Read Ross's message below and let's act on it. Post the link, forward it, get the word out. Let's win--again! -cheers, Louis Begin forwarded message: From: Ross Turk Date: 24 Jun 2009 6:09:28 GMT+08:00 To: Louis Suarez-Potts louis at openoffice.org Subject: Community

Re: [marketing] introduction

2009-06-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr

[marketing] OpenOffice.org - Wolfram|Alpha

2009-05-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I'm sure others are curious about how Wolfram Alpha digests a search entry like OpenOffice.org http://www99.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=OpenOffice.org louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[marketing] VietNamNet - Vietnam to widely use open source software

2009-01-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
To us, this is not exactly news, but to the world it is. Congratulations to Clytie Siddall, and the many who have made this not just possible but necessary. Cheers and happy new year, Louis http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/01/822425/

[marketing] Some events coming up

2008-12-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
2009 is sooner than we think but probably not as soon as some of us would like. it's time, too, to think about events where OOo should be. Florian and John are also on this. Some funding from the CC is likely to be available for *big* targeted events. As well, as we've often suggested, we

[marketing] JavaOne, Community One CFPs

2008-12-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Of interest JavaOne and CommunityOne. OOo does work with Java. :-) Be exciting if we could get several papers presented on OOo, ODF, Java. The Call-for-Papers process is in full swing for both events, with closure soon approaching. CommunityOne CommunityOne East - March 18-19, 2009

[marketing] first summary of OOoCon 2008

2008-11-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, Others will write more about OOoCon 2008, and they should :-) There will also be videos and many blog accounts, including my own. But I thought I'd send in this brief summary of the 6th OOoCon, the first held in Beijing, but I hope not the last held in Asia. It was a success, at

[marketing] Southern California Linux Expo 7x

2008-10-31 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, Gareth Greenaway of the Southern California Linux Expo has invited OpenOffice.org to present. SCALE takes place in Los Angeles (in Southern California) 20-22 Feb. 2009. Previously, some OOo presence has been noted there, and it seemed to go well; also, the event has gained momentum

[marketing] pictures/videos/etc from SFD 2007

2008-08-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, Do we have any nice pictures or whatever from last year's Software Freedom Day? If so, can you share them? thanks, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[marketing] screenshots

2008-08-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi I'm looking for good screenshots of 3.0.. can someone help me find them? And if we don't have them now, produce them? Thanks! Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [marketing] screenshots

2008-08-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks! On 2008-08-07, at 11:47 , Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Louis, I'm looking for good screenshots of 3.0.. can someone help me find them? And if we don't have them now, produce them? in German, we have these: http://de.openoffice.org/product/index30beta.html in general, here are

Re: [marketing] Mini-Conference at Linux.conf.au (LCA)

2008-08-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2008-08-04, at 23:07 , Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Several years ago, we had a mini-conference at LCA. I'd like to see if we have the interest and human resources to do the same. I'm planning on submitting a talk and would hope to go--my talk was accepted last year but I couldn't

[marketing] Best of open source productivity apps Slide: 6

2008-08-05 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I'm sure we've all seen this by now, but it complements the SourceForge community awards and others. It's a good and welcome bit of news and it's always welcome to know that the users of the world appreciate what the Community is doing.

[marketing] Mini-Conference at Linux.conf.au (LCA)

2008-08-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Several years ago, we had a mini-conference at LCA. I'd like to see if we have the interest and human resources to do the same. I'm planning on submitting a talk and would hope to go--my talk was accepted last year but I couldn't make it--and would be interested in helping with a

Re: [marketing] Marketing Plan for the 3.0

2008-06-19 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, On 2008-06-12, at 15:59 , John McCreesh wrote: On Mon, June 9, 2008 23:33, Alexandro Colorado wrote: wasn't there a convetion to generate this pages like Markeing/Draft areas to have this kind of work? http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Marketing#Creating_a_new_page But

[marketing] Red Hat Summit panel: Who 'won' OOXML battle?

2008-06-19 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Of real interest. Louis http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/19/Red_Hat_Summit_panel_Who_won_OOXML_battle_1.html

Re: [marketing] Marketing Plan for the 3.0

2008-06-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi No responses here... and 3.0 is getting closer. Is there a wiki? If not, let's start. I'd love for there to be some collateral created or at least updated; and for our messaging to be determined. ciao louis On 2008-05-06, at 13:34 , Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hi, On 2008-05-06

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org wins the 2008 Duke's Choice Award

2008-05-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2008-05-14, at 12:58 , Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, is that linked from anywhere on the site? it's listed at http://about.openoffice.org Perhaps we can link this from Marketing homepage? That would seem logical. Florian best louis

Re: [marketing] Marketing Plan for the 3.0

2008-05-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2008-05-06, at 10:40 , Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hello, as we're close to release the first beta version of OOo 3.0, we might want to think about the marketing campaign for the 3.0, aside the obvious elements (press release and features pages). Any thoughts? Let's brainstorm on

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Release notes and other marketing materials ?

2008-05-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2008-05-06, at 09:45 , Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Erwin, Erwin Tenhumberg wrote (2-5-2008 16:47) I have started a wiki page for collecting content for the OpenOffice.org 3.0 feature list page that I talked about before:

[marketing] Lindependence

2008-03-30 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I was recently notified by the organizer, Larry C., of Lindependence 2008. According to Larry, Lindependence 2008 introduces Linux to the town of Felton, California -- about 6,000 people who live at the foot of the San Lorenzo Valley in Santa Cruz County, California. The plan behind

[marketing] news on 2.4

2008-03-28 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
The news on 2.4, which was mostly released yesterday, has been strong and positive. Thanks to John for penning the PR and issuing it. It's been caught by all the IT media I read focused on open source in one form or another, and also was slashdotted. I am sure that by now, hundreds of

[marketing] LinuxWorld San Francisco

2008-03-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, OpenOffice.org has been given the opportunity to hold a booth at LinuxWorld San Francisco this 4-7 August. We have also been given a two-day space (room) for community events, and these could include just about anything. In short, the deal is that we can use LinuxWorld as a community

[marketing] Our New Look

2008-03-26 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Lohmaier (co-lead of website), Alexandro Colorado, André Wyrwa, Kay Schenk, and many others not mentioned here but no less important. Thanks to all. Best, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. OpenOffice.org

[marketing] New License and Contributor Agreement

2008-03-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
, Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems, Inc. [0] http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/lgpl.html [1] http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/sca.pdf [2] http://gpl3.palamida.com:8080/index.jsp [3] http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/contributor_agreement.jsp [4] http

[marketing] Fwd: OpenOffice.org at LugRadio Live USA 2008

2008-02-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi All, I received a note from LugRadio about their upcoming event in San Francisco this April. They've invited OOo to have an exhibit there. If people are interested, please indicate on this list. best Louis LugRadio Live USA in 2008 is taking place at The Metreon in San Francisco. The

Re: [marketing] 30,000 Desktop Roll out

2008-01-31 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Al, On 2008-01-18, at 10:43 , Alan Lord wrote: Hi Guys, I'm not sure if you have this on your wiki for large roll outs but this is a great story: http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=46692 I'll be covering it a tad on my blog when I get chance to write it. This is

[marketing] Re: [Marketing] eliberatica.ro 2008

2008-01-31 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, On 2008-01-01, at 14:30 , sophie wrote: Hi all, The call for papers is open :) http://eliberatica.ro/2008/ I wish you all a wonderful and happy new year ! You too, and all here! Kind regards Sophie The event is rather interesting, I have come to understand, and I urge all

[Marketing] 2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards - LinuxQuestions.org

2008-01-12 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Fyi, Louis http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/

[Marketing] New Community Contributor Representative (CCR)

2008-01-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/The_OpenOffice.org_Community_Council_Agenda Best, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e

[Marketing] CommunityOne - At a Glance

2007-12-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
CommunityOne is this 5 May in San Francisco. http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/ I think it could be useful and interesting for OOo to be there, esp. to promote extensions, and OOo technology. We have very few in SF but given its proximity to the Sun Santa Clara campus (less than

[Marketing] Reminder - Vote now for Community Contributor Representative

2007-12-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
above. If you are curious about the Community Council, go to http://council.openoffice.org/ to learn more. ** Remember: Vote by Saturday 22 December 23:59 UTC.** Thanks to Ben Bois, Laurent Godard, and Stefan Taxhet, who have volunteered their time to set this poll up. -Louis Suarez-Potts

[Marketing] Community Contributor Representative Vote

2007-12-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
to http://council.openoffice.org/ to learn more. ** Remember: Vote by Saturday 22 December 23:59 UTC.** Thanks to Ben Bois, Laurent Godard, and Stefan Taxhet, who have volunteered their time to set this poll up. -Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager Chair, Community Council

Re: [Marketing] Number of contributors

2007-11-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2007-11-29, at 14:49 , John McCreesh wrote: I thought I'd seen some analysis of the number of committers to the codebase ... ? Yes. The data were in the links I provided. Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [Marketing] Number of contributors

2007-11-28 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2007-11-28, at 06:29 , John McCreesh wrote: I've had a request about how many people have contributed to the OOo codebase - I'm sure someone here has done some work on this (Alexandro? Charles? ..?) Answering this q. is always difficult, as its phrasing implies individuals, not

[Marketing] Education Project

2007-11-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Dear all, Apologies for multiple posting. Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . The newly active project, Education, focuses on helping students and teachers learn about how to work with OpenOffice.org. Our primary aim is not use but coding, though use is always nice. A lot of work has

Re: [Marketing] Education Flyer

2007-11-22 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Okay, more critiques. We should probably create an issue for this. On 2007-11-19, at 15:02 , Alexandro Colorado wrote: Put a template for a flyer with a different form factor that I think is more attractive specially for educators. http://jza.homelinux.net/SchoolFlyer.odp The images are

[Marketing] foss.in demonstrations of OOo

2007-11-22 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, Apologies for the cross post; please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This 4 Dec., OOo will have a Project Day at foss.in, a large and developer-focused annual event taking place in Bangalore, India. The day is focused on developing the contributor community in India, but there are

Re: [Marketing] Developer oriented Flyer

2007-11-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2007-11-18, at 17:30 , Alexandro Colorado wrote: I included pieces from all 4 markets. From integrators, to core developers, to extension developers and macro developers. We could develop aditional flyers for each of them. (I'm assuming that other contributors - e.g.

[Marketing] OpenOffice.org at foss.in

2007-11-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, The OpenOffice.org presence in India is large and growing. Millions use it there, in numerous languages. This December, as part of the internationally renown foss.in conference held annually in Bangalore, OpenOffice.org will have its first Project Day: a day devoted to talks and

[Marketing] SoCal Linux Expo

2007-10-19 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Again, a reminder about the SoCal Linux Expo. It seems an interesting event. I don't think we have the resources to staff a booth but arguably can look to CDs and other things that others could hand out. There is also a CFP out. The URL: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/ best louis

Re: [Marketing] Important news regarding the marketing campagin

2007-10-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2007-10-09, at 20:32 , Graham wrote: On Wednesday 10 October 2007 04:48, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: [..] So, please don't kill me... ;-) Actually, quite the opposite. I also think that we can very likely use the work done for future efforts. And there will be those! best louis

Re: [Marketing] Important news regarding the marketing campagin

2007-10-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Florian, On 2007-10-09, at 07:16 , Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi there, I guess you all gonna kill me for that, but... Hardly :-) I'm very sorry on the communication issues and that this quarter we did not have the chance to come up with a design on our own. I hope the marketing

Re: [Marketing] Re: [marketing-events] Fwd: Call For Presentations - SCALE 6x

2007-09-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
this to Marketing wiki and Marketing homepage. best louis Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Scale is an interesting and worthwhile event, from what I have heard from those here who have attended and from those in other projects who have gone. AFAIK, there are very few OOo community members

[Marketing] Nice Canadian News

2007-09-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Always nice to see one's local area move in the right direction. Québec is probably ahead and my impression has always been that Toronto and the rest of Canada is firmly in the proprietary pocket, so it's refreshing to read things like this.

Re: [Marketing] Fwd: Vietnam finally getting on the band wagon?

2007-09-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2007-09-11, at 05:08 , Lars Noodén wrote: I've added Vietnam's government to our Major Deployments page: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments#Asia Thanks! -Lars Damon Anderson (on a non-OOo list) wrote: I have just read in the Saigon Times

Re: [Marketing] Speak to LSU AITP on Sept 30... need suggestions and/or presentation

2007-09-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Mark, On 2007-09-10, at 09:51 , Mark Hicks wrote: Friends... I've been lurking here for some time... Egad :-) I work for IBM and I speak to university groups 4-5 times/year on a variety of topics, most commonly open standards, Eclipse, what it's like in the software business, etc.

Re: [Marketing] Orange UK with marketing campaign for Open Office

2007-09-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2007-09-11, at 19:48 , Alex Thurgood wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007 14:58:27 Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hi Louis, Alex I subscribed for the obvious reason: he's a lawyer and familiar with these issues, though not an expert, I believe. Well actually I am, counseling clients

[Marketing] Announcement: IBM Joins the OpenOffice.org Community

2007-09-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
OpenOffice.org technology in its products. The full announcement is available at: * http://www.openoffice.org/press/ibm_press_release.html And Q A at: * http://www.openoffice.org/press/ibm_press_faq.html Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org

[Marketing] Fwd: Call For Presentations - SCALE 6x

2007-09-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
] Dear Louis Suarez-Potts, I would like to bring to your attention the 2008 Southern California Linux Expo's Call For Papers. We would like to encourage the OpenOffice community to participate in this year's call for papers. Our 6th annual event, SCALE 6x will be held on February 8-10, 2008

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