[marketing-dev] Re: Team OpenOffice

2011-06-03 Thread Martin Hollmichel
On 06/02/2011 04:42 PM, WorldLabel.com wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone know who is in charge of the funds at Team Openoffice.org? > > I sent funds for a extension contest and then a ALA exhibition, both > did not happen. I would like the funds returned. we (Team OpenOffice.org) will contact you off

[marketing] Re: [council-budget] Re: [marketing] Budget Request - OOo 10th Birthday Party in Beijing

2010-10-11 Thread martin . hollmichel
Florian Effenberger schrieb: Hi Peter, Peter Junge wrote on 2010-10-11 08.06: as Florian also accepted this request, I think I will be able to go ahead the OOo birthday party tomorrow. Yes? How to proceed? Just spending the money and sending in the invoice for reimbursement? from my side,

Re: [marketing] Budget Request - OOo 10th Birthday Party in Beijing

2010-10-06 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Am 06.10.2010 20:01, schrieb Martin Hollmichel: the that I receiced superflous words and letters, sorry for that, was fighting with repaint problems of my mail program, Martin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr

Re: [marketing] Budget Request - OOo 10th Birthday Party in Beijing

2010-10-06 Thread Martin Hollmichel
g started by me and I'm confused. If things have changed on your side, please let me know. Martin Am 06.10.2010 19:39, schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: Hello Stefan, Le Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:09:02 +0200, Martin Hollmichel a écrit : Gi, Am 06.10.2010 18:19, schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: Hello

Re: [marketing] Budget Request - OOo 10th Birthday Party in Beijing

2010-10-06 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Gi, Am 06.10.2010 18:19, schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: Hello Martin, Le Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:36:50 +0200, Martin Hollmichel a écrit : Am 06.10.2010 12:08, schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hi Peter, Peter Junge wrote on 2010-10-05 13.34: despite times of troubles, I'm planning to th

Re: [marketing] Budget Request - OOo 10th Birthday Party in Beijing

2010-10-06 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Am 06.10.2010 12:08, schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hi Peter, Peter Junge wrote on 2010-10-05 13.34: despite times of troubles, I'm planning to throw a party for OOo's 10th birthday as part of the monthly meeting of the Beijing Linux User Group on October 12th. Accordingly, I would like to requ

Re: [marketing] Result: Logo for the 10th anniversary - request for approval

2010-10-04 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Drew, Am 04.10.2010 20:19, schrieb Drew Jensen: On 10/04/2010 01:54 PM, Ian wrote: On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 19:45 +0200, Martin Hollmichel wrote: An important point indeed is that both side keep the constructive dialog open and trying to find compromises between their different objectives

Re: [marketing] Result: Logo for the 10th anniversary - request for approval

2010-10-04 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Am 04.10.2010 19:10, schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: Andreas, Luiz, Let's take a step back. Obviously verbal assault does not help and should not be tolerated. So let's breathe a bit and calm down. Andreas, whatever your views are on what happened, please understand that we, the people of the Docum

Re: [marketing] Result: Logo for the 10th anniversary - request for approval

2010-10-04 Thread Martin Hollmichel
What I wanted to clarify is that it would be unwise to prohibit discussions on the OOo lists about TDF. It would be unwise and you would give the most blatant illustration that OOo is not a true project, and simply a product. Both of us know that's not the right way to work this out. nobody pro

Re: [marketing] Result: Logo for the 10th anniversary - request for approval

2010-10-04 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Am 04.10.2010 15:33, schrieb Paula Carmichael: Checked the Logo and just want to say it is very balanced and tells the story creatively. GOOD JOB to all on this project. huh ? I don't understand how this logo can be considered as balanced, The DocumentFoundation has it's own product, and this

Re: [marketing] Result: Logo for the 10th anniversary - request for approval

2010-10-04 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi Bernhard, Am 02.10.2010 00:55, schrieb Bernhard Dippold: Hi all, if I counted correctly, there have been 9 clear +1 votes and 4 mainly positive reactions with some questions / reservation. In my eyes this qualifies the logo to be called "official". Bernhard Dippold schrieb: Based on a d

[marketing] status of the 2004 SWOT based recommendations

2010-03-31 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, in 2004 the strategic marketing plan was issued (http://marketing.openoffice.org/strategy/) with goals for 2010. So the time for a review has come. As start I created http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Smp_status_2010 for collecting a status of the recommendation done in 2004. Som

Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-11-24 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Juergen Schmidt wrote: Thorsten Behrens wrote: Martin Hollmichel wrote: again from my point of view there is no need, simply use the icons as they are. As far as i know the icons were already suggested to OASIS to become the default icon. Maybe it will change who knows but then we should use

Re: [marketing] ODF desktop icons for OOo (without OOo branding ATM) - volunteers?

2009-11-23 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, To clarify what I wrote, ODF is used by many apps. However, to address your point, Juergen, we can focus on OOo. OOo is provided by many distros. Each of those distros has at least one icon theme. Those themes have basic colors. There are usually two main colors to a theme, sometimes

[marketing] Re: [dev] Proposal : OOo4Kids as official part of OpenOffice.org Project

2009-08-07 Thread Martin Hollmichel
eric.bachard wrote: [please continue the discussion on the d...@openoffice.org mailing list] Hi all, Proposal : The OpenOffice.org Education Project proposes to drive the following experimentation : - create a dedicated branch in the OOo source code repository (means hosted by OOo Project)

Re: [marketing] Re: [qa-dev] upcoming release of PDF Import extension 1.0

2009-06-22 Thread Martin Hollmichel
plan the pre-install it anyway, please keep in mind that it brings xpdf with it. A third party library which has to be updated quite frequently, because of security issues... Just my 2 cents, Malte. Martin Hollmichel wrote, On 06/12/09 14:24: Hi, the situation is not easy: some people are syin

[marketing] Re: [qa-dev] upcoming release of PDF Import extension 1.0

2009-06-12 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Weigel wrote: Hi, Martin Hollmichel schrieb: I would like ask you to review the Feature List on http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Pdf_Import_Extension/Announcement and specify either concrete issues or features of what you think that should be in a 1.0 release. I had already been

[marketing] upcoming release of PDF Import extension 1.0

2009-06-12 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi *, I just want to let you know that I'm currently preparing the release of the PDF Import extension 1.0, please see draft for a announcement on http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Pdf_Import_Extension/Announcement The Windows version is already available for review on ftp://qa-upload

[marketing] Upcoming release of Media Wiki Publisher 1.1

2009-05-20 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, I'm going to provide within the next days the next version of the Media Wiki Publisher. For the issues fixed please see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Extension/Release_Map#1.1 the release candidate of that extension can be found on ftp://qa-upload.services.openoffice

Re: [marketing] release of pdfimport extension 0.4

2009-05-04 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Martin, thanks for notifying us! I'm currently going to release the pdfimport extension 0.4. In the moment there is just a technical list of issues included in the release notes which describes which issue got fixed in the release. Since the release notes will

[marketing] release of pdfimport extension 0.4

2009-05-04 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, I'm currently going to release the pdfimport extension 0.4. In the moment there is just a technical list of issues included in the release notes which describes which issue got fixed in the release. Since the release notes will probably read by many people this is great chance to provide

[marketing] Bundling of extensions in OpenOffice.org

2009-04-06 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, in last ESC meeting (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ESC_meeting_minutes_20090309) there was the item "Define Criteria when to bundle extensions" on the agenda. Based on the proposal http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ESC/Criteria_for_bundling_extensions we got the follo

[marketing] extending the OpenOffice BugBounty Programm

2009-02-06 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, last year we initiated the bug bounty program (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/BugBountyProgram and references below). Obviously we failed in spreading the information about this program, the feedback was very low. Before we extend the program we want to be sure to make it this

Re: [marketing] The fork (was :Re: [marketing] Andrew Pitonyak: OOoMacros and others)

2009-01-13 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Andrew Ziem wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Lars Noodén wrote: Andrew Ziem wrote: "the fork" is under the LGPL... A fork is a fork, which they have had the freedom to fork OOo because OOo is under the LGPL. Just because their fork is also under the LGPL does not mean t

[marketing] OOo 3.0 Beta 2 feedback extract

2008-07-14 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, on http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOo_3_Beta_feedback we are collecting an extract of the beta feedback from press, community, reviews, forums, etc. please don't hesitate to add stuff if it's not yet listed there, references to articles are welcome. Martin -

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

2008-05-14 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Martin, It would be also interesting to collect all award we collected on a common page. there seems to be an outdated page on http://website.openoffice.org/files/documents/28/1858/awards.html I think we should continue that, try www.openoffice.org/awards/ is

[marketing] OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta feedback

2008-05-14 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, the announcement of the 3.0 Beta give us a good opportunity to gather feedback from various places which are not in our daily scope. Since it is alomost impossible for a single person to view and collect all that feedback, I created a page http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOo_3_Be

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

2008-05-14 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Alexandro Colorado wrote: i wonder if marketing ever get enough coordinance with webdev/art to put this news on the main page. with a fancy graphics. It would be also interesting to collect all award we collected on a common page. there seems to be an outdated page on http://website.openoffic

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

2008-05-05 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Erwin Tenhumberg wrote: * Soon: Wiki Publisher FYI. I played with this one, but it gave me numerous problems. For example, it has problems[1] with Wikipedia, the most popular MediaWiki wiki. [1] http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=88649 Thanks for the link! The Wiki Publisher

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

2008-04-21 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Cor Nouws wrote: Martin Hollmichel wrote (21-4-2008 13:07) Cor Nouws wrote: Andrew Ziem wrote (17-4-2008 23:43) Yes, there was confusion. Not so strange, when you look at the splash screen (of the localized m5 build, it clearly says 3.0 Beta) It's the same we already did fo

Re: [marketing] Providing Links to Other Open Source Applications

2008-04-21 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Michael Devenish wrote: Hi, As a suggestion, could the OOo main page or download page include a section of "other applications", or something similar, which has links to other open source applications that compliment OOo? In particular, Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird / Lightning (Lightning 0

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

2008-04-21 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Cor Nouws wrote: Andrew Ziem wrote (17-4-2008 23:43) On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Martin Hollmichel This was a regular developer snapshot, we never announced this as a beta version. The more important it will be, that we will announce the Beta as Yes, there was confusion. Not so

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

2008-04-17 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Andrew Ziem wrote: Martin Hollmichel wrote: Hi, we are close before 3.0 Beta release, I think we need to prepare some collaterals for this. My two cents 1. For about a month, people have been referring to DEV300_m3 as a beta. It and later versions use the term beta in various places in

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

2008-04-17 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, we are close before 3.0 Beta release, I think we need to prepare some collaterals for this. The release notes are not started yet, http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/New_Features_3.0 ? Should the release notes contain the diff between 2.4 and 3.0 release. IMHO we also need a list

Re: [marketing] README for OOo 3.0 Beta

2008-04-16 Thread Martin Hollmichel
dead line for updating the readme is today and nobody has provided any input yet ? Martin Martin Hollmichel wrote: John McCreesh wrote: Martin Hollmichel wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if the README file on http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/readme.html and included in the installation s

Re: [marketing] README for OOo 3.0 Beta

2008-04-07 Thread Martin Hollmichel
John McCreesh wrote: Martin Hollmichel wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if the README file on http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/readme.html and included in the installation set is still valid for the 3.0 release. I'd like to suggest that we create a wiki page to get a new readme for the

[marketing] README for OOo 3.0 Beta

2008-04-07 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, I'm wondering if the README file on http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/readme.html and included in the installation set is still valid for the 3.0 release. I'd like to suggest that we create a wiki page to get a new readme for the upcomping beta release. deadline for this is April 17th to

Re: [marketing] Missing links in release notes?

2008-03-31 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi Andrew, I was the bad guy who removed all the links out of the document to non .openoffice.org domains. We tried since year that in official OpenOffice.org document there should be no links to non .openoffice.org domain. So by seeing the massive amount of the oooninja.com links was to remo

Re: [marketing] 3.0 splash screen?

2008-03-17 Thread Martin Hollmichel
There seem also be issue 54361 open for this, personally I would like to see a polished splash screen for beta and final release, and not to start with completly new ideas. If we would like to initiate a new contest, we might need to hurry up, I think the final deadline for the final result sh

[marketing] OOo 2.4 release notes

2008-01-23 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, some time ago we agreed that we need better Release notes (). For the 2.3 release there is now a draft in which is based on the data of

Re: [Marketing] Re: [discuss] Re: filming community giving out OOo 2.0

2005-03-21 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, Christian Einfeldt wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 19:55, Gary Edwards wrote: Hi Christian, You didn't give a time or date? Does anyone know when OOo 2.0 is coming out? I haven't heard that anyone knows yet, so we can't really set a date, I guess. In the moment we still get lot of good fe