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

Hi Alexandro, On 25/05/2011 23:02, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Volker Merschmann merschm...@gmail.com mailto:merschm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alexandro, 2011/5/25 Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.org mailto:j...@openoffice.org: OOo is

Re: [Marketing] free content open office educational material

Hi Catharina, Catharina Bethlehem wrote: We started building our open course project: http://www.open-of-course.org. Now we are looking for good and free content courses/tutorials on Open Office. In English as well as in other languages. In French, you'll find our documentation here :

Re: [Marketing] Language Packs ( Was: openoffice apparel)

Hi Tony, Charles, Charles Schulz wrote: Hello Tony, Tony Pursell a écrit : Luckily, I do know where to get it from (en_GB), but I have come across more than one case where someone has complained at the lack of a 'British' English and had to be pointed in the right direction. Its one of a

Re: [Marketing] openoffice apparel

Hi Cor, all, Cor Nouws wrote: Ian Lynch wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 10:49 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: I guess lack of time and appropriate experience are important factors? At the time I was exploring this it was more arguments about not having a bank account to put money in, not saying how

[Marketing] Dzongkha version of Debian

Hi all, Not sure this news has passed here : http://www.fr.debian.org/News/2006/20060719 It seems that they meet issues with OOo. Do you know if we are in contact with them ? Kind regards Sophie - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[Marketing] Keep the car in French

Hi, Thanks to Cyprien Gay help, I finally manage to get the FR keep the car page online : http://fr.openoffice.org/keep_car-fr.html I'll add the Further reads links this evening Kind regards Sophie - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[Marketing] Why do we need users ?

Hi all, I would like to open a new discussion based on some thoughts I had reading the thread about Chad site. The object of my message said all: why do we need users in a development project ? Or why are we trying to attract them before having a robust product. This community exist since

Re: [Marketing] Taking an ad in NYC's free Metro newspaper

Hi Charles, all, Charles Schulz wrote: [...] Metro also exists here in France (Paris) although I don't have any contact with them. They really do have a big audience... We had an info in 20 minutes (last year I think), I'm going to write to Metro, it's a great idea :) For information we

Re: [Marketing] Donating

Hi Jean, all Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Charles Schulz wrote: Jean Hollis Weber a écrit : eric b wrote: Since end 2005, I'm searching funds, hardware, developers (all are volunteers, and receive no money). Eric, please tell us how people who want to donate money to your Mac porting project

Re: [Marketing] Donating

Hi Daniel, Daniel Carrera wrote: [...] It would not be fair to accept money that the donor intended for one thing and use it on something else. Especially without the donor's permission. What's important to you may not coincide with what's important to me (indeed, if you want to spend my

Re: [Marketing] Donating

Hi Ian, Ian Lynch wrote: On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 14:29 +0200, Sophie Gautier wrote: [...] The real issue is transparency. Its not so much about who decides and how, but that all decisions are public knowledge. Charities and public organisations usually publish their accounts and make it clear

Re: [Marketing] Taking an ad in NYC's free Metro newspaper

Hi Adam, Adam Moore wrote: On 6/9/06, eric b [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Again I ask you to respect our work, and stop the provocation : NeoOffice is something else, refuses to contribute for OopenOffice.org project, and has even destructive behaviour against our work. Now now Eric

[Marketing] Clé en main

Hi all, For information, the Regional Center of documentation depending on Education National and Paris Academy in France is selling a 512 MB USB Key containing OS softwares : http://crdp.ac-paris.fr/index.htm?url=d_productions/production_cle-en-main.htm [Clé en main means ready to use in

[Marketing] Re: [native-lang] [Fwd: [art] Stats]

Hi Charles, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hello John, John McCreesh a écrit : Apologies for the cross-posting, but it's I like to share good news Seb : thanks for these informations. Thanks for these news! Sophie, did you know these figures? Not the exact numbers but yes I was aware of them.

Re: [Marketing] Draft OpenOffice.org Solutions page / Input welcome!

Hi Erwin, Erwin Tenhumberg wrote: Hi all, Since many (potential) OpenOffice.org users are looking for complementary tools and applications (both open source and commercial), I put together a draft OpenOffice.org Solutions page: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Solutions

Re: [Marketing] new co-lead

Hi all, Jacqueline McNally wrote: Hello I would like to announce a new co-lead of the Marketing Project, Cristian Driga. As one of the most active contributors I'm sure you will agree that Cristian needs little or no introduction. A great news :) I wish you all the best for your new job

Re: [Marketing] Article: Why technical writers aren't using FOSS

Hi John, all, John McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 09:06 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: Cristian Driga wrote: Thoughts ? I think we should pick a set of market segments where it's easier to sell FOSS. What I got from Bruce's article was not that Linux on the desktop is hopeless, but

[Marketing] Final version of chart enhancement document

Hi all, Just to let you know that a final version of the list of wished enhancements is now available at graphics.openoffice.org website here : http://graphics.openoffice.org/files/documents/12/3278/List_of_whished_enhancements_for_Charts.odt You'll find in it a consolidation of what is

Re: [Marketing] Re: [native-lang] List of feature for 2.0.3

Hi Bernhard, all, Bernhard Dippold wrote: [...] It's very useful from marketing point of view. Thanks, I'm happy that it will help :) Would you (or anybody else?) be able to update a wiki page as well? Martin has already started a wiki page but I don't have time to update it, you'll find

[Marketing] Document about chart module enhancement

Hi all, Just to let you know that I have added a new draft of chart enhancement module document on this issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=61147 This might have some interest for marketing too. During our last conference we have done a quick demo of the new chart

Re: [Marketing] Re: Getting OOo onto all school desktops in the UK

Hi all, Daniel Carrera wrote: Jonathon Blake wrote: It could be an option to see if Ubuntu, or other linux distributors, There is a fork of Ububtu that caters just for the eduction market. Depends on how you define fork because it's done by the Ubuntu team at Canonical. It's the exact

Re: [Marketing] Re: Getting OOo onto all school desktops in the UK

of some softwares is well known for most of you :) http://www.logiciels-libres-premierdegre-sceren.fr/IMG/liste_logicielsCD-Rom.pdf May be this initiative could be a basis to a more international approach with Apple as sponsor ? Kind regards Sophie Sophie Gautier wrote: Hi all

Re: [Marketing] making MarCons' life easier

Hi Jacqueline, Cristian, all, Cristian Driga wrote: Hi Jacqueline, Thanks for your message. My belief is that the purpose of an issue when it arises is to give us the opportunity to improve things. I realize how difficult must have been all these things for you. I associate myself to your

Re: [Marketing] Event HEVs

Hi Florian, Florian Doche wrote: Hello. I'm responsible for the poststudies in computing at the University of Applied Sciences (Haute Ecole Valaisanne - HEVs) and want to organize an event to introduce MS Office 12 and OpenOffice for SMI's in the french speaking part of Switzerland. Our goal

Re: [Marketing] Setting a marketing goal.

Hi Steven, Here is the link : http://www.frappr.com/ooodev Kind regards Sophie Sophie Gautier wrote: [...] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] URGENT: MP Wiki pages naming and basic rules

Alexandro Colorado wrote: To follow up, should the Marketing category be added to the pages that are part of the Art Project? Likewise, does the category Art Project need to be established for all of those pages as well? Should Art depend on still depend on marketing? I though originally

Re: [Marketing] URGENT: MP Wiki pages naming and basic rules

Hi Ian, Ian Lynch wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 21:48 +0100, Sophie Gautier wrote: The aim of educ project here is to gain more schools and universities use OOo, not to make them contribute and share their tools and knowledge. Actually it is an aim to get them to do this and that is one

Re: [Marketing] OpenOffice.org Foundation

Hi Chad, Chad Smith wrote: [...] There have been people on the list who have requested it, but I haven't seen any official request from the community for this to happen. It would be nice, though. I just hope we wouldn't lose all the stuff that Sun does for us. We have not ended discussion

Re: [Marketing] qsuestion for Chad

Hi Steven, Please, learn how to quote your mails. Steven Pauwels wrote: [...] Can you tell me how to subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] found no link on the website. Send an empty mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kind regards Sophie

Re: [Marketing] qsuestion for Chad

Hi Daniel, Daniel Carrera wrote: [...] This isn't very helpful. If Steven doesn't know how to quote emails, saying learn how to quote your mails doesn't help, because he doesn't know what you're talking about. It's like if someone tells me fix your grammar without telling me what grammar

Re: [Marketing] marketing issues

Hi Steven, Steven Pauwels wrote: [...] You lost me here. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you explain what the topic of this list is? NLC : Native Language Confederation is an important part or OpenOffice.org representing the Native Language projects. Please see our site :

Re: [Marketing] spring IRC meetings

Hi all, Erwin Tenhumberg wrote: I would like to call the first meeting for Thursday 8 September at 1300 UTC. See: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html to see how this fits with your schedule. The first agenda I would like to include: - 2.0 promotion progress - OOoCon 2005 -

[Marketing] Software freedom day is this week !

Hi all, Last month, Jacqueline pointed the Software freedom day to subscribe our team. This is this week (http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/)on the 10th. You can check here what is happening in your country : http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/Team_Pages Have a nice

Re: [Marketing] MassGov declares for OpenDocument

Hi all, Bernhard Dippold wrote: Hi all, [...] There is a German article at heise.de, one of the largest German news forums. Their news generally are spread quite broad in Germany so we stopped our work on our own press release. If anybody is interested in German text, here is the link:

Re: [Marketing] Questions around events

Hi Erwin, I'm not sure you're questions are adressed to NL people, but some reflections from my own experience in attending to several confs and managing booth for OOo. Erwin Tenhumberg wrote: Hi all, Due to the recent discussions there seem to be more general questions that need to be

Re: [Marketing] mailing lists

Hi Jacqueline, all, Jacqueline McNally wrote: The purpose of this message is to clarify the purpose of the Marketing Project lists, and for those that are new to [EMAIL PROTECTED], create awareness of specific activity lists and other marketing related lists within OOo. Thanks a lot for this

Re: [Marketing] OpenOffice.org 2.0 Standard Presentation???

Hi Erwin, Erwin Tenhumberg wrote: Hi all, For OpenOffice.org 1.1 some community members and I created a standard presentation to be used as the basis for any kind of presentation about OpenOffice.org. AFAIK, the presentation even got translated into other languages than English. Three

Re: [Marketing] OOo 2.0 impress template

Hi John, John McCreesh wrote: [...] Sorry for the delay. Sorry too for the delay, The translators' kit is now available at http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/26153/translators_kit.tgz. There's also a new copy of the Product Flyer attached to the same issue - I've added the

Re: [Marketing] New Fr site look was [Fwd: OpenDocument Challenges]

Hi Charles, all, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hi, thanks to Sophie, the fr web site is redesigned for the 2.0 communication. http://fr.openoffice.org/about-information.html http://fr.openoffice.org/Marketing/nouveaute2.0.html Thanks for pointing it. This is a work in progress, we hope to finish this

Re: [Marketing] SpreadOpenOffice - Project

Hi Justin, all, Justin Clift a écrit : Charles-H.Schulz wrote: snip Yes, and it should be up to the Marketing Project to coordinate such an initiative, not just up to an unknown volunteer who seems to have landed here just 4 days ago and who doesn't even know how we work and our historical

Re: [Marketing] SpreadOpenOffice - Project

Hi Frando, Could you please post also on [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? With the on-going work NLC leads have with 2.0, their is no chance we could follow the discussion here and spreading OOo is part of our community activities. Currently it's impossible for me to give any feedback to my community about

Re: [Marketing] SpreadOpenOffice - Project

Hi Charles, all, charles-h.schulz a écrit : Hello, I'd like to tell you that I'm very dissatisfied with all this. In fact, Frando, I still never saw you on any of the native-lang mailing lists. You never talked to any of the NLC communities. Frankly, I've tried to read most of the mails of

Re: [Marketing] OOo and Java

Hi all, Louis Suarez-Potts a écrit : O.k., here is the statement! Where should we put it? You mean besides http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-questions.html#licensing Could you make the NLC aware of it when it's in place ? Thanks in advance Kind regards Sophie

Re: [Marketing] OOo and Java

Hi Christophe, Christophe Combelles a écrit : I once asked if it was possible to replace java with python : http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=discussby=threadfrom=38085 You should look at Sander Vesik's (from Sun) answers. Seems that time is passing by, Sander is no more at Sun

Re: [Marketing] Questions OO

Hi Nathalie, all, As Nathalie seems to be French, I'll answer to her demand off list and in French. Kind regards Sophie Halacan wrote: Paris, the 6 March 2005 [...] -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.1 - Release Date:

Re: [Marketing] Re: NEA Annual Meeting

Hi Adam, Adam Moore wrote: They have many people asking for discounts. So it is tough. And as far as if we want to deal with these people the conference has 15,000 of the most influential educators in the United States. Big policy is made there. It may be the best place in the United States

Re: [Marketing] Re: Open Office/OpenOffice.org/OOo

Hi Daniel, I didn't read all the thead, as Jacqueline point it, this discussion seems like Philip Glass music, very repetitive ;) [...] Promouncing OpenOffice.org is very cumbersome for me. It might not be for your friend, but for many people it is. Furthermore, it hurts branding to use a