Re: [marketing] ongoing bugs

2010-08-17 Thread Steven Shelton
g reporting system more difficult than it needs to be. - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design, LLC 17195 Silver Parkway #134 Fenton, MI 48430 www.TwilightMD.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQF

Re: [marketing] ongoing bugs

2010-08-16 Thread Steven Shelton
s it hard for me to explain to someone else. :-) - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design, LLC 17195 Silver Parkway #134 Fenton, MI 48430 www.TwilightMD.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev

Re: [marketing] ongoing bugs

2010-08-16 Thread Steven Shelton
and even though I'm a fairly geeky guy, even *I* don't understand what I'm doing half the time on it. If we want users to report bugs in a meaningful way, I really do think we have to make it easier for them. - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design, LLC 17195 Silver P

Re: [marketing] Can we really release OOo 3.2.1 in its current state ?

2010-04-12 Thread Steven Shelton
rtant to my office) that's supposed to be fixed in that version, but I haven't been able to find a link to even a nightly that contains those fixes to test them. - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [marketing] Sun defends trakemark

2010-02-18 Thread Steven Shelton
rney) is that this is an organized crime outfit and will be hard to identify. - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design, LLC 17195 Silver Parkway #134 Fenton, MI 48430 www.TwilightMD.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG wit

Re: [marketing] The name OpenOffice.org

2010-01-20 Thread Steven Shelton
OOo doesn't? I got SO8 when it was offered as part of the Google pack, and I couldn't really find anything. (But maybe it's just stuff I would never use . . . ) - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design, LLC 17195 Silver Parkway #134 Fenton, MI 48430 www.TwilightMD.com

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

2009-12-09 Thread Steven Shelton
;We can make an office suite better than ever before: better, stronger, faster..." Steven Shelton - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org

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

2009-12-02 Thread Steven Shelton
That's always been one of my pet peeves; if I want to print a table, I have to export it to Calc or something instead of just hitting PRINT.) - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design, LLC 17195 Silver Parkway #134 Fenton, MI 48430 www.TwilightMD.com -BEGIN PGP S

Re: [marketing] Anyone seen this

2009-11-23 Thread Steven Shelton
o be a misunderstanding: Theo is not entitled > to use or manipulate our logo as he has done nor is he entitled claim > that he is in partnership with OpenOffice.org, whatever that would mean. So this is a real product? I thought it was a joke. - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media &

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

2009-08-05 Thread Steven Shelton
ven read it when it's opened again. (One of my few complaints about OOo.) -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design, LLC 17195 Silver Parkway #134 Fenton, MI 48430 www.TwilightMD.com - To unsubscribe,

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

2009-08-03 Thread Steven Shelton
for them. (Our internal files are all saved in ODF, but . . .) It's all about knowing your audience. - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design, LLC 17195 Silver Parkway #134 Fenton, MI 48430 www.TwilightMD.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment

Re: [marketing] most wanted feature on OpenOffice

2009-05-29 Thread Steven Shelton
t, and to just "merge until you run out of records, adding new pages as necessary". There might be a way to do it, but it's far from obvious. I don't see OCR as something that's really a core component of an office suite. I do a lot of OCR input, but I prefer to use an app

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org Version 3.1

2009-05-13 Thread Steven Shelton
an update for it on any of the OpenSuse depositories? - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design, LLC 17195 Silver Parkway #134 Fenton, MI 48430 www.TwilightMD.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - htt

[marketing] Download page broken

2008-07-30 Thread Steven Shelton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FYI: The download page of the OOo site (http://download.openoffice.org/index.html) seems to be broken this morning. Clicking on the links results in no response. Tried multiple times with multiple browsers and no joy. Even rebooted. - -- Steven

Re: [marketing] looking for a job in the US found this...

2008-07-17 Thread Steven Shelton
petitors in this space, > particularly OpenOffice and MySQL." I think you should apply! ;-) - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design, LLC 17195 Silver Parkway #134 Fenton, MI 48430 www.TwilightMD.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Us

Re: [marketing] Marketing Open Office in libraries?

2008-04-24 Thread Steven Shelton
on.openoffice.org/ http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation http://www.learnopenoffice.org/index.htm http://training.bytebot.net/ http://openoffice.resolvo.com/Student/studentIndex.jsp - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.Twiligh

Re: [marketing] Is it legal to sell OpenOffice.org?

2008-03-26 Thread Steven Shelton
sell it along with a support contract, in which case the "product" being offered is actually the support, and not the software. But, again, that's just a suggestion. Overall, I think it's fine and quite useful. - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design, LLC 17195 Sil

Re: [Marketing] "OOo" vs."OO.o"

2007-11-29 Thread Steven Shelton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Caio Tiago Oliveira wrote: > OOo is better to spell than OO.o. > > It is also easier to type... Plus, sentences look kinda funny when they end with OO.o. - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -

Re: [Marketing] Re: OT: Need a Base guru

2007-09-27 Thread Steven Shelton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven Shelton wrote: > I knew there had to be a better discussion group for it, but I > didn't know where it was. Like I said, posted to the Marketing > group (of which I'm already a member) out of desperation. Crap. Meant to se

Re: [Marketing] Re: OT: Need a Base guru

2007-09-27 Thread Steven Shelton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mechtilde Stehmann wrote: > Hello, > > Steven Shelton schrieb: >> This is way off-topic, but I know we've got some hard-core users of the >> software here and I can't seem to find anyone in my neck of the woods >>

[Marketing] OT: Need a Base guru

2007-09-27 Thread Steven Shelton
opic post. It's an urgent matter or else I wouldn't even consider posting a request for help on this list. - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFG+5azKP0FWmSVanERA

Re: [Marketing] Upcoming marketing campaign: Targets and design

2007-09-02 Thread Steven Shelton
ke >> instant sense to people who have never heard of the product (without >> requiring any kind of explanation). So, whatever we replace it with, it >> has to meet those criteria. So as a starting point: "Open up." - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Desig

Re: [Marketing] Upcoming marketing campaign: Targets and design

2007-09-02 Thread Steven Shelton
hout requiring any kind of explanation). So, whatever we replace it with, it has to meet those criteria. - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFG2shXKP0FWmSVanERArTbAJ9d5FYHJS27

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

2006-12-15 Thread Steven Shelton
J David Eisenberg wrote: > In the vein of MacUser, Linux User, etc. magazine: OpenOffice.org User I like that one a lot, actually. Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -=-=-=-=- The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the ba

Re: [Marketing] promoting OOo

2006-10-19 Thread Steven Shelton
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: Hi; I had a major problem converting my old WordPerfect document of about 33 pages to PDF. In desperation I downloaded OpenOffice. For some years I had been advising others to get it but I was fairly happy with WordPerfect. No longer so. I am VERY impressed with y

Re: [Marketing] A REAL CON TRICK

2006-09-28 Thread Steven Shelton
r that you got taken in. From now on, your best bet is to just download the product directly (and for free!) from www.OpenOffice.org Best regards, -- Steven Shelton Attorney at Law (Licensed in Michigan) NOTICE: This message may contain confidential information intended f

Re: [Marketing] Selling the software for profit?

2006-08-09 Thread Steven Shelton
tive about another company in such a way that the other company could make some lame claim that the OOo community was tarnishing its "good name". I *am* a lawyer, you know. I think about these things. *grumbles* Damn lawyers... *grumbles* -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & D

Re: [Marketing] Selling the software for profit?

2006-08-09 Thread Steven Shelton
http://graphicssoft.about.com/b/a/257678.htm http://www.veign.com/blog/2006/01/thinkallcom-think-again.html -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -=-=-=-=- I have the body of a god. Unfortunately, it's Buddha. -=-=-=-=- --

Re: [Marketing] extra office features

2006-07-21 Thread Steven Shelton
uring. (How cool would it be to be able to place illustrations and references to illustrations that all autonumber? Or to be able to refer to Illustration X on Page Y and have X and Y change according to where the text flow put the illustration?) -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.T

Re: [Marketing] OOo in State government

2006-07-18 Thread Steven Shelton
" I doubt it will ever get out of committee. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -=-=-=-=-=- Latest figures show the death rate remaining steady at one per person. -=-=-=-=-=- - T

Re: [Marketing] WhatIsOpenOffice.org - redesign

2006-07-04 Thread Steven Shelton
7;ve moved the Mac / NeoOffice information to a seperate box. I've moved a lot of information into pop-down boxes. This makes the overall page smaller. I've even added explanatory verbage to the donation button. Looks very nice. Jolly good! -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & D

Re: [Marketing] OOo Mac OS X port - VS - NeoOffice.org

2006-07-01 Thread Steven Shelton
" and not "THIS IS BULLSHIT!" I have no idea who eric is. But I think you'll see that I've already disagreed with a lot of his criticism of your site. Nevertheless, you do have some potential liability here that you might want to avoid. Honestly, Chad, you seem to be crea

Re: [Marketing] OOo Mac OS X port - VS - NeoOffice.org

2006-07-01 Thread Steven Shelton
the look (maybe just changing the colours would be enough) and for your own sake, do something about that "Make a Donation" button because you could get yourself into some huge, huge problems with that thing and I don't want to see your emails with an "@DeptOfCorrections.gov"

Re: [Marketing] Presentation about OpenOffice.org API

2006-06-12 Thread Steven Shelton
that do not format correctly; they all default back to Courier if saved in Word format (although they seem to retain their attributes in most other formats as far as I can determine). - -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -BEGIN PGP SIGNA

Re: [Marketing] Get Legal - Help MS - flyer ;-)

2006-05-19 Thread Steven Shelton
nt to help Microsoft" or "Help Microsoft in its battle against software piracy" or "Software piracy is illegal, and it's wrong" spelled out more explicitely (instead of just the button). -- Steven Shelton Twilight

Re: [Marketing] Fake???

2006-05-09 Thread Steven Shelton
to do something to make things right with the customer. If they refuse or simply don't respond, delisting might be appropriate. If a company is using underhanded tactics, they shouldn't be promoted by the OOo project. It taints everyone. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & De

Re: [Marketing] OpenDocument is now ISO 26300

2006-05-03 Thread Steven Shelton
olerate further competition and lock-in below that line. Innovation above that line is desirable - expected, even - but attempts to force upgrade, lock out competition, control my own use of my own data, are all now unacceptable. We have the tools of freedom in our hands. Time to use them. W

Re: [Marketing] Issue about PIM on OOo

2006-05-02 Thread Steven Shelton
Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Tue, 02 May 2006 08:28:06 -0500, Steven Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote: Along the lines of the "What's the roadmap because we want to spread accurate information" query, I remember a year or two ago when this to

Re: [Marketing] Issue about PIM on OOo

2006-05-02 Thread Steven Shelton
e PIM/email client. IIRC, Mozilla's license would allow this to be done. No need to reinvent the wheel; just get it from a different supplier of wheels. Any thoughts on this? I mean, it's such a simple solution that someone else must have come up with this before, so there must be a r

Re: [Marketing] [gmane.comp.openoffice.questions] [moderated] Account complaint for free products.

2006-04-28 Thread Steven Shelton
OOo has nothing to do with it? -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Open office blowup

2006-04-21 Thread Steven Shelton
0,000 RPM under certain circumstances. But rest assured: the myth was that a person was killed by this explosion, which they determined is impossible. Ain't TV grand? -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.Twilig

Re: [Marketing] Think All

2006-04-13 Thread Steven Shelton
cam artists of this ilk all the time and they always have fake info on their websites), we should have someone from the project (preferably in Texas) file a complaint with the Texas Attorney General. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -=-=-=-=-=- 43

Re: [Marketing] Think All

2006-04-13 Thread Steven Shelton
with them. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Typeface used in OOo logo and artwork?

2006-03-19 Thread Steven Shelton
Daniel Carrera wrote: Steven Shelton wrote: Actually, all of this is spelled out in the style manual, which is available in the Art Project pages. I can't find it. Do you have a link? I thought it was linked from the main Art Project page, but apparently it's not. Ooops! (

Re: [Marketing] Typeface used in OOo logo and artwork?

2006-03-19 Thread Steven Shelton
n do about that. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Typeface used in OOo logo and artwork?

2006-03-19 Thread Steven Shelton
t think Toga was the final decision; I think it was Bitstream Vera Sans condensed to something like 78%, but that's just off the top of my head; the actual specs are in the style manual.) -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.T

Re: [Marketing] new download page

2006-03-08 Thread Steven Shelton
I'd also like to see some upgrade information on the installation (or even download) page. For instance, can I just install the new version over 2.0.1, or do I need to uninstall/reinstall? -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design

Re: [Marketing] ITwire article

2006-03-07 Thread Steven Shelton
. Apache/1.3.34 Server at www.itwire.com.au Port 80 -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [E

Re: [Marketing] Some Office 2007 news

2006-02-28 Thread Steven Shelton
nt." Yeah, I suppose it's true that you can just install the modules you want, but as you said: there's not much point, because you save little if any hard drive space. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us

Re: [Marketing] Some Office 2007 news

2006-02-24 Thread Steven Shelton
seperate application modules; when you install OOo, you inherently install Calc, Base, Writer, Draw, Impress, and everything else. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us - To uns

Re: [Marketing] Free or not free?

2006-02-15 Thread Steven Shelton
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openoffice.org http://www.oooforum.org/ Enjoy! -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] qsuestion for Chad

2006-02-07 Thread Steven Shelton
like adults at long last? :-D -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Final call for easter egg oppinion!

2006-02-07 Thread Steven Shelton
#x27;s all one integrated suite, and you can't just download (for instance) the spreadsheet without also getting Base, Impress, etc. *deposits two pennies* -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us

Re: [Marketing] artwork database?

2006-01-25 Thread Steven Shelton
my OOo addiction. Soon, I hope, I will be able to do more than just sit on the sidelines. (I may try tweaking the style guide again.) -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us - To

Re: [Marketing] positioner [was: banner]

2006-01-23 Thread Steven Shelton
" The punctuation is important! -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] banner

2006-01-23 Thread Steven Shelton
re of the volunteer beast that it's been slow to work its way onto the site. (It should also be on the splash screen, etc. in my opinion. Something that could be done as part of the next "microupdate.") -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.T

Re: [Marketing] banner

2006-01-23 Thread Steven Shelton
tioner is "Open. For Business." and not "It is the standard." One of those guidelines we were talking about earlier. :-) -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us ---

Re: [Marketing] posting a request for discussion...

2006-01-21 Thread Steven Shelton
t makes people suspicious. (the nature of human beings, hein?) There was a lot of discussion of that, and that was the inspiration for the "Open. For Business." positioner. The idea is to promote the maturity, reliability, and fea

Re: [Marketing] Investing In Research & Development

2006-01-10 Thread Steven Shelton
ect to see a return on that investment on their own terms and timescale. I think that what he was saying is that it's free to the company that takes advantage of it, not to the people who actually do the R&D. -- Steven Shelton T

Re: [Marketing] OpenOffice and a purchasable application

2006-01-10 Thread Steven Shelton
d the person responsible for it if that is needed. That's fine. The "open" on "OpenOffice.org" refers to the fact that it's open source with a very open license. He could even rebrand it and sell it himself if he wanted to do so. -- Steven Shelton Twiligh

Re: [Marketing] A Christmas Present for OOo

2005-12-21 Thread Steven Shelton
at this point, even if they were true. (And, to be honest, I couldn't care less if they are or not.) So grow up, take it off list, and stop spamming me with this crap. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us

Re: [Marketing] The "org" extension to OpenOffice.org

2005-12-10 Thread Steven Shelton
ciated with the project from time to time. Nevertheless, I'm not 100% sure I'd vote to change the name at this point just because it's already established. (Not that a vote is actually imminent, or even a possibility.) I hate name changes. The Mozilla project has driven me ma

Re: [Marketing] Vote for official positioner (slogan) over

2005-12-08 Thread Steven Shelton
s was a brilliant move because, as I said a bit ago, a major source of resistance to change is the fear of having to learn something new. OpenOffice.org really needs to have an option that allows existing MS Office users to have their menus, shortcuts, etc. completely replicate MS Office. Yes, MS O

Re: [Marketing] eBay selling Open Office and other freeware cd's

2005-12-07 Thread Steven Shelton
org can be distributed in any way one likes, including sales. Any software licensed under what's known as the "GPL" or "LGPL" can be repackaged and redistributed in just the way you described. Most likely, there's no offense here. But we do appreciate you looking

Re: [Marketing] FW: MM - Moving from Geekland to the Mainland with CompareSoft

2005-11-30 Thread Steven Shelton
areWeb is Firefox, Thunderbird, and Nvu, and that "ComparePublish" is Scribus. What is "Gizmo Phone"? -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -=-=-=-=-=- Isn't having a s

Re: [Marketing] Vote for official positioner (slogan) reopened [was: Positioner voting not closed tomorrow]

2005-11-27 Thread Steven Shelton
?list=dev&by=thread&from=1053380) [snip] I'd like to end the voting next Thursday - and with many people joining in the vote we'll get a result that can be recommended as "official" positioner for OpenOffice.org 2.0 Oops! didn't see this! My votes remain the

Re: [Marketing] the beginning of the end for closed documents

2005-11-24 Thread Steven Shelton
l, but if they do actually follow through, then I say good for them and I'll have to give them some props for doing the right thing. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us - To

Re: [Marketing] Microsoft to announce open-standard XML file format support at midnight CET

2005-11-21 Thread Steven Shelton
en standard." It's the same game they played with HTML standards. Nothing new. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -=-=- Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery. -=-=- --

Re: [Marketing] Top national advocate for the disabled sets terms for endorsement of OpenDocument Format

2005-11-18 Thread Steven Shelton
Chad Smith wrote: I agree, an open format, especially an XML based one, *Should* be more accessible - but, it's not. JAWS reevents itself with each edition of MS Office, because *that* is what most people use. All the more reason MS should support ODF . . . -- Steven Shelton Twilight

Re: [Marketing] Literature

2005-11-16 Thread Steven Shelton
r platform." *shrug* I'm about as anti-MS as one can get, but not everything is a conspiracy. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -=-=-=-=-=- Hard work has a future payof

Re: [Marketing] Literature

2005-11-16 Thread Steven Shelton
the business community, it is still widely used and probably holds the dominant position. I don't see why a developer who is already creating a citation system that only runs in Windows wouldn't want to develop a citation app for the Windows version of OOo. -- Steven Shelton Tw

Re: [Marketing] Buttons/Codes for Blog Users?

2005-11-10 Thread Steven Shelton
179/OOo-v2.0-Banner2.jpg http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/31180/OOo-v2.0-Banner(MaxCompat).jpg http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/31181/OOo-v2.0-Banner(COSOS).jpg http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/31182/OOo-v2.0-Banner1.j

Re: [Marketing] Buttons/Codes for Blog Users?

2005-11-10 Thread Steven Shelton
Here comes the marketing slogan!"), so make sure you pay attention to what they say before you link them. (The "Here comes the marketing slogan!" buttons should be modified to include an actual positioner.) Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAM

Re: [Marketing] nice launch

2005-10-21 Thread Steven Shelton
Sam Hiser wrote: Congratulations to everyone for a fine 2.0 launch! -Sam Here, here! Huzzah! -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -=-=- Math and alcohol don't mix. Don't dr

Re: [Marketing] Demand OpenDocument! Sign the petition.

2005-10-21 Thread Steven Shelton
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Steven Shelton wrote: I saw this on Jean Hollis Weber's blog at O'Reilly and I referenced it in my blog (although I couldn't trackback to it because I couldn't find a trackback URL on her page). What's a trackback URL? A trackback

Re: [Marketing] Demand OpenDocument! Sign the petition.

2005-10-21 Thread Steven Shelton
Chad Smith wrote: On 10/21/05, Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steven Shelton wrote: I saw this on Jean Hollis Weber's blog at O'Reilly and I referenced it in my blog (although I couldn't trackback to it because I couldn't find a trackback URL

Re: [Marketing] Demand OpenDocument! Sign the petition.

2005-10-21 Thread Steven Shelton
k to it because I couldn't find a trackback URL on her page). This is very cool, although I'm sure Microsoft will say "these aren't signatures from our customers; these are people who have no intention of buying our product." Any excuse, any excuse. -- Steven Shelton Tw

Re: [Marketing] Fox News Airs Rebuttals

2005-10-13 Thread Steven Shelton
ociation for Competitive Technology and 60Plus Association. "Mr. Prendergast's affiliation with Microsoft should have been stated clearly in the article." On the other hand, we should have expected him to have an agenda the moment his column appeared. After all, it *is* Fox News

Re: [Marketing] Abiword and OpenDocument

2005-10-07 Thread Steven Shelton
r the core. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -=-=-=-=-=- witlag, n.: the delay between delivery and comprehension of a joke. -=-=-=-=-=- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] theme for 2.0 promotion

2005-09-27 Thread Steven Shelton
st communites have local ministerial alliances where lots of churches from different denominations get together. There are tons of places where NFP managers and directors go to get training and learn from each other. The best approach, I think, would be to get the message out through pre

Re: [Marketing] Please vote: "Official" positioner for OOo2.0?

2005-09-26 Thread Steven Shelton
) I like that, too. :-) AND PEOPLE, IT'S "SHELTON"! WITH A FRICKIN' "T"!!! *maniacal laugh* -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -=-=-=-=-=- Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. -=-=-=-=-=- ---

Re: [Marketing] No interest in "official" positioner?

2005-09-26 Thread Steven Shelton
da item is scheduled for discussion? -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -=-=-=-=-=- 668: The Neighbor of the Beast. -=-=-=-=-=- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Please vote: "Official" positioner for OOo2.0?

2005-09-23 Thread Steven Shelton
Steven Shelton wrote: My votes would be: 3 - Open. For business. 3 - The New Office Suite Standard 1 - Free Your Files [Although I have a concern that this might already be used by soemone] 1 - Upgrade to Open Standards 1 - Upgrade to Data Freedom 1 - Give Freedom a 2.0nd Chance Just

Re: [Marketing] Please vote: "Official" positioner for OOo2.0?

2005-09-22 Thread Steven Shelton
My votes would be: 3 - Open. For business. 3 - The New Office Suite Standard 1 - Free Your Files [Although I have a concern that this might already be used by soemone] 1 - Upgrade to Open Standards 1 - Upgrade to Data Freedom 1 - Give Freedom a 2.0nd Chance Steven Shelton Twilight Media

Re: [Marketing] Please vote: "Official" positioner for OOo2.0?

2005-09-22 Thread Steven Shelton
your Office." (A, B, C, D) "The New Office Suite Standard" (A, D, E) "Free. In every sense." (A, C, F) "Today's Office. Tomorrow's Standard." (A, B, D) "Open Doors. Open Source. OpenOffice.org" (A, C, E) Steven Shelton Twilight Media

Re: [Marketing] "Official" positioner for OOo2.0?

2005-09-19 Thread Steven Shelton
collected, but my suggestions would be: "Open. For business." "Your company. Your data. Your Office." "Compatible with your Office." "The New Office Suite Standard" "Free. In every sense." "Today's Office. Tomorrow's Standard.&q

Re: [Marketing] "Official" positioner for OOo2.0?

2005-09-19 Thread Steven Shelton
The better course might be for the NL projects to each come up with a positioner that works well with that language. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -=-=- The latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make

Re: [Marketing] "Official" positioner for OOo2.0?

2005-09-19 Thread Steven Shelton
like "McDonalds - I'm loving it" That's exactly what it is. It's sometimes referred to as a "slogan", but the proper term is "positioner" because it's intended to carve out the product's position in the market. -- Steven Shelto

Re: [Marketing] "Official" positioner for OOo2.0?

2005-09-18 Thread Steven Shelton
Bernhard Dippold wrote: I'd propose to collect possible phrases in the next three or four days and then to vote for the best. The result could be integrated in the Style Guide and decided upon by the Community Council during the OOoCon at Koper. Where would you like the ideas sent? S

Re: [Marketing] Comments on Sep 7, "U offers nearly free Office suite" article

2005-09-14 Thread Steven Shelton
e problems as both innevitable and re-curring. Of course, just to play devil's advocate, OOo underwent some fairly significant menu and functionality changes between v 1 and v 2.... -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -=-=- Free Love! (Off

Re: [Marketing] Re: what do you think of Massachusetts' proposal to adopt OpenDocument format

2005-09-03 Thread Steven Shelton
e resistance to using OOo. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -=-=-=-=-=- Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often. -=-=-=-=-=- - To unsubscribe,

Re: [Marketing] Re: what do you think of Massachusetts' proposal to adopt OpenDocument format

2005-09-03 Thread Steven Shelton
ll send a strong message that it no longer wishes to do business with the state, which I think would be a big mistake for the company." *** This is something that mainstream people (not just us "geek" types) can appreciate. The state is really saving a lot of money here. Joe T

Re: [Marketing] MassGov declares for OpenDocument

2005-09-02 Thread Steven Shelton
s: we have more than one set of eyes looking it over, and everyone is on the same page (at least if they read their email). -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -=-=- Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. -=-=- --

Re: [Marketing] article: "LinuxWorld 2005 Thursday"

2005-08-16 Thread Steven Shelton
s often as not gets published without any changes at all. Of course, a lot of this depends on the outlet you're sending it to, as well. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -=-=-=-=-=- Oo, baby.talk nerdy to me! -=-=-=-=-=-

Re: [Marketing] [Fwd: [newsletter] MS lochs down Scots Police deal]

2005-08-15 Thread Steven Shelton
Lars D. Noodén wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Steven Shelton wrote: I get this a lot, myself. The impression really comes off as being one that open source supporters are so partisan about anything anti-Microsoft that they are blind to some of the real advantages offered by some Microsoft

Re: [Marketing] [Fwd: [newsletter] MS lochs down Scots Police deal]

2005-08-15 Thread Steven Shelton
objectivity, and without objectivity there is no credibility. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Window closing on Office 2003

2005-07-21 Thread Steven Shelton
ut I think there is case to be made for something like this to be done in collaboration with Sun so that the certification would cover both SO 8 and OOo 2.0 Again, brilliant. And, to be honest, it also helps people overcome the skepticism that "something free can't be any good."

Re: [Marketing] Experience at the NEA Conference

2005-07-08 Thread Steven Shelton
think) they assume the kids will crash the whole thing anyway. The hope is that when the kids get used to it, they'll convert the parents. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us -=-=- Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situati

Re: [Marketing] OpenOffice.org idea/suggestion

2005-03-25 Thread Steven Shelton
MS Office/Internet Explorer. I would be interested to know what you think about this. Thanks, I think this is already going on, isn't it? I know there's been some collaboration between the two projects. -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOA