[marketing-dev] Re: OPENOFFICE FOR TABLETS

On 6 August 2011 04:50, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > hi, > > On 2011-08-05, at 23:47 , Andy Brown wrote: > > > Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > >> Stephen, et al. > >> I replied privately to Mrs Evaggelou, and pointed out that though OOo > 3.3.x is licensed LGPL v3., the trademark for same is owned by

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

Yes, thanks Peter. Hope to see you around the net in future. I must try and get to visit China ;-) Thanks On 7 June 2011 14:31, Elizabeth Matthis wrote: > Dear Peter, > > You have been wonderful as leader in many capacities. Thank you for so much > commitment over the years and for your continu

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

On 2 June 2011 16:42, Gozarks wrote: > Hello again... and thank you (everyone) for keeping this whole > conversation so open and dynamic. As I have been listening, one key > question has evolved for me: Where do I fit in? This because, as > previously noted, I am not a coder... my expertise is ma

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

> > > > 1. TDF governance is adopted by all - in that case OOo community > > Council etc is absorbed into TDF > > 2. OOo CC is adopted by all - in that case TDF is absorbed into OOo CC > > 3. A new organisation is created with a new constitution and > > governance for both communities > > 4. Either

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

On 26 May 2011 17:39, Charles-H. Schulz < charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > Hello Ian, > > Le Thu, 26 May 2011 15:32:22 +0100, > Ian Lynch a écrit : > > > On 26 May 2011 15:18, Roman H. Gelbort > > wrote: > > > > > El 26/05/11 13:

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

On 26 May 2011 15:18, Roman H. Gelbort wrote: > El 26/05/11 13:09, Charles-H. Schulz escribió: > > But it's perhaps not very important at that stage. > +1 > > I'm sorry by mistake the focus. Is better build the new idea for OOo > comunity. :-) > How about gaining agreement on governance. That is

[marketing-dev] Re: ping

One thing that can benefit TDF is the OpenOffice.org "brand". It is much more widely known so simply on that one issue to would be best to bury differences and work together to optimise all the possible resources in a single direction. (This is marketing so appreciation of the importance of buildin

[marketing-dev] Re: New strategies for OO (new subject)

e > issues. They are not secret, they are not hard to comprehend, they are not > hard to digest. We need not just the funds but the chefs, and we need not > jus to continue status quo—that did not work, obviously—but to re-do things, > re-set things, improve: no one liked th

[marketing-dev] Re: ping

On 18 May 2011 23:38, 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

[marketing-dev] Re: ping

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. Ok, there are emotional wounds to heal but talking about possibilities without any

[marketing-dev] Re: Interesting News

On 16 April 2011 04:34, Louis Suarez-Potts 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 in practice. And there are many questions, and I've asked my > former colle

[marketing-dev] Re: Budget for Hirano

On 18 March 2011 05:17, Peter Junge wrote: > Kazunari-san, > > I've been reading your blog and now I want to get your recommendation > which organization to donate to. Some of the large international relief > organizations are not too effective because their rate of administrative > expenses is b

Re: [marketing] EducOOo donated code for ARM Linux port

On 19 February 2011 07:41, eric b wrote: > Hi, > > For your information : > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=117017 > > Linux ARM is extremely promising for the future, and imho it worth to > improve it asap. > Why is MS porting Windows to ARM? - There is at least a significant c

Re: [marketing] Updates....

Welcome to the world of independence :-) PS just working on the EU bid for OOo certification which we will probably submit through Germany. On 11 February 2011 15:33, Benjamin Horst wrote: > Congrats, Louis! > > I look forward to working with you in your new capacity. > > -Ben > > On Feb 11, 20

Re: [marketing] OOO 3.3

On 31 January 2011 15:24, Rev JP Webb (Work) wrote: > To whom it may concern > > I used openoffice 3.0 but I seriously need a proper MS publisher > replacement. Draw does not cut the mustard and Scribus is not user > friendly. > Try Inkscape. For flyers, leaflets etc - I did the colour covers f

Re: [marketing] training oppertunities

On 2 January 2011 10:53, Amal Senerath wrote: > hi, > I am Amal Senarath from Sri Lanka, work as a IT lecturer /trainer > /consultant including Microsoft office. but because of third licence > software most of the companies are struggling. so i would like to train the > people for open office

[marketing] Digital Inclusion

A bit off topic perhaps, but I drafted a unit on Digital Inclusion at the request of e-skills . (e-skills is the UK Sector Skills Council for Business and IT)The idea is to relate open source, and open systems to inclusion. The unit has the potentia

Re: [marketing] Reg about Licences

Yes you can install it, it is open source so you are free to do this and we encourage you to and say thank you. If you can feedback to this list on the number distributed this way it is very helpful to us, the more the better :-). Thanks. On 15 November 2010 07:25, Jayesh Patel wrote: > Hello Si

Re: [marketing] Community - who and where are we? [was: Logo for 10th...]

> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:16 PM, wrote: > >> > Op 9-10-2010 2:15, Bernhard Dippold schreef: >> >> It represents all community members and therefore it represents the >> >> community as a whole. >> > >> > The Community Council was elected to, and is supposed to, represent >> the >> > community.

Re: [marketing] Community - who and where are we? [was: Logo for 10th...]

> Hi Alex, all Hi Bernhard, Congratulations on a very good analysis. OOo has needed a foundation from the outset. It was inevitable, only the timing has been uncertain. If Oracle didn't know this they didn't do proper due diligence. The next question is how to optimise the resources available t

Re: [marketing] OOo 5.0: Some ideas

> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:38 PM, luiz wrote: >> Hi Charles, >> >> Can you write some words about your lecture on "OOo 5.0 Ideas"? >> Our objective is to publish them on special edition of BrOffice.org >> Magazine. The deadline is 19/09. > > I was during the event and aside from what Charles can

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

> > 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 arg

Re: [marketing] Open Source Survey

ld help this too. So if you have time and can fill in and spread the survey further, please do. Thanks. Ian Lynch - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail

Re: [marketing] use OO through the net

> Hi Folks, > > I am wondering that providing openoffice through the internet. My idea is > that > - OO will be distributed to the user through syncing, such as dropbox, > ubuntu one, etc. > - The user will not be necessary to install it. > - They just click on it and use it. (like USB portable app

Re: [marketing] Why does Microsoft fear OpenOffice.org?

> "Rockaway Twp. Library, 61 Mount Hope Rd., is offering a new computer > class > on OpenOffice software. It will cover how to download the software, create > documents and spreadsheets." > http://www.northjersey.com/community/at_the_library/events/80325597.html > The intro to Openoffice is a new c

Re: [marketing] A different Market focus

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 07:44 +, John McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, January 30, 2009 01:16, Graham Lauder wrote: > [snip] > > The Obama administration is not going endorse any product. So in terms of > > raising brand awareness such a letter would be a non event. While the > > Obama > > Administrati

Re: [marketing] Problem in using open office

On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 15:23 +0530, Vikram Gaur wrote: > Hi, > > while using openoffice.org 3.0 on windows platform, some problems are > being faced: > > 1.When two persons are opening same document in network both gets > the document in writable mode. > > 2.In Calc filter utility doesn't

Re: [marketing] Re: [cd-rom] Happy New Year

> ian.ly...@zmsl.com wrote (1-1-2009 20:32) >>> The policy of not touching the front-page is a big mistake since it >>> give >>> us little to work with. Most of the communication is obscure to the >>> user, >>> just like the 'why' campaigns and others. >> >> IMHO if the marketing project means anyt

Re: [marketing] Re: [cd-rom] Happy New Year

> I would say the problem is a lack of concrete discussion; I'm sure > that if someone put forward a [specific] suggestion about what they > think would be good to have on the homepage / some other page(s) on > the OOo website, they won't be ignored. I'm just thinking back to a few years ago when

Re: [marketing] Re: [cd-rom] Happy New Year

> The policy of not touching the front-page is a big mistake since it give > us little to work with. Most of the communication is obscure to the user, > just like the 'why' campaigns and others. IMHO if the marketing project means anything it should have full control over what goes on the front p

Re: [marketing] Mozilla marketing brochure

> Education project should be transversal and not centric on itself, I > really believe in what said Shankarshan, co-ordination is more of > function of collaboration. Motivation of those that are committing work is also important otherwise there is a danger that they take their resources elsewhe

[marketing] Re: [cd-rom] Happy New Year

> A general message to everybody on the list to wish you all a Happy New > Year, and thank you for your contributions to the 'cause'. > > Although the general economy is not in a very good state, this may - in a > sideways direction - increase interest in OpenOffice.org and give us a > chance to ge

Re: [marketing] Thoughts about the help section in OOo

On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 13:58 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > Hello, > > while many of us are digesting the turkey, I was caught by John Mc > Creesh's blog post "the importance of friends": > http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/12/21/the-importance-of-friends/ > Basically this is some result

Re: [marketing] [OT] Merry Xmass

On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 21:26 -0600, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Hi Community, > > Want to congratulate the community for their long efforts and wish them a > merry xmass and that they enjoy another year with OpenOffice.org with much > success in their life. Hi Alex, +1 -- Ian Ofqual Accredite

Re: [marketing] Introduction

On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 17:15 +0100, Rosana Ardila wrote: > Hello All, > > I wanted to introduce myself to the OpenOffice.org marketing project. I > will be working at Sun until the end of April, also helping with the > marketing for OpenOffice.org. And I want to use the time to work with > and i

Re: [marketing] Interesting article

On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 08:29 +1000, Alex Fisher wrote: > The Register had this interesting article this morning. Appears an entire > high > school class failed an IT exam because the submitted the exam in MS Word > format, but the examining board doesn't accept Word documents > >

Re: [marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:02 +, Richard Rothwell wrote: > 2008/12/17 Ian Lynch : > > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:54 +0530, Vikram Gaur wrote: > >> Web version has limited future because of bandwidth. Google will take > >> care of that. > > > > That is like

Re: [marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:54 +0530, Vikram Gaur wrote: > Web version has limited future because of bandwidth. Google will take > care of that. That is like saying MS will take care of the desktop for us! At the moment there are bandwidth limitations but they will gradually ease and those that go i

Re: [marketing] Microsoft ODF plans for Office 2007 SP2

On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:11 +0530, Vikram Gaur wrote: > We should not consider what microsoft says. > Openoffice.org is certainly a better option now. The question is how to get all those MS Office users to know about it. As MS is about to launch a web version of MS Office what have we got to comp

Re: [marketing] Article: US consumers prefer OpenOffice to Google Docs

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 15:32 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote: > US consumers prefer OpenOffice to Google Docs > > http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21729/53/ > > "Hosted, and generally free, office applications are being touted as a > big threat to Microsoft's dominance of the desktop, but a survey of US

[marketing] Malaysia

Just back from Malaysia. They have an odf Olympiad for kids in addition to other strategies to move the entire public sector to open systems. OpenOffice.org has a high profile as part of the national migration strategy. I have blogged it here for anyone interested in some more details. http://w

Re: [marketing] Contact bizdev/developers WAS Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org Community Mapping Project

On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 15:15 +0200, Lars Noodén wrote: > Ian Lynch wrote: > > ...Here are a few. > > Perceived to be controlled by Sun > > Yes, however, keep in mind that much of that perception has been > cultivated through several years of attacks from MS both dire

Re: SV: Re: [marketing] Contact bizdev/developers WAS Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org Community Mapping Project

On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 14:01 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, i meant domain developers, i.e. members of the bizdev project with domain > developer role. The context was clearified in a previous msg. Per Probably the same argument applies. If you want volunteers to commit their time, it has t

Re: [marketing] Contact bizdev/developers WAS Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org Community Mapping Project

On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 12:15 +0100, Per Eriksson wrote: > I'd really suggest that the information is available when not using > JavaScript. > > Talking to Louis and getting more developers is the solution if you ask me. The problem is that there has been a shortage of developers ever since the pr

Re: [marketing] [Fwd: [users] Open Source software workshop]

with Ian > before, and there are some mutual connections - so hopefully we can come > up with a decent solution. I am happy to do this, just depends on the exact date in February. Wolverhampton is only 30 minutes from here. > Regards, > > Andy Loughran > > Alexandro Co

Re: [marketing] Microsoft: OpenOffice better than Google Apps

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 17:33 +0100, John McCreesh wrote: > "Steve Ballmer has insisted that OpenOffice is a far better rival to > Microsoft's Office than Google's applications suite" > http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/microsoft-open-office-a-bigger-rival-than-google-apps-476243 > > I wonder

[marketing] UK Schools open source project

http://www.opensourceschools.org.uk/ OOo3 prominent on the front page -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications A new approach to assessment for learning www.theINGOTs.org - 01827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby

Re: [marketing] [Ann] Call for donation for Education and Mac OS X porting projects

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 15:44 +0200, eric b wrote: > Hi, > > Several OpenOffice.org Projects have no or very limited resources, > like e.g. Mac OS X Aqua port and Education Project (still incubator > project). There were suggestions about setting up sustainable fund raising projects for educati

Re: [marketing] Partnership program

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 01:29 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > A few days back Florian mentioned the idea of a Marketplace for OOo. There > has also been some talk about a partnership program. I guess I want to > bring the discussion back on track. > > What exactly do we need to create this pr

Re: [marketing] Training Module

On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 17:33 -0700, Rj ian Sevilla wrote: > Hello guys, > > Can anyone point me if there's any openoffice training modules? In english.. http://theingots.org/moodle/course/category.php?id=3 You can make an account for free. Any support in making improvements is welcome. This cours

Re: [marketing] Microsoft and the BBC

On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 21:44 +0100, John McCreesh wrote: > Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > This is an awesome video by the FSF showing how much money is spent by > > M$ sponsored organizationson closing up the information distribution. I > > am sure many in this team will find this video amazing to

Re: [marketing] Multimedia Ads of Open Office

On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 01:26 -0700, Rj ian Sevilla wrote: > Is there an available multimedia ads of Open Office? id like to play it on > the FOSS event this coming September... These You Tube Videos might be useful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFge2zTSN-A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55yMCYsG

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org marketing materials?

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 21:06 -0400, Yuhan Fang wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Can anybody point me to something like a whitepaper on OpenOffice.org? > I'm looking for a press-ready report that evaluates OpenOffice.org as > a replacement for the Microsoft Office suite. Ideally, this should be > tar

[marketing] OOo Story to Digg

http://digg.com/microsoft/How_to_make_the_transition_from_MS_Office_to_Open_Office :-) Ian -- New QCA Accredited IT Qualifications www.theINGOTs.org You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ

[marketing] Moodle course for OOo

Hi all, At http://theingots.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=11 There is a Moodle course for teaching/learning Open Office. Anyone is free to make an account and use the course and I can give edit permission to anyone that wants to make improvements to it. You can do a lot simply by logging on as a

Re: [marketing] Re: Marketing Open Office in libraries?

On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 10:59 -0400, Anastasia Diamond-Ortiz wrote: > Thank you for the quick responses. Am I free to create CDs for distribution > to be public? Are there any existing marketing materials I should know > about? Look on the marketing pages of the OpenOffice.org web site. Please do m

Re: [marketing] Marketing Open Office in libraries?

> There are a number of books in print, and there are a lot of materials > available for download. > > Try some of these: > > http://documentation.openoffice.org/ > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation > > http://www.learnopenoffice.org/index.htm > > http://training.bytebo

[marketing] Microsoft come unstuck in Newham

At least part of the deal with Newham was related to compatibility of office software. They were persuaded away from OpenOffice.org and FOSS generally by a last minute cut-price offer from MS. http://digg.com/microsoft/London_council_dumps_Microsoft Ian -- New QCA Accredited IT Qualifications ww

Re: [marketing] How can OOo make you money?

> What's missing is the connection between pure use value and all kinds of > sale value. That's what we've been calling the because effect. You make > money because of free and open code, not just with it. What this really means is that society benefits from FOSS because it is a fundamentally

[marketing] Another UK school taking up OOo

I was doing some initial INGOT training at Sandwich Technology College UK (place where sandwiches were invented :-) ) that has 1000 computers. They intend to migrate 1000 seats to OOo imminently. Just thought that another success is nice to know about :-) I think quite a lot more schools are usin

[marketing] School kids blogging OOo

Thought there might be some interest in high school kids blogging their projects to support primary kids with OOo http://www.theingots.org/community/blog Taken a while but we are now getting quite a lot of new OOo users in schools. Ian -- New QCA Accredited IT Qualifications www.theINGOTs.org

[Marketing] BECTA say industry should be making it easier for schools to use free office software

http://news.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?cfid=1943053&cftoken=dfb63b2fe4e2aa10-60AE7EE6-D18B-168A-734FB4F648A41B15&resID=35287&page=1658&catID=1633 Useful for marketing? Ian -- New QCA Accredited IT Qualifications www.theINGOTs.org You have received this email from the following company: The Learni

Re: [Marketing] 2008 - will it be your year?

On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 10:52 +, John McCreesh wrote: > A reminder that bids to host the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference > (OOoCon) must be submitted by the end of January - see: > http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=345 > > Is your team ready to submit its proposal

Re: [Marketing] Website Upgrade Marketing Input

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 18:57 +1100, André Wyrwa wrote: > Hei, > > On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 22:00 -0800, Mihai Mazilu wrote: > > "Don't fight the change. Use it to your advantage. > > > > OpenOffice.org" > > I can already see us ending up with a page that sais less about what OOo > is than the curre

Re: [Marketing] Two for the price of one

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 08:28 +1300, Graham Lauder wrote: > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 08:22:41 Lars Noodén wrote: > > Many home users and even businesses may not realize that they can have > > OOo installed along side any existing office suites. > > > > -Lars > > > Hmmm, interesting concept, I l

Re: [Marketing] Next Marketing Campaign

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 21:38 +1100, Jonathon Coombes wrote: > On 03/12/2007, at 9:22 PM, Ian Lynch wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 20:56 +1100, Jonathon Coombes wrote: > >> On 03/12/2007, at 7:58 PM, Ian Lynch wrote: > >> SNIP! > >> > >

Re: [Marketing] Next Marketing Campaign

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 20:56 +1100, Jonathon Coombes wrote: > On 03/12/2007, at 7:58 PM, Ian Lynch wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 17:45 +1100, Jonathon Coombes wrote: > > > >>> We need to come up with a campaign aimed at an 18 - 24 yr old > >

Re: [Marketing] Next Marketing Campaign

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 17:45 +1100, Jonathon Coombes wrote: > > We need to come up with a campaign aimed at an 18 - 24 yr old > > demographic > > with best punch for a limited budget. > > > > The idea is to be ready with a pitch when or if further funds become > > available.in the next quarter.

Re: [Marketing] Google Highly Open Participation Contest

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 15:26 -0600, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > I wonder if anyone from the Marketing team has aproached Google so > that OOo can participate in this program. > > We currently need high schoolers to get introduced to the > OpenOffice.org community and I think we should take as

[Marketing] Vehicle for OOo into education

http://ltsblogs.org.uk/connected/2007/11/22/connected-live-video-010-easy-eeepc/#comment-830 Bit about OOo is about halfway in. RM is marketing this to UK schools and they are in 80% of primary. I need to do a deal with them where we give one of these free to every school that becomes an INGOT cen

Re: [Marketing] Your Otto needs you...

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 20:07 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi John, > > > Continuing the theme of attracting developers ... why don't we just > > advertise for them? > > I like that idea. It is humorous and eye-catching! On the topic of Otto We have Ottos club at www.theINGOTs.org/Ottos_

Re: [Marketing] OO - Online Marketing

On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 03:28 -0800, Gianluigi Cuccureddu wrote: > When there are lots of search queries regarding Microsoft problems, > OO can advertise on these to get at least branding and brand > recognition, these "keywords" aren't pricy, lots of coverage and a > positive approach whenever a

Re: [Marketing] Otto Overlays

> > > http://rootcoffee.blogspot.com/2007/11/race-to-save-mexico-flood-victims.html > > These were just rough drafts, I wouldn't do any > stretching on a "finished" image 8^). Otto could be > smaller? (maybe a lot smaller?). I also thought of > having him stand beside the screenshot. I'll do som

Re: [Marketing] OpenDocument Foundation drops support for ODF

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 16:41 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > Hello, > > Ian Lynch a écrit : > > On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 13:09 -0500, Sean W. O'Quin wrote: > > > >> I think that we should put out some sort of counter press release stating > >> that Ope

Re: [Marketing] OpenDocument Foundation drops support for ODF

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 15:04 -0700, RJ Gilson wrote: > --- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Open Document Foundation is just a title. Its > > nothing to do with OOo... > > If they're not related to OOo, how can they be using > the gulls bug and t

RE: [Marketing] OpenDocument Foundation drops support for ODF

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 13:09 -0500, Sean W. O'Quin wrote: > I think that we should put out some sort of counter press release stating > that Open Document Foundation has nothing to do with OpenOffice.org as this > story has now been picked up by Slashdot and there may be a great deal of > confusion

Re: [Marketing] OpenDocument Foundation drops support for ODF

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 11:45 -0500, Sean W. O'Quin wrote: > What is OpenDocument Foundation's relationship to OOo? Have we come back > with a counter release? Open Document Foundation is just a title. Its nothing to do with OOo and now apparently nothing to do with odf. Its members are few in numbe

Re: [Marketing] HiPath OpenOffice

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 22:17 +, jonathon wrote: > Ian wrote: > > > > I realize that trademark registration is expensive. > > Not that expensive. IIRC it was about £250 ($500) to trademark the > > For one country about £250. Multiply that by 244 and you are looking > at roughly 61,000 pounds. N

Re: [Marketing] Microsoft licensing in Schools A BBC Report

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 20:00 -0500, Sean W. O'Quin wrote: > Notable quotes from Becta - British Educational Communications and > Technology Agency on their recent recommendation against Vista and Microsoft > Office for Britain's education system. > > > "Becta's advice to schools considering movin

Re: [Marketing] HiPath OpenOffice

On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 20:16 +, jonathon wrote: > Sharud wrote: > > > As it is confusing with name "OpenOffice" , therefore we should raise this > > issue. > > It is too late now, but > * "OpenOffice.org" should have been trademarked in at least every > major country, prior to being released;

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

On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 18:50 -0700, NoOp wrote: > That said, the largest stumbling block to OOo's lack of market share > isn't price, file compatibility, or other issues raised in the article. > Instead it's the continued lack of a proper support staff and ease of > upgrades/updates. Yes, if the c

Re: [Marketing] Marketshare Memes blog post

On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 07:15 -0700, Benjamin Horst wrote: > I've converted my email of this morning into a blog post on the > subject. Comments and discussion are very welcome there: also, please > Digg the post to see how quickly we can start this meme! Dugg http://www.digg.com/software/The_Real_

Re: [Marketing] Merchandising from Sun funds

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 18:38 -0700, RJ Gilson wrote: > Hi everybody, I'm very new here (mostly an 'art list > guy), but I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents worth 8^) > > Wouldn't it be easier to track if people had to send > something in to get a free CD? Lke a coupon on snack > food items (Frito Lay

Re: [Marketing] Merchandising from Sun funds

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 17:14 +, andylockran wrote: > So the main thing now is strategy. IMHO we would be better finding a > big supplier and in-effect outsourcing the box tokens to them. > However, I'm sure they'll want to know the benefit to them. I suppose > if we say 1,000 gets you a compute

Re: [Marketing] Merchandising from Sun funds

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 17:54 +0200, CTVN wrote: > putting it in cereal boxes is really an excellent way to get it to the > attention of people as "average jane/joe" sees it in the supermarket. this > is a top spot and worth lot. > > regarding the actual use of the cd, perhaps its not that effec

Re: [Marketing] Merchandising from Sun funds

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:34 +, andylockran wrote: > I like the Kellogg's idea for the CDs - has it been raised before - and if so > - what were the pros/cons? It did come up several years ago. Its still a good idea but needs someone who can get to the right people in the company. Sun might be

Re: [Marketing] Merchandising from Sun funds

On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 02:58 +1300, Graham Lauder wrote: > We are tossing a very small stone in a very large pond > I would stick with just the T-Shirts, but again that would depend on our > targets. > > Let's first define our demographic > Decide locations > Establish the message we want to deli

Re: [Marketing] Important news regarding the marketing campagin

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 13:32 +1300, Graham wrote: > Hi Louis, > > Frankly I think we're going about this the wrong way. > > What the project needs to do is to come up with a campaign. Costs, targets, > goals and methodologies and then present that to all the corporate partners > for a contrib

RE: [Marketing] Return to the marketing

was a bit of a joke, hence the smilies :-) > What about a link to the OpenOffice download on the desktop as a first pass? > I think OEM's would be much more receptive to this first step. > > -----Original Message- > From: Ian Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thu

Re: [Marketing] Return to the marketing

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 08:44 +0200, Erwin Tenhumberg wrote: > > I can't see any economic reason for a system builder installing MS Works > > on a computer instead of OOo unless M$ is actually paying them to do > > it. > > System builders might not get money for installing MS Works, but they > migh

Re: [Marketing] Return to the marketing

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 01:28 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:22:49 -0500, Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So how come Dell can put Ubuntu (with OOo in its machines and Lenovo is > > considering doing it for laptops?) Canonical - so as l

Re: [Marketing] Return to the marketing

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:12 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > >> Also the need of more non profit entities in countries so that > >> openoffice.org scale to large deployments. basically we are finding that > >> OOo vendors hav e a hard time justifiying the product and the brand. > > > > Not sure

Re: [Marketing] Return to the marketing

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:31 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:12:27 -0500, Graham Lauder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Welcome back to everybody after what looked like a very successful > > conference. > > > > I'd like to return focus to the Marketing campaign prop

[Marketing] [Fwd: OOXML Digg]

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Re: [Marketing] Re: [documentation-dev] Article: Open-source strategy: Documentation = dollars

On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 12:41 +0200, Frank Peters wrote: > Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > Interesting article: > > > > "Open-source strategy: Documentation = dollars", by Matt Asay > > http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9774567-16.html > > > > Here is a quote from the article: > > "People don't visit

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

On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 18:19 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > Of particular interest, given the marketing priorities we've > identified for OOo2.3, is this: > > "... newly added for SCALE 6X is a Friday conference on > education: “Open Source in Education” which focuses on > opportunities for O

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

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 16:05 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > > Wonder how long before Microsoft join the OOo community ;-) > > > > Oh, I bet this will be a delicious moment... Maybe Google and Oracle would be more likely sooner:-) Imagine Sun, IBM, Google and Oracle combining forces for an o

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

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 22:56 +0900, Kazunari Hirano wrote: > Hi list, > > On 9/10/07, Charles-H. Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Welcome IBM! > Yes, Indeed! > > Please help me translate the very last sentence of the FAQ: > "ODF use dwarfs the use of OOXML." > :) > Can you use more words to e

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

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 15:37 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > > Alexandro Colorado a écrit : > > On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:36:01 -0500, Lars Noodén > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > >>> A Press Release was issued this morning to announce that IBM are > >>> j

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

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 08:21 -0400, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > On 2007-09-10, at 07:57 , Vitor Domingos wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > Finally! IBM's way to say "we love ODF" :) > > ... not, "We love OpenOffice.org?" :-) Why can't they love both? ;-) Ia

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