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

2010-07-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Cor, Cor Nouws wrote on 2010-07-05 23.28: I want to express my special thanks to Florian, who did a great job in this discussion. In fact a difficult situation, potentially embarrasing, but with a good end. Also I do very much appreciate the attitude and understanding of Maho, Kazuhiro et al

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

2010-07-05 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, Florian Effenberger wrote (01-07-10 11:49) KAZUHIRO TERADA wrote on 2010-07-01 03.06: No, I'm not discouraged. This is a great opportunity to discuss people in the project. indeed. It's a discussion we should have done earlier before, but I'm glad that we managed it now :-) I want

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

2010-07-02 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Kaz, KAZUHIRO TERADA wrote on 2010-07-02 06.07: Thanks for your treatment. I hope I can attend OOoCon this year, but the moments I'll not be able to leave Japan because of work. I wanna see you one day! would be fantastic! If you attend, let me know, I'll definitely like to give you someth

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

2010-07-01 Thread KAZUHIRO TERADA
Hi, Florian > By any chance, will you attend OOoCon in Budapest? Maybe I at least can > bring a t-shirt and some other nice merchandise for you ;) Thanks for your treatment. I hope I can attend OOoCon this year, but the moments I'll not be able to leave Japan because of work. I wanna see you one

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

2010-07-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Kaz, KAZUHIRO TERADA wrote on 2010-07-01 03.06: No, I'm not discouraged. This is a great opportunity to discuss people in the project. indeed. It's a discussion we should have done earlier before, but I'm glad that we managed it now :-) I understood. What we need is to clarify fund iss

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

2010-07-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Kaz, KAZUHIRO TERADA wrote on 2010-07-01 03.10: An additional comment. I accepted your rejection. thanks a lot. Again, I'm sorry that it just "hit" you, but I'm glad you understand the reasons. By any chance, will you attend OOoCon in Budapest? Maybe I at least can bring a t-shirt and s

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

2010-06-30 Thread KAZUHIRO TERADA
Hi, Florian An additional comment. I accepted your rejection. Thank you. KAZ 2010/7/1 KAZUHIRO TERADA : > Hi, Florian > > Thanks for your comment. > >> I hope you are not discouraged because of the discussion that just came up. >> I'm glad you contributed to the project, and I really value your

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

2010-06-30 Thread KAZUHIRO TERADA
Hi, Florian Thanks for your comment. > I hope you are not discouraged because of the discussion that just came up. > I'm glad you contributed to the project, and I really value your > contribution, so please don't mistake this discussion as a criticism to your > work. No, I'm not discouraged. Th

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

2010-06-30 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Kaz, I hope you are not discouraged because of the discussion that just came up. I'm glad you contributed to the project, and I really value your contribution, so please don't mistake this discussion as a criticism to your work. It's great to see things going on and people contributing to

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

2010-06-22 Thread Maho NAKATA
From: Alexandro Colorado Subject: Re: [marketing] Fund request for top page renewal at ja.oo.o, Terada-san Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:42:46 -0500 > point on not getting to hang on presedent. I dont see any problem > saying "yes" to JA and later on saying "NO" to some o

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

2010-06-21 Thread KAZUHIRO TERADA
Hello, All I'm KAZUHIRO TERADA, a supplier of this issue. As Nakata-san mentioned, I just joined in JA marketing project, thus I don't know anything about backgrounds of this issue. If I mention anything unreasonable, I say "forgive me" before doing so. What I did for this work is ... Work Detail

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

2010-06-20 Thread Goran Rakic
У нед, 20. 06 2010. у 23:42 -0500, Alexandro Colorado пише: > We are not such worried if in the past it was done or not. Which is my > point on not getting to hang on presedent. The big difference comparing to Internship and other programs is that there is a defined process agreed on by the Commun

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

2010-06-20 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Ian wrote: >> On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 01:19 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: >> >>> >>> Starting to pay individual work is a real danger we should be careful of. >> >> Agreed but... >> >>> Mozilla is qu

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

2010-06-20 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Ian wrote: > On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 01:19 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > >> >> Starting to pay individual work is a real danger we should be careful of. > > Agreed but... > >> Mozilla is quite hard to compare with us. I know many of the Mozilla >> folks, and th

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

2010-06-20 Thread Alexandro Colorado
would love to hear >> what exactly has been done and how much time it took approximately. > For that, I asked terada-san. > > Thanks >  Nakata Maho > > From: Florian Effenberger > Subject: Re: [marketing] Fund request for top page renewal at ja.oo.o, > Terada-san

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

2010-06-20 Thread Ian
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 20:06 +0800, Peter Junge wrote: > > I think Ian's idea is to top-up OOo community budgets with fundings from > the EU. That would indeed be great. I'm not an expert on that but AFAIK > publicly funded projects usually include temporary, sometimes part time, > employment op

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

2010-06-20 Thread Ian
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 15:47 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Setting up this, however, requires lots of time and money, Not really, a foundation was set up by the OpenDocument fellowship in the US and we did a not for profit company limited by guarantee as a not for profit here in the UK - cos

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

2010-06-20 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Ian, Ian wrote on 2010-06-20 13.47: So why has an OOo foundation never been set up? If one had been set up 10 years ago maybe we would have millions of dollars to spend. If started now maybe in 10 years we won't be having the same conversation ;-) But really that is down to the CC as I can't

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

2010-06-20 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Peter Junge wrote on 2010-06-20 14.06: I think Ian's idea is to top-up OOo community budgets with fundings from the EU. That would indeed be great. I'm not an expert on that but AFAIK publicly funded projects usually include temporary, sometimes part time, employment options. I agree to t

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

2010-06-20 Thread Peter Junge
Hi Florian, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Ian, Ian wrote on 2010-06-20 09.34: [...] One way to pay volunteers for work would be for a group of volunteers to raise money eg through an EU grant or other enterprise and use it to target specific parts of the project. That is really no different

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

2010-06-20 Thread Ian
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 12:50 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi Ian, > > Ian wrote on 2010-06-20 09.34: > > >> Mozilla is quite hard to compare with us. I know many of the Mozilla > >> folks, and they are in a much more luxury situation than we are. > > > > The question is why? What is it abou

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

2010-06-20 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Cor, Cor Nouws wrote on 2010-06-20 13.13: For the Japanese project it is an unlucky situation that they apparently were not aware of this. one more point to add: If funding can help a local community to strongly grow or start, then there may be exceptions. If we can invest some money and

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

2010-06-20 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Florian, Florian Effenberger wrote (20-06-10 01:19) Let's see what others say. I agree with your practical explanation of and vision on the situation. It is how we work. For the Japanese project it is an unlucky situation that they apparently were not aware of this. Two other issues: a

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

2010-06-20 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Ian, Ian wrote on 2010-06-20 09.34: Mozilla is quite hard to compare with us. I know many of the Mozilla folks, and they are in a much more luxury situation than we are. The question is why? What is it about Mozilla that is different from OOo? the difference is that Mozilla 1. has a fou

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

2010-06-20 Thread Ian
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 01:19 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > > Starting to pay individual work is a real danger we should be careful of. Agreed but... > Mozilla is quite hard to compare with us. I know many of the Mozilla > folks, and they are in a much more luxury situation than we are.

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

2010-06-19 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, a few more thoughts to sum things up: In general, paying travel, lodging and other costs (expenses) for community members is a good thing, I'm all for it, given certain rules are met. Payment for volunteer work should never occur. It is just too risky, we cannot satisfy everyone's needs

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

2010-06-19 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Maho NAKATA wrote on 2010-06-20 00.46: If it is right, everything can be done by voluntter basis. Since what Sun Microsystem has been done for OOo. It's very difficult to human resources. Finding sponsor for CD-ROM might be much more easy. I guess we all have similar issues. When it come

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

2010-06-19 Thread Maho NAKATA
ove to hear > what exactly has been done and how much time it took approximately. For that, I asked terada-san. Thanks Nakata Maho From: Florian Effenberger Subject: Re: [marketing] Fund request for top page renewal at ja.oo.o, Terada-san Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:11:05 +0200 > Hi Maho,

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

2010-06-19 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hi, Le 19 juin 2010 à 16:56, Florian Effenberger a écrit : > > Hi Italo, > > Italo Vignoli wrote on 2010-06-19 16.05: >> Sorry, I didn't see the original request. I'm totally against it, as >> this is something that should fall into voluntary work. I think that the >> marketing budget should co

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

2010-06-19 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 6/19/10 12:11 , Florian Effenberger wrote: I'm a bit undetermined of this request. It always gets complicated when money is used for work that has been (or can be) done on a volunteer basis. Sorry, I didn't see the original request. I'm totally against it, as this is something that should

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

2010-06-19 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Italo, Italo Vignoli wrote on 2010-06-19 16.05: Sorry, I didn't see the original request. I'm totally against it, as this is something that should fall into voluntary work. I think that the marketing budget should cover expenses, not time or work. As a budget approver, I will vote against it.

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

2010-06-19 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Maho, Maho NAKATA wrote on 2010-06-16 04.27: I'm the project lead of ja.oo.o, and I'd like to request 1000 Euro for Terada-san's top page renewal work for http://ja.openoffice.org/ . Following instruction at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Funding_And_Budgets, ht

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

2010-06-17 Thread Maho NAKATA
marketing] Re: [marcon] Re: [marketing] Fund request for top page renewal at ja.oo.o, Terada-san Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:55:32 +0200 > Hi all, > > Louis Suarez-Potts wrote (17-06-10 16:42) >> >> On 2010-06-17, at 03:26 , Peter Junge wrote: >> >>> Hi Maho, >

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

2010-06-17 Thread ian . lynch
> > 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

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

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

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

2010-06-17 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote (17-06-10 16:42) On 2010-06-17, at 03:26 , Peter Junge wrote: Hi Maho, Maho NAKATA wrote: Hello, Florian, John, Cor and Italo, (Cc: Terada-san) I'm the project lead of ja.oo.o, and I'd like to request 1000 Euro for Terada-san's top page renewal work for http

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

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

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

2010-06-17 Thread Maho NAKATA
From: Peter Junge Subject: Re: [marketing] Fund request for top page renewal at ja.oo.o, Terada-san Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:26:13 +0800 > Hi Maho, > > Maho NAKATA wrote: >> Hello, Florian, John, Cor and Italo, >> (Cc: Terada-san) >> I'm the project lead of

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

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Junge
Hi Maho, Maho NAKATA wrote: Hello, Florian, John, Cor and Italo, (Cc: Terada-san) I'm the project lead of ja.oo.o, and I'd like to request 1000 Euro for Terada-san's top page renewal work for http://ja.openoffice.org/ . I see one really big issue here. OOo has about 100 sub-domains for langu

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

2010-06-15 Thread Maho NAKATA
Hello, Florian, John, Cor and Italo, (Cc: Terada-san) I'm the project lead of ja.oo.o, and I'd like to request 1000 Euro for Terada-san's top page renewal work for http://ja.openoffice.org/ . Following instruction at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Funding_And_Budgets