[native-lang] Re: [releases] Problem with QA tests and release of OOo 3.3.0

2010-10-16 Thread Florian Effenberger
quot; is a "competing product", so is Oracle Open Office, and so is OOo4Kids. Maybe even OpenOffice.org Portable. If we remove all of those people, nobody's left in the Council... SCNR. Florian -- Florian Effenberger OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead Tel: +49 8341 99660880 Fax:

[native-lang] Re: Problem with QA tests and release of OOo 3.3.0

2010-10-15 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote on 2010-10-16 00.49: I am shocked by what I have read in the minutes of the last Community Council. The minutes are there : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council_Log_20101014#Community_Council_Session It is about to force the members of the Comm

[native-lang] OpenOffice.org HackFest 2010

2010-09-13 Thread Florian Effenberger
amme and sponsoring! To register yourself, just drop a short note to hackf...@openoffice.org and we'll follow up with further information soon. Faithfully, your HackFest organizers Eike, Florian & Thorsten hackf...@openoffice.org -- Florian Effenberger OpenOffice.org Marketing Project L

[native-lang] Birthday Fireworks

2010-09-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I've uploaded the fireworks, that we had for the 10th anniversary of OpenOffice.org: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKP97vL4zgw HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OPENOFFICE.ORG! -- Florian Effenberger OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead Tel: +49 8341 99660880 Fax: +49 8341 99660889 Mobile: +4

[native-lang] Re: OOoCon 2011

2010-09-05 Thread Florian Effenberger
decide quickly, and there had been no other valid proposal except Paris. I'm sure you all will support Charles and the team for OOoCon 2011, and for 2012, I am sure we will go back to the "normal" way of finding a location. :-) Florian -- Florian Effenberger OpenOffice.org M

[native-lang] Fwd: [marketing] August Newsletter - Any input from the Community projects ?

2010-08-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
lsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment -- Florian Effenbe

Re: [native-lang] Re: [marketing] What to do for 10 years OpenOffice.org?

2010-06-30 Thread Florian Effenberger
list ;) Thanks! Florian -- Florian Effenberger OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead Tel: +49 8341 99660880 Fax: +49 8341 99660889 Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff - To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: [native-lang] share your collaterals!

2010-06-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Lars, Lars Nooden wrote on 2010-06-26 18.18: FYI 'collaterals', if I understand correctly, refers to various flyers, brochures, posters, howtos, guides and manuals. exactly. I also mean "merchandising" stuff and other products related to OOo marketing ;) Florian --

[native-lang] share your collaterals!

2010-06-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
h our nonprofit. You can find pictures of these at http://www.ooodev.org/fanartikel.html In addition to what you see here, we can also produce fleece jackets and sweaters, but the pictures are still missing. How about you? ;) Florian -- Florian Effenberger OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lea

Re: [native-lang] Ping Gorkem

2010-06-22 Thread Florian Effenberger
The most recent contact data I have is at the MarCon page. I e-mailed him at the beginning of this year and he replied. Louis Suárez-Potts wrote on 2010-06-22 16.16: I've been trying to reach Görkem. No luck, so far. Anybody able to successfully reach him? -- Florian Effenb

[native-lang] Re: [marketing] Proposing MarCon for Pakistan

2010-04-29 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello Fouad, first of all, sorry for my delayed reply, and thanks for your kind offer to step into the role of a MarCon for Pakistan. We indeed do not have any Pakistan marketing contact at this very moment, so I'm happy to accept a new one. The process is to have a little public poll, and i

[native-lang] OOoCon 2010 Call for Papers

2010-04-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
OOoCon 2010 Call for Papers The OpenOffice.org Community Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary! This year's meeting will be held in one of Europe's most beautiful cities, Budapest, Hungary, from August 31st - September 3rd, 2010. We hope you will join us in our celebration and conference! Whether

[native-lang] raise your voice for open standards at DFD

2010-03-25 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, on March 31st, there will be the document freedom day. We currently create a wiki page with information and statements on this important day at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dfd (thanks to Alexandro for the page!) and it would be great to have statements from major OOo stake

Re: [native-lang] OpenOffice 3.2 QA workshop in Sri Lanka

2010-03-16 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Danishka, Danishka Navin wrote on 2010-03-16 08.37: I can update the si.openoffice.org page. that would be great! I'd then be happy to Twitter on it. Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffic

Re: [native-lang] OpenOffice 3.2 QA workshop in Sri Lanka

2010-03-16 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Danishka, Danishka Navin wrote on 2010-03-16 07.32: Date: 25th March 2010 Duration: 1 day (8 hours) Products: OO.org Writer, Calc, Imperss and Base. Right now about 10 volunteers has been registered. thanks for sharing! Is there a website to it, so I can link? Florian

[native-lang] OpenOffice.org Project Meeting in Hof in July

2010-03-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, in July, we'll host our third OpenOffice.org Project Meeting in Hof, Germany: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/DE/Projektwochenende2010 (German page) It is mostly about discussions on the community, on future plans and on collaborating. If there are any community members inter

Re: [native-lang] open source meeting Munich on September 25th

2009-08-23 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Sophie, FYI, it has been announced with the translation of the page on the FR discuss mailing list :) that's perfect! I'm actually thinking of enhancing the page to also offer English and French content. Will ping you soon regarding that :-) Thanks, Florian -

[native-lang] open source meeting Munich on September 25th

2009-08-23 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, FYI: the next open source meeting Munich will take place on September 25th. More information (in German) at http://www.opensourcetreffen.de Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org F

Re: [native-lang] Finland and Belgium

2009-05-16 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Cor, Inspired by Leo's work: can you send me an invitation once more ;-) sure, every contribution is welcome! You should have received an invitation by e-mail now ;) Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@nat

Re: [native-lang] Finland and Belgium

2009-05-16 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Leo, Yes, I do, but sorry I do not know how to do :-( Could you help? you should have received an automatic invitation from Google at your Gmail account :-) Then go to www.blogger.com, log on, and you should see the OOo marketing blog :) Florian ---

Re: [native-lang] Finland and Belgium

2009-05-16 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Leo, I made my first blog and posted my first entry :-) You will find it here: http://leo-ooonewsfrombelgium.blogspot.com/ thanks a lot! Do you want to post it to the marketing blog as well? You should have author rights there. :-) Thanks Florian

Re: [native-lang] Finland and Belgium

2009-05-16 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Leo, I will be glad to put this message on the marketing blog. Could you show me the way, or where I can find the way, to post on the marketing blog? that's quite easy. ;-) You need a Google account or get one, then tell me its name. I'll then assign publisher rights at ooomarketing.blogs

Re: [native-lang] Finland and Belgium

2009-05-16 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Leo, these are indeed fantastic news! May I invite you to blog about them in our marketing blog, to share it with the readers? ;-) These are stories everyone wants to read! Florian Hello everybody, City of Anderlecht: In Anderlecht, on 23rd April the local citycouncil received an updat

[native-lang] reminder: OOoCon community consultation

2009-02-23 Thread Florian Effenberger
/guidelines.html For more information about OOoCon please visit: http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference The OpenOffice.org Conference Team -- Florian Effenberger OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev

Re: [native-lang] Administrator permissions on the OOoWiki

2008-11-27 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Clayton, The next step in improving the general maintenance of the OOoWiki is to assign Administrator (Sysop) privileges to a few people. for marketing, I use the Wiki regularly, so I volunteer. :-) Florian - To unsubscri

Re: [native-lang] Adware in OpenOffice.org?

2008-11-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, What do you guys think? I have a very strong opinion *against* this. Against the idea itself, and against the way it was (not) communicated to the community. I'd rather stick to this short explanation on a public list. ;-) Florian --

[native-lang] Re: [marcon] Re: OpenOffice.org Community Mapping Project

2008-10-29 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, :-( We have only six community entries so far in our attempt to create an OpenOffice.org community map. None of the entries include developers. Our goal was to get off to a great start to this project with many entries in time for OOoCon 2008 in Beijing next week. I'd really love to see

[native-lang] OpenOffice.org Community Mapping Project

2008-10-21 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, I'm forwarding a request from Zaheda. As I'm on the road this week to present OpenOffice.org at the Systems trade show in Munich, please reply directly to her in Cc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks! Quoting Zaheda: == Recently I've been working to put together a project that, as far as I

[native-lang] Re: [marcon] Two million downloads

2008-10-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, congratulations to all of us for this great effort! Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [native-lang] Feedback needed for mirror cleanup

2008-10-15 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Joost, ../localized/de/3.0.0 2.4.0 2.4.1 move 2.4.0 to the archive. :-) Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [native-lang] Pictures of the OOo3 Launch Party

2008-10-15 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Charles, for those who couldn't attend, and those who could as well, here's some pictures of the event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ooo3launch/ thanks for these pictures, I've just blogged about them. :-) Thanks also for the great idea of celebrating, it looks like it was wonderful! F

Re: [native-lang] Distribution plan for OpenOffice.org 3.0

2008-10-08 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Joost, I have the plan to distribute 3.0 localizations via ../extended/localized (extended mirrors) and to distribute en-US binaries, source tarballs and SDK binaries via ../stable (regular mirrors). no concerns from my side. Florian --

[native-lang] Re: On the 4th Italian OpenOffice.org conference

2008-10-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Charles, This year the conference was taking place in Bolzano, a very nice city lost in the Alps south of Tyrol. It was a charming place, the kind that transforms you in a cookie monster as there is so much to eat and the place looks so comfortable and welcoming. But I digress. thanks for

Re: [native-lang] Please update download page

2008-09-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Can someone update http://download.openoffice.org/other.html page for us? I don't have "modify" permission for download module. You can find Mongolian downloads under http://mn.openoffice.org/about-downloads.html (version 2.4.0). just fixed. ;) Thanks! Florian ---

Re: [native-lang] Please update download page

2008-09-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
The same for Kurdish, we are at 2.4.1, the bouncer link is http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/?product=OpenOffice.org&os=win&lang=ku&version=2.4.1 Fixed. Is there a reason why only the Windows build is available, or are the other links just missing? -

Re: [native-lang] current number of supported languages

2008-09-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Tora, The translation coverage of OOo 3.0.0 is now summarized in the wiki http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Translation_for_3.0#Coverage thanks a lot! Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additi

Re: [native-lang] current number of supported languages

2008-09-18 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I'd second that, but then, we have various languages at various stages of completion. I'll say around 100 just for the number, and I can't be that wrong... thanks, then I'll take this one. :-) Florian - To unsubscribe,

Re: [native-lang] current number of supported languages

2008-09-18 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I'm pretty sure we were about 90, but I can't confirm it at the moment... Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[native-lang] current number of supported languages

2008-09-18 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, does anyone has the current number of supported languages for our 3.0 PR? We currently have 80 there, but I guess the number is a little bit higher, slightly over 90? Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[native-lang] Re: [project leads] Registration for OOo N-L meeting

2008-08-28 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello Davie, Hello Andrea, thanks for your organization! I've just registered, although I'm still unsure whether I can attend or not. > We are also booking some accomodations into youth hostel (approx 22Eur > per night with Breakfast). Who was interested can write me in private. Yep, would be in

[native-lang] announcing the winner of the splash screen poll

2008-08-19 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello everyone, I'd like to announce the winner of the splash screen poll. We had a total of 789 votes, which is a quite good count! The winner is Jacek Adamkiewicz: Proposal 3 http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/splashvote/Splash_b_ok.png with a total of 83 votes. You see that this r

[native-lang] Reminder: Vote on the OpenOffice.org 3.0 splash screen

2008-08-15 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, this is just a short reminder to all of you who haven't voted on our new splash screen design yet. Voting ends this Monday, 12:00 UTC+1 Please cast your vote before the deadline! The more people vote, the better we can represent the vote of the community in choosing the new s

[native-lang] Vote on the OpenOffice.org 3.0 splash screen

2008-08-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
OpenOffice.org 3.0 will get a new splash screen to reflect our new and fresh release, and the community has the final word on it. Several great proposals have been sent in, and we ask all community members to cast their vote. Together with the splash screen, two other design elements will be in

[native-lang] Re: splash screen contest extended for two weeks

2008-08-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, this is just a short note to inform all of you that we are currently working on setting up the survey for the final vote on the OOo 3.0 splash screen and design elements, where the community will have the voice. Thanks to all contributors for their great efforts! We've seen really imp

[native-lang] Re: [project leads] splash screen contest extended for two weeks

2008-07-27 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, although it may be annoying, this now is the last reminder of our splash screen design contest. ;-) Anyone who is interested in contributing to the new splash screen for 3.0, please have a look at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Art/Splash_Screen/Proposals Remember that *ALL*

Re: [native-lang] New Lead and Co-lead for the FR project

2008-07-25 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello Sophie, it is sad to hear that you left your role as Francophone project lead. The Francophone project has always been an example of a fantastic community with an even more awesome lead and a brilliant picture of how community building goes. I want to thank you personally for all the g

[native-lang] Re: splash screen contest extended for two weeks

2008-07-21 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, just a short reminder that the deadline for the contests ends in exactly one week, on MONDAY, JULY 28TH, 2008 For more details see my previous e-mail. Looking forward to your contributions and proposals! Florian -

[native-lang] splash screen contest extended for two weeks

2008-07-15 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, the Release Status Meeting decided to shift the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 by two weeks, which gives us additional two weeks for designing the splash screen. As Stella agreed to re-launch the contest, I happily announce the new deadline for sending in your drafts: MONDAY, JULY 28TH

Re: [native-lang] Re: On Burma

2008-05-12 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Wunna, I will try to get back working on Burmese language development as soon as I can. don't worry. There are much more important things in life than software and technology. Take care of yourself and your beloved ones, that is more important than anything else! Florian --

Re: [native-lang] Re: On Burma

2008-05-12 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello Wunna, glad to hear that you are well up! I wish you by heart all the best to manage the situation and hope that things will soon be better for all of you! I really hope that humanity will win the race, not the fight for power and politics. Florian

[native-lang] Re: [marketing] Our New Look

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, thanks also from my side. The new looks great and from what I've seen, the transition went smoothly. :-) Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [native-lang] The Native Language Confederation Planet is born

2008-03-16 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, See http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet To have your blog added, please send me the URL for your blog feed (ATOM or RSS ok, NOT your blog home page) just blogged about it and added it to the blogroll. ;-) Florian -

Re: [native-lang] Native Language Planet?

2008-03-14 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi John, Would there be any interest in the n-l community in having a similar Planet? sounds like a great idea! +1 Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [native-lang] Need info about bouncer (was Annual report from the Danish NLC community)

2008-02-20 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Sorry about the delay, no problem. :-) * How do we get started ? (should I contact osuosl.org directly or..?) To add new builds, you are best off asking Joost Andrae at Sun, he usually maintains this one and can tell you how to proceed. * Is bouncer a mirror network og just r

Re: [native-lang] Annual report from the Danish NLC community

2008-01-22 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Leif, thanks for the report! One of our goals for 2007 was to use Bouncer for handling the downloads. We need that for two purposes: 1) activation of automatic update 2) download statistics. Unfortunately we didn't succeed on this issue because no one has been able to tell us how it works.

Re: [native-lang] Regional mentors/leads

2008-01-12 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Louis, all, This is not exactly a new proposal--we have discussed it on-list and off and on for years--but I'd like to raise it formally here for discussion. The proposal is to establish a more or less formal role, "Regional Community Lead." One could also call it, as I used to, "Regional

Re: [native-lang] Native Language / Mother Language

2007-11-13 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, > Let's think about something truly elaborate for 2008. What could we do > outside a PR? I hope to bring up some ideas for 2008 as soon as I have less to do. My "real life" is very demanding at the moment, but I definitely plan to have some nice "actions"/"events" for 2008! Florian

Re: [native-lang] Native Language / Mother Language

2007-11-13 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi John, > I wonder whether we could link OOo's language work more closely with > that of UNESCO etc this is a good idea, we definitely should make out something of this, maybe with activities on the 21st of February. > by changing the name "Native Language > Projects/Confederation" to "Mother

Re: [native-lang] Re: [com] t-shirt distribution through NLC projects

2007-10-13 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Graham, you are partially right. However, I think we could discuss over this issue for months, and in the end, we don't have anything, so I'd definitely vote for producing those t-shirts and maybe mugs/mouse pads/bags as soon as possible, so we have used the money and have some merchandising a

[native-lang] Re: [com] t-shirt distribution through NLC projects

2007-10-12 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, > +1 for less t-shirts and more other giveaways... thanks for agreeing. I also think that 2000 shirts are too much... > Perhaps something like think geek offers, where we have a series of > options for consumers to choose that hare branded > OpenOffice.org--mugs, t-shirts, buttons, laptop st

[native-lang] t-shirt distribution through NLC projects

2007-10-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello there in the NLC projects, as some of you may be aware of, the marketing project currently tries to bring out some merchandise for this quarter, sponsored by funds from Sun. We have the option of producing t-shirts (details will be discussed on the marketing list). With the current funding,

Re: [native-lang] The world of OOo

2007-09-28 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Clytie, > RegiCons are great, but they don't solve the problem of access for those > of us who can't travel at all. Ok, that's a good point I didn't think about. :-) You're right. Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: [native-lang] OpenOffice support in Ecuador and Latin America

2007-09-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Alexandro, > Yes that was my original intend, that's why I replied in Spanish. Send > him my email. thanks a lot! Will do so. :-) Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PR

Re: [native-lang] OpenOffice support in Ecuador and Latin America

2007-09-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Alexandro, > Well I am ok with stablishing more MarCon but since the marketing > efforts are more NLC-project wise. I would like him to be more involved > with the efforts we are doing in other LA countries so he can leverage > on that. > > We currently are working with chapters as opposed to

Re: [native-lang] OpenOffice support in Ecuador and Latin America

2007-09-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Alexandro, > Hi Florian, how you doing, I am Alexandro of the OpenOffice.org ES > community. Ecuador is in our area of work. I agree that Ecuador > participation in our community is very limited and is our desire to > expand it. We have an active community in neigbor countries like > Colombia a

Re: [native-lang] OpenOffice support in Ecuador and Latin America

2007-09-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, > Florian may not know Spanish... :-) indeed. Can you write again in English, please, Alexandro? ;-) Thanks! Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[native-lang] OpenOffice support in Ecuador and Latin America

2007-09-25 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, I have a request from someone who is interested in volunteering as OpenOffice.org marketing contact in Ecuador and Latin America. I think that Latin America is at least partially covered, but for Ecuador, I don't see any contact. Are there active parties around who might interested in gett

Re: [native-lang] The world of OOo

2007-09-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Charles, > The idea is to have a distributed conference (IRC, video, audio) around > the L10N/NLC topics for OOo. I don't know if this will work out. Even some short IRC meetings have been problematic in the past. I think a better option would be to do more RegiCons, although it requires more

Re: [native-lang] Bouncer again

2007-07-18 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Louis, I don't know either. I will raise them with OSL. But I think as I wrote to Joost and Andreas, we will have to use all data... The part that bothers me is the intervention of manual labour: I think that introduces errors (or can) and is just boring and tedious. Automating things will he

Re: [native-lang] Bouncer again

2007-07-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Louis, A long while ago, back in February, I asked about using Bouncer for downloads. [0] There were some considered objections, [1] but I think they may have been addressed since then. So... Do the NLC leads still have objections to using Bouncer? If yes, what are they? (Have they been

Re: [native-lang] Congratulations to the new grandmother!

2007-07-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Thank you very much :) I'm sure that you'll meet Tewis Menja one day at the OOoCon ;) then we need a new subproject: http://babies.openoffice.org The younger you start... ;-) Have a nice evening! Florian - To unsubscribe

Re: [native-lang] Congratulations to the new grandmother!

2007-07-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Sophie, I wish you all the best! Enjoy the time! Seeing in an innocent children's face and hearing his true laughter is one of the most beautiful things on earth... Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[native-lang] Re: [Marketing] Re: [native-lang] Camp 2007 has been cancelled

2007-06-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Charles, Indeed. But let's hope for a great Camp in 2007! 2008. :-) I hope so, too! I see. Somehow wouldn't it be also because of the period of the year (holidays, sun shining, etc.)? We still discuss our failures, we don't know yet. Maybe it was the time of the year, maybe it was our

[native-lang] Camp 2007 has been cancelled

2007-06-16 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello there, I got sad news: the DE project's Camp has been cancelled for 2007. Although we did a lot of advertising and also had a lot of articles in the media, we had much too less applications. So, we sadly had to decide to cancel the Camp for this year. Applicants will be invited to our

Re: [native-lang] CampOpenOffice.org in 2007

2007-02-27 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Thanks, Florian! I'd like to see as many NLC projects initiate camps like this as possible :-) My idea: to keep interest in OOo alive and to keep the idea that participating in the project is fun current. The camps can be focused on QA--but also on writing extensions, doing translation

[native-lang] CampOpenOffice.org in 2007

2007-02-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello everyone, some of you already may have heard about the DE project's so-called CampOpenOffice.org, which has been held in 2006, and will be held again in 2007. I have posted a summary last September, which you can read at http://native-lang.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=com&ms

Re: [native-lang] a new blog to summarize news

2007-02-04 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Sophie, I've opened a new blog that has an English category. In this blog I'll try to summarize the important (or what I find important ;-) news for our projects that I read on the several lists in OOo. nice idea! I just bookmarked it. Florian -

Re: [native-lang] Looking for mirrors -please help!

2007-01-28 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Sophie, This is the object of my call for help, it was not only directed for French. It's in fact a very very late follow up of the discussion you oppened on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list last summer. I'm sure that some universities or companies should be able to offer the 200 Gb needed for the

Re: [native-lang] Looking for mirrors -please help!

2007-01-28 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Charles, The fr project is urgently looking for more mirrors given the constant surge in the number of downloads of OOo in french. I know that this may also be the case for other localized versions of OOo, so please, feel free to come up and say if you have the same problem. maybe you shoul

[native-lang] Re: [Marketing] Looking for contributions for a new OOo magazine

2006-11-13 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I received a similar request for the Germanophone market, from the same company, will post details tomorrow on the Germanophone lists. If interested, contact me offlist. Florian -- ## Florian Effenberger ## Marketing/Öffentlichkeitsarbeit/Presse ## OpenOffice.org - http

Re: [native-lang] John at the NLC meeting

2006-09-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
e to have the NL projects' members as well. :-) So here's the thing; let's see who and how many can get into the room and we'll close the door at the point we won't be able to move an inch ;-) ... sounds good. :-) Florian -- ## Florian Effenberger ## Marketing/Öff

Re: [native-lang] OOoCON & NLC meeting agenda

2006-08-28 Thread Florian Effenberger
he two.Yet we will discuss some Marketing points at the meeting. okay, I leave that decision up to you, you definitely have more experience in these things. A MarCon meeting is a good idea anyway. :-) Florian -- ## Florian Effenberger ## Marketing/Öffentlichkeitsarbeit/Presse ## OpenOffice.

Re: [native-lang] OOoCON & NLC meeting agenda

2006-08-28 Thread Florian Effenberger
important points as well and it is a lot easier to have them around there than having to tell them everything afterwards. But I'll leave the decision up to those of you who already attended an OOoCon and thus have more experience. :-) Florian -- ## Florian Effenberger ## Marketing/Öffent

Re: [native-lang] OOoCON & NLC meeting agenda

2006-08-21 Thread Florian Effenberger
that's what I thought, and I'm happy that the Germanophone project will be represented by its lead in Lyon as well. :-) That said, I don't know if she will be there, don't know her schedule for the Con - but we'll see. :-) -- ## Florian Effenberger ## Marketing/Öff

Re: [native-lang] OOoCON & NLC meeting agenda

2006-08-21 Thread Florian Effenberger
. that's what I thought, and I'm happy that the Germanophone project will be represented by its lead in Lyon as well. :-) Anyway, the NLC Party, however, is for everybody! That indeed sounds promising! :-) Florian -- ## Florian Effenberger ## Marketing/Öffentlichkeitsarb

Re: [native-lang] OOoCON & NLC meeting agenda

2006-08-21 Thread Florian Effenberger
Lyon. :-) Florian -- ## Florian Effenberger ## Marketing/Öffentlichkeitsarbeit/Presse ## OpenOffice.org - http://de.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [native-lang] Are you going to OOoConf this year?

2006-05-29 Thread Florian Effenberger
neral I like the idea, would be nice to have such a shooting. :) Florian -- ## Florian Effenberger ## Marketing/Öffentlichkeitsarbeit/Presse ## OpenOffice.org - http://de.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[native-lang] Unavailability notice for September

2005-08-31 Thread Florian Effenberger
ings during this month, due to the limited time (I estimatedly leave the house at 6 or 7am and get back at 8 or 9pm...), but I have nice colleagues and am quite confident that we'll manage that. See you all back in October! Florian -- ## Florian Effenberger ## Marketing/Öffentlichkeitsarb

[native-lang] Introduction of myself

2005-08-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello fellow list members, (Charles thought it would be a good idea to introduce myself on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list as well, so I post this message here, too. :-) I would like to introduce myself to you. My name is Florian Effenberger, I am 22 years old, live in Bavaria in Germany and since