Re: [libreoffice-marketing] ODF Alliance weblog on Document Foundation Planet

2010-11-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Italo Vignoli wrote on 2010-10-30 23.22: A blogroll would indeed be the most appropriate place. for the moment, I'll wait a bit - let's see how we manage the blogroll later on, so we can add a fair amount of links. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Hey

2010-11-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, When you this was the OOo project isn't more appropriate to say it was the project of http://www.ooodev.org/ ? OOoDeV has been part of the OOo community, and many projects that needed legal backing have been done with OOoDeV. The PrOOo-Box has been one of them, but it is a community

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Hey

2010-11-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Drew Jensen wrote on 2010-11-01 11.21: Where can I find the financial disclosure for the legal entity known as OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V ? why would you need that? Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Hey

2010-11-01 Thread Volker Merschmann
Hi Drew, 2010/11/1 Drew Jensen d...@baseanswers.com: Let's start with the easy question then: Where can I find the financial disclosure for the legal entity known as OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V ? In Germany the non-profits (e.V. = eingetragener Verein = registered association) must

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Hey

2010-11-01 Thread Drew Jensen
On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 11:22 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Drew Jensen wrote on 2010-11-01 11.21: Where can I find the financial disclosure for the legal entity known as OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V ? why would you need that? Well, for a month now you have in reality been

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Hey

2010-11-01 Thread Drew Jensen
On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 11:51 +0100, Volker Merschmann wrote: Hi Drew, 2010/11/1 Drew Jensen d...@baseanswers.com: Let's start with the easy question then: Where can I find the financial disclosure for the legal entity known as OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V ? In Germany the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Hey

2010-11-01 Thread Thomas Krumbein
Hey Drew, Am 01.11.2010 12:16, schrieb Drew Jensen: On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 11:22 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Drew Jensen wrote on 2010-11-01 11.21: Where can I find the financial disclosure for the legal entity known as OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V ? why would you need that?

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Hey

2010-11-01 Thread Drew Jensen
On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 12:35 +0100, Thomas Krumbein wrote: Hey Drew, Am 01.11.2010 12:16, schrieb Drew Jensen: On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 11:22 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Drew Jensen wrote on 2010-11-01 11.21: Where can I find the financial disclosure for the legal entity known

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOffice with Windows on new computers: why not?

2010-11-01 Thread jonathon
On 10/31/2010 04:39 AM, Marc Paré wrote: money involved in it, but would it be possible to convince the major manufacturers to install the latest version of LibreOffice alongside the other software and crapware they include in their new computers? How much are you paying the OEMs for each

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOffice with Windows on new computers: why not?

2010-11-01 Thread Benjamin Horst
On Oct 31, 2010, at 5:35 AM, Monfort Florian wrote: Le dimanche 31 octobre 2010 à 00:39 -0400, Marc Paré a écrit : Le 2010-10-30 23:05, Graham Lauder a écrit : On Sunday 31 Oct 2010 14:24:08 Anthony Papillion wrote: On 10/30/2010 7:54 PM, Michel Gagnon wrote: I have another idea. I see on

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation

2010-11-01 Thread Monfort Florian
Le lundi 01 novembre 2010 à 15:21 +, jonathon a écrit : On 10/29/2010 01:29 PM, James Walker wrote: Maybe something that we should think about is creating a Document Foundation family of products. This could go in one of four directions. # LibO on more platforms: * Android; *

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Obstacles to ODF adoption

2010-11-01 Thread jonathon
On 10/28/2010 11:40 PM, Inge Wallin wrote: the fastest growing (Cell phones) MSFT is nowhere but unfortunately neither is LO/OOo :-( But KOffice is! So ODF is still strong on cell phones, There is nothing at http://www.koffice.org/download/ or http://www.koffice.org/ that even hints that

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Obstacles to ODF adoption

2010-11-01 Thread jonathon
On 10/28/2010 05:14 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: Or get a port of LO/OOo to cell phones! is someone working on that? :) I've been giving it some thought. The first issue/stumbling block is rewrite the code in a more portable language. (Objective C looks like the best candidate, simply because both

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Obstacles to ODF adoption

2010-11-01 Thread jonathon
On 10/28/2010 04:21 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: Religious organizations are another are where costs and document portability might not be a major concern because everyone is using the Small non-profits tend to have big issues with compatibility, because they typically use old software that is no

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation

2010-11-01 Thread jonathon
On 10/30/2010 09:31 AM, David Nelson wrote: IMHO, it would be important to be able to also field LibO on tablets and other mobile appliances. + But, I don't see current implementations of tablets and other mobile appliances totally replacing desktops and laptops in the near term. How far

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Hey

2010-11-01 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Thomas Krumbein thomas.krumb...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hey Drew, Am 01.11.2010 12:16, schrieb Drew Jensen: On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 11:22 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Drew Jensen wrote on 2010-11-01 11.21: Where can I find the financial

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Hey

2010-11-01 Thread jonathon
On 11/01/2010 10:22 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Where can I find the financial disclosure for the legal entity known as OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V ? why would you need that? In the united states, a non-profit, that is neither a private foundation, nor a religious organization is

[libreoffice-marketing] List of ways to advertise LibO

2010-11-01 Thread Marc Paré
We were just on a thread and it seemed to take this direction. So how about coming up with a list of advertising LibO and if possible with $$$ breakdown. No problem if there is no $$$ breakdown, at least the idea would be there. Marc -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Hey

2010-11-01 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2010-11-01 12:55, Alexandro Colorado a écrit : OOo had many Non-Profits around the world some of them with a budget, I wonder if you have knock on their door and have them as contributors? I would think of French, Italian

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: List of ways to advertise LibO

2010-11-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-01 13:46, Marc Paré a écrit : We were just on a thread and it seemed to take this direction. So how about coming up with a list of advertising LibO and if possible with $$$ breakdown. No problem if there is no $$$ breakdown, at least the idea would be there. Marc Le 2010-11-01

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Fwd: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation

2010-11-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-01 11:21, jonathon a écrit : Of course the easy thing to do would be a partnership with Mozilla, and use Thunderbird, and Lightening. Look at the results of the existing partnership between OpenOffice.org and The Mozilla Foundation. jonathon Hi Jonathon Sorry, I don't know

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Obstacles to ODF adoption

2010-11-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-01 12:05, jonathon a écrit : On 10/28/2010 04:21 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: Religious organizations are another are where costs and document portability might not be a major concern because everyone is using the Small non-profits tend to have big issues with compatibility, because

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Fwd: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation

2010-11-01 Thread jonathon
On 11/01/2010 05:52 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Look at the results of the existing partnership between OpenOffice.org and The Mozilla Foundation. Sorry, I don't know where to find these. Could you point me to them?

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Hey

2010-11-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-01 13:53, Alexandro Colorado a écrit : I think the money was contributed to the community. If (for example) PLIO goes to branch off of libreoffice and has 20,000 dls budget. You said, they wouldnt use it for TDF because that money was meant for OOo? I think is getting ahead of

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Hey

2010-11-01 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2010-11-01 13:53, Alexandro Colorado a écrit : I think the money was contributed to the community. If (for example) PLIO goes to branch off of libreoffice and has 20,000 dls budget. You said, they wouldnt use it for TDF

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOffice with Windows on new computers: why not?

2010-11-01 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/01/2010 05:31 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: can you please use the correct sender for this list? I have to moderate all of your messages... If any of my messages don't come from a subscribed address, reject them/bounce them back. jonathon

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Hey

2010-11-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-01 14:27, Alexandro Colorado a écrit : Well that is the key, donations (IMHO) dont have a specified target. You can your same argument about donating $100 specifically for the data pilot in Calc. Unless he specifically mentions it on his paypal donation notes, it would be very

Re: Branding Color Refinement Step 1 of n (was: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming)

2010-11-01 Thread Graham Lauder
On Tuesday 02 Nov 2010 11:04:40 Christoph Noack wrote: Hi Ivan! Am Freitag, den 29.10.2010, 17:19 +1300 schrieb Ivan M.: Could you provide better color tones for the lighter greens (and others?). Even if it would be possible to change them later too, the sooner the better

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Document Freedom Day 2011 - Who will shephard - ?

2010-11-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-01 21:26, Italo Vignoli a écrit : On 10/31/2010 05:41 AM, Marc Paré wrote: I've been involved in the last three DFD on behalf of the Italian OOo association. I'll ask my contacts there to get an early heads up, in order to get organized in time. Do we know the date of the event