[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Logo Enhancements

2010-11-13 Thread Johannes Bausch
And when we're at it: Can we sit down and make a LibO logo contest? With a deadline? I suggest the following: 1) Have a contest for a general mockup, this includes * Logo symbol * Logo text (see issue I already mentioned, we need the text path to be refined somehow) * Icons for files and

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ubuntu Artwork Team

2010-11-13 Thread Thorsten Wilms
Hi! I'm a freelance designer and a core member of the Ubuntu Artwork Team. On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 22:47 -0500, John Baer wrote: Just checking in with my 1st post to this list. The Ubuntu Artwork Team was approached by David Nelson with a follow-up by Christoph Noack to assist with artwork

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ubuntu Artwork Team

2010-11-13 Thread David Nelson
Hi John, hi Thorsten :-) On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 17:44, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: I think such requests and specifications should be managed inside the LibreOffice project. (The concept of a project-neutral online platform for managing assets, requests for artwork/design,

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [DESIGN] Do we need a separate mailing list for artwork/usability/branding...?

2010-11-13 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:19, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2010-11-12 22:04, Michael Wheatland a écrit :  Why re-invent the wheel?  - David Because google has announced it will be removing the wheel before the end of next year. Google has also open sourced the blueprints

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Logo Enhancements

2010-11-13 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 17:16, Johannes Bausch johannes.bau...@gmail.com wrote: And when we're at it: Can we sit down and make a LibO logo contest? With a deadline? I suggest the following: +1 for a contest. IMHO, 3 or 4 weeks would be more realistic than 2. But, again IMHO, it will

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ubuntu Artwork Team

2010-11-13 Thread Michael Wheatland
Hello and welcome to the wonderful people at the Ubuntu art team. Firstly may I recognise the efforts that the whole Ubuntu community has performed so well as to propel linux to the forefront of stable, user friendly operating systems. I myself am a dedicated Ubuntu user, that being the reason I

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Logo Enhancements

2010-11-13 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 10:16 +0100, Johannes Bausch wrote: And when we're at it: Can we sit down and make a LibO logo contest? With a deadline? I suggest the following: A point of view to add: http://troy-sobotka.blogspot.com/2010/01/specs-and-contests-we-all-lose.html -- Thorsten Wilms

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ubuntu Artwork Team

2010-11-13 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 22:07 +0930, Michael Wheatland wrote: One thing that springs to mind immediately is the use of icon sets and colour schemes in what has been OpenOffice.org and the way we could significantly improve both operating system and LibreOffice integration and consistancy by

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Logo Enhancements

2010-11-13 Thread Graham Lauder
On Saturday 13 Nov 2010 22:16:05 Johannes Bausch wrote: And when we're at it: Can we sit down and make a LibO logo contest? With a deadline? I suggest the following: 1) Have a contest for a general mockup, this includes * Logo symbol * Logo text (see issue I already mentioned, we need the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Logo Enhancements

2010-11-13 Thread Jens Habermann
Hi! I am against a contest, too. in my opinion you simply cannot create a brand design based on a random logo. This was indeed the problem with OOo: everytime I created stuff was working around guidelines and community elected gfx. And it was quite difficult, because the parts were not fitting

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Logo Enhancements

2010-11-13 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) IMHO, it would be a good idea to have a competition for the logo choice. It's a good way of attracting new contributors. And aren't Open Source projects supposed to be founded on meritocracy? One of the rules of entry could be that, if their work wins, entrants should be willing to

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Logo Enhancements

2010-11-13 Thread Ismaël Grammenidis
Thanks Sophie, I didn't know that there was already so much progress, I definitely missed a chapter or two here... But could you please tell me, this isn't a definitive logo / version, right? But rather an interim solution that was set up when the foundation has been established? With kind

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Logo Enhancements

2010-11-13 Thread Johannes Bausch
That's what I thought, too. But I may be mistaken. What about the enhancements of the logo I proposed in my first mail? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Logo.svg 2010/11/13 Ismaël Grammenidis ismael.grammeni...@gmail.com: Thanks Sophie, I didn't know that there was already so much

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-13 Thread Drew Jensen
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 17:31 +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: You should have license and author, and derive it via ODF processing and not enter it with a simple CCK field. Moreover, it should be investigated what kind of commitment the Document Foundation took towards Richard Stallman about

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Logo Enhancements

2010-11-13 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Sophie, all! Sophie, thanks for answering this ... I tried to keep a minimum distance of 2m to my computer in the last 20 hours :-) Am Samstag, den 13.11.2010, 17:31 +0100 schrieb Sophie Gautier: Hi Ismael, Johannes, all, On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Johannes Bausch

[libreoffice-marketing] Help creating the initial content of libreoffice.org - in terms of structure and content

2010-11-13 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi *, soon the libreoffice.org website is meant to be moved from the temporary test.libreoffice.org name to libreoffice.org - but at the moment we're lacking a structure and content. At the last marketing conference call the lack of content was mentioned, and people did suggest to create a

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Logo Enhancements

2010-11-13 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Christoph, On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.com wrote: Hi Sophie, all! Sophie, thanks for answering this ... I tried to keep a minimum distance of 2m to my computer in the last 20 hours :-) Thanks a lot for your answer and sorry to be a distance reducer

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO Slogan

2010-11-13 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/12/2010 12:58 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: (The proposed usage is prohibited by the license that is displayed on flickr Huh, I read it just the opposite - non-commercial use with attribution sounds like like that is what this is. If it was

[libreoffice-marketing] Thoughts and drafts for logo-type

2010-11-13 Thread Thorsten Wilms
Hi! I see some issues with the type of the preliminary logo. The combination of the top of the 2nd f and the dot of the i is a little unfortunate. The b and r might work for body text, but not here. Setting Libre in bold only emphasizes the unfortunate proportion of the 2 words (close to, but not

[libreoffice-marketing] [MEETINGS] Next Marketing Conference Call, Date / Time

2010-11-13 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi all, Florian told me that he will be unable to organize a conference call next week. So I'll try to do that ... Please cast your vote - as usual via Doodle - here: http://www.doodle.com/3y9nfq8bnihpz9dc Please add your agenda items here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Drew Jensen wrote: On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 17:31 +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: You should have license and author, and derive it via ODF processing and not enter it with a simple CCK field. Moreover, it should be investigated what kind of commitment the Document Foundation took

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-13 Thread Drew Jensen
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 23:15 +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: It's enough to make the field more explicit and call it Template License; this is not a blocker. That might work actually. Drew -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-13 Thread Michael Wheatland
Andrea, Is there a design specification, say on a wiki, of the OO.o template site ODF processing of template thumbnails? I am not well versed in command line ODF processing, but once we have it set up it should be reasonably easy to integrate with the system I have setup. On the licencing front,

[libreoffice-marketing] Marketing suggestion: enable screenplay formatting with LibreOffice

2010-11-13 Thread Alan C. Baird
Proposal for significantly enlarging LibreOffice's user base with Screenwright(R) 13 November 2010 by Alan C. Baird, prizewinning writer and creator of the Screenwright(R) screenplay formatter [winner of the Sun/OOo CIP award] http://w.9TimeZones.com/avails.htm

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibO Slogan Wiki Page

2010-11-13 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-13 12:52, Christoph Noack a écrit : That's a good statement - I also felt a bit unsure whether people might think this is an official working product. At the same time there are many pages that are not linked to the main page, but are there for some official reason. So I'd like to

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Logo Enhancements

2010-11-13 Thread David Nelson
Hi Graham, :-) On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 06:24, Graham Lauder yori...@openoffice.org wrote: I'm sorry I'm having difficulty debating this in real time, my right arm is still in plaster so it's a little hard to keep up, plaster off on wednesday hopefully.  :) Thanks for your thoughts. You seem

Re: [COMMUNICATION] Better conferencing? (was: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [DESIGN] Do we need a separate mailing list for artwork/usability/branding...?)

2010-11-13 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 05:17, Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.com wrote: I also thought that Skype chats would be a good alternative until I realized that I had forgotten the mantra that I was trying to perform on the lists where ever needed: many of our users have only dial-up or

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Marketing suggestion: enable screenplay formatting with LibreOffice

2010-11-13 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-13 21:17, Alan C. Baird a écrit : Proposal for significantly enlarging LibreOffice's user base with Screenwright(R) 13 November 2010 by Alan C. Baird, prizewinning writer and creator of the Screenwright(R) screenplay formatter [winner of the Sun/OOo CIP award]

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Marketing suggestion: enable screenplay formatting with LibreOffice

2010-11-13 Thread Andy Brown
On Sat Nov 13 2010 18:17:41 GMT-0800 (PST) Alan C. Baird wrote: Proposal for significantly enlarging LibreOffice's user base with Screenwright(R) 13 November 2010 by Alan C. Baird, prizewinning writer and creator of the Screenwright(R) screenplay formatter [winner of the Sun/OOo CIP award]