Re: [libreoffice-marketing] call for location 2012

2011-08-17 Thread Vitorio Furusho
hi, Excuse me for having early to suggest a site for 2012. Anyway, I think it would be nice to switch the place of the Conference LibreOffice in different continents (Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania) Thanks, *Furusho, Vitorio* Ativista de Software Livre, LibreOffice e ODF ODF Allian

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] call for location 2012

2011-08-17 Thread Warren Camilleri
How about Malta? The nation is not so strict on VISA applications, and we now have biometric passports, which is great for the US and Aussies, Malta is also a Schengen country meaning most nations may not even need to show a passport to enter, our goverment is working on bringing International

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] call for location 2012

2011-08-17 Thread Cor Nouws
Vitorio Furusho wrote (17-08-11 14:02) Excuse me for having early to suggest a site for 2012. Anyway, I think it would be nice to switch the place of the Conference LibreOffice in different continents (Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania) This is an important point to consider. But I g

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Building a network of marketeers

2011-08-17 Thread Warren Camilleri
as for a MARCON list it should be able to be like the old OOo Market list where one declares the nation, name of contact, e-mail and other ways of contact, and also a slot for a group name if he is in charge of a local team. for example my details Country: Malta & Gozo (the Maltese islands) n

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Building a network of marketeers

2011-08-17 Thread drew
On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 14:17 +0200, Warren Camilleri wrote: > as for a MARCON list it should be able to be like the old OOo Market list I could not disagree more strongly - if you want to look to a model then look to Ubuntu Local Teams and not the failed experiment that was OpenOffic.oeg Marcons -

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Building a network of marketeers

2011-08-17 Thread Cor Nouws
drew wrote (17-08-11 14:52) if you want to look to a model then look to Ubuntu Local Teams Can you explain more? THanks, -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Building a network of marketeers

2011-08-17 Thread drew
On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 14:58 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: > drew wrote (17-08-11 14:52) > > > if you want to look to a model then look to Ubuntu Local Teams > > Can you explain more? I thought you'd never ask Quick comment: IMO the way the Marcons structure was at OpenOffice.org was passive, you set

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Building a network of marketeers

2011-08-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Thank you Drew, I like that approach! Btw, we still have not defined exactly what this network of marketeets would do in the field and in the project. Best, Charles Le 17 août 2011 15:15, "drew" a écrit : > On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 14:58 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: >> drew wrote (17-08-11 14:52) >> >>

[libreoffice-marketing] Approaching Labor Unions/Social Movement orgs

2011-08-17 Thread Stephen Mahood
Hi everyone, I am very new to list so I will start with an quick apology if this has been discussed. Brief intro I am an activist in the Labor movement and have come across numerous organizations who take the what is given to them road of windows and OSX with Word. So I joined here to see what i

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Building a network of marketeers

2011-08-17 Thread Paulo de Souza Lima
+1. 2011/8/17 Charles-H. Schulz > Thank you Drew, I like that approach! Btw, we still have not defined > exactly > what this network of marketeets would do in the field and in the project. > > Best, > > Charles > Le 17 août 2011 15:15, "drew" a écrit : > > On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 14:58 +0200, Cor

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Building a network of marketeers

2011-08-17 Thread C. Olofson
On 08/17/2011 06:14 AM, drew wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 14:58 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: drew wrote (17-08-11 14:52) if you want to look to a model then look to Ubuntu Local Teams Can you explain more? I thought you'd never ask Quick comment: IMO the way the Marcons structure was at OpenOff

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Building a network of marketeers

2011-08-17 Thread Cor Nouws
drew wrote (17-08-11 15:14) On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 14:58 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: drew wrote (17-08-11 14:52) if you want to look to a model then look to Ubuntu Local Teams Can you explain more? I thought you'd never ask Oh, sorry if I missed a prior suggestion from your side. Quick comm

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Building a network of marketeers

2011-08-17 Thread drew
On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 15:48 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: > drew wrote (17-08-11 15:14) > > On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 14:58 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: > >> drew wrote (17-08-11 14:52) > >> > >>> if you want to look to a model then look to Ubuntu Local Teams > >> > >> Can you explain more? > > > > I thought you'

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] call for location 2012

2011-08-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:19:02 +0200, Florian Effenberger a écrit : > Hi, > > Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2011-08-16 21:46: > > I would like to wait until the end of the conference so that it > > does not mix with the present messaging... Anybody agree with that? > > I indeed would like to do the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] call for location 2012

2011-08-17 Thread Leif Lodahl
Hi all, The Paris conference is in October and honestly, can we make a decision before that? If not, lets leave it for the moment. To propose a conference requires lots of preparations for a local community. After that it requires a lot of work work and grreat thought from the global community. On

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] call for location 2012

2011-08-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Warren Camilleri wrote on 2011-08-17 14:10: How about Malta? thanks for the proposal - but please let's wait until we have decided if we want to have a call for locations right now at all. We first need to define some criteria, and then you can apply. :) Right now, we're just discussing

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Building a network of marketeers

2011-08-17 Thread Warren Camilleri
Okay guys, I really didn't want an argument to arise but that's healthy from this list, any ways i agree a "Ubuntu loco" structure is nice, i for one am a member of the Maltese loco team for Ubuntu, but here the point i wanted to show is for example my status, that i am a founder of a communi

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] call for location 2012

2011-08-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Charles, Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2011-08-17 19:36: Well... here's the reason why I was opposing this in the first place. Maybe it's just my perception but I found the advertisement of the Paris conference to be a bit weak and I am afraid that moving on to another conference will blur the m

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] call for location 2012

2011-08-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Leif, Leif Lodahl wrote on 2011-08-17 17:48: The Paris conference is in October and honestly, can we make a decision before that? If not, lets leave it for the moment. yes and no. I agree that we can spend our time with lots of other important things. However, keep in mind that if we wait

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Approaching Labor Unions/Social Movement orgs

2011-08-17 Thread Warren Camilleri
Hi Stephen, if i may be rude to ask your talking about unions in the uk? from my experience in my country (malta) you usually need to know someone, or really kick their doors real hard to be heard, until i discovered that the EU wants every member state to be at least 50% OSS by 2020 if i am n

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] call for location 2012

2011-08-17 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Flo, On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi Leif, > > Leif Lodahl wrote on 2011-08-17 17:48: > >> The Paris conference is in October and honestly, can we make a decision >> before that? If not, lets leave it for the moment. > > yes and no. I agree that we can spend ou

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Approaching Labor Unions/Social Movement orgs

2011-08-17 Thread Ian Lynch
On 17 August 2011 18:01, Warren Camilleri wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > if i may be rude to ask your talking about unions in the uk? > > from my experience in my country (malta) you usually need to know someone, > or really kick their doors real hard to be heard, until i discovered that > the EU wants

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Approaching Labor Unions/Social Movementorgs

2011-08-17 Thread Warren Camilleri
Hi Ian, Sadly no, i am not related to Joe Camilleri, especially since i was born a decade later... i would like to look into the EQF and possibly push for FOSS in schools, should any one would like to partake in this namely as the most FOSS friendly Office suite is Libreoffice, kindly advise

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] call for location 2012

2011-08-17 Thread Cor Nouws
Charles-H. Schulz wrote (17-08-11 19:36) Well... here's the reason why I was opposing this in the first place. Maybe it's just my perception but I found the advertisement of the Paris conference to be a bit weak and I am afraid that moving on to another conference will blur the message. It can

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Approaching Labor Unions/Social Movementorgs

2011-08-17 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 08/17/2011 02:21 PM, Warren Camilleri wrote: Hi Ian, Sadly no, i am not related to Joe Camilleri, especially since i was born a decade later... i would like to look into the EQF and possibly push for FOSS in schools, should any one would like to partake in this namely as the most FOSS fri

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Building a network of marketeers

2011-08-17 Thread Cor Nouws
drew wrote (17-08-11 16:52) On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 15:48 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: drew wrote (17-08-11 15:14) I thought you'd never ask Oh, sorry if I missed a prior suggestion from your side. *smile*..no, it was a joke about how quickly you responded.. Just as my reply was a sort of unde

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Approaching Labor Unions/Social Movement orgs

2011-08-17 Thread Stephen Mahood
Thank you for the quick reply, I am in the US which is where I would be taking the initiative but yeah knowing someone in the union always helps, just trying to see if any have had success. UK would be something for my co-host but he has a deeper in than I, but even then planning approaches would b