[libreoffice-marketing] Conference 2013 Call for Locations

2012-10-02 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, this message is to remind you that the Call for Locations for the LibreOffice Conference 2013 will end in two weeks, on October 15th, 23:59 UTC. All details can be found in the original announcement [1] as well as in our wiki page. [2] We are looking forward

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] donation meter

2012-10-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le lundi 01 octobre 2012 à 09:55 +0200, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hello, our fundraising campaign officially starts today. Like last time, I'd like to add a donation meter to our websites, so people can donate towards a goal. I am not a friend of unrealistic values, just to keep

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] donation meter

2012-10-02 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
On 10/02/2012 04:59 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Le lundi 01 octobre 2012 à 09:55 +0200, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hello, our fundraising campaign officially starts today. Like last time, I'd like to add a donation meter to our websites, so people can donate towards a goal. I am not a

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] donation meter

2012-10-02 Thread Jay Lozier
On 10/02/2012 11:03 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 10/02/2012 04:59 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Le lundi 01 octobre 2012 à 09:55 +0200, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hello, our fundraising campaign officially starts today. Like last time, I'd like to add a donation meter to our

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] donation meter

2012-10-02 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
On 10/02/2012 11:53 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 10/02/2012 11:03 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 10/02/2012 04:59 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Le lundi 01 octobre 2012 à 09:55 +0200, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hello, our fundraising campaign officially starts today. Like last time, I'd

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] donation meter

2012-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I agree that TDF is growing fast but is tripling in size each year realistic??  In the first year it started with 20 people and 1 release in one branch.  Here we are 2 years later with 'a few' more than 180 people and having gone through to the 4 branches with around 5-6 releases per

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] donation meter

2012-10-02 Thread Florian Monfort
Hi everyone ! Tripling size and tripling expenses for an organization are two very different things. We don't need to have three times the amount of people to need three times the money we have right now ;) -- Florian Monfort Marketing Apprentice at Red Hat Marketing Team at The Document

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] donation meter

2012-10-02 Thread Jean Weber
Tom, the number of members of TDF is not the same as the number of contributors to LibreOffice, and probably the two numbers are not even related. Don't mix apples and oranges. Jean On 02/10/2012, at 18:19, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I agree that TDF is growing fast

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] donation meter

2012-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I was following in the spirit of Tim's post.  I suspect that most contributors are not yet members.  The membership committee have been working hard to process the applications but there is a bit of a bottle-neck.  It's not easy as there is probably a vast amount to process and far too

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] donation meter

2012-10-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
What is needed here is a donation meter design and possible goals definition: i.e 50k funds the infrastructure for one year, etc. Could we focus on this instead of general considerations that should rather take place on discuss@ ? Thanks, Charles. Le 2 oct. 2012 18:47, Tom Davies

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] donation meter

2012-10-02 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
The big thing I though about was hardware and Internet costs, plus the needed marketing in the USA, as well as Europe. If we ask for 3 times what we currently need, then get half that figure, we will hopefully make out. The costs of everything is going up. We must plan of it. On

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] donation meter

2012-10-02 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Tom, *, On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I agree that TDF is growing fast but is tripling in size each year realistic?? That was about the expenses/donation goal. And for that 3x the fixed costs for running the infrastructure is the absolute