[libreoffice-marketing] ISO download stats?

2012-11-05 Thread Marc Paré
There are some stats on the DE mailing lists of the LibreOfficeBox downloads which are quite impressive. Would it be possible to get stats for the EN version as well as total number of downloads for all ISO's regardless of language? BTW, could we, just as a regular end of month process, get

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Dubious claims

2012-11-05 Thread Italo Vignoli
No, he will go on and on. He is paid by IBM, so he is just doing his job. He is testing our patience. -- Italo Vignoli Mobile +39.348.5653829 Email italo.vign...@gmail.com On Monday 5 November 2012 at 10:06, Florian Monfort wrote: Here we go again...

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Dubious claims

2012-11-05 Thread Florian Monfort
But isn't he right in any of his writings ? Sounds pretty convincing :/ On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.comwrote: No, he will go on and on. He is paid by IBM, so he is just doing his job. He is testing our patience. -- Italo Vignoli Mobile

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Dubious claims

2012-11-05 Thread Valentin
He is right Am 05.11.2012 10:42 schrieb Florian Monfort florian.monf...@gmail.com: But isn't he right in any of his writings ? Sounds pretty convincing :/ On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.com wrote: No, he will go on and on. He is paid by IBM, so he

[libreoffice-marketing] POSSCON Call for Speakers (Deadline Nov. 16, 2012)

2012-11-05 Thread Marc Paré
(US) Palmetto Open Source Software Conference (POSSCON) (27-28 Mar 2013) FYI, if anyone is interested, we were not represented last year. The POSSCON 2013 Call for Speakers opens today, Tuesday, October 16. Anyone interested in speaking at the 2013 event is asked to

[libreoffice-marketing] (DE) Chemnitzer Linux Tage (16-17 Mar 2013) -- Conference

2012-11-05 Thread Marc Paré
We were represented last year. Not sure about plans for this upcoming conference. Chemnitzer Linux Tage website: http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2013/ Added to our events calendar. Cheers, Marc -- Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com http://www.parEntreprise.com parEntreprise.com Supports

[libreoffice-marketing] (US) Northeast GNU/Linux Fest (NELF) 2013 (16-17 Mar 2013)

2012-11-05 Thread Marc Paré
Location: Worcester State University in Worcester (near Boston), Massachusetts, US The northeast GNU/Linux fest is an advocate of Free software. We hope to bring awareness of Free software to college students their schools, programmers and businesses. We welcome everyone from the new user to

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Dubious claims

2012-11-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Florian, We hold the data sources open. They're out there, if anybody needs counting. best, Charles. Le lundi 05 novembre 2012 à 10:42 +0100, Florian Monfort a écrit : But isn't he right in any of his writings ? Sounds pretty convincing :/ On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Italo

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: ideas for campaigns

2012-11-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Sophie, Le dimanche 04 novembre 2012 à 20:41 +0100, Sophie Gautier a écrit : Hi all, Resent with the good address ;) On 04/11/2012 20:34, Sophie Gautier wrote: I would like to throw some ideas for the next donation campaign or the next com campaign, you can forget about it if you

[libreoffice-marketing] 3.7-4.0

2012-11-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello, Our next branch, the 3.7, will actually be our 4.0 (I know, it's Monday). More technical details are available here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice4 and they're intensely technical as you can see. The new features are not fully defined, but we need to work on

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: 3.7-4.0

2012-11-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Sorry, I forgot this link as well: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.7 best, Charles. Le lundi 05 novembre 2012 à 12:03 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Hello, Our next branch, the 3.7, will actually be our 4.0 (I know, it's Monday). More technical details are available

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Dubious claims

2012-11-05 Thread Mark Wielaard
Florian Monfort florian.monf...@gmail.com wrote: But isn't he right in any of his writings ? As far as I can see his main claim is that summarizing any statistics is imprecise. Which obviously is right, since it is a summary, not the raw data. Also he doesn't seem happy how happy other people

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Dubious claims

2012-11-05 Thread Mark Wielaard
Florian Monfort florian.monf...@gmail.com wrote: But isn't he right in any of his writings ? As far as I can see his main claim is that summarizing any statistics is imprecise. Which obviously is right, since it is a summary, not the raw data. Also he doesn't seem happy with how happy other

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Dubious claims

2012-11-05 Thread Italo Vignoli
Il 05/11/2012 10:42, Florian Monfort ha scritto: But isn't he right in any of his writings ? Sounds pretty convincing :/ Rob Weir is an artist in splitting hairs, and if you split hairs you will always find a number which is not convincing. Please visit this page:

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] POSSCON Call for Speakers (Deadline Nov. 16, 2012)

2012-11-05 Thread Italo Vignoli
Il 05/11/2012 10:49, Marc Paré ha scritto: FYI, if anyone is interested, we were not represented last year. Hi Marc, I tried to, but they did not approve my presentation. I strongly suspect that there is a strong bias towards another project based on the prominent role that another foundation

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: POSSCON Call for Speakers (Deadline Nov. 16, 2012)

2012-11-05 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Italo, Le 2012-11-05 07:06, Italo Vignoli a écrit : Il 05/11/2012 10:49, Marc Paré ha scritto: FYI, if anyone is interested, we were not represented last year. Hi Marc, I tried to, but they did not approve my presentation. I strongly suspect that there is a strong bias towards another

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: POSSCON Call for Speakers (Deadline Nov. 16, 2012)

2012-11-05 Thread Italo Vignoli
Il 05/11/2012 13:51, Marc Paré ha scritto: Sounds like an excellent plan! I suspect they will now know of it ... I am sure someone at POSSCON will raise the topic after having read this on our list. :-) Maybe... In 2012 I have been invited to conferences in Tunisia and Poland, and in 2013 I

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Dubious claims

2012-11-05 Thread Jay Lozier
On 11/05/2012 04:42 AM, Florian Monfort wrote: But isn't he right in any of his writings ? Sounds pretty convincing :/ On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.comwrote: No, he will go on and on. He is paid by IBM, so he is just doing his job. He is testing our

[libreoffice-marketing] General Commentary on LibreOffice and The Document Foundation.

2012-11-05 Thread Volodymyr Vladimir I. Druzhshchienschkyj
Dear Charles, Florian, Italo, Mark, and Everyone whose names I have forgotten at the moment: What has presented with the recent spate of activity with Dubious Claims and the like reminds me very much of the character, Ellsworth Toohey in Ayn Rand's book The Fountainhead. There will always

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] 3.7-4.0

2012-11-05 Thread Jean Weber
Documentation would like a new cover design for the user guides. We have also been looking at some internal design changes for the docs, but probably won't have time to implement many of them. --Jean On 05/11/2012, at 22:03, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote:

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: ISO download stats?

2012-11-05 Thread Luuk
On 05-11-2012 10:05, Marc Paré wrote: There are some stats on the DE mailing lists of the LibreOfficeBox downloads which are quite impressive. Would it be possible to get stats for the EN version as well as total number of downloads for all ISO's regardless of language? BTW, could we, just as a

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: ideas for campaigns

2012-11-05 Thread Marc Paré
Hi all, Le 2012-11-05 05:44, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Hello Sophie, Le dimanche 04 novembre 2012 à 20:41 +0100, Sophie Gautier a écrit : Hi all, Resent with the good address ;) On 04/11/2012 20:34, Sophie Gautier wrote: I would like to throw some ideas for the next donation campaign or

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: ISO download stats?

2012-11-05 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Luuk, Le 2012-11-05 14:17, Luuk a écrit : On 05-11-2012 10:05, Marc Paré wrote: There are some stats on the DE mailing lists of the LibreOfficeBox downloads which are quite impressive. Would it be possible to get stats for the EN version as well as total number of downloads for all ISO's

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: POSSCON Call for Speakers (Deadline Nov. 16, 2012)

2012-11-05 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Italo, Le 2012-11-05 08:00, Italo Vignoli a écrit : Il 05/11/2012 13:51, Marc Paré ha scritto: Sounds like an excellent plan! I suspect they will now know of it ... I am sure someone at POSSCON will raise the topic after having read this on our list. :-) Maybe... In 2012 I have been

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: ideas for campaigns

2012-11-05 Thread klaus-jürgen weghorn ol
Am 05.11.2012 11:44, schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: Thanks for passing this around. So essentially this is a call to design web buttons and banners for our future and present(?) donation campaigns. Interested people please upload your designs on our wiki in the design section. As Marc mentioned

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: POSSCON Call for Speakers (Deadline Nov. 16, 2012)

2012-11-05 Thread Italo Vignoli
Il 05/11/2012 22:13, Marc Paré ha scritto: Well, quite honestly, I notice that some of our sponsors take part in that particular conference. If we were interested, perhaps a well placed call/email could help the adoption to POSSCON a little. I have already engaged in a discussion with POSSCON

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: POSSCON Call for Speakers (Deadline Nov. 16, 2012)

2012-11-05 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Italo, Le 2012-11-05 16:51, Italo Vignoli a écrit : I will try to remember speaking engagements, starting from http://fossc-oman.net where I will be a keynote speaker covering migrations from proprietary to free software. Thanks! I have added it to our international events calendar. I

[libreoffice-marketing] GOTOCON 2013 Conferences added to events calendar

2012-11-05 Thread Marc Paré
http://gotocon.com (CH) GOTO Zurich 2013 -- 10-11 Apr 2013 (US) GOTO Chicago 2013 -- 23-24 Apr 2013 (NL) GOTO Amsterdam 2013 -- 18-20 Jun 2013 (DK) GOTO Aarhus 2013 -- 7-9 Oct 2013 http://gotocon.com Cheers, Marc -- Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com http://www.parEntreprise.com parEntreprise.com

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: ISO download stats?

2012-11-05 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Luuk, *, On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Luuk luu...@gmail.com wrote: On 05-11-2012 10:05, Marc Paré wrote: You will 'miss' the downloads via bittorrent.. all download numbers are approximative, as distribution is not limited But as torrents (the info-files) are also downloaded via