[libreoffice-marketing] Re: new years wishes

2013-01-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2012-12-31 06:17, Cor Nouws a écrit : Wishing you all the best for 2013: love, joy, happiness, inspiration for your work and fun in building and sharing good things in life. Cor +1 All of the very best of wishes to everyone. Cheers, Marc -- Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: LO vs AOO : GPL/LGPL vs ASL licences

2013-01-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2012-12-31 17:28, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Folks I would really avoid to compare such a delicate matter as licences unless you are a lawyer. And even then that's not marketing but rather legal advice. Thanks, Charles. +1 IMO, it's OK to cite the licences used but not compare. This

[libreoffice-marketing] Events Calendar (wiki and website) Admins

2013-01-01 Thread Marc Paré
FYI, The admins for the events calendar are now: Florian Effenberger Immanuel Giulea Marc Paré If you are aware of any events where TDF/LibreOffice members are attending, or, events where you think we should be attending and should be represented, feel free to leave a note on this list. One

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice and OpenERP

2013-01-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Happy new year all!!  Even to those that celebrate the beginning of a new year at other times.  It's a classic!  They claim that Base is easy to use as a front-end but haven't tried it themselves.  Then they would rather sink tons of their resources into creating their own front-ends

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LO vs AOO : GPL/LGPL vs ASL licences

2013-01-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Plus i personally tend to feel that winning users from OpenOffice is a very short-term win.  It's very easy to switch between AOO and LO and back again both as a product and as a member of a community.  Much the same with any of the OpenSource products and even freeware.  Most of

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: FAQ on website needs reworking

2013-01-01 Thread Marc Paré
Hi everyone and Italo, Le 2012-11-18 05:46, Marc Paré a écrit : Le 2012-11-17 15:23, Jean Weber a écrit : On 18/11/2012, at 0:37, Marc Parém...@marcpare.com wrote: Hi Italo, Le 2012-11-17 07:50, Italo Vignoli a écrit : Hi Marc, no objection at all. If you take the lead on this item, I am

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Japanese page on FB

2013-01-01 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Nahuriko-San, everyone, Happy New Year in Japan and all over the world! Charles. Naruhiko Ogasawara naru...@gmail.com a écrit : Everyone, Happy New Year! Sophie, Sorry little bit later reply, In Japan, new year holiday is very special so I had to drink sake too much and hard to write

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Events Calendar (wiki and website) Admins

2013-01-01 Thread Immanuel Giulea
Thank you for your confidence Marc. I'm honored Immanuel On Jan 1, 2013 5:45 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: FYI, The admins for the events calendar are now: Florian Effenberger Immanuel Giulea Marc Paré If you are aware of any events where TDF/LibreOffice members are attending,

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LO vs AOO : GPL/LGPL vs ASL licences

2013-01-01 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
I was using MSO 2003 when I started with OOo. I slowly went from using MSO to OOo as my default office package. Then I went to Ubuntu/Linux full time for my default desktop usage. So at that point I no longer had MSO as a backup, but I rarely used it anyways [once every three months or

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Events Calendar (wiki and website) Admins

2013-01-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Imo you have earned it.  Good luck and regards from Tom :)  From: Immanuel Giulea giulea.imman...@gmail.com To: Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com Cc: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 1 January 2013, 15:20 Subject: Re:

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Japanese page on FB

2013-01-01 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Naruhiko, Le 2013-01-01 08:32, Naruhiko Ogasawara a écrit : Hi Marc, Just to add to this, if there are any events happening in JA, leave a note here on the marketing list and we will add them to our Events Calendar (website and wiki). This will give you more exposure for your group.[1]

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Event Calendar

2013-01-01 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 12/31/12 12:30 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Italo is possibly the biggest star although there are a lot of other people that also do a lot while others of us just lurk and chip in with odd comments occasionally. I am definitely not a star. I have the advantage of having been involved in the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LO vs AOO : GPL/LGPL vs ASL licences

2013-01-01 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Immanuel, Immanuel Giulea wrote (01-01-13 16:15) So, back to my original question and I'll try to rephrase it: If not for the differences in licences, why should end-users choose LO over AOO when migrating away from MSO? How is LO a better product? Yes, this is an interesting question,

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LO vs AOO : GPL/LGPL vs ASL licences

2013-01-01 Thread timofonic timofonic
I would suggest to mention the advantages of a community driven project, focused on the project itself instead broad coverage (like Apache). Resources and members are more focused on specific stuff on the project. Of course certain people will get upset about that stuff, but it's impossible to be

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LO vs AOO : GPL/LGPL vs ASL licences

2013-01-01 Thread Jean Weber
On 02/01/2013, at 1:15, Immanuel Giulea giulea.imman...@gmail.com wrote: If not for the differences in licences, why should end-users choose LO over AOO when migrating away from MSO? How is LO a better product? One reason to choose LO over AOO is that we have (at this time) more user

[libreoffice-marketing] how does a software lobby work

2013-01-01 Thread Paolo Debortoli
it is the cse for many industries / big companies.  unfair weapons,  non technical matters which influence the market...  people should know: http://techrights.org/2011/02/01/francois-fillon-and-microsoft/ -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LO vs AOO : GPL/LGPL vs ASL licences

2013-01-01 Thread Italo Vignoli
LGPL/MPL (copyleft) are superior to AL (permissive) when applied to desktop software such as office suites because they are definitely able to attract more volunteer developers and probably more companies, and a larger hackers community is able to develop more features and solve a higher number of

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Event Calendar

2013-01-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Marc, Marc Paré wrote on 2012-12-30 09:17: Our events calendar can be found both on the website in the About Us section, and, on the wiki. You can find the link in our Marketing section[1]. The calendar is a Google Calendar and the same information is the same on both the website and wiki

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Google AdWords

2013-01-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Immanuel, Immanuel Giulea wrote on 2012-12-29 15:47: Great work on getting the grant, very good news. thanks! It was rather easy to apply, so the merits are with Google for granting us free adwords. ;-) I went to check the Donate page in French (I am in Quebec, we speak French), and

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Google AdWords

2013-01-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Cor Nouws wrote on 2012-12-30 23:11: Thanks for these initial tests. It's good to learn by experience (is what I learned from experience ;-) ). :-) so, my first tests were not that successful. We had quite a few impressions, but a rather bad click through rate. Might be due to the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: CeBIT status quo

2013-01-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Marc, Marc Paré wrote on 2012-12-29 14:01: First off, the 2013 CeBIT wiki page is only in DE. But it says that the distribution of work was going to happen on the DE mailing list. yes, sorry for that - the page was created in a rush when we had the first offers for the booth to