Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice and The Document Foundation names in non-Latin languages

2013-02-27 Thread Cor Nouws
Hello Issa, Issa Alkurtass wrote (23-02-13 12:41) I've been wondering for a while how to handle LibreOffice and The Document Foundation names in non-Latin languages: - Translate them to their literal meaning. - Transliterate them using non-Latin characters. - Write them in English/using Latin

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice and The Document Foundation names in non-Latin languages

2013-02-27 Thread klaus-jürgen weghorn ol
Am 27.02.2013 09:25, schrieb Cor Nouws: Hello Issa, Issa Alkurtass wrote (23-02-13 12:41) I've been wondering for a while how to handle LibreOffice and The Document Foundation names in non-Latin languages: - Translate them to their literal meaning. - Transliterate them using non-Latin

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice and The Document Foundation names in non-Latin languages

2013-02-27 Thread Naruhiko Ogasawara
Hello from Japan, How do you handle with CocaCola, Samsung, Mc Donald's etc.? How do you handle with proper names? LibreOffice is a trademark and TheDocumentFoundation is a proper name. Even the Japanese, Korean, Chinese write the international company's names in latin [1], [2]. Yes, we,

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice and The Document Foundation names in non-Latin languages

2013-02-27 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello everyone, First, thank you for this fascinating discussion :-) I am wondering if we tgen need to extend our trademark to non latin characters? Or is it granted because of the trademark we already have? But to go back to the original point, we should use non latin characters if it means a

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Official Mascot

2013-02-27 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi *, On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:04 PM, goldf...@aol.in wrote: Hi, I got this marketing idea from Naruhiko Ogasawara. Could we please have an Official Mascot? (Like FF has the famous quickly recognizable Fox). I very much like the idea, and proposed it in 2011 already :-))

[libreoffice-marketing] Events

2013-02-27 Thread Italo Vignoli
Chemnitzer LinuxTag http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2013/vortraege/plan Jacqueline Rahemipour will present LibreOffice on March 17 Fai La Cosa Giusta (Do The Right Thing) http://falacosagiusta.terre.it/ (MilanoCity Exhibition Ground) Marina Latini and myself will present LibreOffice on March 16

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Official Mascot

2013-02-27 Thread goldfish
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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Official Mascot

2013-02-27 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Paul, we already have a logo and I'm sure we can do fun things with it (such as pillows). A mascot, even in the case of FF, came after and is secondary to the logo and the brand. Best, Charles. At least our mascot can give great pillows :-)) ciao Christian Thanks, Paul --

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Official Mascot

2013-02-27 Thread Marc Paré
Hi everyone, Le 2013-02-27 08:23, goldf...@aol.in a écrit : -Original Message- From: Christian Lohmaier lohmaier+libreoff...@googlemail.com To: goldfish goldf...@aol.in Cc: marketing marketing@global.libreoffice.org; marketing market...@libreoffice.org; marketing+help

[libreoffice-marketing] Added Certification to Wikipedia-EN

2013-02-27 Thread Simon Phipps
I noticed TDF's certification programme was not listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_certification_(computer_technology)so I have added it. If you're watching TDF-related Wikipedia pages you may wish to add this one to your list. Regards, S. -- *Simon Phipps*

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Official Mascot

2013-02-27 Thread Italo Vignoli
Il 27/02/2013 15:19, Marc Paré ha scritto: I agree with Charles that talking of adopting a mascot for the LibreOffice brand is still way too early. We are just starting to get the brand recognition that we deserve, although the path to a complete and independent brand recognition is still

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Official Mascot

2013-02-27 Thread Naruhiko Ogasawara
Hi, Sorry for everyone to careless, no-goggling my post on Facebook. I totally agree it's too early to talk about mascot or anything else, first we should expand our brand already we have and create stable position in the market. But in the future, if we will have a discussion about the new

[libreoffice-marketing] Every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn to code

2013-02-27 Thread Daniel A. Rodriguez
I think someone from the BoD should sign to this campaign -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List

[libreoffice-marketing] Official Mascot

2013-02-27 Thread Keith Curtis
I can recommend cuteoverload as a place to find potential mascots ;-) Monkey: http://cuteoverload.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/7976982570_55bb0e3cf1_b.jpg Bug: http://cuteoverload.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/8473765547_dda691f78e_b.jpg Regards, -Keith On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Italo