Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Open Help Conference & Sprints 2013

2013-05-06 Thread Jean Weber
Tom, It's a small, very participatory conference (less than 50 people), so one does not just "show up and look around". At last year's conference, I gave a presentation about the LO Docs project and team, because the other participants wanted to learn what we were doing, but that is not required. I

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Open Help Conference & Sprints 2013

2013-05-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Closing date for applications is in a couple of days time.  The 14th.  That's this month, May.  That's their last date so you'd need to get it in on the 12th or 13th to try to avoid problems.  It's already the 8th.  Jean from the Docs Team managed to go last year but she lives in Austral

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Open Help Conference & Sprints 2013

2013-05-06 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I did not know that the Brooklyn Bridge was in Cincinnati [laugh over the image]. I wish I still could travel. That is about a half day traveling from me. I use to drive back and forth to Columbus OH many time in the '80s. The conference is in mid-June, so if someone really wanted to they

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: Education

2013-05-06 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 05/06/2013 04:12 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 06/05/13 03:36 PM, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Hello Tom, Your observation is correct I think. But then I'd say that these brochures will be primarily handed to people in venues volunteers of the project can exhibit. So you have to think of this br

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: Education

2013-05-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 to everything all 3 said.  Errr, i don't usually like agreeing but i have to this time.  The brochure was designed for a specific purpose, a specific audience, and it achieves that very well.  Marc makes a lot of sense about another one for Academics.  Academics and Devs are likely t

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: Education

2013-05-06 Thread Jean Weber
On 07/05/2013, at 6:12, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 06/05/13 03:36 PM, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : >> Hello Tom, >> >> Your observation is correct I think. But then I'd say that these brochures >> will be primarily handed to people in venues volunteers of the project can >> exhibit. So you have to

[libreoffice-marketing] Brochure type: Developers

2013-05-06 Thread Jean Weber
I've not been keeping up well, so this may have been covered already by Marc. With OSCON coming up in July, I need a brochure aimed at developers. This would definitely emphasize the community and why one might want to join and contribute. Or perhaps a slightly broader audience? Including QA,

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure templates -- Official and Community (easy on ink) versions

2013-05-06 Thread Marc Paré
Le 04/05/13 05:44 AM, Marc Paré a écrit : COMMUNITY BROCHURE The community version is really for conferences, LUG meetings, small print runs on business/home printers, etc. The community version makes use of the community logo (it does NOT have the sub

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: Education

2013-05-06 Thread Marc Paré
Le 06/05/13 03:36 PM, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Hello Tom, Your observation is correct I think. But then I'd say that these brochures will be primarily handed to people in venues volunteers of the project can exhibit. So you have to think of this brochure in its usage and context. I have ye

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: Education

2013-05-06 Thread Marc Paré
I've set up a wiki page with the steps and some points that I think important to put in the brochure[1]. We are only in the "brainstorming" of ideas at this point. The more points we put there with respect to LibreOffice being important in the educational field the better. Please do not remove

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: Education

2013-05-06 Thread Marc Paré
Le 06/05/13 02:53 PM, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) I get the impression that the brochure we have been looking at is for informational NOT marketing purposes. It's going to be for people that have already been attracted to the product and want to know more. For kids or even just normal marketi

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Open Help Conference & Sprints 2013

2013-05-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks :)  I meant to pass this on to this list ages ago.  Sorry i didn't!  Is there anyone already near enough, perhaps even living in Ohio, that can register in the short time left?  http://openhelpconference.com/ I think there is not enough time left to get a proper LibreOffice / TDF

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Brochure-type: Education

2013-05-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Tom, Your observation is correct I think. But then I'd say that these brochures will be primarily handed to people in venues volunteers of the project can exhibit. So you have to think of this brochure in its usage and context. I have yet to see the guy next door stumbling on a brochure

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Brochure-type: Education

2013-05-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I get the impression that the brochure we have been looking at is for informational NOT marketing purposes.  It's going to be for people that have already been attracted to the product and want to know more.  For kids or even just normal marketing it's going to need to be MUCH less verb

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Brochure-type: Education

2013-05-06 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 05/06/2013 01:42 PM, Daniel A. Rodriguez wrote: 2013/5/6 Marc Paré I would like to work on the Education brochure. As we do not, as yet, have any text/content for this brochure, I think the following approach would be the best way to work: [*First:*] identify the different points that we t

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Brochure-type: Education

2013-05-06 Thread Daniel A. Rodriguez
2013/5/6 Marc Paré > > I would like to work on the Education brochure. As we do not, as yet, have any text/content for this brochure, I think the following approach would be the best way to work: > > [*First:*] identify the different points that we think should be included in the brochure. > > [*S

[libreoffice-marketing] Brochure-type: Education

2013-05-06 Thread Marc Paré
I would like to work on the Education brochure. As we do not, as yet, have any text/content for this brochure, I think the following approach would be the best way to work: [*First:*] identify the different points that we think should be included in the brochure. [*Second:*] write up the tex

[libreoffice-marketing] TDF/LibreOffice Brochure Workspace wiki page

2013-05-06 Thread Marc Paré
Hi everyone, I have created a "TDF/LibreOffice Brochure Workspace" wiki page[1]. We can use it to track the work done on the content and text of the different brochure types as we complete them. Feel free to add any more types should you think we are missing any. I have also added the NL (na

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: General Information

2013-05-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Perhaps remove "also" as Base is at it's strongest when used as a front-end.  It seems to be the default way of using Base and it's much easier to get Base to co-operate with that than it is with Access.  So, perhaps Writer is a full-featured word processing application, which can al

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: General Information

2013-05-06 Thread Italo Vignoli
Il 06/05/2013 17:18, Charles-H. Schulz ha scritto: Italo? I would change slightly the Writer text and tone down the Base one. My proposal: Writer is a full-featured word processing application, which can also work as a desktop publishing tool. It's simple enough to use for a quick memo, bu

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: General Information

2013-05-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le lundi 06 mai 2013 à 17:06 +0200, Italo Vignoli a écrit : > Il 06/05/2013 16:39, Marc Paré ha scritto: > > > It should really be read through by someone else than just Tim and myself. > > I will have a look ASAP. > Marc, it looks good to me. I'm not too sure about the wording about Writer: t

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: General Information

2013-05-06 Thread Italo Vignoli
Il 06/05/2013 16:39, Marc Paré ha scritto: It should really be read through by someone else than just Tim and myself. I will have a look ASAP. -- Italo Vignoli - italo.vign...@gmail.com mob +39.348.5653829 - VoIP 5316...@messagenet.it skype italovignoli - gtalk italo.vign...@gmail.com -- To

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: General Information

2013-05-06 Thread Marc Paré
Le 04/05/13 05:54 AM, Marc Paré a écrit : This is the thread to develop the brochure-type "General Information" brochure. I have uploaded a sample brochure with the content. We should first re-read the content, and once we have agreed on the content, proofed the content and formatted the content,

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Open Help Conference & Sprints 2013

2013-05-06 Thread Marc Paré
I have added this event to our website and wiki webcalendars. Cheers, Marc Le 06/05/13 05:37 AM, Tom Davies a écrit : From: Shaun McCance To: documentat...@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 6 May 2013, 2:35 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Ope

[libreoffice-marketing] Open Help Conference & Sprints 2013

2013-05-06 Thread Tom Davies
> > From: Shaun McCance >To: documentat...@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Monday, 6 May 2013, 2:35 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Open Help Conference & Sprints 2013 > > >Hi Tom, > >I haven't seen any registrations from any LibreOffice folks. In cas