Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibOCon CfL

2012-01-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 07/01/2012 Florian Effenberger wrote: I have just worked on the Call for Locations, and my extended version is available at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/CallforLocation I felt free to fix some obvious typos myself http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=Marketing%2

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] website terminology for free software

2011-08-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Bernhard Dippold wrote: thanks for the reminder, but the topics seem to be quite unrelated to me. Well, to me they are: you can't specify that the license is free software besides being open source (which, to stay on topic, is right and desirable) but at the same time indicate a wrong license

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] website terminology for free software

2011-08-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 04/08/2011 Florian Effenberger wrote: I've received a request to change two things on our website, regarding terminology: - Instead of solely using "open source", I was asked that we should also use "free software". - "Linux" should be referred to as "GNU/Linux". Before addressing this, I'd

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [steering-discuss] Fwd: Thanks for the interview today

2011-06-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Italo Vignoli wrote: > On 6/10/11 1:22 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > Italo Vignoli wrote: > >> http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2077963/libreoffice-ready-commercial-distribution-months-document-foundation > >> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2077979/document-fou

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [steering-discuss] Fwd: Thanks for the interview today

2011-06-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Italo Vignoli wrote: > http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2077963/libreoffice-ready-commercial-distribution-months-document-foundation > http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2077979/document-foundation-promises-enterprise-ready-libreoffice-august It's great to see that the LibreOffice download siz

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] need to redue the Extensions page on "libreplanet.org/wiki"

2011-05-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: > With Oracle's dropping OOo, the links for the Extensions at > http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:OpenOfficeExtensions/List > seem not to work most times. I don't know how many times people had to write it already, and Volker just tried to explain it

Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-marketing] BrOffice product and community will be called LibreOffice

2011-04-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Italo Vignoli wrote: > On 04/24/2011 01:13 PM, Riemer Thalen wrote: > > - Three times I tried to introduce OOo in organisations I that hired me. > > Three times I failed. Reason number one: OOo/LibO lacks "normal view" ... > There are many examples like this one, of user requests which have been >

Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-marketing] BrOffice product and community will be called LibreOffice

2011-04-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Riemer Thalen wrote: > Dropping the name BrOffice without a thorough three year goodwill transfer > would almost certainly be the most catastrophical decision ever made by the > BrOffice community... Please, think it over. The Brazilian community is very aware of the strength of its brand, to the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] reg: Presentation - Introducing LibreOffice

2011-03-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/03/2011 Italo Vignoli wrote: > On 3/23/11 12:05 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > > Italo, both of us perfectly know this. Can you just clarify your > > previous message and confirm that BOTH OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice > > are free AND open source software? > &g

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] reg: Presentation - Introducing LibreOffice

2011-03-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Italo Vignoli wrote: > The difference between open source and free software is pointed out by > FSF, and I agree on the fact that is very subtle Italo, both of us perfectly know this. Can you just clarify your previous message and confirm that BOTH OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice are free AND open

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] reg: Presentation - Introducing LibreOffice

2011-03-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Italo Vignoli wrote: > OpenOffice.org is open source while LibreOffice is free software. The > difference is small, but substancial. No, there is no difference between OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice in this respect. OpenOffice.org is open source and free software. LibreOffice is open source and f

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] torrentfile for American DVD ISO

2011-03-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/03/2011 webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: > My lungstrom.com domain's testing pages. > http://www.lungstrom.com/libreoffice-dvd-project/LibreOffice-disc-North-American-DVD/index.html Of the three Italian dictionaries listed at http://www.lungstrom.com/libreoffice-dvd-project/Lib

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Starting something like LibreCon

2011-02-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > You were at FOSDEM? Sure. I spent a good couple of hours at the nice LibreOffice booth on Saturday for what was meant to be a quick chat with Italo (Italians, you know...), but I didn't manage to attend the track on Sunday since I was giving two presentations at the co-l

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Starting something like LibreCon

2011-02-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 14/02/2011 public sector wrote: > in my eyes the development of the projects OOo and LO hasn't much split yet > and so why aren't we using (if possible) the OOoCon for as a platform for > presentation and knowledge transfer. We are a fork but I don't think we are > enemies. We also have to think

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO DVD fulfillment web-page

2010-12-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Benjamin Horst wrote: > We can take a look at the example of the Drupal community for one > successful policy. The "Drupal" trademark cannot be used by for-profit > companies or in their domains, but it is permitted for non-profits and > in the domain names of non-profits. I think this has worked w

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] presentation templates for LibreOffice

2010-12-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/12/2010 Florian Effenberger wrote: > Christian Lohmaier wrote on 2010-12-17 16.39: > > I wonder how that "exclusively for LO users" would work, but apart > > from that: sounds great :-) > > I guess not in terms of license, but in terms that the page is hidden > and will only be communicated

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Drew Jensen wrote: > On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 17:31 +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > You should have license and author, and derive it via ODF processing > > and not enter it with a simple CCK field. Moreover, it should be > > investigated what kind of commitment the Doc

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 12/11/2010 jonathon wrote: > On 11/08/2010 09:30 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > I don't know exactly what "template section" you refer to, but the > > official repository for OpenOffice.org templates at > > http://templates.services.openoffice.org only accept

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Michael Wheatland wrote: > The structure of the official LibreOffice Drupal development website > for templates has been set up and is functioning. Congratulations for your efforts. From a pure Drupal perspective, the page is good. OK, I get a "user warning: Unknown column 'lang_is' in 'field list

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
jonathon wrote: > LibO has to offer templates on its own website. > There are so many microsoft office templates listed on the template > section of the openoffice.org website, that the entire template > section has to be treated as a microsoft office template repository. I don't know exactly what

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 04/11/2010 Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2010-11-03 17:42, Andy Brown a écrit : > > Start here http://templates.services.openoffice.org/ same place for OOo > > and LibO. There is a link there back to the Extensions repository. > Thanks. The obvious question is ... are we going to brand a page and > hav

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Can we put marketing titles under our names?

2010-10-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
behalf of the Document Foundation provide a hint somewhere in their messages, so that we can judge their words accordingly. Regards, Andrea Pescetti. -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Can we put marketing titles under our names?

2010-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
OpenOffice.org mailing list, where I hold an elective position. But for a still informal group in a still informal foundation I agree with Drew that the situation is not clear-cut. Best regards, Andrea Pescetti. -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marc Paré wrote: > BTW ... Do you know if OOo4Kids is supporting the LibO project? I merely had a look at what Eric Bachard, ideator of OOo4Kids, wrote. Of course, I cannot speak for OOo4Kids and I am not an active member of the OOo Education project. On 28 September he posted a short "No LibreOf

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Academia

2010-10-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
. then LibO could become like "LyX," a GUI for LaTeX, but better. While we do have a formula editor and basic tools, it would be rather hard to build a LaTeX export that can work "the LaTeX way", much like the HTML export suffers from unavoidable artificial conversions.