Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: World map divided up by population

2010-12-07 Thread Frank Esposito
> I'm looking at it from a marketing point of view. From a personal point of > view, yes, the other stats are more interesting. :-) it would be interesting to mashup world internet users to LO/OO downloads -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http:

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: World map divided up by population

2010-12-07 Thread Frank Esposito
wow Russia is so small! and it seems half of the world lives in the East cool... On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2010-12-07 14:53, Marc Paré a écrit : >> >> Just thought that this would be an interesting exercise to do. Here is a >> world map at: http://show.mappingworld

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Marketing suggestion: enable screenplay formatting with LibreOffice

2010-11-14 Thread Frank Esposito
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Dave Johnson wrote: > i am all fir it. > > Dave Johnson > > On Nov 13, 2010 10:45 PM, "Andy Brown" wrote: > > On Sat Nov 13 2010 18:17:41 GMT-0800 (PST) Alan C. Baird wrote: > > > > Proposal for significantly enla... > Alan, > > I want to applaud you for the wor

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Planning release

2010-11-03 Thread Frank Esposito
what if we make it a "new features" page that although does not reference competitors, highlights what is in fact new and different. On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2010-11-03 14:13, leif a écrit : > > Hi all, >> I would like to know if anyone is working on a "advantages"

[libreoffice-marketing] Ubuntu 11.04 & Libre Office

2010-10-29 Thread Frank Esposito
marketing) by that release date. Can we do this? It would be huge. just my thoughts... -frank esposito -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation

2010-10-29 Thread Frank Esposito
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Monfort Florian wrote: > I think this is a great idea, and I was also wondering if the Scribus > project couldn't be added to it. > > After all LibreOffice doesn't provide a REAL and COMPLETE publication > solution face to INDesign, QuarkXpress etc ... Scribus is a

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Obstacles to ODF adoption

2010-10-28 Thread Frank Esposito
> > Last year, I pushed hard to get a few of my area rural municipal > governments to adopt OpenOffice. I met with representatives of about 15 > small Oklahoma towns and did a few presentations (all designed in > OpenOffice - eat the dog food!) In the end, none of them really saw any > value in mig

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Obstacles to ODF adoption

2010-10-28 Thread Frank Esposito
> > Acutally we should consider doing more than one, maybe one toward > business, > one toward individuals, and then education. > > James Walker > > We should also include government as well, that seems to be where adoption is currently high. how about religious organizations? So we have: Govern

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Obstacles to ODF adoption

2010-10-28 Thread Frank Esposito
There is a wikipedia page concerning ODF adaption http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_adoption After reading it it seems there is a fair amount of adoption in Europe and virtually none in the U.S. -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List arc

[libreoffice-marketing] Obstacles to ODF adoption

2010-10-28 Thread Frank Esposito
I would like to start a discussion to solve the problem of Open Document Format adoption. Currently (at least in the U.S.) the most prevelant document format is the Microsoft Office Open XML Forma and older doc/xls/ppt format. I believe if we can somehow market the benefits of ODF over Microsoft,

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

2010-10-26 Thread Frank Esposito
> > * It is ugly > > This is a very subjective call, so not worth consideration outside a "UX > needs > improvement in some areas" UX can make or break a product, just ask Steve Jobs and therefore IS worth consideration. Someone even brought up this point on the first conference call (sorry I can

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

2010-10-26 Thread Frank Esposito
without any loss of formatting, LO would become much more feasible to major corporations and universities. -frank On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2010-10-26 13:37, Italo Vignoli a écrit : > > Frank Esposito wrote: >> >> Problems with adoption as f

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

2010-10-23 Thread Frank Esposito
innovate new features and stabilize its current feature set, this is how Firefox, and later Chrome won the browser wars (in my opinion at least). just my thoughts -Frank esposito On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > Just thought that I would start a thread on LibO use in Busin

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Will there be a press release about Oracle?

2010-10-18 Thread Frank Esposito
ink I included was a report that Oracle has decided not to become involved with TDF. -fe On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2010-10-18 12:15, Frank Esposito a écrit : >> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-wishes-LibreOffice-the-best-but-won-t-directly-coo

[libreoffice-marketing] Will there be a press release about Oracle?

2010-10-18 Thread Frank Esposito
what has already happened in less than 30 days. Just my thoughts... ( -frank esposito http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-wishes-LibreOffice-the-best-but-won-t-directly-cooperate-1102095.html -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List

[libreoffice-marketing] Portable LibreOffice?

2010-10-15 Thread Frank Esposito
portableapps community but the request was seemingly received with indifference. read about that here: http://portableapps.com/node/25074 Thank you for saving a great project. Frank Esposito -- To unsubscribe, e-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archives are available at http