Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Document Freedom Day - March 26th

After reviewing my travelling plans, I realized that on the 29th I will be in Easton, MA all day so I cannot attend the DFD lunch. M. / Mr. Immanuel Giulea, BComm Ville Mont-Royal, QC 514-577-2669 On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Document Freedom Day - March 26th

Hanover, NH is within driving range for me from Montreal. How many people are expected at the lunch? I love NH so I might join :) M. / Mr. Immanuel Giulea, BComm Ville Mont-Royal, QC 514-577-2669 On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Microsoft MigratIon Guide

The idea of a migration guide has great timing now. We are less than 100 days from the end of XP. Businesses will face a choice. On Jan 14, 2014 4:10 PM, "Cor Nouws" wrote: > David Virden wrote (08-01-14 06:47) > > Hi, I would like to work on this guide and I was told someone on this > list > > e

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Engaging Users?

Thank you Sophie. I will make an application to TDF. My commitment to the community is for more than six months. Merci Immanuel M. / Mr. Immanuel Giulea, BComm Ville Mont-Royal, QC 514-577-2669 On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Engaging Users?

10 months, and I am not an official member of TDF. Just my thoughts. Does member of the community = member TDF ? It is a meritocracy. cheers from Montreal, Immanuel M. / Mr. Immanuel Giulea, BComm Ville Mont-Royal, QC

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [us-marketing] Fwd: LibrePlanet 2014: Calling all presenters, volunteers, and exhibitors!

Thanks Marc! I had forgotten that I was an admin. Immanuel M. / Mr. Immanuel Giulea, BComm Ville Mont-Royal, QC 514-577-2669 On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > Hi Robinson > > Le 2013-10

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [us-marketing] Fwd: LibrePlanet 2014: Calling all presenters, volunteers, and exhibitors!

I most certainly intend to attend if my agenda permits it. Montreal will make a bid for the LibOcon 2014 and hopefully the delegation will bigger than this year. Cheers Immanuel On 2013-10-19 10:51 AM, "Robinson Tryon" wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Immanuel Gi

[libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: LibrePlanet 2014: Calling all presenters, volunteers, and exhibitors!

Can we please add this to the calendar of events? Anyone interested for the exhibit table? There was a delegation from Montreal at the 2013 edition and I might go next year. Only 8 hours driving. Cheers from Montreal, Immanuel -- Forwarded message -- From: "Libby Reinish" Date:

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Marketing Chat on IRC

3pm EDT. I can try to lurk on. I haven't used irc in over 5 years. Is there a web-based application? And how do I get on the channel/node? If instructions are somewhere, I will read them. Immanuel On 2013-10-10 3:27 PM, "Robinson Tryon" wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Charles-H. Schu

[libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: [CivicAccess-discuss] "French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%""

PVI | FYI Curation by/par Immanuel Giulea -- Forwarded message -- From: "Glen Newton" Date: 2013-10-01 12:22 PM Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] "French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%"" To: "GOSLING members in Ottawa&q

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Campaign for ODF file formats?

n "the native format" of) > > quite a large range of different products. Regards from Tom :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Immanuel Giulea > > >To: Tom Davies > > >Cc: "marketing@global

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Campaign for ODF file formats?

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > If we were to target certain companies to try to "get them onboard" with > ODF then it might be good to start with our own "supporters". Low hanging > fruit should be easier, right? Google-docs doesn't allow people to use > ODF!! Act

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Campaign for ODF file formats?

OASIS runs the ODF campaign here: http://www.opendocumentformat.org/ +1 on all the ideas. Immanuel On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Robinson Tryon wrote: > The PDF Readers campaign[1] recently contacted LibreOffice and asked > us to promote the use of Free Software readers for PDF file formats

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] [Q] Real Total Cost of migration to Libreoffice?

Hello jihui You should take a look at the white paper published not long ago. Personally I'm waiting for the translation in French so I can better promote Libreoffice to a francophone public here in Canada. Immanuel from Montreal On 2013-07-03 9:50 PM, "Jihui Choi" wrote: > Hello, all. > > I'm

[libreoffice-marketing] Feature Comparison with NeoOffice

Hello everyone, While researching free/libre/open source software, I found that there was also NeoOffice out there for MacOS. Their wiki presents a Feature Comparison page: http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/NeoOffice_Feature_Comparison And it shows multiple red Xs as missing features in Lib

[libreoffice-marketing] Hackfest kit ?

Hello all, I am planning a hackfest/hackathon in Montreal, Canada and I was wondering what resources were available to prepare such an event? >From among all those who have organized/been to such an event, what is your feedback/input? Cheers from Montreal! Immanuel -- To unsubscribe e-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] promoting certification

Has the certification program been finalized? I know it was still up for debate couple of weeks ago. Immanuel On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Florian Effenberger < flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Florian Effenberger wrote on 2013-06-05 17:24: > > > I have received the follo

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOffice conference hashtag

I agree with Sophie. Keep it simple. What was the hashtag last year? On 2013-06-06 3:46 PM, "Sophie Gautier" wrote: > Hi all, > On 06/06/2013 21:28, Italo Vignoli wrote: > > On 6/6/13 12:54 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > > > >> Suggestion: LO2013Milano > > > > #mi13loc, as MI is the city code and

[libreoffice-marketing] Articles about LibreOffice 4.0 (English and French) sharing on social networks

Here is the list of articles I have/will be sharing with my followers on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and G+ : ENGLISH 1- http://www.infoworld.com/t/open-source-software/new-libreoffice-turns-the-heat-microsoft-212494 2- http://www.zdnet.com/libreoffice-4-a-new-better-open-source-office-suite-7

Re: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Messaging for the 4.0

I was going to use *Libre* but hesitated so to not repeat the same word twice in the slogan. Free was used in the sense of free speech, not free beer. M. / Mr. Immanuel Giulea, BComm Brossard, QC 514-577-2669 On Sun, Jan

Re: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Messaging for the 4.0

+1 to "Libreoffice. Tools for real life".. But I would change it to "Libreoffice. *Free *tools for real life".. ---- M. / Mr. Immanuel Giulea, BComm Brossard, QC 514-577-2669 On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 8

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Nuxeo is offering

Hello all, I contacted two people at Nuxeo two weeks ago. Will keep you posted about what I learn on the topic of LibreOffice integration with Nuxeo. Leif: Would it be possible to outline in English the main points of your video please? Immanuel On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:01 PM, leif wrote: >

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice vs. MS Office

I don't mean to restart a dead conversation, but someone shared this on G+ and I think it's very useful tool to compare MSO and LIbreOffice. Differences between the OpenDocument Text (.odt) format and the Word (.docx) format http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/starter-help/differences-between-the-op

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Facebook access for marketing messages

If you want to keep marketing strategy uniform, the original post should be on the blog, and then shared on social networks ;) With bufferapp.com it's really easy. It works better than Hootsuite. Hootsuite has G+ but bufferapp.com doesn't unless you pay for it. Maybe it's worth adding to the budg

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Blogging of items on the Marketing List

Marc, On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/**gmane.comp.documentfoundation.** > libreoffice.website/9517 > All I see is a question about setting up a blog as part of

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Blogging of items on the Marketing List

Hello Marc, Charles and everyone, I do believe that Wordpress can be installed on a sub-domain, so the option should be explored if this platform is the one the main bloggers are comfortable with. Wordpress is opensource :) Immanuel On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2013-

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Table of african football championship 2013

I messaged Klaibson and he replied what that the correct link. Shared it back on the main list. Immanuel On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2013-01-14 08:42, Immanuel Giulea a écrit : > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Marc Paré wrote: >> >> >&

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Blogging of items on the Marketing List

Hi Marc, On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > Second: post a message on the following linking to our official Marketing > Blog. But these posts would have to be considerably shorter in content to > the blog teaser. > > ** Our official Facebook group > ** Our official Google + comm

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Blogging of items on the Marketing List

Hello Marc, On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Marc Paré wrote: > It's a Wordpress site[1]. Italo, Jean and myself have editor rights. You > should also have editor rights -- could you email me your preferred > Username and I will add you? > > Cheers, > > Marc > As I am new, excuse my ignorance,

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] [SCALE 11X] UpSCALE, TNG CFPs / Linux Training Class

Hello Marc, On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > SCALE THE NEXT GENERATION CFP: Proposals for talks by young people for > the SCALE The Next Generation are being accepted between now and Feb. > 2. If you are a youth and are excited about Free/Open Source Software, > we encourage

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Table of african football championship 2013

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > > The link you gave does not work. Could you leave us the link again? the correct is www.libreofficefordummies.com Immanuel -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/g

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Blogging of items on the Marketing List

>From a social marketing strategy point of view, may I make an humble suggestion: Publish the news on the blog and THEN share it on Facebook, Twitter, Linked, G+, etc. Why? 1- Because by doing so, followers/fans/members of the TDF/LO community can retweet/share and it created a "buzz" around the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice vs. MS Office

help. Cheers, Immanuel ---- M. / Mr. Immanuel Giulea, BComm Brossard, QC 514-577-2669 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice vs. MS Office

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Charles-H. Schulz < charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > Also we are looking for volunteers who can help with mapping out the > overall LibreOffice community. What do you mean by mapping out the overall LibreOffice community?? Immanuel -- Unsubscrib

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Marketing Call Doodle January

Hi Marc, On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Marc Paré wrote: > The time-zone button is missing on the Doodle The timezone is CET which covers France, Germany and Italy. It is UTC+1 Equivalent of 6/7/8pm in N.America is Noon, 1pm, 2pm -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@glob

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

integrated into a closed source application, even if the user saw fit to > do it. But in general the essence is correct. Better or worse is a matter > of opinion. > > > On 2013-01-01 1:17 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak > wrote: > > > >> On 12/31/2012 02:40 PM, Immanue

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

Thank you for your confidence Marc. I'm honored Immanuel On Jan 1, 2013 5:45 AM, "Marc Paré" wrote: > FYI, > > The admins for the events calendar are now: > > Florian Effenberger > Immanuel Giulea > Marc Paré > > If you are aware of any events where T

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

; > > Cc: > > Sent: Monday, 31 December 2012, 22:28 > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LO vs AOO : GPL/LGPL vs ASL licences > > > > Folks > > > > I would really avoid to compare such a delicate matter as licences > unless you > > are a lawyer. A

[libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice and OpenERP

Hello all, I got in touch with Fabrice Henrion (Director of Business Development Americas at OpenERP) via LinkedIn, and here was his response to two points the mailing list raised previously 1- Intentions to have an integration with LibreOffice? > We don't intend to work on a LibreOffice integra

[libreoffice-marketing] Targeting LO4 at MSO 2003 users

Hello all, With only six weeks before the release, I was wondering if there was a marketing plan/strategy in place (or to be discussed at the Jan. marketing call) for targeting current MSO 2003 users with WinXP and Vista. Cheers, Immanuel -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@g

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

Hello all, In the marketing materials that I am writing covering LO vs AOO, I was wondering if it would be relevant to go into an explanation about why the GPL/LGPL licence used by LO was superior to the ASL as a "true open source". I found this great document that explains the three "most common

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [us-marketing] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

In the new version of Office 2013, you will be able to: > *3. Edit PDF documents in Word 2013:* You can open a PDF in Word, and its > paragraphs, lists, tables, and other content act just like Word content. > You can make changes to the file as per your requirements and save it back > again as a P

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

r initiative and input for this! > > Immanuel Giulea wrote (29-12-12 22:04) > > > What are the plans on CIMS for LO 4.0 ? >> > > https://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/**ReleaseNotes/4.0#Core<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0#Core> > > I&#x

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [us-marketing] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

I asked one of the team members on the Montreal committee to make introductions to Fabien Pinckaers, CEO at OpenERP. I also contacted two other OpenERP providers in Montreal to get feedback about integration. There are four in total. Two members on the Montreal committee are from the fourth one, a

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

-_Microsoft_Office Should the Feature Comparison be moved to marketing or if left alone, referred to from the marketing materials? On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Immanuel Giulea wrote: > The documentation linked below is from version 6.1 and included > integration with OpenOffice only. &g

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

The documentation linked below is from version 6.1 and included integration with OpenOffice only. We are assuming that LibreOffice would handle it the same. OpenERP released version 7 not long ago, and it would be better to confirm integration, and for them to update their docs. So far, I couldn't

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [us-marketing] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

Hi Marc and all, On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Marc Paré wrote: > I think Immanuel has offered to lead on this. I can help with setting up > the page. I like the good arguments on this thread. We have to make sure > that we are as factual as possible. MS will capitalize on any claims that >

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Event Calendar

Hi Marc, On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Marc Paré wrote: > The admins to the calendar are both Florian and myself. It would be great > if there were just one more volunteer to help out with the calendar. There > is very little work to do for it ... probably takes up no more than 1hr per > mont

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [us-marketing] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

Point vs MS Office", because this is the > >summary of the contents. > > > >Marc can definitely help in creating the page, if someone has problems > >with the wiki. > > > >I am definitely interested in helping with the contents, once I will > >have fini

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Immanuel Giulea wrote: > OpenERP mentions explicitely OO but nothing about LO. > > Since LO is the improved version of OO, has anyone considered to contact > the people from OpenERP to get them to update their docs? > > If we arguing in favor o

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

ODF ondersteunen. > Mede-overheden en overige instellingen volgen uiterlijk december 2008. > ODF = .odt voor tekst, .ods voor spreadsheets, .odp voor presentaties" > http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument > > > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Imman

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

t; We need something ( a webpage) that takes what we have in the 4.0 and > compares it witg MSOffice. Anyone would like to drive this? > > Best, > Charles. > > > Immanuel Giulea a écrit : > > >Hello all, > > > >Microsoft put out a three-page document that hits o

[libreoffice-marketing] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

Hello all, Microsoft put out a three-page document that hits on some of the weaknesses of LO (and bundles LO with OOo): http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/0/D/D0DA0C4B-22DE-40C7-A84D-0C7E03347A9C/Considering-LibreOffice-and-OO-v2.pdf Is there some materials that can explain the strong point

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Google AdWords

Great work on getting the grant, very good news. I went to check the Donate page in French (I am in Quebec, we speak French), and the links to the statutes and the manifesto are documents in English. Are these documents available in French? It might be easier to get people to donate to TDF/adopt

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Silent Updates

Hello Marc and Florian, If we consider what Thunderbird does, I think it is a good compromise solution. When an upgrade is available, it is offered directly to the end-user through a pop-up and the end-user can download the "upgrade" only instead of downloading the whole install package (200mb).

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Event Calendar

Hello Florian, Marc and everyone, Good timing on the calendar. I was going to suggest having one on the wiki where everyone could contribute. Perhaps a Google Spreadsheet would be nice. Is the calendar open/crowd-sourced? Immanuel On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2012-12

[libreoffice-marketing] Libre Office listed in petition to promote the use of free software in our schools

Perhaps some posts from TDF core team on twitter and Facebook will help this initiative. Just a thought. Cheers from Montreal, Canada Immanuel Giulea -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-uns

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-design] LibreOffice cover photo - Google+

I have been following this discussion and I am still confused. Why do we need two logos? Other open source software have no problem with using one logo on their main site and their community site. Case in point : http://www.pentaho.com/ and http://community.pentaho.com/ use the exact same logo, bu

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] propaganda page suggestion

often > work on them while MSO doesn't. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > -- > *From:* Immanuel Giulea > *To:* webmaster-Kracked_P_P > *Cc:* marketing@global.libreoffice.org > *Sent:* Thursday, 20 December 2012, 17:55 > *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-marketing] propaganda page su

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Flyer: Donate 10$ to LibreOffice

Would it be possible to have this flyer converted to a banner that supporters of LibreOffice could post on their blogs/websites/etc. Something like "Support LibreOffice, donate $10" Immanuel On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2012-12-19 07:24, Marc Paré a écrit : > >> L

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] propaganda page suggestion

As a matter of fact there is an MSO version for Mac: http://www.microsoft.com/mac So we need to find better arguments than just saying "your documents won't be compatible with X platform". Immanuel On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:43 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P < webmas...@krackedpress.com> wrote: > On

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Tech Republic Corel OfficeReview

Too bad the link to the review of LO 3.5 doesn't work ! On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: > Hi, > > I saw this article about Corel Office http://www.techrepublic.com/** > blog/window-on-windows/review-**the-new-corel-office/7017?tag=** > nl.e101&s_cid=e101