Re: [libreoffice-marketing] PRESENTATION TEMPLATE TO PEOPLE NEW TO LIBREOFFICE.

2015-05-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) At a guess there might be something useful on the marketing wiki. I don't know my way around it, so hopefully someone else here can help! I think one of the features Impress does have that Microsoft's Powerpoint doesn't, is an "app" for Android (and iPhone?) to allow you to use the Android

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Fwd: contact LO Belgium-fr ?

2015-04-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Where i work when we go to events we take along old flyers even if we have newer ones but just put them at the bottom of the pile. It bolsters numbers, makes the stack look heftier (and therefore people are less reticent about taking one), it is a good way of using up older ones and a good w

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] TDF Birthday video?

2015-02-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the fact that we all forgot says a lot about LibreOffice and TDF today. To me it says that you have all proven that LibreOffice and TDF are here to stay. It says that the whole project has matured. People used to question whether you all would still be around or if the project woul

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Marketing ideas for SCALE in Los Angeles (and beyond)

2015-02-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) How about "Tastic LibreOffice person" but replace "Tastic" with whatever kids say about something they think is great. Back in my day in one place i lived everyone said "Tastic" about pretty much anything after a while but at first it had been only for truly awesome things like setting fire

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Conference Marketing: Upgrading LibreOffice/OpenOffice

2015-02-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) How about something shorter and catchier? All i could think of was "What's new in LO" (but with LO being replaced by the banner/logo) or "Upgrade now!!! or the kitten gets it " regards from Tom :) On 13 February 2015 at 11:52, Cor Nouws wrote: > Hi Robinson , > > Robinson Tryon wrot

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-users] LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 A huge congrats to everyone involved in making LibreOffice what it is today Many regards from Tom :) On 5 February 2015 at 21:09, Robinson Tryon wrote: > Hi all, > > Grabbing over 86% of the vote, LibreOffice was announced to be the > winner of the 'Office Suite of the Year' poll: > ht

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-website] [LibreOffice Bugzilla Migration] We're done! Please visit the new site to reset your password!

2015-01-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) A big +1 from me! I guess there might be "teething problems" but hopefully we can all be patient with those and just enjoy the advantages of the new system more and more :) Many thanks and regards from Tom :) On 25 January 2015 at 09:22, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi, > > Robinson T

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-design] New templates contest

2014-12-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, just seen the announcement :) T-shirts sounds like better prizes to me for something like this. The t-shirts are much more unique and personal. My main points were; 1. Having some "place holder" to invite users to contribute their own templates 2. "allowing" non-US templates to be en

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] definite article in the name “The Document Foundation”

2014-11-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 It is a good name. As a native English speaker i can confirm the little "the" gets dropped as Paolo described. I have a funny feeling there is some strange use-case where having "The ..." at the beginning creates problems but i think it's rare enough to be ignorable and anyway everything

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOffice Weekly News #5 waiting for reviews

2014-09-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It is a wiki-page. It's actually faster and easier for people to do the edits themselves. If you can post an email then you can edit a wiki-page. Doing the wiki-markup is a little trickier but just editing is like editing text in almost any very simple text-editor. While so many people ar

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-projects] Re: LibreOffice Weekly News #4 released

2014-09-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I agree that monthly would be easier for people to collaborate with. There is the other way around of people just contributing and if they miss one deadline for 1 week they hopefully catch the next weeks' issue. But people seldom think like that so a monthly release might be easier to cope

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Animation about LibreOffice

2014-07-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I guess the best thing would be if the spoken-script was available then anyone could translate it into their own languages. The proper translators team would probably do it better and faster. It does look great even with not being able to understand it. I echo others thoughts about this =

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] I think this article helps describe some marketing concerns that we "avoid" with Two Lines.

2014-05-16 Thread Tom Davies
t it does create a bit of confusion about the 'unstable' branch (which is not really unstable but just not quite as rock-solid) On 16 May 2014 13:38, Charles-H. Schulz < charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > Hello Tom, > > Le 16.05.2014 12:24, Tom Davies a écrit :

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] I think this article helps describe some marketing concerns that we "avoid" with Two Lines.

2014-05-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think "fresh" is the tag that is obscure and could be changed. It's the best one i have heard yet but it's still not quite expressing what the early releases of a branch really give. Most people understand "stable". My ideas for replacing "fresh" would be "Innovative branch" "New feature

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] I think this article helps describe some marketing concerns that we "avoid" with Two Lines.

2014-05-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) But the "stable branch" is more certain of being more stable than any releases in the "Fresh" branch. The "Fresh" branch releases have undergone a lot of testing using various tools. Also because they have been built on various real-world machines around the world. It's then undergone alph

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-users] Tips of the week -help needed

2014-05-07 Thread Tom Davies
d the effort and > chipped in a few tips! Of course it's kind of a continuous effort, so feel > free to add even more to it. > > Thanks, > > Charles. > > > > > Le 2014-05-01 10:49, Tom Davies a écrit : > > Hi :) >> There is no list or form. It'

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Brazilian LibreOffice Community at FISL15

2014-05-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Can someone add the event to the calendar? I think a live-streaming video of any lectures or presentation is asking too much but if we could do it and tweet about it to promote it then people might watch it. I suspect it's more likely that more people would watch a finished video on YouTube

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice pencil box

2014-04-16 Thread Tom Davies
r 16, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Tom Davies > wrote: > > Hi :) > > What does the %20 in the url mean? Do we have to have it? Can we remove > > it to increase clarity? > > Regards from > > Tom :) > > %20 represents a space whcih was used in the original filename.. &

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice pencil box

2014-04-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) What does the %20 in the url mean? Do we have to have it? Can we remove it to increase clarity? Regards from Tom :) On 16 April 2014 11:37, Daniel A. Rodriguez < daniel.armando.rodrig...@gmail.com> wrote: > > https://owncloud.documentfoundation.org/index.php/apps/files/download/Shared/Co

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] CeBIT 2014 impressions

2014-03-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the event gets covered by various podcasts and blogs as well as more mainstream press. So if you can't find the TDF video then just google-it (or duck-duck-go -it or whatever). It would be great to get featured on some well known shows next year. There is bound to be some interestin

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] 10000 people on Ask LibreOffice

2014-03-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) So we need more people to get involved over there! Look like it's MUCH more of a success than many of us expected. Regards from Tom :) On 25 March 2014 16:09, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi all, > > do you notice, that there are already 9988 people on Ask LibreOffice and the > 1 will like

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Wikipedia entry for OpenOffice software

2014-03-21 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahhh, thanks for the warning! It could be fun or i might just let it go for a while longer and try to catch it sometime after they have moved on. Regards from Tom :) On 21 March 2014 16:06, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > Le 2014-03-21 16:48, Tom Davies a écrit : > >> Hi :) >

[libreoffice-marketing] Wikipedia entry for OpenOffice software

2014-03-21 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The wikipedia entry for OpenOffice seemed really quite biased towards Apache OpenOffice and somewhat confusing terminology that misrepresented the facts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice#Software So i just edited the introduction. Previously it said; "OpenOffice.org (OOo) a disconti

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Tip of the day tweets from @LibreOffice account

2014-03-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is "tip of the day" tooo frequent? Perhaps do a tip of the week? Give more people a chance to find it and discuss? I've not been following this thread but there are many sources for tips. The published guides, the Faq. One point that cropped up on the Users List this week was how easy it

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-design] Logo for this year LibreOffice Conference

2014-03-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It does look a lot better with the 3 or more fonts? This is for a single event isn't it? Is it still bad practice to use 3-4 fonts if the logo itself is not going to be around for long? It's more eye-catching with the mix of fonts. Regards from Tom :) On 1 March 2014 09:40, Robinson Tryo

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Need help - native speaker - CeBIT 2014

2014-02-22 Thread Tom Davies
rman, which is 1:1 translated like "USB >> Filling station". > > Hmm...hmmm.. > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> I don't think there is an adequate English expression. > > Yes, I'm afraid this might be the case..

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Need help - native speaker - CeBIT 2014

2014-02-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I don't think there is an adequate English expression. "Filling Station" is fairly uncommon but implies "Petrol Station". Usually people try to avoid filling-up their usb-sticks. So, the name you suggest might make people curious to find out more. Errr, it might be good to capitalise the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Who on Earth is the LibO installation target?

2014-02-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I agree that quite a few things could be made much easier for corporate users. However, I'm a bit confused by the "No Stylist, no Navigator, missing settings.". Do you mean those things are not open by default? They seem to be there for me after doing an install but just not open and ready

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Giant opportunity for LibreOffice & supporters

2014-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks for that!! I emailed it straight to both of my bosses Thanks and regards from Tom :) On 29 January 2014 13:59, wrote: > UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open sourceCabinet Office > minister Francis Maude plans to standardise on open formats to cut costs on > Of

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Flyer about LibreOffice

2014-01-21 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It is VERY different from the usual TDF flyers. It's bright, eye-catching and cheerful with lots of colours and almost no text. Looks nice! :) It's not A4 but that seems like a petty grumble. is it a standard flyer-card size? Thanks and regards from Tom :) On 19 January 2014 22:04, Ma

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ah, those release notes...

2013-11-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) My thoughts are that the wiki is the best place for them. 1. They might need editing at the last minute or people might realise something after the release has already happened. The wiki might be easier to edit "on the fly" more easily. 2. It's a good way of introducing people to the wik

[libreoffice-marketing] Donation options.

2013-09-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) We just had a suggestion on the Users Mailing List that "bit-coin" might be another good option to add to help more people be able to donate more easily.  I don't know if it's difficult to set-up.  My guess is that if it hasn't already been done then it's probably more difficult than it

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] [Q] Best Route from Munich to Milan for LibOCon

2013-08-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think this is the right list because people here are aware of the event and what is going on and may be heading the same direction too so they might know.  Sounds quite impressively brave!  Good luck with all this! Regards from Tom :)  From: Jihui

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibOCon: number of talks per day

2013-08-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think psychologists have found that it's difficult for people to maintain focus for more than 40mins.  Minds start to wander or drift off.  Some people have tricks to give their mind a break earlier.  Things often don't start bang on the time they are supposed to, especially in community

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibOCon: number of talks per day

2013-08-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) A coffee break in the morning might be a good plan?  Regard from Tom :)  From: Florian Effenberger To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Cc: Italo Vignoli Sent: Monday, 26 August 2013, 21:17 Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] LibOCon: number of talks

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Subject: Digest of annou...@documentfoundation.org issue 145 (160)

2013-08-17 Thread Tom Davies
> > From: "announce+h...@documentfoundation.org" > >To: tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk >Sent: Friday, 9 August 2013, 17:22 >Subject: Subject: Digest of annou...@documentfoundation.org issue 145 (160) > > >Topics (messages 160 through 160): >- [tdf-announce] Call f

[libreoffice-marketing] icon theme for Linux Mint

2013-08-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I'm just forwarding this to the Design Team and Marketing at the same time.  Please could either list make sure Bamm is CC'd into any responses as they may not be on your lists.   I found these sets og icons for the individual apps/modules https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Libo-mime

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Portable Usb/Cloud installs of LO

2013-08-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi Tom Can you please answer to krackedpress that he just needs to get a zip file from http://sourceforge.net/projects/winpenpack/files/X-LibreOffice/releases/ and unpack it anywhere on the pen drive? There is no installer for using just the portable LO (unless he wants to get the whole winPenP

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Portable Usb/Cloud installs of LO

2013-08-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi again Tom Thank you for keeping me updated. I just jumped to the Italian portable page. It's just a matter of translating the top part of the page... http://it.libreoffice.org/download/portatile/ If TDF acknowledges the releases by winPenPack (X-LibreOffice è realizzato per uso portatile da

[libreoffice-marketing] Portable Usb/Cloud installs of LO

2013-08-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) At the moment we recommend a 3rd party called "Portable Apps" but it seems they are sometimes quite slow about getting the new versions of LibreOffice onto their systems.  "WinPenPack" seem to do the job a LOT faster and they cover every release but we don't even mention them.  http://so

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Article on building community on FOSS projects

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Davies
>To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 14:28 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Article on building community on FOSS >projects > > >Le Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:05:16 +0100 (BST), >Tom Davies a écrit : > >> Hi :) >> I think the QA team's

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Article on building community on FOSS projects

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the QA team's recent competition was good for building up the community spirit.  People on the User List seem to quite like it when they get invited to join in other lists or other teams.  They don't always join in straight away because it's a bit intimidating and they seem to th

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Flyer about LibreOffice

2013-07-26 Thread Tom Davies
er about LibreOffice > > > >Error found. > >Personas for Firefox >"for" should be "from"? > > >On 07/26/2013 07:39 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> WOW!!!  Really attractive! :)  Nice images.  Gives plenty of hints and >> teasing ta

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Flyer about LibreOffice

2013-07-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) WOW!!!  Really attractive! :)  Nice images.  Gives plenty of hints and teasing tasters to make people want to find out more by visiting the website you give.  I can imagine people glancing at this and then visiting the website even if they lost the actual flyer itself.  I like the way you

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Microsoft 8 business priorities

2013-07-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think a lot of this depends on which country.  I've just heard from someone at an Iranian University that encourages people to use TeX as an alternative to Word.  Sadly they don't yet support Odt at all but that seems open to change.  Here in the Uk it seems that all institutions force

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

2013-07-17 Thread Tom Davies
that it can be used (or is even "the native format" of) quite a large range of different products.  Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Immanuel Giulea >To: Tom Davies >Cc: "marketing@global.libreoffice.org" >Sent: Wedn

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

2013-07-17 Thread Tom Davies
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!!  Actually i think ODF usage has improved quite a bit now that MS

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Developer-specific brochure

2013-07-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Here is a QR Code i generated from that LibreOffice-Dev-GetInvolved.png I tried to get it as small as possible but it might be too large to cram into the current flyer.  You can reduce the size but once grey areas appear then it's too small.  Of course the colours can be change but it h

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Developer-specific brochure

2013-07-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) QR code anyone? It's just occurred to me that i've never seen a QR Code so that people can effectively 'click' on the leaflet with their smart-phone and be taken to a useful wiki-page or something.  Different QR Codes could take people to different parts of the site.  Perhaps 1 for the do

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Facebook invoices

2013-05-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I thought the daily thing was just for the trial run so we could keep tight control over what was going on and could stop it quite quickly if required?  I think that's over and the Facebooks Ads got approved for longer-term usage/experimentation?  Regards from Tom :)  >

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Making use cases videos

2013-05-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The Video Tutorials are at http://spoken-tutorial.org/ and although they already have quite a lot i am fairly sure they would welcome people joining in.  I started working my way through at a very low level and just and only very occasionally but they seem excellent.  As a native Engli

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

2013-05-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Given how close to completion i think stick with the font being used to avoid having to re-word anything and avoid that whole fuss with hyphenation again.   It looks good as it is! Regards from  Tom :) > > From: Marc Paré >To: marketing@global.libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] GNU PDF logo..

2013-05-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think there is a feature request for DjVu already.  If not it would be good to have.  https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport I can't imagine we don't have one already though!  DjVu is an Open Format http://djvu.sourceforge.net/licensing.html Some general info about it http://en.

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Posts on the marketing list

2013-05-15 Thread Tom Davies
s exist or careful misinterpret what i am trying to say.  Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Charles-H. Schulz >To: "marketing@global.libreoffice.org" >Cc: Tom Davies >Sent: Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 10:36 >Subject: Posts on the m

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: An early report on the Facebook ads

2013-05-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  Mind-share or more recent terms.  "The aim of mind share is to establish a brand as being one of the best kinds of a given product or service, and to even have the brand name become a synonym for the product or service offered", err quoting from wikipedia rather than going to origina

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

2013-05-15 Thread Tom Davies
orked with Pdf.  You still see sites advertising Adobe Reader and telling you to download & install it in order to read their Pdfs.  No-one questions it.  We could do the same.  Regards from Tom :)  >________ > From: Tom Davies >To: "marketing@glob

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

2013-05-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think that practicality demands we give people the Pdf versions so that we know how it will look after thy print it.  Many places give 2 formats.  1 editable as well as the fixed Pdf.  Most claim the editable one is "Word" format. as though there was only 1 of those and that it was the

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

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) That looks fine.  Both look great actually.  It looks like some of the spacing between paragraphs has been sorted so they are not so badly cramped.  I'm still worried about how is going to take responsibility when people lose data in Base.  Pretty much everywhere else is advising people N

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-conference] LibOCon videos

2013-05-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  I think it's best to think o things like that as "works in progress".  Some people would rather have someone "proof-read" thir work before posting it up for all the world to see.  Also some of us don't have all the skills (or time) needed to finish a job in one go so it's better to have

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

2013-05-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I finally found it!  From the menus  Format - Paragraph - "Text Flow" - top tick box UNtick it to turn of automatic hyphenation Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Jean Weber >Sent: Saturday, 11 May 2013, 2:06 > > > >* It would look a lot better if automat

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Spain's Extremadura starts switch of 40, 000 government PCs to open source

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Good work on this!  Thanks for letting the list know Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Fabian Rodriguez >To: "marketing@global.libreoffice.org" >Sent: Thursday, 2 May 2013, 3:52 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Spain's Extremadura starts switch of

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

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Tbh i can't see the differences in the png or the odt.  My immediate thought is that having some things centred (such as most of the headings and the small stray, isolated paragraphs) does help a lot even though it might be inconsistent with other formatting.  It makes it more visually

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

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) YES, that's solved it!!  :D   The Base bit is still a bit too wordy for something where we only want a brief mention of Base and the word "also" still really bothers me a LOT.  Fixing that just means changing; "Base can also be used as a front-end" to "Base is a front-end" or even b

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: General Information -- Updated to v.4 (still in edit stage by the marketing team)

2013-05-11 Thread Tom Davies
team) > > >Le 10/05/13 06:56 PM, Tom Davies a écrit : >> Hi :) >> Yes, 1st and 3rd panels look a lot better.  In the middle panel it feels >> like the bullet points are trying to sneakily slope off the page to go down >> the pub.  If there was a mirroring white-sp

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

2013-05-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Errr the bullet-points issue is fairly minor if no-one else is noticing what i mean.  It's a bit like kerning. Sometimes it's too trivial to be worth fixing but sometimes it's really horrible.  In this case the bullet-point indent looks fine as it is.  It might be a minor improvement but

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

2013-05-11 Thread Tom Davies
he 3rd panel of the 2nd page it looks more deliberate but the rest looks accidental.  Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Jean Weber >To: Tom Davies >Cc: "marketing@global.libreoffice.org" >Sent: Saturday, 11 May 2013, 8:41 >Subject

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

2013-05-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Bullet-points are still oddly indented.  Almost all the split words have been fixed though.  Only about 4 remaining and even those are split in more logical places.  Please can we change the Base wording from "Base can also be used as a front-end ..." to something like "Base is best wh

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base data-loss and other problems

2013-05-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think it is fairly urgent that we remove any reference to Base having an internal back-end at all.  At least until after the one that is currently used has been replaced and that is likely to take several months "Our current Base database back-end is HSQLDB - but this causes severe perfo

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

2013-05-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Aaargggh.  I wish i could remember the single short line that Italo (or whoever) wrote!!  How about; "LibreOffice supports formats from the late eighties right up to the latest offered by a variety of competitors." Apols and regard from Tom :)  - Original Message - > From:

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: General Information -- Updated to v.4 (still in edit stage by the marketing team)

2013-05-10 Thread Tom Davies
libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: General Information -- > Updated to v.4 (still in edit stage by the marketing team) > > Hi Tom, > > Some good points ... > > Le 10/05/13 12:42 PM, Tom Davies a écrit : >> >> Hi:) >> Looks fine!:)  Nice work

[libreoffice-marketing] Brochures from other orgs

2013-05-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) A quick google search gave me https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=marketing+brochures&client=ubuntu&hs=fnb&channel=fs&gl=uk&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=22iNUffaHomX0AXx8IC4CA&ved=0CGYQsAQ&biw=1861&bih=933&sei=7WiNUe3QHue90QXYwIHgBw another gave http://www.google.com/search?q=marketing

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: General Information -- Updated to v.4 (still in edit stage by the marketing team)

2013-05-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Errr, what i meant was that if you draw a line through all the bullet-points on the 2nd page then in the 1st 2 panels the line cuts right into the middle of the other text on the page.  It might look better if those bullet-points could be moved so that a line drawn through them would cut t

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: General Information -- Updated to v.4 (still in edit stage by the marketing team)

2013-05-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Looks fine! :)  Nice work there :)  I was trying to think of a better way of saying "The LibreOfficeuser interfaceis available in many languages, even in languages for which cost of localization for commercial software is not available.  " but i couldn't come up with anything that wasn

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

2013-05-10 Thread Tom Davies
arketing@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Friday, 10 May 2013, 17:04 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: General Information > > >On 05/10/2013 10:44 AM, Marc Paré wrote: >> Le 10/05/13 09:52 AM, Tom Davies a écrit : >>> Hi :) >>> I was j

[libreoffice-marketing] Base data-loss and other problems

2013-05-10 Thread Tom Davies
> > From: Ian Whitfield >To: "us...@global.libreoffice.org" >Sent: Friday, 10 May 2013, 14:34 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Base data-loss and other problems > > >Hi All > >Tom says ... >> I'm fairly sure that quite a few people have had troubles with th

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

2013-05-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The people at Alfresco seemed keen to collaborate with us and might be willing to help us with that.  They had at least a little experience working with ODF formats about a year or so ago.  I don't have a contact person there though. Regards from Tom :)  >

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

2013-05-10 Thread Tom Davies
he text of the brochure.  Let us work on the things >we can, and let the developers work on the thing they can, > > >On 05/10/2013 12:39 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> So when people suffer data-loss due to using the internal back-end what is >> the Users List s

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

2013-05-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Ok with me too. Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Italo Vignoli >To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Friday, 10 May 2013, 12:04 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: General Information > > >On 05/09/2013 10:49 PM, Marc Paré

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

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
aluable and powerful asset to link to the other LibreOffice >applications.  Base can also be a good front-end to many >enterprise-class databases such as MySql/MariaDB or PostgreSQL." > >Would this sound better? I think with the "also" included it clarifies >what

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Brochure type: Community

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
  Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Jean Weber >To: Tom Davies >Cc: "marketing@global.libreoffice.org" >Sent: Friday, 10 May 2013, 5:04 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Brochure type: Community > > >For my purposes, this brochure needs to tell people how they

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

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) So when people suffer data-loss due to using the internal back-end what is the Users List supposed to say?  I guess we just blame it on marketing not knowing about a known issue.  Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Jean Weber >To: Tom Dav

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

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
r PostgreSQL." > >Would this sound better? I think with the "also" included it clarifies >what Base is all about, but, mentioning the MySql/MariaDB or PostgreSQL >also shows that it is extensible. > >Cheers, > >Marc > > >Le 06/05/13 12:00 PM, Tom

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Brochure type: Community

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) So, again it will be people that have already been attraced to the product and just want to learn more?  It doesn't have to be eye-catching in it's own right? Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Marc Paré >To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Friday

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Official/Community pamphlet types proposals

2013-05-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahhh, cool!  That is a LOT more elegant :)  Thanks Jean :) Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Jean Weber >To: Tom Davies >Cc: "marketing@global.libreoffice.org" >Sent: Wednesday, 8 May 2013, 22:10 >Subject: Re: [libreof

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Official/Community pamphlet types proposals

2013-05-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It is possible to stop the underlinings and blue links.  I do it by brute force just by reformatting the links to force them out of having underlinings.  I could do a more elegant way by changing the settings in Tools - Options - Appearance but that might mess up other things for me so i d

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Official/Community pamphlet types proposals

2013-05-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Errr, for a posted brochure i would keep the order the same.  People can then print it themselves if they want.  When you first get one through the emails like that it is a little disorienting but you rapidly work out what is going on.  It's much easier to have just 1 version like that to

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] NASA is switching from Windows to Linux - maybe they will go to LO

2013-05-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) They have been using Gnu&Linux for all their command&control and anything else they need to rely on.  You can hear chatter involving unix-based commands reasonably regularly.  It's only the astronauts personal laptops and some of the ones for the experiments on the space station that hav

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

2013-05-06 Thread Tom Davies
f >the wiki pages, maybe the one where there were names and country/state >locations where they lived. > > >On 05/06/2013 03:37 PM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> Thanks :)  I meant to pass this on to this list ages ago.  Sorry i didn't!  >> Is there anyone al

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: Open Help Conference & Sprints 2013

2013-05-06 Thread Tom Davies
6 May 2013, 15:36 >Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Open Help Conference & Sprints 2013 > > >I have added this event to our website and wiki webcalendars. > >Cheers, > >Marc > >Le 06/05/13 05:37 AM, Tom Davies a écrit : >> >> >> &

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] 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

[libreoffice-marketing] Open Help Conference & Sprints 2013

2013-05-06 Thread Tom Davies
trations from any LibreOffice folks. In case >anybody is considering coming, I want to mention that the hotel room >block is only available until May 14. Hotel rooms downtown will be >hard to find after the room block is released. > >Let me know if I can do anything to help. > >Tha

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Spain's Extremadura starts switch of 40, 000 government PCs to open source

2013-05-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I get the impression that all 5 areas use Gnu&Linux (and therefore probably LibreOffice) already in some areas.  So i suspect this is not so much a switch away from MS Windows and MS Office but more a consolidation onto LibreOffice.  So, not a trial period or bunch of noobs with no expe

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Spain's Extremadura starts switch of 40, 000 government PCs to open source

2013-04-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Extremadura developed a distro called LinEx which had LibreOffice by default.  I suspect their "Sysgobex" is just a rebranding of LinEx.  http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=linex Most of the other Spanish governments use Ubuntu-based distros although i think one used a versio

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Indian academic institutions forced to use MS Office

2013-04-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) They are kinda like a reverse Robin Hood.  Taking from the poor and giving to the rich.  Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Charles-H. Schulz >To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Wednesday, 24 April 2013, 17:00 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketin

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: End of Life support for MSO 2003 countdown ?

2013-04-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Brochures are useful if used properly but they are definitely not a one-thing-fits-all answer.  I was sent to a seminar once and got there desperately late, so late that everyone had already gone in and while walking through the cafe/reception area i put a neat and attractive little spre

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] II LibreOffice HackDay Brazil

2013-04-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) WoooHooo, all friendly faces and 1 man in a suit and looking very professional too.  Kinda looks like someone that might be working in the office here.  Regards from Tom :)    > > From: Klaibson Ribeiro >To: Charles-H. Schulz >Cc: marketing@global.l

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Official/Community pamphlet types proposals

2013-04-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  Ahah, i vaguely remember reading that note in his books.  perhaps we could have something similarly short for other authors to use if they want to?  CC-by-SA for when they find a better way to word it!  Regards from Tom :) > > From: Kracked_P_P---web

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.2 DVDs are online - both the English NA-DVD and the German one

2013-04-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks Tim :)  Good work chap! :)  Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster >To: LibreO - Marketing Global ; LibreO - >Marketing US ; LibreO - Users Global > >Sent: Saturday, 13 April 2013, 16:13 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.2 DVDs

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