IBM Donation to AOO (was Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: CeBIT status quo)

2013-01-03 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 1/3/13 3:36 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > IBM's donation to AOO is heavily dependant on java apparently and > java ... (errr i'm stuck trying to think of a word that is not rude > but that adequate). IBM donation to AOO is pure marketing fluff, as after 18 months the header of the files is still "IBM

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: CeBIT status quo

2013-01-03 Thread Tom Davies
: Marc Paré >To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Wednesday, 2 January 2013, 16:02 >Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: CeBIT status quo > >Le 2013-01-02 02:33, Florian Effenberger a écrit : >>> Is the TDF committed to going? >> >> We have discussed

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: CeBIT status quo

2013-01-03 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Marc Paré wrote on 2013-01-02 17:02: Sorry, I have never been to CeBIT, but it looks like the participants are mostly devs? Is this right? On their website -- they say in their "history" notes that they have made the costs of attending prohibitive with the express expectation that only profe

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: CeBIT status quo

2013-01-03 Thread Volker Merschmann
Hi Marc, 2013/1/2 Marc Paré : > Le 2013-01-02 02:33, Florian Effenberger a écrit : > > Sorry, I have never been to CeBIT, but it looks like the participants are > mostly devs? Is this right? On their website -- they say in their "history" > notes that they have made the costs of attending prohibit

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: CeBIT status quo

2013-01-02 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2013-01-02 02:33, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Is the TDF committed to going? We have discussed it in the board, and we feel that we should go there, even if it is a bit expensive. However, without people staffing the booth, it does not make any sense. Based on our previous experience, we n

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: CeBIT status quo

2013-01-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Marc, Marc Paré wrote on 2012-12-29 14:01: First off, the 2013 CeBIT wiki page is only in DE. But it says that the distribution of work was going to happen on the DE mailing list. yes, sorry for that - the page was created in a rush when we had the first offers for the booth to coordinate

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: CeBIT status quo

2012-12-29 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Florian, Le 2012-12-29 06:38, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hello, here's a status quo on the CeBIT: - In the wiki at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DE/CeBIT2013, there are still not many volunteers for staffing the booth. - Costs are rather high this year, the current offer foresees