Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Glyn Moody's article

2011-10-18 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
d is not enduser software, actually. In fact it is interesting to note that Apache does not develop end-user software, and Apache OpenOffice would be their first one. > I still do some times. I never heard of these in all my searches, so > their success is something that I cannot agree w

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Glyn Moody's article

2011-10-18 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Ian, 2011/10/18 Ian Lynch > On 18 October 2011 09:15, Charles-H. Schulz < > charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > 2011/10/17 webmaster for Kracked Press Productions < > > webmas...@krackedpress.com> > > >

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Glyn Moody's article

2011-10-18 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
release an actual product. In this case AOO as it is would not be a direct competitor. But this needs to be thought through. best, Charles. > > > > On 10/18/2011 06:03 AM, Ian Lynch wrote: > > On 18 October 2011 10:53, Charles-H. Schulz< > > charles.sch...@documentf

[libreoffice-marketing] Call for Location of the LibreOffice Conferences 2012 and 2013

2011-10-19 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hear hear, The Call for location for the years 2012 and 2013 of the LibreOffice Conferences as been published. More details here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/CallforLocation We look forward reading your proposals! Best regards, Charles-H. Schulz. -- Unsubscribe instructions

[libreoffice-marketing] Helping out with the Document Freedom Day

2011-10-22 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello, The Document Freedom Day is an initiative that has been launched a few years ago, and it celebrates the use of ODF and open standards for documents. It takes place every 31st of March all over the world. This year, planning will start soon, and it would be good to have a strong LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Marketing slogan

2011-11-25 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Anant Verma > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > > marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > Posting guidelines + more: > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netique

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Christmas tree

2011-12-23 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
559228203/ > > > > Thanks - lovely! > > I was just thinking about some tree like that for an interview > > (LibreOffice devs) that I work on for Christmas. > > Will be published on our blog. > > May I use that one, or slightly adapted :-) > > > > Cheers,

[libreoffice-marketing] List of OOo bugs fixed in LibreOffice

2011-12-23 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
ffice/core/log/?qt=grep&q=i%23 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/?qt=grep&q=%23i Merry Bug Hunting, er, Christmas everyone, -- Charles-H. Schulz Member of the Board of Directors, The Document Foundation. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.li

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] List of OOo bugs fixed in LibreOffice

2011-12-23 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:33:37 +0100, Cor Nouws a écrit : > Hi Charles, all, > > Charles-H. Schulz wrote (23-12-11 18:19) > > > Since we're entering the bughunting season, Eike and Cor have come > > up with a list of bugs that were reported in the old OOo bugzilla

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Best of Wishes in the New Year to All

2011-12-24 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all of you! Best, Charles. Le Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:43:12 -0500, Marc Paré a écrit : > To the marketing team and all at LibreOffice. Yes, it has been a > tremendous year! > > Have a safe Holiday period, don't drink and drive! > > Cheers, > > Marc >

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Happy New Year from Brazil

2011-12-31 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Eliane, Thank you so much and to you and everyone, a happy new year 2012 :-) Best, Charles. 2011/12/31 Eliane Domingos de Sousa > Dear all, > > I wish you a great new year. All of you made an incredible work this year. > Thank you for that. > > Because of this, I prepared another little gift.

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Linux and 'Des nouvelles d'OpenOffice.org' (the new OOo)

2012-01-03 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
:-) and I didn't know you could speak French! Best, Charles. 2012/1/3 Cor Nouws > http://discoverlinux-clemi46.**blogspot.com/2011/12/des-** > nouvelles-dopenofficeorg.html > > -- > - Cor > - http://nl.libreo

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibOCon CfL

2012-01-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
None from my side. Do we have any solid and written proposals yet? Best, Charles. Le 6 janv. 2012 10:52, "Florian Effenberger" a écrit : > Hi, > > Florian Effenberger wrote on 2012-01-02 11:31: > > May I suggest no later than January 22nd and sending them to >> i...@documentfoundation.org? The

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] FOSDEM stand preparation

2012-01-12 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Woohoo! It looks we're going to be a dozen :-) Best, Charles. Le 12 janv. 2012 11:41, "Florian Effenberger" a écrit : > Hi, > > Italo Vignoli wrote on 2012-01-12 01:36: > >> I will attend the two days, but I won't be able to bring much more than >> myself. >> > > right now it looks like I will a

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] FOSDEM stand preparation

2012-01-14 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
I'll arrive Friday afternoon and leave Sunday evening. Best, Charles. Le 14 janv. 2012 15:53, "Andreas Mantke" a écrit : > Hi, > > Am Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2012, 11:40:44 schrieb Florian Effenberger: > > Hi, > > > > Italo Vignoli wrote on 2012-01-12 01:36: > > > I will attend the two days, but

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] introducing myself

2012-01-23 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Evans, 2012/1/23 Evans Ikua > Dear all, > This is just a brief word to introduce myself. My names are Evans Ikua, > from Nairobi, Kenya. I have been an Open Source Evangelist for over 8 years > now and am involved in FOSS advocacy in Kenya where am the Chairman of the > Linux Professional

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] FOSDEM stand preparation

2012-01-24 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
.) > > last year Christoph/Jacqueline brought some large banners. > Are they or others planning again carrying that stuff? > > hmm... Sophie, do we have any remaining stuff from the Paris conference? best, -- Charles-H. Schulz Member of the Board of Directors, The Document

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Portuguese LibreOffice Comunitty Logo

2012-02-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
as it is part of the LibreOffice project (you and the PT team work within the LibreOffice project with an official URL, etc.) However it is also important to avoid country specific mentions, etc. But in this case I think you worked it out nicely. Best, Charles-H. Schulz. -- Unsubscribe instructi

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Portuguese LibreOffice Comunitty Logo

2012-02-04 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Drew, I think we should talk about an entity in the US at some point... Best, Charles. Le 4 févr. 2012 14:46, "drew" a écrit : > On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 08:12 -0500, Marc Paré wrote: > > Le 2012-02-03 20:57, drew a écrit : > > > On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 15:05 -0500, Marc Paré wrote: > > >> Le 2012-0

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Office Suite of the Year! "2011 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards"

2012-02-10 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
I have my doubts on why we should post these numbers elsewhere than in a tweet or a blog. We compete with MS Office. The other solutions should not be overlooked, but they are part of another conversation. Best, Charles. Le 10 févr. 2012 13:14, "Danishka Navin" a écrit : > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012

[libreoffice-marketing] High-res screenshots

2012-02-13 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello, I have a journalist who works for a *paper* magazine and who is writing an article about Libreoffice. Does anyone have high resolution screenshot of the suite? (like 300 or 500px) Thanks, Charles. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? htt

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] High-res screenshots

2012-02-18 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Dave, Do you have the pics please? :-) Best, Charles. Le Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:33:17 -0600, Dave Johnson a écrit : > Tell me what you need and I can provide it in high resolution any > doing. On Feb 13, 2012 10:23 AM, "Charles-H. Schulz" < > charles.sch...@documen

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] What will you be doing on March 28th?

2012-02-27 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
our site? http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.fr.html Thank you, Charles. Le Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:20:50 -0500, drew a écrit : > Howdy, > > Just a reminder Document Freedom Day 2012 is slated for March 28th. > > http://documentfreedom.org/ > > > //drew > > > > --

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] What will you be doing on March 28th?

2012-02-28 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:51:57 +0100, Christian Lohmaier a écrit : > Hi Charles, *, > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Charles-H. Schulz > wrote: > > > > We (TDF) are official supporters of the Document Freedom Day and > > I'll draft a blog asap about th

[libreoffice-marketing] List of large deployments

2012-03-16 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello there, I remember we had something in the old OOo wiki that listed large public and private sector's deployments. I can't find it on OOo wiki which has now stopped working, can't find it here on our wiki, and I can't find it on AOO's confluence wiki. Any idea? Thanks, Charles. -- Unsubsc

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: List of large deployments

2012-03-16 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
2012/3/16 Nino Novak > Am 16.03.2012 17:02 schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: > > Hello there, > > > > I remember we had something in the old OOo wiki that listed large public > > and private sector's deployments. I can't find it on OOo wiki which has > now > &

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Member Badge

2012-03-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
+1 Best, Charles. Le 17 mars 2012 21:02, "Simon Phipps" a écrit : > > I think it would be good for TDF Members to have a badge they can display > on their home pages. I have created this: > > http://webmink.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/tdf-member.png > > and am displaying it on my home page. Wh

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] OT: Happy easter from Brazilian LibreOffice Community

2012-04-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
albums/5728293174264405281 > > oooh, that's so cute. :-) I will tweet it. :) > > Thanks a lot! Happy Easter to you, too! > Florian > :-) Thank you, and happy Easter Eliane and everybody! -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder & Director, The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 6

[libreoffice-marketing] Interview on Muktware

2012-04-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
I thought it might be interesting to read :-) : http://www.muktware.com/news/3509/libreoffice-online-will-be-real-competitor-microsoft-office-365 Best, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder & Director, The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Interview on Muktware

2012-04-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Marc, 2012/4/7 Marc Paré > Hi Charles, > > Le 2012-04-06 13:16, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : > > I thought it might be interesting to read :-) : >> http://www.muktware.com/news/**3509/libreoffice-online-will-** >> be-real-competitor-microsoft-**office-365<htt

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Interview on Muktware

2012-04-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
k of systematically maintaining the page on the wiki? I think that would be very helpful. Thanks, Charle. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > --- On Fri, 6/4/12, Charles-H. Schulz < > charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > > From: Charles-H. Schulz &g

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Interview on Muktware

2012-04-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
s apply to membership? ;-) ). Cheers, Charles. 2012/4/7 Tom Davies > Hi :) > The page is only useful if people know about it and if people add to it. > Otherwise it's just another dead page drifting in cyberspace. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > --- On Sat, 7/

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Article on Datamation website: "How Microsoft Office Tops LibreOffice: 11 Features"

2012-04-27 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
blog/2007/01/do-certifications-matter.html > > License My Dog, but not Me > http://www.contrarianconsulting.com/license-my-dog-but-not-me/ > > Top 10 Problems with IT Certifications > http://insidetech.monster.com/benefits/articles/1571-top-10-problems-with-it-certification > So

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Cancelling the confcall?

2012-05-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
en it means that your contribution is documented, and therefore you're eligible for membership. I thought I'd point it out of fairness and out of information as I feel many people do not know or are not aware of their eligibility. -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-Founder & Director, The

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] stable? Re: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5.3

2012-05-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Tom, When we release versions it means that we're trying to improve the software anyway. But because it is software, please understand that there will always be bugs. Even if we release a 3.5.19, it will still be buggy. That's the nature of software. So if by any chance you have the impression tha

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] stable? Re: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5.3

2012-05-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
27;s advantages NOT on wishful thinking. > Wishful thinking? Users complaints ? How familiar are you with software development? What else do you think a mailing list for users is designed for if not for bug reports? Thanks, Charles. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > --- On

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-03 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Tom, I don't feel accusing people of lying is going to be very constructive. if anything you are displaying worrying signs of your complete ignorance in basic software development and it's so basic you don't need to be a developer. So let me put this in very clear terms for you: SOFTWARE IS BUGGY

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-03 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
ot least, perhaps it's also a matter of perspective. You report all these disgruntled users, and I fully expect that there will be unhappy users of about anything out there, but don't forget there are very happy users as well, yet, they tend not to show up on forums or mailing lists just

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

2012-06-03 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hi, 2012/6/3 webmaster-Kracked_P_P Snipped several paragraphs > > Yes, each business and personal user need to determine what version will > work best for them, but you really need to give them a good way to know > what is right for them. The Features page has a good list of new features, >

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Table Euro2012

2012-06-03 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Dented and twitted it :) Best, Charles. 2012/6/3 Klaibson Ribeiro > Hi. > > This file is for soccer lovers. This file is table of Euro2012. Created in > LibreOffice Calc. > > Good luck for your selection national. > > Download here - http://www.libreofficefordummies.com/?p=38 > > -- > Klaibson

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
uot;, knowing that each of our releases in one branch really works like a "service pack"? If we had the ability to provide incremental updates (we will one day) we would have the feelings we have two versions, and sometimes "maintenance updates". So at some point, say

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
his gives orgs the 1 year of testing they need before migrating from >>> the previous LTS and moving to the new one. If they gave 3 years support >>> and released every 3 years then orgs would have a 1 year gap running an >>> unsupported LTS while they were still testi

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Marc, 2012/6/5 Marc Paré > Hi Charles, > > Le 2012-06-05 09:12, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : > > Thank you for bringing that up, it's an interesting discussion. Here's >> what I think reading your message. You're asking in fact two questions. >

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
al perception is that many business will make you spend time about this or that issue, in the end not migrating, or moving to Google Docs. Many businesses point to bugs as fundamental issues, but you never hear them complain about even more critical issues when using MS Windows or Office; that&#x

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] article states LO has a prototype for cloud/mobile computing

2012-06-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
2012/6/6 webmaster-Kracked_P_P > > There is an article about mobile and cloud computing with a note about > what TDF is doing. > > I am wondering that the prototype that the article is talking about. I > wonder who the article got this info from, since there was no name listed. > IBM: Don Harbi

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] article states LO has a prototype for cloud/mobile computing

2012-06-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
2012/6/6 webmaster-Kracked_P_P > On 06/06/2012 08:47 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > >> 2012/6/6 >> webmaster-Kracked_P_P >> > >> >> There is an article about mobile and cloud computing with a note about >>> what TDF is doing. >>>

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Of "business ready use" and bugs in LibreOffice and a LibreOffice LTS

2012-06-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 6 juin 2012 18:39, "webmaster-Kracked_P_P" a écrit : > On 06/06/2012 11:28 AM, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > >> Hello Marc, >> >> Le mercredi 06 juin 2012 à 11:04 -0400, Marc Paré a écrit : >> >>> Le 2012-06-06 06:12, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : >>

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice in the Press -- Proposal

2012-06-09 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Marc, 2012/6/9 Marc Paré > I would like to propose this: > > That the "LibreOffice in the Press" entries be input into a Google > Calendar that could be read both on the wiki as well as on the website. The > location of the link on the website would be under the "About Us" button > next to

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Is there a better YouTube video collection setup . . .

2012-06-10 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
/drew > >> > >> > >> I thought that might be you, Drew! > >> > >> I agree, if someone can follow up on getting a non-profit page for LO > >> on YouTube, that would be best. > > > > Good idea. I'll put it on the agenda of our next

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibOCon CfP topics

2012-06-11 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
racks were well stuffed but this one was problematic. I could try to ping Bart and Michiel? Best, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder & Director, The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfo

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibOCon CfP topics

2012-06-11 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:03:19 +0200, Florian Effenberger a écrit : > Hi, > > Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2012-06-11 16:16: > > I see there's an ODF track; I wonder if we could turn this into a > > plugfest. My thinking: last year the ODF track was rather feeble in >

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibOCon Call for Papers

2012-06-16 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
The ODF track could be renamed as ODF plugfest. The community track could be clarified with localization, documentation, etc. The migration track could include business & certification. Best, Charles. Le 16 juin 2012 15:14, "Florian Effenberger" a écrit : > Hello, > > I'm still drafting the Cal

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibOCon Call for Papers

2012-06-16 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
n-win situation. Best, Charles. Le 16 juin 2012 16:24, "Simon Phipps" a écrit : > Would that be an "official" ODF plugfest? > > On 16 Jun 2012, at 14:47, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > > > The ODF track could be renamed as ODF plugfest. The community track could > &

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Latest newsletter from SourceForge re: AOO

2012-06-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Marc, The brand name and the automatic upda notification do help, obviously. Best, Charles. Le 17 juin 2012 11:05, "Marc Paré" a écrit : > FYI (for those who are interested) -- From the latest SourceForge > newsletter > > "Fastest Growing Projects > Each month I get a report of the fastest gro

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Latest newsletter from SourceForge re: AOO

2012-06-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
e too? > Just like Google Chrome and such too would be interesting for network > connected computers. > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Charles-H. Schulz > wrote: > > Marc, > > > > The brand name and the automatic upda notification do help, obviously. > >

RE: [libreoffice-marketing] Latest newsletter from SourceForge re: AOO

2012-06-18 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
well enough what he is talking about. > > >> Which if course is a pity when he is taking such strong positions on > the marketing list. > > >> > > >> Tom Davies wrote (18-06-12 11:59) > > >>> [...] > > >> > > >> > > >> --

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Draft Conference PR

2012-06-24 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Florian, Could we please take out the "ODF plugfest" mention and replace it by ODF Track? It seems that IBM is vehemently refusing to allow the official ODF Plugfest to occur at the LibreOffice Conference . We of course would not want to embarrass these gentlemen. Thanks, Charles. 2012/6/25 Davi

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Draft Conference PR

2012-06-26 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Drew, 2012/6/26 drew jensen > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 08:23 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > > Florian, > > > > Could we please take out the "ODF plugfest" mention and replace it by ODF > > Track? It seems that IBM is vehemently refusing to allow the offi

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Hello from Nicaragua

2012-07-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello William, Thank you for your email and your contributions! Actually, you should join our design team (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design); and submit your templates here: http://templates.libreoffice.org . You can also contribute your icons to our wiki, they might be included (one day)

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Away for the next 5-6 days

2012-07-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
rushed spine). > > There is no electricity where I am going. > > Have a great weekend and I will talk to you next Tuesday or Wednesday. > > Cheers, > > Marc > > Enjoy your time and save your back from pain :-) Best, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder & Director,

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Defining a marketing strategy

2012-07-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
NGOs. In a word: we need a strategy. It's true that we don't start from zero, because there are important activities going on here and there; we need a plan, a coherence, and general purpose to what we are doing. Best, Charles. > > - what difficulties do you meet to join or t

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Defining a marketing strategy

2012-07-09 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Jean, 2012/7/9 Jean Weber > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Charles-H.Schulz > wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > This might be a long thread and I wish we will all stay on topic, as it > > is an important subject. > > > > [snip] > > > > Apologies for the long message, > > > Charles, I'v

[libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Feature comparison: LibreOffice - Microsoft Office in the Wiki

2012-07-15 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Gerry, I took the liberty to forward this email to the marketing list (we should find just as many volunteers here). Thank you a lot for putting up this page, it should definitely be used as a basis for information towards potential users and deployers. Best regards, Charles. -- F

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Impact of Mozilla's decision regarding Thunderbird on LibreOffice and need to act?

2012-07-15 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Dave, It's one thing to advocate, and another thing to find a sustainable stream of developers who can develop TB or any other email client. Anyway, this being said, it seems that the Mozilla Foundation is explaining a different story about TB . Check this : http://blog.mozilla.org/beyond-th

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Defining a marketing strategy

2012-07-16 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
n of LibreOffice marketing. However a call at some point might indeed prove necessary. My point is: let's take our time with this, this topic is important, but of course, input is welcome now. Best, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder & Director, The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69,

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Roll-out, retraining, perceptions Re: [libreoffice-users] Do You Share ODF Documents With MS Office Users?

2012-08-08 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Tom, I think Jay is asking good questions, that can be answered very simply but are more of a perception matter than anything else. I would invite him to the marketing list, btw. I believe you are missing his point in your own comments so let me just comment on his email, as it is the kind o

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Defining a marketing strategy

2012-08-11 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
on about that topic). As for the wiki, I did examine (over time and regularly) our marketing wiki, and I must say that defining a marketing strategy is definitely a priority *especially* reading what we have in the wiki. We have all sorts of ideas, but there are action proposals without any coherenc

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] New bee

2012-08-16 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Florian, Welcome aboard! Best, Charles. Le jeudi 16 août 2012 à 15:07 +0200, Florian Monfort a écrit : > Hi everyone ! > > My name is Florian Monfort, I am a brand new Marketing apprentice at Red > Hat and I'm here to volunteer at the Document Foundation. This is a great > opportunity for

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [jmadero....@gmail.com: Re: [bjoern.michael...@canonical.com: LibreOffice QA Call 2012-08-24]]

2012-08-28 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Marc, We will restart the marketing confcalls soon. Best, Charles. Le 28 août 2012 20:10, "Marc Paré" a écrit : > Hi Bjoern and Florian, > > Le 2012-08-23 13:29, Bjoern Michaelsen a écrit : > >> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 07:57:31PM +0300, Florian Reisinger wrote: >> >>> Am 23.08.2012 um 19:

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Poster at Hanoi SFD 2012

2012-08-31 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello , You could even ask the Design team to put something together for you on design@... best, Charles. 2012/8/31 Nguyễn Vũ Hưng > Hello all, > > I am thinking of marketing LibreOffice at Hanoi SFD 2012[1] on 2012/09/15 > > As we don't have resources (human, time...) only one thing popped up

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Some thoughts on marketing strategy

2012-09-03 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Jean, Thank you for picking this up. Le lundi 03 septembre 2012 à 15:59 +1000, Jean Weber a écrit : > I'm sorry I've not responded to Charles's thread on marketing > strategy. I've got notes but haven't organised my thoughts > sufficiently to share them. > > Meanwhile, I found some good i

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Community building (was: Nabble: friend or foe?)

2012-09-04 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le mardi 04 septembre 2012 à 10:48 -0400, Marc Paré a écrit : > Le 2012-08-30 18:34, Jean Weber a écrit : > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > >> > >> Unfortunately, we are in great need of community building strategies, which > >> is where our success rate is quite slim. We nee

[libreoffice-marketing] Software freedom day 1012

2012-09-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hmm... Do we do anything for the 15th of September? Best, Charles. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Software freedom day 1012

2012-09-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
ood point - we definitely > > should! > > > > Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2012-09-07 19:42: > > > > Hmm... Do we do anything for the 15th of September? > >> > > > > > > I had to postpone my event (there is a libo booth in the plan)

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Software freedom day 1012

2012-09-08 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
I'll draft something then... best, Charles. 2012/9/8 Nguyễn Vũ Hưng > Yes, I will do something in Sfd Hanoi, Vietnam. > > There is no excuse for being brief when using Android. > On Sep 8, 2012 12:42 AM, "Charles-H. Schulz" < > charles.sch...@documentfoundation

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Software freedom day 1012

2012-09-08 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
; > >> > There is no excuse for being brief when using Android. >> > On Sep 8, 2012 12:42 AM, "Charles-H. Schulz" < >> > charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: >> > >> >> Hmm... Do we do anything for the 15th of September

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Software freedom day 1012

2012-09-08 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
I do need a list... best, Charles. 2012/9/8 Danishka Navin > > > On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Charles-H. Schulz < > charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > >> If I have such a list, yes. Or you / anyone could open a wiki page and >> list >> al

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Online presentation on Thursday

2012-09-16 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
What's the audience? Do you have the general LOOL concept in mind? best, Charles. 2012/9/16 Florian Effenberger > Hi, > > on Thursday, I'll give a presentation about LibreOffice Online at Munich > IT-Brunch (http://www.it-brunch.net/index.php?id=510). > > I know a few of Michael's blog posts a

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] "Code of Conduct"

2012-09-25 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Tom, I don't know why you posted this on the marketing list, perhaps we should continue this discussion on discuss@... anyway. Maybe such a code of conduct is needed, I don't dwell too much on the users list to be frank. However, what's really important is to have this code enforced, and t

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] donation meter

2012-10-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le lundi 01 octobre 2012 à 09:55 +0200, Florian Effenberger a écrit : > Hello, > > our fundraising campaign officially starts today. Like last time, I'd > like to add a donation meter to our websites, so people can donate > towards a goal. > > I am not a friend of unrealistic values, just to ke

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] donation meter

2012-10-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
n 9 releases). > >> Regards from > >> Tom :) > >> > >> > >> > >>> > >>> From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P > >>> To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org > >>> Sent: Tuesday, 2 October

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] donation meter

2012-10-03 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Sigh... There does not seem to be actual marketer on this list. Anyway, here's my proposal: * 50k euros : infra for 1 year * 90k euros: infra & one paid, half time resource to infra administration * 100k: one major marketing campaign (with global reach) * 150k: infra for one year + one part time a

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Stable? Seriously?? Fw: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.2

2012-10-04 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Tom, The points you are making are repeated at each release. I cannot really help if you refuse to understand how we work or how software development works. But as we are on the marketing list we need to work on marketing and not lose our time with recurring rants that are not related to marketing

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Stable? Seriously?? Fw: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.2

2012-10-04 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
nouncements and press releases > have nothing to do with marketing. > Apols and regards from > Tom :) > > > > > > >________ > > From: Charles-H. Schulz > >To: "marketing@global.libreoffice.org" > >Sent: Thursday, 4 Oct

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Stable? Seriously?? Fw: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.2

2012-10-04 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > __________ > From: Charles-H. Schulz > > To: Tom Davies > Cc: "marketing@global.libreoffice.org" > >

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Stable? Seriously?? Fw: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.2

2012-10-04 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
ng till 3.6.4 or > >3.6.5 before I make the move over to the 3.6.x line for my default > >desktop. I may try it on one of my laptops, but not the desktop[s]. > > > >Was that not the reason for the two lines? You run the previous line > >till the newest one gets t

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Stable? Seriously?? Fw: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.2

2012-10-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Tom, Hoping this will be the last time we discuss this on the marketing list, and so that we can move on to actual marketing topics and work Le vendredi 05 octobre 2012 à 09:26 +0100, Tom Davies a écrit : > Hi :) > I'm sorry but that only seems to confirm what i have been saying :( > Obviou

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Stable? Seriously?? Fw: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.2

2012-10-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Marc, Le vendredi 05 octobre 2012 à 06:41 -0400, Marc Paré a écrit : > Hi Charles, > > Le 2012-10-05 06:32, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : > > Tom, > > > > Hoping this will be the last time we discuss this on the marketing list, > > and so that we can move

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Stable? Seriously?? Fw: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.2

2012-10-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
om :) > > > > > > > > > > From: Marc Paré > >To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org > >Sent: Friday, 5 October 2012, 11:41 > >Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Stable? Seriously?? Fw: [tdf-announce] > >T

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Stable? Seriously?? Fw: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.2

2012-10-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
improved compatibility) but just say nothing about stability > because stability is irrelevant for those early releases. > > What is the problem? Why can't we be honest? Why even mention anything > about stability in public announcements!?!! > Regards from > Tom :) > > >

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Stable? Seriously?? Fw: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.2

2012-10-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
; >Sent: Friday, 5 October 2012, 13:19 > >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Stable? Seriously?? Fw: > >[tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.2 > > > >On 10/05/2012 06:41 AM, Marc Paré wrote: > >> Hi Charles, > >> >

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Fwd: Some notes about donate page

2012-10-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Marc, The BoD (mostly Thorsten) kind of does that but still this year the forecast is limited as there's the notion that we still are working on a limited, minimalistic budget. This being said this needs to change and I agree with you that we ought to have prepared this fundraising in a better wa

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] OWF

2012-10-08 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Florian, Sophie, Christophe Cazin, myself and I think a fourth volunteer will show up. We'll give a conference on Saturday and will have a booth aside the Fedora, Mozilla and Ubuntu communities. best, Charles. Le lundi 08 octobre 2012 à 12:20 +0200, Florian Monfort a écrit : > Hi Everyone,

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Marketing list on forums? Marketing team discussion.

2012-10-12 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Quick comment from my side: I will not be very active on forums as tou can't work with them on phones and I use my phone a lot for email. But I am open to experimentation. However we must form a real marketing team with tasks and production. Then we'll think about forums or mailing list. Best, C

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Marketing list on forums? Marketing team discussion.

2012-10-12 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
One more thing : I expect that after Berlin we will change the focus of this marketing list to a more task based mailing list. Right now the list is not productive and has no focus, and we need to change that. In this context I would very wellsee the forum working as a "catchall" suggestions and i

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Marketing list on forums? Marketing team discussion.

2012-10-13 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Marc, Le vendredi 12 octobre 2012 à 21:30 -0400, Marc Paré a écrit : > Le 2012-10-12 18:29, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : > > One more thing : I expect that after Berlin we will change the focus of > > this marketing list to a more task based mailing list. Right now the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Funding Wishlist

2012-10-14 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le dimanche 14 octobre 2012 à 10:11 -0400, Marc Paré a écrit : > I would like to suggest to prepare kits for under-serviced regions where > LibreOffice has not made any inroads. The kits could contain the > following (localized (language) versions where applicable): > > * banners for booth (2 ba

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Stable? Seriously?? Fw: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.2

2012-10-20 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Tom, One very last time: please stop discussing politics and general opinions that are fully unrelated to the purpose of this list. Thanks, Charles. Le samedi 20 octobre 2012 à 11:18 +0100, Tom Davies a écrit : > Hi :) > Hmm, with a capital C that has a very negative connotation in the country

[libreoffice-marketing] Marketing Workshop proceedings

2012-10-21 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Stable? Seriously?? Fw: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6.2

2012-10-21 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Tim, We are actually not going to do that (see my previous mail in a new thread). In fact we already did discuss this ten times in the past, and I really would like to close this subject once and for all. Thank you, Charles. Le dimanche 21 octobre 2012 à 10:02 -0400, webmaster-Kracked_P_

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