[libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-09-24 Thread drew
Hi, Taking a little proactive step here in response to some recent discussion regarding the continued use of the challenge site for soliciting donations. I've taken the liberty of changing the LibreOffice home page, specifically the URL used for the right hand banner link to: http://www.document

Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-09-25 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Drew, drew wrote on 2011-09-25 08:46: I've taken the liberty of changing the LibreOffice home page, specifically the URL used for the right hand banner link to: http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/ as a short term (maybe longer?) fix. thanks a lot for the initiative - the dona

Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-09-25 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Florian, Drew, all! Am Sonntag, den 25.09.2011, 12:05 +0200 schrieb Florian Effenberger: > Hi Drew, > > drew wrote on 2011-09-25 08:46: > > > I've taken the liberty of changing the LibreOffice home page, > > specifically the URL used for the right hand banner link to: > > > > http://www.docum

Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-09-25 Thread drew
On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 12:25 +0200, Christoph Noack wrote: > Hi Florian, Drew, all! > > Am Sonntag, den 25.09.2011, 12:05 +0200 schrieb Florian Effenberger: > > Hi Drew, > > > > drew wrote on 2011-09-25 08:46: > > > > > I've taken the liberty of changing the LibreOffice home page, > > > specifica

Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-09-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, drew wrote on 2011-09-25 17:11: I read over the challenge site again last night (early this morning) and it really does rather make it sound like there is not much need for more $$$ when we all know reality is always closer to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzOidHfvOCs ;-) I could put

Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-09-26 Thread drew
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 10:14 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi, > > drew wrote on 2011-09-25 17:11: > > > I read over the challenge site again last night (early this morning) and > > it really does rather make it sound like there is not much need for more > > $$$ when we all know reality is a

Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-09-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
Thanks a lot, much appreciated! drew wrote on 2011-09-26 13:52: Sure, will do that this morning then. -- Florian Effenberger Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsub

Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-09-26 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 09/26/2011 04:14 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, drew wrote on 2011-09-25 17:11: I read over the challenge site again last night (early this morning) and it really does rather make it sound like there is not much need for more $$$ when we all know reality is always closer to: http://www.

Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-09-26 Thread drew
On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 07:52 -0400, drew wrote: > On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 10:14 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > drew wrote on 2011-09-25 17:11: > > > > > I read over the challenge site again last night (early this morning) and > > > it really does rather make it sound like there is

Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-09-26 Thread Cor Nouws
webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote (26-09-11 16:21) For me personally, I would like to see some donations go into regional marketing, if possible. You are not alone in that. Ideas to make that happen are on the steering discuss list :-) -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org --

Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-09-27 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote on 2011-09-26 16:21: Since I was told that the donations was for the German location, server, marketing, etc., I was wondering if that was true? To be honest, I know there is a need to pay for the running of servers and other things that the TDF

Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-09-27 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
Thanks for the reply. I know how much it can cost to do the business startup for a not-for-profit type. It can cost thousands of dollars to get it right. Copyrights and trademarks is another big budget item. When I created Kracked Press Productions, in the early 1990's it did not cost as m

Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-10-02 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote on 2011-09-27 15:27: As soon as the paperwork is done, then somehow, somewhere, having items to sell that will see money from it go into TDF/LO's accounts for running the business and marketing the product will be helpful. Can you imagine what

Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-10-02 Thread Leif Lodahl
2011/10/3 Florian Effenberger > Hi, > > webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote on 2011-09-27 15:27: > > > ...10 or more people wearing logo shirts with some great phrase >> about why you should switch to LO? People see it and might wonder what >> it is and then look it up at home, or com

Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-10-03 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
Right now, I am looking into a company that is doing Polo shirts, with embroidered logos, for under $5 each. I will be buying some for testing how good they are, but with a different organization's logo on it. These will be for "hand-outs" using an internal raffle, so the low price is good.

Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-10-03 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote on 2011-10-03 14:41: So, if someone like me would order a number of polo shirts, and other items with the LO logo on them, then sells some, WHO is the USA person who does the marketing for this region. Who is "in charge" or tries to coordinate

Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-10-03 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Leif Lodahl wrote on 2011-10-03 08:51: FYI I have been experimenting a little with http://libreoffice.spreadshirt.dk . The site is not public yet, but so far all revinue goes to the Danish community. thanks! Maybe you can share your experience with us, how things went, if you'd recommen

Re: [libreoffice-website] Changing donation URL on LibO homepage

2011-10-04 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Drew, drew wrote on 2011-09-26 18:56: Alight - well, I created 4 pages, the en base page and 3 translation pages. [none of which are currently published] thanks a lot! http://challenge.documentfoundation.org/donate This is the base page in en-US language My proposal would be to attach