Re: [libreoffice-marketing] [DESIGN] Do we need a separate mailing list for artwork/usability/branding...?
David, As a part of the website development team I thought I might share some info which relates directly to what you were saying. Further to the discussions during to the conference call, my POV concerning communications channels is that lists don't make a good information storage medium. People quote badly, people go OT, people rant, and ideas and info easily get lost in the noise. They *can* be good for brainstorming. But very soon after each important thread reaches a natural conclusion, someone needs to collate and summarize the results and then post them to the wiki. We found exactly the same thing within the website team that too many rants were getting in the way of progress on many topics. With the steering committee's decision to move to Drupal within 6 months, the team who are currently working on the implementation had to tackle these exact issues. We have come up with a way to satisfy all (most) of our community with forums which would also allow mailing list functionality for those who would actually still choose to use it. For those interested the official Drupal development site is located at: www.libreofficeaustralia.org (sorry about the localisation, but I plan an Aussie group setup after it goes live on libreoffice.org) P.S. Anyone with Drupal theme experience would be greatly appreciated. Until the Drupal site is setup this kind of functionality will not be 'officially' available, but in the meantime the website team has been chatting through the mailing list, tracking the ideas and progress on the wiki and turning great ideas into reality. See: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Website (Google Wave is also great for brainstorming, in many ways, but takes some getting used to, and also demands posting discipline.) A 'Wave' is an open source federated communication protocol. In 'non-geeklish' we can install a wave server on our server and use either a web based client or desktop clients to access the server. This is a great idea. I will float the idea in the website mailing list and see what kind of response I get. -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] [DESIGN] Do we need a separate mailing list for artwork/usability/branding...?
Bernhard Dippold wrote (12-11-10 00:57) I agree that it is not easy to follow the threads on the topics you I too have to make choices, and do skip threads. mention, but from our experience with the OOo Art project and even more the Branding Initiative there are important topics to be shared between the general marketing guys and the designers/artist working on branding and visual design. Indeed. So one, at most two lists, is best, AFAIAC. Ciao - Cor -- - giving openoffice.org its foundation :: The Document Foundation - -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] [DESIGN] Do we need a separate mailing list for artwork/usability/branding...?
Hi, :-) On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 19:56, Michael Wheatland mich...@wheatland.com.au wrote: A 'Wave' is an open source federated communication protocol. In 'non-geeklish' we can install a wave server on our server and use either a web based client or desktop clients to access the server. This is a great idea. I will float the idea in the website mailing list and see what kind of response I get. Actually, Michael, I feel that TDF could actually lighten its workload quite a bit by relying on outside services from robust sources such as Google for quite a few things, and would then be able to focus its efforts on deploying and maintaining those things for which it really feels the effort is worthwhile, such as the blog and the wiki. Google Apps provides Wave - and lots of other useful collaboration facilities. Why re-invent the wheel? 0.2 cents. ;-) David Nelson -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] [DESIGN] Do we need a separate mailing list for artwork/usability/branding...?
Hi all, On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: [...] I'd propose to use the tag [DESIGN], as it covers not only artwork, branding and visual design, but usability design and UI design too. If this tag is not sufficient to differ these topics from general marketing, we should definitely ask for a dedicated list (and consistent with the tag I'd call it des...@libreoffice.org - what actually has been Christoph's idea I present now shamelessly) +1. I think it's a good term that encompasses UX as well (if we don't want separate UX/branding lists). Regards, Ivan. -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] [DESIGN] Do we need a separate mailing list for artwork/usability/branding...?
P.S. If it's not already done, I'd recommend that TDF set-up Google Apps for documentfoundation.org and/or libreoffice.org. There's a host of really useful stuff for collaboration, etc. Plus you can fulfill your mail needs without busting your heads configuring and maintaining a mail server. David Nelson -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
