Re: [board-discuss] Advisory Board Membership of Rubitech-Astra

2022-02-27 Thread toki
On 26/02/2022 08:10, Lothar K. Becker wrote: Please take also into account as there was mentioned if someone else like from China want to engage for the sake of TDF would be hindered to contribute by If I can make a recommendation, create a list of specific criteria that will result in

Re: [board-discuss] 'Free Beer' Office?

2020-07-25 Thread toki
On 2020/07/25 07:58, Andreas Mantke wrote: > for those who complains about LibreOffice campains stating free (like > free beer), here is a current example from the official LibreOffice account: > > https://twitter.com/libreoffice/status/128692953570496/photo/1 Both "No Registration" and "No

Re: [board-discuss] Personal Edition label and define is wrong.

2020-07-20 Thread toki
On 2020/07/16 10:04, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > I think TDF marketing should provide guidance on how running a successful > major > LibreOffice deployment without external support is set up, and what benefits > this yields. Back in the days of OOo 1.x, there was a document describing how to

Re: [board-discuss] Personal Edition label and define is wrong.

2020-07-20 Thread toki
On 2020/07/16 10:04, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: > I think TDF marketing should provide guidance on how running a successful > major > LibreOffice deployment without external support is set up, and what benefits > this yields. Back in the days of OOo 1.x, there was a document describing how to

Re: [board-discuss] New Version of Strategic Marcom Plan

2020-07-17 Thread toki
On 2020/07/17 16:22, Mark Hung wrote: > My impression as a user regarding LibreOffice Personal ( or Individuals, > Individuals WFH, students ) vs LibreOffice Enterprises is that they might > be different in their features, where LibreOffice Enterprise might have a > bunch of features that suits

Re: [board-discuss] New Version of Strategic Marcom Plan

2020-07-15 Thread toki
On 2020/07/15 17:47, Kev M wrote: >Your branding expert is possibly correct in their assessment that Personal is >better. But alarms are going off in the heads of me and other FOSS >supporters/ideologues on the implications of the term. Hard to balance >interests. The hardest part of

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Some problems.

2020-07-14 Thread toki
On 2020/07/14 10:41, Michael Meeks wrote: > On 12/07/2020 20:32, toki wrote: >> On 2020/07/08 12:40, Michael Meeks wrote: >>> I think Thorsten stated more cleanly as: >>> >>> "The market for desktop libreoffice is tough; >>> sales cy

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [tdf-members] Discussion about options available with marketing plan draft and timetable

2020-07-13 Thread toki
On 2020/07/13 14:20, Telesto wrote: >The potential customer has to figure out who to contact themselves. Sending >customers more or less in the dark. I'll grant that the LibO webpage on obtaining professional, paid support, could be clearer. From my perspective, the biggest change to that page

Re: [board-discuss] Proposed rebranding in global perspective

2020-07-13 Thread toki
On 2020/07/12 22:59, Tuomas Hietala wrote: > The big issue I'd like to bring up is that the assumptions behind the > marketing plan and Michael's analysis seem to be somewhat anglo/eurocentric, > or perhaps more accurately global north / major language centric". That is because historically:

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [tdf-members] Personal: and software freedom.

2020-07-13 Thread toki
On 2020/07/13 12:36, Michael Meeks wrote: > I think I've detected the location of the bug already. > >> and that AOo and LibO are slowly migrating towards >> mutual incompatibility. > > I expect that this is a matter of keeping up with standards. It takes > significant investment to

Re: [board-discuss] There is no such thing as "enterprise" // Suggestion for change of marketing plan

2020-07-12 Thread toki
On 2020/07/08 11:08, gerry wrote: > There is no such thing as a homogenous "enterprise" that leads to a certain > level of software support services needs or that is per se 'suitable' for > purchased licenses. If the marketing plan is based on wrong assumptions, then > it might be

Re: [board-discuss] Discussion about options available with marketing plan draft and timetable

2020-07-12 Thread toki
On 2020/07/09 16:56, Simon Phipps wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 5:47 PM Andreas Mantke wrote: > >> >> please read through the whole discussion and you may get an impression >> that there are some intent to use TDF for such a promotion. >> > > However, those with that impression are entirely

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [tdf-members] Personal: and software freedom.

2020-07-12 Thread toki
On 2020/07/10 12:59, Kev M wrote: > Why not call it LibreOffice Vanilla? I might be hypersensative right now, due to the riots in the United States, but I suspect every HR department seeking to reduce "hostile work environment" lawsuits would flat out bar the use of any product that contained

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Some problems.

2020-07-12 Thread toki
On 2020/07/08 12:40, Michael Meeks wrote: > One clarification since it caused some private questions: > > On 07/07/2020 21:13, Michael Meeks wrote: >> Collabora - despite C'bra still putting a lot of work into >> LibreOffice Desktop, having an outstanding support capability, doing >> lots of

Re: [board-discuss] LibreOffice Personal & TDF's statutes & purpose

2020-07-11 Thread toki
On 2020/07/09 16:54, Italo Vignoli wrote: > On 7/9/20 6:35 PM, Aravind Palla wrote: > >> - that there will be no change of license; > > Based on what you assume there can be a change of license, the marketing > plan says exactly the opposite, i.e. we do stay loyal to the copyleft > license,

Re: [board-discuss] LOOL user experience

2020-05-27 Thread toki
On 5/22/20 8:05 PM, Andras Timar wrote: > I disagree. It's a myth. Yes, it can be hard, when firewalls, load > balancers, 5 users etc. are involved. It's the case when one needs > professional support. But for the hobbyist, how hard is it to install > CODE with a few clicks in Univention, or

Re: [board-discuss] LOOL user experience

2020-05-27 Thread toki
On 5/26/20 1:51 PM, Paolo Vecchi wrote: > > > On 26/05/2020 15:43, Thorsten Behrens wrote: >> Paolo Vecchi wrote: >>> 6 As individual users would you like to make a donation to TDF >>> specifically to support the development of LibreOffice Online? >>> >> We can't do that. > Is that a technical

Re: [board-discuss] Questions for the candidates to the board of directors of the Document Foundation

2015-11-28 Thread toki
On 02/11/2015 16:38, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > 1. Do you commit yourself to have enough time and the necessary > technological tools in order to participate to the regularly scheduled > board calls? Can you be more specific with what you mean by "necessary technological tools"? By way of

Re: [steering-discuss] connecting external services to our domain

2011-01-20 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/20/2011 04:18 PM, David Nelson wrote: suggested to her to take team leadership of the LibreOffice docs teamI two times in the past. But she's very much occupied with odfauthors. Need I point out that Jean has been running OOoAuthors for the