[Marketing] LCA 06 OOo Miniconf

2005-12-15 Thread Graham
I can have available eight machines with various flavours of linux and OOo for people to play on if that is useful. -- Graham Lauder OpenOffice.org Marcon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Gold Assessor Trainer http://www.theingots.org Member

Re: [Marketing] Investing In Research Development

2006-01-11 Thread Graham
file. Thanks -- Graham Lauder OpenOffice.org Marcon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Gold Assessor Trainer http://www.theingots.org Member Opendocument Fellowship http://www.opendocumentfellowship.org

Re: [Marketing] Report on OOo at LinuxWorld

2006-04-10 Thread Graham
of: Enthusiasm that is infectious, people can't help but take notice. Kudos to Louis Cheers Yo -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org Member

Re: [Marketing] why.openoffice.org/marketing

2006-04-16 Thread Graham
answer underneath. Like It cost me nothing or I click once for PDF Comments? Cheers Yo -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org Member

Re: [Marketing] Fake???

2006-05-09 Thread Graham
26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz - To unsubscribe, e

Re: [Marketing] John and Louis double act

2006-05-15 Thread Graham
independent studies show they could save a fortune by migrating to OpenOffice.org 2 rather than MS-Office 2007 :-) ...caused me to spit coffee on my keyboard... darn it ;) Yo -- GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon

Re: [Marketing] www-openoffice.com are they authorised to sell at $49

2006-08-05 Thread Graham
://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz

Re: [Marketing] Usage of OOo in UK Higher Education declined 2003 - 2006

2006-08-05 Thread Graham
, the students coming up from them into FE and HE will make a difference too. Well that is the strategy I have adopted but its not a quick fix The man is a master of understatement! ;) Cheers G -- GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder

Re: [Marketing] Looking to do a brief interview about openoffice.org?

2006-08-19 Thread Graham
you're looking for someone more local but in the absence of any contact from the North American MarCons I'd be quite happy to either speak to you via Skype or by email. Cheers Graham Lauder -- GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder

Re: [Marketing] Looking to do a brief interview about openoffice.org?

2006-08-19 Thread Graham
are the resident NorthAm MarCons. East Coast and Central respectively. Cheers Yo -- GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer

[Marketing] Indian Electoral Commission shifts to OOo

2006-08-21 Thread Graham
ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz

Re: [Marketing] Looking to do a briefinterview about openoffice.org?

2006-08-21 Thread Graham
OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz

Re: [Marketing] Looking to do a briefinterview about openoffice.org?

2006-08-21 Thread Graham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 10:25 AM To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org Subject: Re: [Marketing] Looking to do a briefinterview about openoffice.org? It might be that no one reacted because

Re: [Marketing] Marketing Project get-together at OOoCon

2006-08-31 Thread Graham
OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz

Re: [Marketing] Right here, right now!

2006-09-04 Thread Graham
OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz

Re: [Marketing] article on Premium OpenOffice.org

2006-09-04 Thread Graham
Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [Marketing] NPR back to school

2006-09-06 Thread Graham
. Cheers GL -- GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz

Re: [Marketing] Re: Market Share of OOo vs other Office Suite

2006-09-10 Thread Graham
- GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz

Re: [Marketing] Looking for a two-page OpenOffice.org flyer (both, the application and the project)

2006-09-19 Thread Graham
on one Cheers G -- GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz

Re: [Marketing] OpenOffice Macro Migration Tools

2006-09-23 Thread Graham
://forum.sun.com/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=269 The Other option is to buy Novell's SLED 10. I believe the OOo version in that has the macro convertor Cheers Yo -- GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http

Re: [Marketing] Looking for a two-page OpenOffice.org flyer (both, the application and the project)

2006-10-01 Thread Graham
about enough to go on with. I figure two or three things for each group. Cheers G -- GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer

Re: [Marketing] Looking for a two-page OpenOffice.org flyer (both, the application and the project)

2006-10-12 Thread Graham
://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=69698 Progress stalled a little right now. Swamped at work. But I'll have time this weekend. Cheers G -- GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http

Re: [Marketing] OOo product flyer update [was: Missing link]

2006-11-11 Thread Graham
for the moment. Kaj would you object if I spent some time on this? Cheers Yo -- GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer

Re: [Marketing] OOo product flyer update [was: Missing link]

2006-11-12 Thread Graham
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 00:17 -0500, Kaj Kandler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Graham, Kaj would you object if I spent some time on this? not at all. I feel utterly unqualified for this enormous amount of changes. I'm not a native speaker and my writing skills

Re: [Marketing] OOo product flyer update [was: Missing link]

2006-11-13 Thread Graham
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 20:26 +0100, Finn Gruwier Larsen wrote: Graham skrev: OK all, Update at http://ooogear.co.nz/pub/ooo2prodflyera4en_update.odt Critiques please Hi, Hi, Here are some comments, primarily to the graphic layout. 1. I opened the document in a standard

Re: [Marketing] OOo product flyer update [was: Missing link]

2006-11-13 Thread Graham
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Re: [Marketing] OOo product flyer update [was: Missing link]

2006-11-14 Thread Graham
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 13:51 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote: On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Graham wrote: OK all, Update at http://ooogear.co.nz/pub/ooo2prodflyera4en_update.odt Critiques please Cheers Yo Pretty good. Comments in semi-random order: The completely free of any licence fees

Re: [Marketing] OOo product flyer update [was: Missing link]

2006-11-14 Thread Graham
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 19:54 +0100, Finn Gruwier Larsen wrote: Hi, Graham skrev: New editable draft: http://ooogear.co.nz/pub/ooo2prodflyera4en_update.odt PDF: http://ooogear.co.nz/pub/ooo2prodflyera4en_update.pdf Now I can view the .odt version directly - thanks. But I still

Re: [Marketing] OOo product flyer update

2006-11-14 Thread Graham
LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz Get Dressed - Get OOoGear Gear

Re: [Marketing] OOo product flyer update

2006-11-15 Thread Graham
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 22:05 +0100, Bernhard Dippold wrote: Hi Yo, sorry for not replying earlier... Graham schrieb: Hi All, Many thanks to all for the assistance with this. I've uploaded the latest edit as usual at: http://ooogear.co.nz/pub/ooo2prodflyera4en_update.odt Just

Re: [Marketing] OOo product flyer update

2006-11-17 Thread Graham
Regards, Eric Bachard Cheers and thanks Eric and Alex Updated to the above. -- GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer

Re: [Marketing] OOo product flyer update

2006-11-17 Thread Graham
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 17:18 +1000, Alex Fisher wrote: On Thursday 16 November 2006 11:04, Graham wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 22:05 +0100, Bernhard Dippold wrote: No need, if the machine will run OSX and X11 it will run OOo. Hardware spec is a PC thing. I'm told by a Mac

[Marketing] OOo introduction presentation

2006-11-17 Thread Graham
The template that this presentation uses is also available http://ooogear.co.nz/Marketing/ooopres.otp This can also be uploaded to the website Cheers Yo -- GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http

Re: [Marketing] OOo product flyer update

2006-11-17 Thread Graham
OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz Get Dressed - Get OOoGear Gear for the well dressed

[Marketing] Trifold Community Pamphlet

2006-11-17 Thread Graham
Now that everyone's keen, anyone willing to put up a hand to help with input into the Community info Pamphlet? :) Cheers Yo -- GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http

[Marketing] Marketing UNO [was: [website-dev] direct links to 'project' pages on main page]

2006-11-24 Thread Graham
Shifted this to the Marketing List: On Sunday 05 January 2003 12:37, Graham wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2006 07:43, Bernd Eilers wrote: Identify your market 1.) Developers ( OpenSource as well as commercial ISVs ) which do want to create extensions. 2.) Developers of other

[Marketing] Updated Product flyers

2006-11-26 Thread Graham
in the process, given the speed of my dialup :( ) John can we get these linked to the Marketing materials page Thumbnails at http://ooogear.co.nz/pub/prod_flyer_A4_thumbnail.png and http://ooogear.co.nz//pub/prod_flyer_A3_thumbnail.png Cheers G -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact

Re: [Marketing] Re: Marketing UNO [was: [website-dev] direct links to 'project' pages on main page]

2006-11-29 Thread Graham
On Thursday 30 November 2006 05:59, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: Hi Graham, Graham wrote: Shifted this to the Marketing List: Then I would suggest that the next ideal moment to sell this would be at the OOo MiniConf at LCA 2007 next Jan. Jim Watson has booked a place

Re: [Marketing] Product Information Page for Charts

2006-11-29 Thread Graham
this weekend, I'll put something together. Question: If you were going to try to excite someone about charts what would be the top five things that you would tell them about Charts. Cheers Yo -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html

Re: [Marketing] Product Information Page for Charts

2006-12-11 Thread Graham
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 03:38, Ingrid Halama wrote: Hi Graham, at the moment I have no time to write those several 50 word abstracts but I will come to you later on. And hope we can work than further on this. Thanks, Ingrid No problem, I'll do a little research and come up

[Marketing] Google:OOo campaign

2007-02-19 Thread Graham
time. To give it maximum impact however we need to coordinate a Gooogle:OOo day around the globe. Comments Cheers GL -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO

Re: [Marketing] Google:OOo campaign

2007-02-20 Thread Graham
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 23:41, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: Graham, nice and ambitious idea. Let me forward your mail to some folks at Google and see what they think. Thank you, Charles. Thanks Charles that would be appreciated If we get an affirmative from them I'll start up a wiki page

Re: [Marketing] OOo vs MSO feature comparison - embarrassment

2007-03-31 Thread Graham
pricing structures and MGA! :) We need to lift our brand recognition. I reitterate my Gooogle OOo idea John Cheers GL -- GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http

Re: [Marketing] Do free software projects need marketing teams?

2007-04-29 Thread Graham
gotta tell people about it. That's marketing. GL -- GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office

Re: [Marketing] Upcoming marketing campaign: Targets and design

2007-09-03 Thread Graham
in February I suggested using a low cost viral type strategy. http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=devmsgNo=24908 If we co-ordinated a Global strategy with a grassroots type campaign such as this, it's effectiveness would be increased severalfold. Cheers GL -- Graham Lauder

Re: [Marketing] Upcoming marketing campaign: Targets and design

2007-09-07 Thread Graham
that will produce 600 t-shirts an hour with a two colour print. I'll check to see what he charges. Chers GL -- Graham Lauder, INGOTs Assessor Trainer Moderator New Zealand (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http

Re: [Marketing] Important news regarding the marketing campagin

2007-10-09 Thread Graham
in this case, their PR agency. I would be very interested to hear what sort of spin Erwin and/or Simon put on this. And they wonder why we struggle to get people for the project. Easiest way to get rid of volunteers is to make what they do completely meaningless. Florian Cheers GL -- Graham

Re: [Marketing] Re: Open Office/OpenOffice.org/OOo

2005-02-08 Thread Graham Lauder
Besides, it's not like we are talking about a drastic change. Or for that matter, a change that most people will even notice. We would be changing to the name that most people already use, which is very very similar to our current name, except less cumbersome. Perhaps a little cumbersome,

Re: [Marketing] Re: Open Office/OpenOffice.org/OOo

2005-02-08 Thread Graham Lauder
Daniel Carrera wrote: Graham Lauder wrote: You really should choose your friends better That was uncalled for. You know it was a made up conversation. The rest of your email is not much better. If you have a point to make, please do so instead of stupid jabs like that. Heh! I figured

Re: [Marketing] Re: Daniel Sleeps!

2005-02-09 Thread Graham Lauder
Alexandro Colorado wrote: I dont believe that, you should take a picture of that :D -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ Definitely.. With Audio of course :D Mensaje citado por Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I now have the evidence that Daniel sleeps

[Marketing] Conferences and marketing.

2005-02-13 Thread Graham Lauder
It does not replace ongoing marketing activities that are happening and need to happen. For example, snip ensuring that those that are attending conferences have the material they need, I'd like to address that one. Except for the CDs, and the INGOTs stuff that Ian Lynch brought, *nothing*

Re: [Marketing] Conferences and marketing.

2005-02-13 Thread Graham Lauder
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Graham Lauder wrote, I am somewhat unsure as to the value that the Linux Confs other than a time to refresh ones energy from a gathering of similarly impassioned people. OOo is pretty much a given in Linux circles. Virtually all the Linux distributions come

Re: [Marketing] Conferences and marketing.

2005-02-13 Thread Graham Lauder
Jason Faulkner wrote: It is imperative for OOo to have a presence -- a strong one -- at these conferences. If for no other reason than for us to collaborate with other open source projects. All the things Jean + Ian said about tipping points are very true as well -- but I think it's important not

Re: [Marketing] Conferences and marketing.

2005-02-13 Thread Graham Lauder
Daniel Carrera wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 12:08:29PM -0500, Jason Faulkner wrote: It is imperative for OOo to have a presence -- a strong one -- at these conferences. If for no other reason than for us to collaborate with other open source projects. All the things Jean + Ian said about

Re: [Marketing] Conferences and marketing.

2005-02-13 Thread Graham Lauder
Daniel Carrera wrote: Graham Lauder wrote: I didn't say we should not have a presence at linux confs, just that we should not do it to the detriment of other types of conferences. But you see, the message I got (and I believe others got) from your post was that you were saying that linux

Re: [Marketing] Conferences and marketing.

2005-02-13 Thread Graham Lauder
Adam Moore wrote: Alright here's a conference that I would be willing to guarantee to attend. It might be our best bet in getting a wide educational audience at least in the United States. NEA is a national organization. There will be at least 13,000 educators at this conference. I think that

Re: [Marketing] Conferences and marketing.

2005-02-14 Thread Graham Lauder
Ian wrote: I have sent for information. There is an outside chance I could get some UK Government support. If so I'll pay for a booth, but I can't promise anything at this stage. Regards, What sort of resources would we need to front up to a conf of this size. 15,000 participants, probably

Re: [Marketing] Conferences and marketing.

2005-02-14 Thread Graham Lauder
Adam Moore wrote: Moodle would be an excellent one. I am somewhat heavily involved with moodle in my school district. I would be happy to help represent them if that was needed. But I know that it has a good following and they probably could get some representatives. So a CD containing Moodle,

Re: [Marketing] Business Card Contest

2005-02-14 Thread Graham Lauder
Daniel Carrera wrote: That's right ladies and gentlement, here is *your* chance to design your very own business card for OOo. I will be posting all proposals on this site: http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/openoffice/BusinessCards/ To get the ball rolling, I have added one business card. If

Re: [Marketing] Banners for booths at conferences

2005-02-14 Thread Graham Lauder
Eric Renaud wrote: Daniel Carrera wrote: Eric Renaud wrote: Either way, the one we have is beat down and tired. So, I'm ccing my boss, Marla Parker, to ask if we can allocate some budget towards getting several banners. Of course, the ideal situation would be for OOo to be able to raise

Re: [Marketing] Banners for booths at conferences

2005-02-15 Thread Graham Lauder
Adam Moore wrote: Excelent. I am excited to see what you would be able to come up with. Even if we gain a couple more donation partners maybe we can make this a fund raising project. I.E. putting a couple of sponsors on our banners. Something like $100 or something a sponsor would get them a

Re: [Marketing] The Official FRIENDLY THREAD(tm)

2005-02-18 Thread Graham Lauder
Jason Faulkner wrote: I just wanted to say, despite the fact discussions have gotten ... heated ... recently, I still love you all. That is all :) It is mutual. unless I see you in a giant seagull suit shudder ;) Yo - To

Re: [Marketing] IBM to spend $100m on Linux

2005-02-20 Thread Graham Lauder
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hi And that includes presumably Workplace and OOo Warms the cockles of your heart it does... well it would do if we were going to get any code back from it. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4276287.stm Bring on the tipping point. I'd like to see what Workplace

Re: [Marketing] Marketing structure

2005-02-20 Thread Graham Lauder
Ian Laurenson wrote: I would be happy to work with Graham Lauder for New Zealand. Thanks, Ian Laurenson Hot diggity Dog!! :) We have a South Island Marcon. I'm sure Jacqueline would be only too happy to add your name to the Marcons list. Cheers Yo

Re: [Marketing] Marketing structure

2005-02-20 Thread Graham Lauder
Jacqueline McNally wrote: I would be happy to work with Graham Lauder for New Zealand. Talk to Graham and let me know how you envisage working together. Here is What do MarCons do? from http://ooosmp.homelinux.org/GoalsandObjectives/MarketingProject A MarCon: * is available and responds readily

Re: [Marketing] OOo2 lessons so far

2005-02-21 Thread Graham Lauder
Justin Clift wrote: Hi all, We've been time constrained, so all we have so far are the intro lessons for OOo2 Base showing off it's niftiness. http://www.digitaldistribution.com/community/gettingtoknowbasepart1/ http://www.digitaldistribution.com/community/gettingtoknowbasepart2/

[Marketing] Understanding our branding: An Artists Brainstorming session.

2005-02-25 Thread Graham Lauder
Herewith the Branding Brainstorming thread. The purpose of this is to Brainstorm about the Art we are going to create for the Marketing Projects Marketing Materials. I've posted it on the art list and cc'd the marketing list for those who may not be on both. If you feel you wish to comment

Re: [Marketing] OT: Attn: Linda Worthington....

2005-02-26 Thread Graham Lauder
Nicu Buculei wrote: Linda Worthington wrote: Justin Clift wrote: Hi Linda, Just tried emailing you, and your spam blocking service is auto-nuking my messages and not giving me a valid authorisation link. Are you ok to add my email address to your authorised senders list? Regards and best wishes,

Re: [Marketing] SEARCC 2005

2005-03-06 Thread Graham Lauder
Ian Laurenson wrote: Has anyone submitted a paper or is an invited speaker on behalf of OpenOffice.org for the South East Asian Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC) 2005 conference? http://www.acs.org.au/searcc05/program.htm Submissions close March 15. Thanks, Ian Yes! Well spotted Ian. I

Re: [Marketing] Microsoft Office 12 Preview 1

2005-03-11 Thread Graham Lauder
Anthony Hess wrote: On 3/10/05 5:17 AM, Lars D. Noodén [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think Ive seen that - I think people are fairly critical of Microsoft in the tech press. Their software is certainly a lot better than it was in the 90s - even if most of the features aren't ones that will be

Re: [Marketing] Window closing on Office 2003

2005-07-21 Thread Graham Lauder
Benjamin Horst wrote: As for marketshare, some recent surveys have estimated OpenOffice at 10% - 15%. Are we running neck-and-neck with MS Office 2003? It would be a fine thing! Here is the link: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Open-source-versus-Microsoft-in-office- arena-2554.shtml

Re: [Marketing] Window closing on Office 2003

2005-07-22 Thread Graham Lauder
Jacqueline McNally wrote: Graham Lauder wrote: One of the barriers that I see here is the lack of interoperabilty with common accountancy packages such as Quickbooks and MYOB. I agree that we cannot simply list these packages to say that they work with OOo, but in some sense

Re: [Marketing] Window closing on Office 2003

2005-07-22 Thread Graham Lauder
Dark Magician wrote: Just a point on piracy. With the proliferation of pirated MSO 2003 software in Asia, it is sometimes very difficult to promote the us eof OOo in third world countries. This makes it very difficult to target users with OOo. Thats a given, but it isn't something we can do

Re: [Marketing] Re: dev Digest Issue 899

2005-07-22 Thread Graham Lauder
Harris wrote: Harris wrote: This is the first time I try to post in this discussion. Hope my messenge can be sent across. Greetings Harris, and welcome, your input is appreciated I have read about the marketing of OoO 2.0 to those that are using MS97. I might not be absolutely true

Re: [Marketing] re; Window closing on Office 2003

2005-07-23 Thread Graham Lauder
extensions. If so I stand corrected. Cheers Yo On 7/22/05, Graham Lauder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Yurman wrote: Perhaps it has already been mentioned in a previous post, but a key to end-user acceptance will be to drive market share and adoption of the product as a platform for third

Re: [Marketing] Marketing to very large companies - case studies?

2005-07-27 Thread Graham Lauder
Mark Harrison wrote: Hi all, I had lunch today with the IT Director (English Term - US Equivalent of CIO) of one of the UK's top 100 companies today. One of the thing that came up was Office suites, and it turns out that he uses OOo at home, and is very impressed. His comments included

Re: [Marketing] Going to OSCON 2005 ?

2005-07-27 Thread Graham Lauder
Adam Moore wrote: On 7/27/05, Stefan Taxhet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Adam Moore wrote: What kind of booth is it? Is it a Sun booth or is it an OpenOffice booth? A Sun booth with areas for the different Sun sponsored open-source projects including OpenOffice.org. My

Re: [Marketing] Marketing to very large companies - case studies?

2005-07-28 Thread Graham Lauder
Charles-H.Schulz wrote: Hello, if I may... On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 09:45 +1200, Graham Lauder wrote: So, the questions are: - Any hope in hell for tools to aid migration from VBA (particularly in Excel) into OOo? Not at this stage that I know of. However there are many working

Re: [Marketing] article: LinuxWorld 2005 Thursday

2005-08-14 Thread Graham Lauder
. Deepankar Got a link? The new Linux world site is a bitch to search on dialup -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org

Re: [Marketing] article: LinuxWorld 2005 Thursday

2005-08-14 Thread Graham Lauder
Jacqueline McNally wrote: Graham Lauder wrote: Got a link? The new Linux world site is a bitch to search on dialup I'm a DDJ subscriber, and I received this as a reveiw for Thursday: http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9848/ddj050811lw/ You can see their other daily reviews here: http

Re: [Marketing] article: LinuxWorld 2005 Thursday

2005-08-14 Thread Graham Lauder
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Re: [Marketing] article: LinuxWorld 2005 Thursday

2005-08-14 Thread Graham Lauder
Adam Moore wrote: On 8/14/05, Graham Lauder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Moore wrote: I specifically did not go because I don't feel it's the best place to spend our time. These people already know OpenOffice. Being at OSCON I kind of discovered that the best people

Re: [Marketing] article: LinuxWorld 2005 Thursday

2005-08-14 Thread Graham Lauder
this year. So we are doing a few things but I agree we do need to get developers to the Linux Confs. -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org Blog

Re: [Marketing] linux.conf.au 2006 - OpenOffice.org MiniConf

2005-08-14 Thread Graham Lauder
/workshops and the like -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org Blog: yorick.edublogs.org

Re: [Marketing] article: LinuxWorld 2005 Thursday

2005-08-15 Thread Graham Lauder
the initiative. These are basic things that OOo should be able to do itself. I think it would be healthy to /not/ go terribly out of your way for this sort of thing, to help reduce this dependence. Cheers, Daniel. +1 -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http

Re: [Marketing] List of active open source and OpenOffice.org bloggers?

2005-08-15 Thread Graham Lauder
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Re: [Marketing] Some suggestions...

2005-08-31 Thread Graham Lauder
Charles-H.Schulz wrote: Hello Adam, Adam Moore wrote: I just wanted to throw in the list of booth needs I came up with after the NEA Conference. Would this be useful? If so, how should I format it to make it useable for you.

Re: [Marketing] Press kit for OpenOffice.org 2.0 final

2005-08-31 Thread Graham Lauder
Erwin Tenhumberg wrote: Hi all, We still have some time because beta 2 just got released, but I think we should prepare a press kit for OpenOffice.org 2.0 final like we had for previous major releases. I created a new issue for this effort which includes a link to an old press kit:

Re: [Marketing] Press kit for OpenOffice.org 2.0 final

2005-08-31 Thread Graham Lauder
Erwin Tenhumberg wrote: Hi all, We still have some time because beta 2 just got released, but I think we should prepare a press kit for OpenOffice.org 2.0 final like we had for previous major releases. I created a new issue for this effort which includes a link to an old press kit:

Re: [Marketing] OO Text

2005-08-31 Thread Graham Lauder
Ian Lynch wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 08:14 -0700, J K wrote: Hello, I am interesting in contributing my time and resources to creating Open Office promotional materials. I have been creating promotional materials for Firefox for about a month and a half and they are very popular and

Re: [Marketing] OO Text

2005-08-31 Thread Graham Lauder
Ian Lynch wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 03:11 +1200, Graham Lauder wrote: We could definitely do with a standard backdrop for booths when OOo people attend shows and conferences. I've opened an issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=54041 And put up a first

[Marketing] Massachusetts goes with Open Document

2005-08-31 Thread Graham Lauder
Massachusetts has published it's document format policies. Approved formats : txt, pdf and OASIS Open Document http://www.mass.gov/Aitd/ No mention of .rtf or .doc Hot damn!! Submissions close 5 Sept '05 Cheers Yo -- -

Re: [Marketing] Massachusetts goes with Open Document

2005-08-31 Thread Graham Lauder
swhiser wrote: Well caught, Graham. It makes my year: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/42442/index.html Cool Sam, That explains it nicely. I'll link to your article in my Blog. Better than wading for an hour through all the Govt-ese. Only thing, your article says submissions

Re: [Marketing] Thanks for a fabulous OOoConf

2005-10-06 Thread Graham Lauder
is becoming a large market for OOo would it be reasonable to look at somewhere in that region for next year. Say Singapore for instance... -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades

Re: [Marketing] Thanks for a fabulous OOoConf

2005-10-06 Thread Graham Lauder
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hi all, On Oct 6, 2005, at 6:05 AM, Graham Lauder wrote: Jacqueline McNally wrote: I had this as an agenda item (http://council.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg? list=discussmsgNo=674) for the CC meeting: 4. next OOoCon: I suggest we announce the next OOoCon

[Marketing] [Fwd: [FOSS-PDI] Japan aims to boost state use of free Linux software]

2005-10-07 Thread Graham Lauder
Forward from the FOSS PDI Maillist http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051006/tc_afp/japanitsoftwarelinuxcompanymicrosoft TOKYO (AFP) - Japan aims to switch some government computers to the free Linux operating system and reduce its dependence on Microsoft Windows Japan is drawing up guidelines

[Marketing] LCA 2006 report

2006-02-02 Thread Graham Lauder
no favours with the MiniConf organisation. We need to substantially lift our game in that area. Cheers -- Graham Lauder OpenOffice.org Marcon New Zealand [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Gold Assessor Trainer www.theingots.org Member Open Document

Re: [Marketing] LCA 2006 report

2006-02-02 Thread Graham Lauder
On Thursday 02 February 2006 17:53, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: Hello Graham, Graham Lauder wrote: Report on LCA 2006. I'll forward parts of your message to the NLC list. I guess I can speak for every NL leads out there and say that we fell flattered :-) ... Best, Charles. Excellent Charles

Re: [Marketing] Setting a marketing goal.

2006-02-08 Thread Graham Lauder
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 22:10, Daniel Carrera wrote: Graham Lauder wrote: It should be noted that Suns commercial version of 2.0, Star Office is called vers 8.0. Do we need to change our release numbering to fall into line with the rest of them? From a marketing POV

[Marketing] Excellent Article in Australian PC Authority Magazine

2006-02-13 Thread Graham Lauder
Rawlinson, PC Authority Magazine. Feb 2006 .. It gets better and better. :) Another great review for the newsletter. Cheers Yo -- Graham Lauder OpenOffice.org Marcon New Zealand [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://marketing.openoffice.org

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