Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Making it remarkable!

2011-01-01 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hi Dave, Am 01.01.2011 01:02, schrieb Dave Johnson: DO NOT talk about the fact that it is free. IMO the key point is that it´s not (only) free of charge, but that it´s free software in the sense of ...freedom ...free speech ...openness ...trustable and so on. Pretty much the same is true

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Happy 2011

2011-01-01 Thread Cor Nouws
Eliane Domingos de Sousa wrote (31-12-10 21:05) http://www.revistabroffice.org/repositorio/anonovo-libreoffice3.jpg Happy new year too :-) Cor -- - giving openoffice.org its foundation :: The Document Foundation - -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Update of feature list

2011-01-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-31 09:01, Sophie Gautier a écrit : Hi all, I've just updated the features list, I think now it's complete (I'll update the languages list later, after the last l10n round). http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/LibOReleaseEvents/LOPressKit/FeatureList3.3 Kind regards Sophie

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO DVD fulfillment web-page

2011-01-01 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Dave, * Dave Johnson schrieb: That sounds good to me. Still need official art for the cover of the DVD. [...] Jens Habermann is working on DVD labels and covers. Please have a look at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:JeHa These designs are not yet decided to become official - they

[libreoffice-marketing] Free Libre are bad selling points

2011-01-01 Thread Tom Davies
HI :) Happy New Year everyone! :) Free means has no value, is worthless, cheaper than cheap and nasty, so bad it can't be sold, not worth having, about the same value as garbage. Lets NOT use this as a marketing ploy! Libre is a difficult concept especially in countries like mine that has

[libreoffice-marketing] Our goals?

2011-01-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Our goal should NOT be improving the product! Our goal should be to market the product effectively however bad it might be! In my opinion it is other teams, such as developers and bug-squad, that should be improving the product while the marketing team works at marketing. They

[libreoffice-marketing] target markets?

2011-01-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi again I think the most vulnerable market-share, the largest easiest gain for us is a certain percentage of the MicroSquish Office market. People who are thinking about upgrading from an older MS Office 'should' be considering us but if we don't make ourselves known then they will just

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Making it remarkable!

2011-01-01 Thread Jeff Chimene
On 01/01/2011 01:15 AM, Stefan Weigel wrote: Hi Dave, Am 01.01.2011 01:02, schrieb Dave Johnson: DO NOT talk about the fact that it is free. IMO the key point is that it´s not (only) free of charge, but that it´s free software in the sense of ...freedom ...free speech ...openness

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] target markets?

2011-01-01 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 01/01/2011 06:28 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: Personally, I think this forum should strive to be more professional, and stupid references like MicroSquish, Micro$oft, Winbloze/Windoze shouldn't be used or encouraged... TDF members are not using - and definitely not encouraging - the use of

[libreoffice-marketing] poll on next marketing conference call

2011-01-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, I'm still on vacation until the 10th, but I'd like to start the poll on the next conference call already to help planning the next weeks. :-) So, please cast your vote here: http://www.doodle.com/e2unkgkz5n6sr5kv?newDesign=true Thanks! Florian -- Florian Effenberger

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Our goals?

2011-01-01 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hi Tom, Am 01.01.2011 17:05, schrieb Tom Davies: Our goal should NOT be improving the product! Our goal should be to market the product effectively however bad it might be! -1 Thank god, we do have a good product (although still to be improved). I would absolutely oppose praising a bad

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Slogan

2011-01-01 Thread Michael Wheatland
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/30/2010 06:31 AM, Michael Wheatland wrote: At this point in time I might suggest: LibreOffice, the document evolution LibreOffice, the document revolution Evolution and revolution, together with leader, are

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Slogan

2011-01-01 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) I still like my idea: LibreOffice. Do what you want. / LibreOffice. Fais ce que tu veux., LibreOffice. Realises ce que tu veux. / LibreOffice. Mach was du willst. / LibreOffice. Haz lo que quieras. / LibreOffice. Fai quello che vuoi. Short - 4 to 5 words in most languages. Easy to

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Our goals?

2011-01-01 Thread drew
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 22:26 +0100, Stefan Weigel wrote: Hi Tom, Am 01.01.2011 17:05, schrieb Tom Davies: Our goal should NOT be improving the product! Our goal should be to market the product effectively however bad it might be! -1 Thank god, we do have a good product

Fwd: [libreoffice-marketing] Our goals?

2011-01-01 Thread Dave Johnson
Dave Johnson, USNFR davefilms...@gmail.com 6195496830 http://www.davefilms.us http://www.libreofficedvd.info (619) 335-5314 (619) 335-5314Dave Johnson DUNS number: 826989779 Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead!

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Making LibO Remarkable 2

2011-01-01 Thread Stefan Weigel
Ciao Italo, Am 02.01.2011 00:01, schrieb Italo Vignoli: Market share is a consequence and not an abjective. Exactly, thanks. Stefan -- LibreOffice - Die Freiheit nehm' ich mir! -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive:

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Making LibO Remarkable 2

2011-01-01 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hi Dave, Am 02.01.2011 05:37, schrieb Dave Johnson: I asked the IT department of the #3 dialysis provider in the U.S. (DCI Inc. a 501(c)3 nonprofit company. I work at this company BTW. I asked why DCI does not use OOo or LibO and I used the it's free. The answer is DCI has a grant or some

[libreoffice-marketing] victorian bee vid

2011-01-01 Thread Tom Davies
Good music choice too :) Always upbeat and busy yet still elegant and simple. Well played ;) Nice use of presentation within a movie Regards from Tom :) From: Stefan Weigel stefan.wei...@bildungskreis.org To: marketing@libreoffice.org Sent: Sun, 2 January,

[libreoffice-marketing] selling points

2011-01-01 Thread Tom Davies
Ok, if software freedom is going to be the only selling point we use then England, American and Australia are going to reject the product. However it might make most of Europe more accessible to LibreOffice. Regards from Tom :) From: Dave Johnson