[libreoffice-marketing] Suggestion: Separating Writer, Calc, Base, Draw etc

2010-10-26 Thread goldfish
Hi, Please could we make LibreOffice load 'Writer', 'Math', 'Impress','Calc', 'Base', 'Draw' etc separately. In other words, can these separate entities be kept somewhat isolated so that the load is not too much and it will load faster when the program is started. Please let me know if I am

[libreoffice-marketing] Want to join our next Marketing Conference Call?

2010-10-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, want to join our next Marketing Conference Call? Let us know what time you prefer! http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls#Schedule Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOfficeOK Twitter account and Blog

2010-10-26 Thread Anthony Papillion
Hi Marc, Umm..maybe I'm on the US Marketing list. Is this not it? If it isn't then no, I'm not and I'll fix that. Thanks for the heads up. I'm not near a computer at the moment but will definitely check out the wiki. Sounds like some awesome forward motion for the project is happening. This is

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOfficeOK Twitter account and Blog

2010-10-26 Thread Anthony Papillion
Thank you very much for adding us to the page and I'm definitely going to check out the paper. I really want to create a great resource for Oklahoma LibO users. Hmm...LibO Sooners...love it! Go Sooners, Anthony On 10/25/10, Drew Jensen d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 19:04

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] ConfCall recording available

2010-10-26 Thread James Walker
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi, Volker Merschmann wrote on 2010-10-26 12.32: Is it possible to have a written resume too? I guess this is what we forgot to do: taking notes. Sorry. ;-( Anyone volunteers of taking notes out of

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOfficeOK Twitter account and Blog

2010-10-26 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-26 06:37, Anthony Papillion a écrit : Hi Marc, Umm..maybe I'm on the US Marketing list. Is this not it? If it isn't then no, I'm not and I'll fix that. Thanks for the heads up. I'm not near a computer at the moment but will definitely check out the wiki. Sounds like some awesome

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

2010-10-26 Thread Italo Vignoli
Frank Esposito wrote: Problems with adoption as far as I can ascertain are as follow: The single biggest problems with adoption is lack of awareness. It is possible to solve feature problems, it is not possible to solve the lack of awareness. No one is going to install an unknown software,

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

2010-10-26 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-26 15:17, Drew Jensen a écrit : The efforts should express strong commitment to, support of and advancement of the ODF, from a marketing perspective I would say that could be (should be IMO) 100% across the board. I would be hard pressed to see producing some marketing item for

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

2010-10-26 Thread Drew Jensen
Sorry maybe I am not understanding you correctly, but if you are suggesting that any advertising materials should make mention of TDF - Libo - ADF, well then, I am 100% in agreement with you. Right - what I was trying for, not well either, was that somme items might have LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

2010-10-26 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-26 16:31, Drew Jensen a écrit : Sorry maybe I am not understanding you correctly, but if you are suggesting that any advertising materials should make mention of TDF - Libo - ADF, well then, I am 100% in agreement with you. Right - what I was trying for, not well either, was

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

2010-10-26 Thread Dave Johnson
Can Libo add opxml imoport function? Dave Johnson On Oct 26, 2010 3:31 PM, Drew Jensen d...@baseanswers.com wrote: Sorry maybe I am not understanding you correctly, but if you are suggesting that any... Right - what I was trying for, not well either, was that somme items might have

[libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Initial Presentation Template (DRAFT)

2010-10-26 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi all, it is already past midnight, therefore just some short comments ... as you may have read [1], I am currently working on a default presentation template. Disclaimer: Not intended to be really used at the moment. As said, work in progress:. but I think it is a good time to check whether

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

2010-10-26 Thread Drew Jensen
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 00:42 +0200, Italo Vignoli wrote: Drew Jensen wrote: Howdy Italo, that's not true - end user / small business / and commercial size adoption is far from nil - not 20$ but depending on whose numbers your use it is from 7% - 11%. It was the same web based survey

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

2010-10-26 Thread Frank Esposito
* It is ugly This is a very subjective call, so not worth consideration outside a UX needs improvement in some areas UX can make or break a product, just ask Steve Jobs and therefore IS worth consideration. Someone even brought up this point on the first conference call (sorry I cannot

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

2010-10-26 Thread Anthony Papillion
On 10/26/2010 7:14 PM, Frank Esposito wrote: snip Not as many issues as MSO has with ODF, and LibO/OOo is standards compliant yes but the world uses MSO so that point is moot if were are trying to get them to use LO/OO. and the average user or business IT person usually does not even

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

2010-10-26 Thread Dave Johnson
Can a plug-in be made to save OOXML format for LibO for a short term solution? On Oct 26, 2010, at 7:14 PM, Frank Esposito wrote: * It is ugly This is a very subjective call, so not worth consideration outside a UX needs improvement in some areas UX can make or break a product, just

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

2010-10-26 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-26 16:35, Dave Johnson a écrit : Can Libo add opxml imoport function? Dave Johnson On Oct 26, 2010 3:31 PM, Drew Jensend...@baseanswers.com wrote: Sorry maybe I am not understanding you correctly, but if you are suggesting that any... Right - what I was trying for, not well

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

2010-10-26 Thread Michel Gagnon
Le 2010-10-26 18:02, Graham Lauder a écrit : On Sunday 24 Oct 2010 02:11:52 Frank Esposito wrote: I posted a question as to why choose MS Office over OO on hacker news and although I only got 4 responses, they kind of match my own experience with OO. here is the discussion: