[libreoffice-marketing] actual figures TDF - end of Oct 2010

2010-11-05 Thread Thomas Krumbein
Hey, as you know, the OOoDeV temporaly take over the cost and founds for the upcoming TDF. So I will give in monthly intervals a short report about those figures: Since Sep, 28 we recieved a lot of small to very small amounts of money mainly via PayPal - so PayPal charge some fees of each

Re: Res: Res: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Change icon?

2010-11-05 Thread Graham Lauder
On Friday 05 Nov 2010 22:36:20 Manfred Usselmann wrote: Hi, On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 21:12:24 -0700 (PDT) Lucas Filho lucas...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Hello Community, I did some sketches using the idea of the paper airplane and a small set of icons, We provide the link [1]. Drafts and

RE : Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Advice Needed

2010-11-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Yup. Then I guess we need to keep our fingers crossed for you Anthony ! ;-) Charles. Le 5 nov. 2010, 7:09 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com a écrit : On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 18:04 +, Andy Loughran wrote: I took it as being Anthony own organisatio... Seems you where correct - well IMO that's

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Ad Campaign: LibreOffice is...

2010-11-05 Thread Dave Johnson
On Nov 5, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Dave Johnson wrote: LibreOffice is... FUN!libreoffice_ad.jpg We wrote a short story about our dog. LibreOffice made it fun and simple! __ This is a proposal for a ad campaign that could

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: actual figures TDF - end of Oct 2010

2010-11-05 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-05 04:24, Thomas Krumbein a écrit : Hey, as you know, the OOoDeV temporaly take over the cost and founds for the upcoming TDF. So I will give in monthly intervals a short report about those figures: Since Sep, 28 we recieved a lot of small to very small amounts of money mainly via

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Ad Campaign: LibreOffice is...

2010-11-05 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-05 14:25, Anthony Papillion a écrit : Hi Anthony: How about: We made the switch from LibreOffice to Microsoft Office, thinking we'd get better compatibility. The support was simply not there, the community was not there. The cost of moving to Microsoft Office was just too high

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Ad Campaign: LibreOffice is...

2010-11-05 Thread Anthony Papillion
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/5/2010 2:03 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Maybe too much negatives in the script. Could maybe make it more from a positive view? Hi Marc, This was NOT a serious contribution. It was meant in humor. I would hope we DO NOT take this stance in an ad

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Ad Campaign: LibreOffice is...

2010-11-05 Thread Anthony Papillion
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/5/2010 2:14 PM, Dave Johnson wrote: Any thoughts on my art? Dave: I didn't see any artwork attached. Are you sure you sent it along with your post? Anthony - -- Anthony Papillion Advanced Data Concepts Remote Technical Support and Software

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Ad Campaign: LibreOffice is...

2010-11-05 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-05 15:10, Anthony Papillion a écrit : Gotcha! Marc -- 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

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Branding ... Progress, Next Steps, Roadmap, Outlook?

2010-11-05 Thread Jens Habermann
Hi! +1 - This is a good roadmap So my proposal is the following: * For LibO 3.3: Use the branding material what is available and refine it according to the feedback that is available until now. We might be able to provide essential and stable information for the

Re: RE : Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Advice Needed

2010-11-05 Thread Andy Brown
On Fri Nov 05 2010 11:42:48 GMT-0700 (PDT) David Nelson wrote: Hi, :-) butt I think it's a pity that TDF isn't planning to work up a revenue stream like paid technical support, in a Canonical style... I would have imagined it could maybe win over more enterprise users, notably, and could help

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Ad Campaign: LibreOffice is...

2010-11-05 Thread Andy Brown
On Fri Nov 05 2010 12:37:50 GMT-0700 (PDT) Dave Johnson wrote: On Nov 5, 2010, at 2:21 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/5/2010 2:14 PM, Dave Johnson wrote: Any thoughts on my art? Dave: I didn't see any artwork attached. Are you sure you sent

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Ad Campaign: LibreOffice is...

2010-11-05 Thread Dave Johnson
Check out the ideas page @ wiki On Nov 5, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Andy Brown wrote: On Fri Nov 05 2010 12:37:50 GMT-0700 (PDT) Dave Johnson wrote: On Nov 5, 2010, at 2:21 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/5/2010 2:14 PM, Dave Johnson wrote: Any

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Ad Campaign: LibreOffice is...

2010-11-05 Thread Anthony Papillion
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/5/2010 2:50 PM, Dave Johnson wrote: Check out the ideas page @ wiki I like it! It has both a modern and retro feel to it at the same time. Good work! Anthony - -- Anthony Papillion Advanced Data Concepts Remote Technical Support and

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Advice Needed

2010-11-05 Thread Michel Gagnon
Le 2010-11-05 13:50, Anthony Papillion a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, A few days ago, I wrote about a small computer store here in my town that was thinking about offering LibO instead of MSO to customers who buy new computers from them. I met with the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Advice Needed

2010-11-05 Thread Anthony Papillion
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/5/2010 3:10 PM, Michel Gagnon wrote: snip Just for information, what kind of support do you offer to these customers? I am wondering what incentive there is for the small computer store to pay $25 per user for your service rather than

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Ad Campaign: LibreOffice is...

2010-11-05 Thread drew
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 14:56 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: I think that we had already reserved a YouTube channel in TDG/LibO's name. No Idea on that - maybe ..couldn't find it anywhere... Made one for myself http://www.youtube.com/user/libreofficeVols added a group also at:

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Branding ... Progress, Next Steps, Roadmap, Outlook?

2010-11-05 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Ivan, hi Bernhard, Jens, *! Am Freitag, den 05.11.2010, 21:18 +1300 schrieb Ivan M.: [...] We'll have to tell our users about the planned update of the graphics, but at least we provide colors... * From LibO 3.3. to 3.4: Finalize the branding stuff for initial

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Advice Needed

2010-11-05 Thread Michel Gagnon
Le 2010-11-05 16:20, Anthony Papillion a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/5/2010 3:10 PM, Michel Gagnon wrote: snip Just for information, what kind of support do you offer to these customers? I am wondering what incentive there is for the small computer store to pay

Re: Res: Res: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Change icon?

2010-11-05 Thread Graham Lauder
On Saturday 06 Nov 2010 01:49:34 David Nelson wrote: Hi, :-) On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 20:06, Graham Lauder yori...@openoffice.org wrote: People will always have different associations for logos and that doesn't really matter unless it has a high profile attachment to another brand or

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Advice Needed

2010-11-05 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/05/2010 06:42 PM, David Nelson wrote: I think it's a pity that TDF isn't planning to work up a revenue stream like paid technical support, in a Canonical style. That model requires a for-profit entity sitting in the wings, handing over

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Website online - question on main structure for art / branding / marketing

2010-11-05 Thread Graham Lauder
On Saturday 06 Nov 2010 01:16:08 Graham Lauder wrote: On Friday 05 Nov 2010 11:44:55 Bernhard Dippold wrote: Hi all, for the ones of you not subscribed to the website mailing list: the LibreOffice website is online and can be filled with content. As the author / publisher privileges

Re: Branding Color Refinement Step 2 of n (was: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming)

2010-11-05 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Drew, all! After some initial agreement on the roadmap, I'd like to come to a conclusion concerning the LibreOffice colors - if possible - very soon. As I said, we need the initial branding for the LibO 3.3 - the community branding is still planned to be worked out very carefully later on. I

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Ad Campaign: LibreOffice is...

2010-11-05 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-05 17:37, drew a écrit : On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 14:56 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: I think that we had already reserved a YouTube channel in TDG/LibO's name. No Idea on that - maybe ..couldn't find it anywhere... Made one for myself http://www.youtube.com/user/libreofficeVols added a

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Website online - question on main structure for art / branding / marketing

2010-11-05 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-05 21:00, Graham Lauder a écrit : On Saturday 06 Nov 2010 01:16:08 Graham Lauder wrote: On Friday 05 Nov 2010 11:44:55 Bernhard Dippold wrote: Hi all, for the ones of you not subscribed to the website mailing list: the LibreOffice website is online and can be filled with content.

Re: Branding Color Refinement Step 2 of n (was: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming)

2010-11-05 Thread drew
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 02:00 +0100, Christoph Noack wrote: So let's pick your proposal and extend it a bit ... okay? By the way, what is Joyce (you mentioned it on the wiki page)? Joyce is a human being, that is her first name. I asked for her opinion - so we sat down and started playing with