Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice getting traction ... OpenOffice losing out

2010-10-11 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-11 15:41, Jon Hamkins a écrit : On 10/08/2010 10:30 AM, Marc Paré wrote: My impressions: I am getting the distinct impression that the LibreOffice has caught on (finally) and that if Oracle were to give back the OpenOffice name, many groups would be disappointed. More and more

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] marketing conference call

2010-10-12 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-12 07:20, Graham Lauder a écrit : On Tuesday 12 Oct 2010 23:54:03 Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, I just created a Doodle poll - let me know when you are best available for a phone conference. ;-) http://www.doodle.com/uiidvmmxcp53r4xs Thanks Florian I must admit I find these

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] marketing conference call

2010-10-12 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-12 12:04, Drew Jensen a écrit : On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 11:50 -0400, Benjamin Horst wrote: I am in Canada with approx. 5-6 hours behind European time (opposite of Graham). Mailists and IM would be my preferred way of communication if possible. Unfortunate as it may sound the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO North American group

2010-10-12 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-12 13:07, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Hello everyone, Le Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:55:53 -0400, Drew Jensend...@baseanswers.com a écrit : On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 12:43 -0400, Benjamin Horst wrote: Thanks, Alexandro. Two possible starting points: request a new mailing list, or create a

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO North American group

2010-10-12 Thread Marc Paré
No there wasn't, there is a Spanish OOo that cover the Spanish speaking countries, however the idea is to basically have more speakers and people that can go to the US (or Canada) and give a presentation or speak about the product or provide other services. Also US has a huge Spanish market on

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Microsoft posts video of customers criticizing OpenOffice

2010-10-13 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-13 18:33, Andy Brown a écrit : On Wed Oct 13 2010 15:21:08 GMT-0700 (PDT) Manfred Usselmann wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:33:19 +0300 Simos Xenitellis simos.li...@googlemail.com wrote: This was on the news recently, see ars technica for a good analysis,

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Which Linux distros are going to ship LibO?

2010-10-14 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-14 17:55, Jean Hollis Weber a écrit : Do we have a list of which Linux distros have said they are going to ship/support LibO instead of OOo? I know about Ubuntu, and others have been mentioned, but I'm not keeping up very well ;-) A list on the wiki would be helpful. --Jean Hi

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Events Calendar

2010-10-15 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-15 17:07, Jean Hollis Weber a écrit : On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 11:20 -0700, Jon Hamkins wrote: I have added a North America section to the Events wiki. I plan to attend the Southern California Linux Expo, so I can man a LibO booth there. I'm willing to sign us up, do legwork, etc. but

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Free Bibliographic Software

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-16 18:26, j.martin.pedersen a écrit : Hi Martin Welcome to the marketing list and many thanks for your input. The purpose of the marketing list is to discuss the various approaches to marketing the LibreOffice brand. Your input is exaclty the type of input that I am particularly

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Free Bibliographic Software

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-17 07:13, Marc Paré a écrit : Le 2010-10-16 18:26, j.martin.pedersen a écrit : Hi Martin Welcome to the marketing list and many thanks for your input. The purpose of the marketing list is to discuss the various approaches to marketing the LibreOffice brand. Your input is exaclty

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Academia

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
Re: Free Bibliographic Software This is a copy of a thread that Martin had started re: Free bibliographic software. This copy also includes my answer to his thread. Marc === Le 2010-10-16 18:26, j.martin.pedersen a écrit : Hi Martin Welcome to the marketing list and many

[libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
I am interested in the marketing of LibO as an effective tool in education. In particular JK (kindergarten) to the end of High School (or comparable to this internationally as well). Is LibO, in your opinion, a good and effective tool for educational purposes? If we were to project target the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-17 19:27, Sadiq Saif a écrit : Price may be one marketing point, though this may be offset by training and support costs. But we must keep in mind the huge amount of mind share that MS Office has build up over the years. People are too used to Office and how it works. In fact even if

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Academia

2010-10-18 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-18 12:25, Jon Hamkins a écrit : On 10/17/2010 05:28 AM, Marc Paré wrote: This thread is to explore the LibO use in Academia and tools necessary to make it more appealing. Marc Here are a few things that would make LibO appealing to academia: 1. Export to LaTeX*. Support for LaTeX

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Will there be a press release about Oracle?

2010-10-18 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-18 12:15, Frank Esposito a écrit : Will there be a press release or something from the foundation about Oracle apparently deciding to support OOo and not LibreOffice? If Oracle has officially decided to not support LibreOffice, we should begin to promote the separation to create even

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Certification project

2010-10-18 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-18 12:11, ian.ly...@theingots.org a écrit : Ian, thank you for your email. We will, in the near future, open a discussion on business and certification on behalf of TDF. Thank you for your ideas! Best, Charles. PS: for some reason I felt that the LDV Transfer had run out of money?

[libreoffice-marketing] Canadian Marketing Team partners with US Marketing Team

2010-10-18 Thread Marc Paré
on the list. Marc Paré Canadian Marketing Team Member * market...@us.libreoffice.org: Marketing in the US * Subscription: marketing+subscr...@us.libreoffice.org * Digest subscription: marketing+subscribe-dig...@us.libreoffice.org * Archives: http://us.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-19 Thread Marc Paré
at this when establishing our rationale for the educational advantages of the suite. Marc Paré Waterloo, Canada Marketing Team Member -- 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

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-20 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-20 12:40, James Walker a écrit : You know, my biggest thought is that if we want to get LibO into a more widespread acceptance then we have to get into the Schools. You tend to stick with what you learn first and that should be our number 1 goal. James I agree totally. I am

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Academia

2010-10-20 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-20 17:57, j.martin.pedersen a écrit : On 20/10/10 21:33, Marc Paré wrote: Perhaps create an extension (derived from Zotero?) to use the LibO database (biblio.odb) could be a compromise... Regards, Jacques Yes we could ask that from an interested dev. Have any of you installed

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] The Upcoming Mac App Store

2010-10-20 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-20 20:56, Benjamin Horst a écrit : http://www.apple.com/mac/app-store/ The Mac App Store is just like the App Store for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. So it’s as easy to find and download Mac apps as it is to add your favorite magazine to iPad or a new game to iPod touch. You can

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-21 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-21 14:10, Sophie Gautier a écrit : BTW ... Do you know if OOo4Kids is supporting the LibO project? I would say no, but it's very difficult to know in fact (it mays depend of the blowing wind ;). As you're able to read French, I'll send you tomorrow some updated comments from Eric

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Marketing Material: Questions with regard to The Document Foundation and LibreOffice

2010-10-21 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-21 18:06, Christoph Noack a écrit : Hi all, in the most recent Steering Committee minutes [1] there is an item that discusses the availability of marketing material. We know that there are several topics people are very interested in ... but are there some more? Did we miss something

[libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

2010-10-22 Thread Marc Paré
Just thought that I would start a thread on LibO use in Business as there was a mention of weak areas in the suite that prevents its use and an efficient tool. Marc -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

2010-10-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-23 01:41, Cor Nouws a écrit : Hi Marc, Marc Paré wrote (23-10-10 02:13) Just thought that I would start a thread on LibO use in Business as there was a mention of weak areas in the suite that prevents its use and an efficient tool. Great idea. I know there has been pretty much

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Invite a pro graphic artist to contribute logo/icon design [was: Conference call tomorrow]

2010-10-24 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-24 21:25, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, :-) I mentioned this idea in another thread but did not see any conclusive responses... so given the potential importance of the issue, I am broaching the subject in a dedicated thread... A project's logo and a software's icons (to represent

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Invite a pro graphic artist to contribute logo/icon design [was: Conference call tomorrow]

2010-10-24 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-24 21:52, David Nelson a écrit : Hi Marc, :-) On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 09:40, Marc Parém...@marcpare.com wrote: I would also agree with Bernhard, that it would be better if the artist in question is part of the LibO membership. We should try to keep to our own membership as much as

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Oracle's OpenOffice in Libre Software World Conference

2010-10-25 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-25 04:11, Alexandro Colorado a écrit : On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:39 AM, timofonic timofonictimofo...@gmail.comwrote: Hello. I'm not sure what one of the two mailing lists suits best, so I reply in both because it may have different topis on each thread. Oracle's OpenOffice (oOO)

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] Oracle's OpenOffice in Libre Software World Conference

2010-10-25 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-25 06:20, Italo Vignoli a écrit : timofonic timofonic wrote: Other than that, maybe someone can contact the oOO presentation responsible person. Any possible solution to The Document Foundation having some presence in this FOSS event? Nooo way, it's an Oracle employee. Maybe ask

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Invite a pro graphic artist to contribute logo/icon design [was: Conference call tomorrow]

2010-10-25 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-25 19:00, Dave Johnson a écrit : I'd like to see Inkscape and GIMP-like features incorporated in to Draw. M$ Office 2010 has photo editing and simple video editing. Kino comes to mind. On Oct 25, 2010, at 5:41 PM, jonathon wrote: On 10/25/2010 12:44 PM, David Nelson wrote: 2)

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming

2010-10-25 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-25 17:43, Christoph Noack a écrit : Personally, I think we should stick with the LibreGreen 1 at the moment, but if you have something in mind to improve the remaining colors, please don't hesitate to suggest them (especially the lighter colors need some iteration). There is already

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Microsoft posts video of customers criticizing OpenOffice

2010-10-25 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-25 12:37, jonathon a écrit : On 10/24/2010 12:53 AM, Michel Gagnon wrote: Free support: This support is most suitable for individuals. Paid Level 1 support: This support level is suitable for individuals, SOHO, and organizations that want per incident support; Paid Level 2

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Microsoft posts video of customers criticizing OpenOffice

2010-10-25 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-25 22:44, jonathon a écrit : On 10/26/2010 01:05 AM, Marc Paré wrote: Do the levels line up? I think so. Level 2 support doesn't always require an in person visit. But an in-person visit should be by at least a level 2 support person. [I'm talking about the theory

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 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 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 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] Hey

2010-10-27 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-27 07:49, Johannes Bausch a écrit : Hey there, my name is Johannes Bausch. I study physics in Heidelberg, Germany. Some of you might still know me, I've been doing some work on the logos for OOo 2.4 and 3.x some time ago. While I was really surprised of the split between OO and LO

[libreoffice-marketing] US Marketing link on Marketing Wiki

2010-10-27 Thread Marc Paré
I have added a link to the US-Marketing Wiki on the main Marketing Wiki page. Let me know if there is a problem with this. Cheers Marc -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Business

2010-10-27 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-27 13:26, jonathon a écrit : * Why ODF formats are better; * Why use LibO; Of all the arguments presented, in my opinion, these two are the most important. It we are to market LibO then we also market ODF by default. The ODF is what will change the scene in the US market

[libreoffice-marketing] LibO registration page gone?

2010-10-27 Thread Marc Paré
I had posted this in the wrong mailist and intended it here. I have just been informed that the registration page has been removed from LibO. All it took was on bug report to have it removed. Did I miss something? I don't remember a good and deep debate about this. Removing the registration

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] US Marketing link on Marketing Wiki

2010-10-28 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-27 23:50, jonathon a écrit : On 10/27/2010 06:15 PM, James Walker wrote: Looking at these pages, I am not sure that it is necessary to seperate out the US and Canada at this point, The hope is that eventually the United States can be independent of Canada. That the United States

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Open Source For America - Education Working Group - Hello World - kind of thing (y mah-bobby)

2010-10-28 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-28 15:20, Drew Jensen a écrit : On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 14:13 -0500, Anthony Papillion wrote: On 10/28/2010 02:03 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Nice! Sounds like a very good idea for the US team. Maybe you could also see if they could post a feed of the Document Foundation Planet (http

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Obstacles to ODF adoption

2010-10-28 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-28 10:02, Marc Paré a écrit : Le 2010-10-28 09:55, Drew Jensen a écrit : On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 09:51 -0400, James Walker wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Anthony Papillionpapill...@gmail.comwrote: Who would be the primary consumers of this information? Is it targeted

[libreoffice-marketing] ODF Alliance weblog on Document Foundation Planet

2010-10-28 Thread Marc Paré
Would it make sense to include the ODF Alliance weblog on the Planet? I think it would be a great idea to lend them support and this would affirm our support for the open document formats. http://www.odfalliance.org/blog/ If you think this is a good idea, could you pass it along to whoever is

[libreoffice-marketing] Listing on the ODF Alliance membership

2010-10-28 Thread Marc Paré
I think it would be nice if a member of the SC would register as a member of the ODF Alliance as it looks like we are not on their membership list. They require someone who has authority to speak on the organisation's behalf to sign up. You can sign up here:

[libreoffice-marketing] LibO Publicity

2010-10-28 Thread Marc Paré
Do we have anyone in charge of publicity yet? I was wondering because the ODF Alliance publishes a newsletter and we could send publicity to their newsletter. You will find their newsletter as well as their email for publicity here: http://www.odfalliance.org/mail_list.php Cheers Marc --

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Obstacles to ODF adoption

2010-10-28 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-28 23:28, Marc Paré a écrit : Hi Drew et al: There is a master document on the advantages of using the ODF. It is on the ODF site. We could, from there create different versions and perhaps consider donating these back to the ODF Alliance. You can find it here: http

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

2010-10-29 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-29 19:23, Christoph Noack a écrit : Hi all! Mmh, I'm replying to my own mail ... about 35 people had a look at the template, but there is still no reply. Does it meant that it works perfectly, and that we should move on to complete it? Would be great, but I doubt it ... *g* So for

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Marketing leadership and Markeing Wiki and US Wiki

2010-10-30 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-30 03:38, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hi Marc, Marc Paré wrote on 2010-10-29 16.08: Locking down would only be used when, for example, working on a project and a time limit has been imposed. Locking it down would prevent any changes to that particular page and a vote/decision

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Ubuntu 11.04 Libre Office

2010-10-30 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-30 09:16, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Hello alll, I think we have to be a bit careful here. First of all, we're very grateful for ubuntu to ship LibO and it is obvious that we will have the stable 3.3 ready for the next Ubuntu release. So it's not so much about what we could do to

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: US Marketing link on Marketing Wiki

2010-10-30 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-30 10:20, Graham Lauder a écrit : On Thursday 28 Oct 2010 02:23:13 Marc Paré wrote: I have added a link to the US-Marketing Wiki on the main Marketing Wiki page. Let me know if there is a problem with this. Cheers Marc I've added an index Template to the Main Marketing page

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: ODF Alliance weblog on Document Foundation Planet

2010-10-30 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-30 16:38, Italo Vignoli a écrit : Marc Paré wrote: Would it make sense to include the ODF Alliance weblog on the Planet? I think it would be a great idea to lend them support and this would affirm our support for the open document formats. http://www.odfalliance.org/blog/ If you

[libreoffice-marketing] List of ways to advertise LibO

2010-11-01 Thread Marc Paré
We were just on a thread and it seemed to take this direction. So how about coming up with a list of advertising LibO and if possible with $$$ breakdown. No problem if there is no $$$ breakdown, at least the idea would be there. Marc -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: List of ways to advertise LibO

2010-11-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-01 13:46, Marc Paré a écrit : We were just on a thread and it seemed to take this direction. So how about coming up with a list of advertising LibO and if possible with $$$ breakdown. No problem if there is no $$$ breakdown, at least the idea would be there. Marc Le 2010-11-01 13

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Fwd: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation

2010-11-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-01 11:21, jonathon a écrit : Of course the easy thing to do would be a partnership with Mozilla, and use Thunderbird, and Lightening. Look at the results of the existing partnership between OpenOffice.org and The Mozilla Foundation. jonathon Hi Jonathon Sorry, I don't know

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Obstacles to ODF adoption

2010-11-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-01 12:05, jonathon a écrit : On 10/28/2010 04:21 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: Religious organizations are another are where costs and document portability might not be a major concern because everyone is using the Small non-profits tend to have big issues with compatibility, because

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Hey

2010-11-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-01 13:53, Alexandro Colorado a écrit : I think the money was contributed to the community. If (for example) PLIO goes to branch off of libreoffice and has 20,000 dls budget. You said, they wouldnt use it for TDF because that money was meant for OOo? I think is getting ahead of

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Hey

2010-11-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-01 14:27, Alexandro Colorado a écrit : Well that is the key, donations (IMHO) dont have a specified target. You can your same argument about donating $100 specifically for the data pilot in Calc. Unless he specifically mentions it on his paypal donation notes, it would be very

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Document Freedom Day 2011 - Who will shephard - ?

2010-11-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-01 21:26, Italo Vignoli a écrit : On 10/31/2010 05:41 AM, Marc Paré wrote: I've been involved in the last three DFD on behalf of the Italian OOo association. I'll ask my contacts there to get an early heads up, in order to get organized in time. Do we know the date of the event

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibO Video

2010-11-02 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-02 10:05, James Walker a écrit : What would be very cool would be to come up with something funny that would have the chance to go viral on YouTube. Maybe something along the lines of someone sitting around with 400 dollars wondering what they can do with it. and unstood of buying

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Can we put marketing titles under our names?

2010-11-02 Thread Marc Paré
Thomas My personal opinion is that since the SC and founding members do have to work on the by-laws and other legal matters, the marketing people should then have a temporary assigned title such as: Marc Paré LibreOffice Canada Marketing Team Member The title is a very universal title

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-02 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-02 14:24, drew a écrit : Hi Marc, Great idea - not sure we need a team, per se, but a place to collect these would be of great help, IMO. I would be bold enough to turn this email around and challenge you to help lead this by putting together a short presentation on LibreOffice /

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-02 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-02 14:39, drew a écrit : Hi Andy, I think it would be good to look at this in a limited way - which is this, there would be good value in encouraging people to create these targeted presentations, targeted to a usage, occupationally focused, group, and created by individuals with

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-02 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-02 14:24, drew a écrit : Hi Marc, Great idea - not sure we need a team, per se, but a place to collect these would be of great help, IMO. I would be bold enough to turn this email around and challenge you to help lead this by putting together a short presentation on LibreOffice /

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Change icon?

2010-11-02 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-02 19:58, David Nelson a écrit : Hi Lucas, :-) I remember you brought this subject up before. I remember it didn't really inspire me at that time, but I think I've changed my mind. I have mentioned a couple of times in threads that I find the current sheet of paper logo to be

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Change icon?

2010-11-02 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-02 19:58, David Nelson a écrit : Your paper plane fits in superbly with the paper sheet, as a natural development thereof. The possibilities are many. It can be made into something that fires empathy in the young and old, the simple and the sophisticated. What do you think about

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibO Video

2010-11-02 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-02 21:35, Dave Johnson a écrit : I like this idea... but is sends the wrong message. Can you give me another idea like this? I'll try to think up a cool idea too. The viral vid is a great PR tool. @ Dave: Thanks! If we can do something like that ... just great. It would be

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-03 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-03 02:30, KAMI911 KAMI911 a écrit : Hi All, I would like to offer OxygenOffice Collected and Managed templates here. We created and collected a plenty of templates during the half decade. This template pack is available for a free license. The collection is a bit mixed in term of

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-03 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-03 01:25, jonathon a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 05:43 PM, Marc Paré wrote: The members would be picked according to their expertise in these categories. The ability to create a template is more important that knowledge of the field

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-03 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-03 06:04, jonathon a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/2010 07:18 AM, Marc Paré wrote: How about, where it is possible to use Base in templates, then it will be used. If my rant was not clear, I don't think Base, as a database engine, is suitable

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibO Video

2010-11-03 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-03 08:23, James Walker a écrit : Hi, or - instead of making one video - why not make a challenge, a contest of some type, where people make their own video answering the question: How would you spend your $400? Each submission would be required to end with - Thank You LbreOffice

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-03 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-03 10:09, KAMI911 KAMI911 a écrit : Hi Kami: Could you tell us how the templates were constructed. Were they constructed by devs and did you have projects set up for template construction? How were the categories chosen. BTW, I usually install your templates when I installed OOo. I

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Planning release

2010-11-03 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-03 14:13, leif a écrit : Hi all, I would like to know if anyone is working on a advantages page? I think we need to make a description of the differences between OOo and LibO. Cheers, Leif I don't think we need to compare and size ourselves to other distro's. We could certainly

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Planning release

2010-11-03 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-03 15:09, Frank Esposito a écrit : what if we make it a new features page that although does not reference competitors, highlights what is in fact new and different. That would be great! Then the competitors only resort would be to say: We have that too! and we won't be put in

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-03 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-03 15:27, James Walker a écrit : How about someone coming up with a list of templates that we would like to see made, then maybe some of us can start on some of them. I would not mind doing one or two, but I really can't think of any that I personally need. James Walker Hi

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-03 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-03 15:48, Andy Brown a écrit : On Wed Nov 03 2010 12:28:45 GMT-0700 (PDT) Marc Paré wrote: Every time I hear of these resource, I keep thinking repository. Is there a repository where LibO can store these resources. Are we allowed to create a repository with these? Marc All you

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Planning release

2010-11-03 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-03 16:06, leif a écrit : Den 03-11-2010 20:01, Marc Paré skrev: Le 2010-11-03 14:13, leif a écrit : Hi all, I would like to know if anyone is working on a advantages page? I think we need to make a description of the differences between OOo and LibO. Cheers, Leif I don't think

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Marketing the next release

2010-11-03 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-03 17:38, David Nelson a écrit : Hi Marc, :-) I'm not sure if you were aware of this, but MS core fonts are available for download from SourceForge... HTH. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web David Nelson Yes, these are the one's I usually point them to.

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Wiki page structure

2010-11-03 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-03 19:50, Nino Novak a écrit : On Wednesday 03 November 2010 21:59, Marc Paré wrote: I have lost again the link explaining the Wiki page structure. I have time tonight to read up on it. Could someone please point me to it? Still learning the ropes. Look at the Main_Page or follow

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Change icon?

2010-11-04 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-03 19:54, David Nelson a écrit : Hi Lucas guys, :-) I didn't find any usage of paper plane logos/graphics that, IMHO, precludes adopting Lucas Filho's idea. The companies/organizations using a paper plane-based logo probably have less name recognition than LibO can potentially

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-04 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-03 20:06, jonathon a écrit : c) Ideally, there would be a place where people could upload their LibO content, where it could be vetted for copyright and other legal stuff, prior to being made available for public distribution. Hi Jonathon This would be the logical thing to do.

[libreoffice-marketing] Wiki page for successful LibO migration

2010-11-04 Thread Marc Paré
Has anyone considered a Wiki page where we could note the successful enterprise migration to LibO? I think we should start making note of these. We are just starting to get feedback from small migrations to LibO ... 200 seats or less. Marc -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for

[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

[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

[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

[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.

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

2010-11-06 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-05 21:32, Marc Paré a écrit : Ok, I'll throw my hat in the ring. I would say that branding belongs under marketing. I have always thought that we were here to advertise and make sure of the visibility of the LibO branding. As to what defines branding is a subject of debate

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

2010-11-07 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-07 09:05, Bernhard Dippold a écrit : If we decide to replace not only the website CMS but also the wiki by Drupal (this really has not been decided - and it doesn't need to at the moment), these questions will become less important I think. This new concept is not my invention,

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

2010-11-08 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-08 14:36, Monfort Florian a écrit : About the copyrights, maybe I could give a call or a message to laposte to ask them about the paper plane logo. It would be something less to care about, even if in other countries there might be other paper plane logos. What do you think ?

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Facebook statistics

2010-11-08 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-08 14:53, Sophie Gautier a écrit : Hi all, I'm receiving the Facebook statistics and wonder who wants to advertise them, here they are this week : 1,526 monthly active users 443 since last week 2,118 people like this 212 since last week 43 wall posts and comments this week 18 since

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Facebook statistics

2010-11-08 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-08 15:45, Benjamin Horst a écrit : On Nov 8, 2010, at 3:37 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2010-11-08 14:53, Sophie Gautier a écrit : Hi all, I'm receiving the Facebook statistics and wonder who wants to advertise them, here they are this week : 1,526 monthly active users 443 since last

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

2010-11-08 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-08 16:57, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, :-) They can certainly copyright their particular version. However, IANAL, but I don't think they can copyright the whole concept of a paper plane in general. Anyway, La Poste? Those guys can hardly stagger out of bed in the morning... I'd be

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

2010-11-08 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-08 16:30, Andrea Pescetti a écrit : jonathon wrote: LibO has to offer templates on its own website. There are so many microsoft office templates listed on the template section of the openoffice.org website, that the entire template section has to be treated as a microsoft office

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Facebook statistics

2010-11-08 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-08 18:15, drew a écrit : On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 18:01 -0500, Marc Paré wrote: Monfort was volunteering for the French Twitter account, maybe he could to both? It would be a busy job for sure. hmm - why do you think that? There is a docufoundation account, that would be Florian

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Cor Nouws ODF PlugFest Brussels 2010 Presentation

2010-11-09 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-09 12:53, drew a écrit : Hi, I've also converted Cor Nouws PlugFest presentation to pdf, and swf, http://oucv.org/libreoffice/odf-plugfest-brussels-10-2010/nouws/Office-LibreOffice.pdf http://oucv.org/libreoffice/odf-plugfest-brussels-10-2010/nouws/Office-LibreOffice.swf and would

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

2010-11-09 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-09 11:13, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : Le 09/11/10 17:07, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : It would be rather embarassing for the project to find itself in the press for all the wrong reasons just after it had started up, IMHO. Having said that, it could be argued that the inclusion

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

2010-11-10 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-10 13:16, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : Hi Marc, Le 09/11/10 20:01, Marc Paré a écrit : Thanks Alex. Just for information, are you willing to help out with the legal aspects of the branding of LibO? It would really be handy if you could. We are often a little naive when proposing

[libreoffice-marketing] LibO resources ready for final version announcements

2010-11-10 Thread Marc Paré
With the release date for the LibO final version approaching, I am just wondering what should we be getting reading ready from the viewpoint of marketing/publicity for the release of LibO to the public? Is there a list of products? Flyers, presentation (I believe this is being worked on),

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