Re: license not for free

2015-02-11 Thread Rob Weir
Hi Raymond, If you still have that email can you forward it to priv...@openoffice.apache.org ? We can then investigate this further. Thanks! -Rob On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:31 AM, Raymond van den Boorn rgpvdbo...@zeelandnet.nl wrote: I recently received mailings which contained information

Re: Link broken on Help Wanted confluence page

2014-11-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 4:53 AM, Antoine Chevrier 1antoinechevri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. On the page Help Wanted https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Help+Wanted of ApacheOpenOffice confluence space, the link inside the top introduction section - link called 14 Ways to

Latest survey data on OpenOffice user

2014-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
New post on my personal blog which may be of interest to the AOO community: http://www.robweir.com/blog/2014/10/the-power-of-brand-and-the-power-of-product-redux.html This gives updated survey results (the 5th time I've done this survey) looking at OpenOffice name recognition and use. I'd

2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
Those who know the history know that Apache OpenOffice is the continuation of the OpenOffice.org project, which itself came from a proprietary suite developed in Germany called StarOffice, which itself started as StarWriter, an application written in 1985 by Marco Börries . So next year, in 2015,

Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Roberto Galoppini roberto.galopp...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-24 16:41 GMT+02:00 Rob Weir r...@robweir.com: Those who know the history know that Apache OpenOffice is the continuation of the OpenOffice.org project, which itself came from a proprietary suite

Re: unofficial?

2014-09-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sunday, September 21, 2014, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: Hello, From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org javascript:;] I can't share details, but this has been under investigation for some months (yes, trademark issues take long, unfortunately, especially

Re: unofficial?

2014-09-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] You can buy a copy of Microsoft Windows, but that does not mean you can use the logo on your website. That is clear, but Microsoft is an interesting keyword regarding

Updated download stats

2014-08-01 Thread Rob Weir
I've updated our stats page with the data for July: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html The new total is 112,491,971. I'd expect a big pickup in volume in a few weeks, as students start returning to school. I wonder if a student-focused blog post might be good? For example, post on

Re: Preparing for interview on Chilean TV show

2014-05-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:12 PM, James Grenier greni...@middlesex.mass.edu wrote: Thank you, Andrea, that is helpful. Is there enough need for this that we should explore having contacts by country/language again? Or was that too cumbersome a process? As a volunteer-led project we can't

Crazy idea for fun video

2014-05-16 Thread Rob Weir
I don't know if this kind of thing exists in other countries as well, but in the U.S. we have a bunch of these documentaries on T.V. that propose various historical conspiracies. A typical one will look at the Egyptian pyramids, or the Easter Island statues, and talk about the primitive level of

Re: Preparing for interview on Chilean TV show

2014-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: I would be interview next week about the Apache OpenOffice community for this TV show from Chile. The usual questions would be the history of Apache OpenOffice/OpenOffice.org, the current state of the community, the

Re: OpenOffice Weekly News

2014-04-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: on Monday, April 14, 2014 7:37 PM Rob Weir wrote: In another thread I pointed to an interesting thing the CouchDb project was doing on their blog: https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/couchdb_weekly_news_april_3 I

Re: CMS Build Down?

2014-04-16 Thread Rob Weir
when trying to View Staging Build It goes to http://ci.apache.org/builders/ooo-site-site-staging and displays a Problem loading page error. Is that what you get? -Rob On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Samer Mansour samer

Re: CMS Build Down?

2014-04-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I got the e-mail from infra a few days ago and did it ( https://id.apache.org/). I was logged in to the CMS when I made the commits

Reminder: Make sure you are included in our AOO 4.1 credits page

2014-04-08 Thread Rob Weir
The Help/About box of OpenOffice has a link to this credits page: http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html We link to that page from our website and mention it in release announcements. That page links to this wiki page for a list of our volunteers:

Re: ping

2014-04-06 Thread Rob Weir
We play to a score of 11, yes? -Rob On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Fabrizio Bury fabriziob...@gmail.com wrote: pong 2014-04-05 18:17 GMT+02:00 simon peter Neves Pedro simonpeter.nevespe...@gmail.com: pong On 5 April 2014 01:45, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: ping --

Re: Meet-up Calender and Map (Was: Re: Document Freedom Day 2014 @Taiwan)

2014-03-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 6:30 AM, imacat ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw wrote: Thanks Andrea, On 2014/03/16 19:40, Andrea Pescetti said: On 14/03/2014 imacat wrote: We are holding the Document Freedom Day 2014 at Taiwan, on 2014/3/26(Wed). Thanks for sharing. Indeed, there will be multiple

Re: ByWord and Writer Pro

2014-03-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm evaluating several editors for OS X and iOS that manage (or claim to support) Markdown. Few of those honour ODT, and I want them to. Does anyone here have direct experience (you use it or have used it or know

Re: About International Mother Language Day

2014-02-20 Thread Rob Weir
Great. Here is Khan's draft along with some information on AOO language support: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=international_mother_language_day_2014 If there are any corrections please get them ASAP. I'd like to go live with in 4 hours or so. -Rob On Wed, Feb 19, 2014

Re: Some Clarification

2014-01-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Tarak Das ta...@jiwan.com wrote: Dear Marketing Team, We want to purchase open office org. But we wanted to know that whether it is support any email clients or MS Outlook please let me know. Your earliest response will be highly appreciated. Hello

Update on Website Satisfaction Survey

2014-01-02 Thread Rob Weir
So far we have 633 completed surveys, of which 514 (81%) consented to sharing their detailed results. Since the survey ran over the holidays, I'm sure it was missed by many users. Maybe worth running for a bit longer, to get more results? -Rob

Re: Update on Website Satisfaction Survey

2014-01-02 Thread Rob Weir
. - Original Message - From: Rob Weir robw...@apache.org To: marketing@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2014 11:04:37 AM Subject: Update on Website Satisfaction Survey So far we have 633 completed surveys, of which 514 (81%) consented to sharing their detailed results. Since

Re: Proposed: Website Satisfaction Survey

2013-12-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Google has a new service that makes it easy to add a website satisfaction survey to a website. The free version has 4 questions that are asked of 500 random website visitors each month. We would be given results on a monthly

Re: proposed user survey for AAO website

2013-12-16 Thread Rob Weir
Here is a draft of the survey set up in LimeSurvey: http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/survey/index/sid/522696/newtest/Y/lang/en Let's double check the question wording, the choices, etc. Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe,

Re: proposed user survey for AAO website

2013-12-16 Thread Rob Weir
thought there was too much inconsistency in this website. I'll fix that now. -Rob On Dec 16, 2013 10:22 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Here is a draft of the survey set up in LimeSurvey: http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/survey/index/sid/522696/newtest/Y/lang/en Let's double

Re: proposed user survey for AAO website

2013-12-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Gregory Zobel zob...@wou.edu wrote: What will our working procedure be using this survey and moving forward? Several potentials came up, so I wanted to confirm where how this survey would be deployed. Just my opinion, but I think the value will be in the

Re: proposed user survey for AAO website

2013-12-15 Thread Rob Weir
a survey in LimeSurvey and send a link to the list so we can review and fine tune. Regards, -Rob On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Gregory Zobel zob...@wou.edu wrote: Hi Folks, Based on some comments and a short exchange

Re: AOO Distribution Policy

2013-12-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 09/12/2013 Larry Sadler wrote: In response to the Call for Comments ... Distributor Best Practices, I suggest a clause pointing out that AOO is governed by the [appropriate] licence agreement and subject to legal

Re: proposed user survey for AAO website

2013-12-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Gregory Zobel zob...@wou.edu wrote: Hi Folks, Based on some comments and a short exchange on the dev list, I've developed a rough draft for a UX survey. The goal is to solicit user feedback about how usable the AAO site is. To help frame the results and grasp

Re: Proposed: Website Satisfaction Survey

2013-12-11 Thread Rob Weir
that... But will we, as ordinary people, or we as software developers or promoters?? I doubt it. But thank you for letting us know! marina OO on a MacBook Pro, 10.6.8 On 11/12/13 at 5:24 AM, robw...@apache.org (Rob Weir) wrote: Google has a new service that makes it easy to add

Call for Comments: Apache OpenOffice Distributor Best Practices

2013-12-05 Thread Rob Weir
Details are here: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/call_for_comments_apache_openoffice Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [DRAFT] OpenOffice fundraising page

2013-12-05 Thread Rob Weir
to donations as well. See this query for example: https://twitter.com/search?q=I%27ve%20donatedsrc=typd That kind of personal recommendation could be useful. Regards, -Rob On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: On 12/4/13 12:53 AM, Rob Weir wrote: A while back I

80 million downloads

2013-11-27 Thread Rob Weir
Yesterday we reached 80,072,389 downloads. Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: FW: testimonials page

2013-11-26 Thread Rob Weir
...@hotmail.com SourceForge, amazon, CNET and other services allow users to leave reviews on their own. For now I would scrap that page as its not sustainable to compete with review tools readily available with 3rd party websites. Samer On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org

Re: testimonials page

2013-11-25 Thread Rob Weir
own user reviews we just link to the SF, Amazon, etc., review pages? -Rob For now I would scrap that page as its not sustainable to compete with review tools readily available with 3rd party websites. Samer On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Nov

Re: testimonials page

2013-11-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:40 PM, V Barnett bidnes...@hotmail.com wrote: hello, fyi your testimonials page is 9 years out of date. the latest ones are from 2004...this does NOT inspire confidence in your products. Please fix this. I want to recommend you but can’t with this kind of neglect,

Re: Distribution of Openoffice soft in Russis

2013-11-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Александр adrahovsk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Openoffice, Unfortunatelly, I haven't got any respond yet. Hello Alex, I don't see any previous note from you. What are you asking about? -Rob Can my offer be at least appropriate for you? How can I know this?

Re: Follow-up request to place cost-free advertisement for OpenOfiice/apache.org on stiltedstories.com

2013-11-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:02 AM, stiltedstories stil...@stiltedstories.com wrote: Dear OpenOffice/apache.org, This e-mail is just a follow-up to remind you that I am interested in placing a cost-free, no surprises or small-print, advertisement for OpenOffice/apache.org, with the link

Re: Starting Intro to Marketing Module

2013-10-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Mohamed Akram Wazeer akram_waz...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi I am Akram from Sri Lanka, i would like to volunteer for the Marketing of OpenOffice, how can i contribute ? Hello Akram and welcome to the Apache OpenOffice project! Some of our marketing efforts are

We'll reach 75 million AOO downloads next week

2013-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
As of yesterday the count is 74,292,909. We should hit 75 million early next week. When we hit 50 million, back in May, we published this blog post: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_one_year_50 I'll aim to update the charts with the current data, for a new blog post. Any

Re: Some web pages that need some marketing attention

2013-10-18 Thread Rob Weir
, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I was looking at usage data for the website, specifically the conversion rate for new visitors by landing pages that received more than 10,000 visits in the past month. Let me explain: -- New visitors, as visitors coming to the openoffice.org

Some web pages that need some marketing attention

2013-10-17 Thread Rob Weir
I was looking at usage data for the website, specifically the conversion rate for new visitors by landing pages that received more than 10,000 visits in the past month. Let me explain: -- New visitors, as visitors coming to the openoffice.org website for the first time -- Conversion rate is the

Re: Facebook Likes Almost Tripled Since February

2013-10-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Everyone, Awesome realization, I was documenting some changes to our social profiles (screen captures), and since February 8th, 2013 we went from just over 3,500 likes to just under 9,400 likes today.

69,982,501 downloads of AOO

2013-10-03 Thread Rob Weir
As of last night we have had 69,982,501 downloads of AOO, across all versions. Sometime today we should hit 70 million. Maybe it happened already! -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For

Re: Skills, Resources and Mentors

2013-10-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: This projects depends on volunteer efforts. We have many routine tasks that need to be performed during a release cycle and even during ordinarily

Reminder: Time to update your entry in the Directory of Volunteers

2013-09-25 Thread Rob Weir
We'll soon be releasing Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1. We want to give recognition to the many volunteers who contribute to the success of OpenOffice. One way we give credit is in our Directory of Volunteers. We link to this from the Help/About box of the product, as well as in blog posts and release

The Names of OpenOffice (How users are finding our website)

2013-08-16 Thread Rob Weir
And update of data gathered from website visitors. Of the ones who come to our website from a search engine results list (and that is 48% of our total visitors), the top ten search queries, along with a count of recent visitors, are: 1. open office (326,369) 2. openoffice (213,374) 3. openoffice

Re: Initial week download numbers?

2013-08-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: It's been a week since we released AOO 4.0 wonder if we can get some numbers drom our Download stats. I send this out yesterday: http://markmail.org/message/2zavrczec7il6sem -Rob I think Rob had a script that make

Summary of AOO 4.0 download activity for 1st week

2013-07-31 Thread Rob Weir
We released AOO 4.0 on July 23nd, mid-day UTC. We only have summary data for full days, so the following is really for 6.5 days of AOO 4.0, through July 29th. 1,257,653 total downloads (full installs, not including langpacks). In comparison, the 1st 7 days of AOO 3.4.0 saw around 750K

Re: Public uncertainty about the role of Oracle

2013-07-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: Hello, I myself am not directly in the (international) marketing active, but there is a point which, in my opinion, deserves attention: In public, at least in Germany, there are still uncertainties about the legal

Re: Public uncertainty about the role of Oracle

2013-07-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Do you think the person saying this is honestly confused? Or is he intentionally spreading FUD? Sometimes it probably is FUD, but more often genuine ignorance. Please

Re: Applying new logo to social media accounts

2013-07-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: I could try something. Was thinking a dotted line like it bounced into place. With some abstract splash marks around. That might be interesting. Another idea might be to show one of the apps, maybe Calc or Writer. Show

Re: Two versions in same machine

2013-07-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Kadal Amutham vka...@apache.org wrote: Can I install AOO an AOO-TA in a same machine, Windows XP? You want English and Tamil version, both? One approach is to install one version normally, and then install the Language Pack for any additional language. You

Release communications -- plans

2013-07-18 Thread Rob Weir
The Release Notes are starting to look very nice. It is worth reviewing if you have not looked recently: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes This is the primary statement of what is in the release. The introductory sections are general enough that this

It is time to update your entry in the Directory of Volunteers

2013-07-18 Thread Rob Weir
Make sure you are included in our Directory of Volunteers and that the information is as you want it to appear: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Directory+of+Volunteers This page is linked to (indirectly) from the credits link of the Help/About dialog box in AOO 4.0. It will

Re: Release communications -- plans

2013-07-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: The Release Notes are starting to look very nice. It is worth reviewing if you have not looked recently: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes This is the primary statement of what

Applying new logo to social media accounts

2013-07-18 Thread Rob Weir
I'm starting to update the social media accounts with our new logo. Most are easy -- just use the new flat globe. But Facebook is more complicated. We get the ability to have a cover photo as well as a page profile picture. The profile picture is easy. That is just the globe again, at 160x160

Coordination on AOO 4.0 Release Announcement

2013-07-15 Thread Rob Weir
As Juergen pointed out, the AOO 4.0 release vote has successfully completed. The release is approved. However, please *do not* go out and start announcing the release yet. We need to coordinate a few final steps before this is done, including: 1. Provisioning the files to the Apache and

4.0 Release Dashboard

2013-07-03 Thread Rob Weir
At the risk of seeming too corporate, I've added a dashboard page to the wiki to track our summary status: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/4.0+Release+Dashboard I hate status reports as much as anyone, but with so much information passing by on our many mailing lists, we

Facebook Page Update

2013-06-28 Thread Rob Weir
A quick update on how we're doing with social networking. This is an important way for us to engage with the users and the broader ecosystem. We have a lot of enthusiastic fans who enjoy hearing about our activities. Comparing numbers from a month ago (May 28th) I see a 21% increase in Facebook

Re: Copy of mail sent to LibreOffice

2013-06-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Kadal Amutham vka...@apache.org wrote: Both LibreOffice and OpenOffice are developed by fully / mostly by volunteers. Both serve the same purpose. Two separate teams of volunteers are doing the same work. In both teams, many volunteers are translating same

Re: AOO 4.0 Logo: We're not done yet!

2013-06-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: In case you are not following the discussion on the dev list, Juergen, the 4.0 Release Manager, has proposed an endgame schedule for the AOO 4.0 release: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201306.mbox

55 million downloads

2013-06-24 Thread Rob Weir
A quick update. As of last night we're now at 55,155,204 downloads of AOO 3.4. To put it in perspective Instagram reports that they have 100 million users, and Facebook thought they were worth $1 billion (US). Of course, we are free and always will be. As Warren Buffet said, Cost is what you

AOO 4.0 Logo: We're not done yet!

2013-06-20 Thread Rob Weir
In case you are not following the discussion on the dev list, Juergen, the 4.0 Release Manager, has proposed an endgame schedule for the AOO 4.0 release: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201306.mbox/%3C51C16876.402%40gmail.com%3E The date relevant to the logo is Monday

Re: Source Code being used by LibreOffice

2013-06-07 Thread Rob Weir
of something else. License allows for many things; that's its point. But being honest about one's doings and acknowledging debt is also very important in the construction of community. louis With Warm Regards V.Kadal Amutham 919444360480 914422396480 On 6 June 2013 19:54, Rob

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-06-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:32 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 May 2013 18:12, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: It never occurred to me that those were flying books. Taking another look, it still doesn't work. If made more obviously as books, I'm not sure how

[VOTE][RESULTS] Logo selection for Apache OpenOffice 4.0

2013-06-06 Thread Rob Weir
Here are the binding votes, with names abbreviated as: CR = Chris Rottensteiner KGa = Kevin Grignon A KGb = Kevin Grignon AB SM = Samer Monsour none = none of the above PMC 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th robweir CR KGa KGb SM reginanoneCR Logo-39 Logo-28

Re: [VOTE][RESULTS] Logo selection for Apache OpenOffice 4.0

2013-06-06 Thread Rob Weir
at: The Vital Portal The Vital Portal On facebook Visit our Google Community Join our Vital Portal Webinars at: The Vital Portal WebEx Meeting Center . - Original Message - From: Rob Weir robw...@apache.org To: d...@openoffice.apache.org, marketing@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Thursday

Logo next steps

2013-06-06 Thread Rob Weir
Now that the core decision making process is over, what are the next steps? 1) I've sent Chris a note requesting the latest SVG. Once I receive it I'll check it in. 2) We should make an inventory of places where this logo should go. What sizes are needed, formats, background color (or alpha

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-06-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: What we've done so far: 1) Called for logo submissions from the community 2) Many designers responded and we received 40 submissions. There was a lot of cross-fertilization of ideas, as designers saw what others had come

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Graham Lauder g.a.lau...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 28 May 2013 21:07:28 Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Graham Lauder g.a.lau...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 28 May 2013 15:00:47 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 5/28/13 2:48 PM, Alphonso Whitfield

Re: Web Site

2013-05-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I want to start up the discussion with the website work once again since the logos are very similar and will be picked by next week. I have already documented different pages and sites we currently have running.

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-28 Thread Rob Weir
: Interesting that we've come around to a close variant of the current logo. -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 03:22 PM To: d...@openoffice.apache.org; marketing@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo

Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-27 Thread Rob Weir
What we've done so far: 1) Called for logo submissions from the community 2) Many designers responded and we received 40 submissions. There was a lot of cross-fertilization of ideas, as designers saw what others had come up with, what worked, and borrowed ideas. 3) We did a survey of user

Re: Found Chris R.

2013-05-27 Thread Rob Weir
. If I'm reading the specs correctly it has ligatures for two letter combos like ff, fi and fl, but nothing special for three-letter combos. -Rob Regards, Dave On May 24, 2013, at 6:10 AM, Rob Weir wrote: I received an email from the designer of the logo with the highest score. He is Chris

Found Chris R.

2013-05-24 Thread Rob Weir
I received an email from the designer of the logo with the highest score. He is Chris Rottensteiner from South Tyrol. I've added his information to the blog post here: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/results_of_apache_openoffice_4 I also invited him to read the feedback from the survey and

Two Insights from the logo survey comments

2013-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
I've been going through the thousands of comments received in the survey, trying to make sense of them. Here are two things I thought were interesting and worth discussing: 1) The number 4 appears to be unlucky in China, Japan and Korea. Sometimes product their will even skip over version 4 of

Logo next steps

2013-05-10 Thread Rob Weir
Some ideas: 1) I'm hoping we start seeing revisions of logos by Monday so we can take it to the next stage. Post them to the wiki. You can add your logo to the wiki here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Stage+2+Logo+Refinement 2) Let's then discuss on the list and see if

Re: Logo next steps

2013-05-10 Thread Rob Weir
://survey.openoffice.org/reports/aoo40-logo-poll/ The blog post, which is a higher level summary, is here: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/results_of_apache_openoffice_4 Regards, -Rob With Warm Regards V.Kadal Amutham 919444360480 914422396480 On 11 May 2013 01:33, Rob Weir robw

Re: Logo next steps

2013-05-10 Thread Rob Weir
me the link once again? I have deleted by oversight. I want to know on what basis the short listing has been done With Warm Regards V.Kadal Amutham 919444360480 914422396480 On 11 May 2013 01:33, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Some ideas: 1) I'm hoping we start seeing revisions

Draft Blog Post: Results of Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Logo Survey

2013-05-09 Thread Rob Weir
https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=results_of_apache_openoffice_4 I was able to get comments from each designer except from Chris R (no contact info available) and Robin (no response to emails). Regards, -Rob -

Good blog post from Mozilla: How to Spread the Word about Your Code

2013-05-08 Thread Rob Weir
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/05/how-to-spread-the-word-about-your-code/ -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Are you successfully using OpenOffice? Can we quote you on that?

2013-05-06 Thread Rob Weir
We're close to hitting the 50 million download mark for Apache OpenOffice 3.4. This is a major milestone and we're thinking about putting out a press release. As part of this we'd like to include quotes for some success stories with OpenOffice users. Ideally, I'd like something interesting, a

Re: Please Unsubscribe

2013-05-06 Thread Rob Weir
Hi Cherry, There is no way to do a blanket unsubscribe. You need to do it individually for each mailing list you subscribed to. You can see a list of our mailing lists here, along with instructions for unsubscribing: http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html Regards, -Rob On Mon, May

Re: Are you successfully using OpenOffice? Can we quote you on that?

2013-05-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Albino B Neto bino...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/5/6 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org: We're close to hitting the 50 million download mark for Apache OpenOffice 3.4. This is a major milestone and we're thinking about putting out a press release. Very good

Re: Results from AOO 4.0 Logo Poll

2013-05-03 Thread Rob Weir
, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: The survey ran for a week,and received over 5000 responses. I wrote up the results, along with some charts, and put them here: http://survey.openoffice.org/reports/aoo40-logo-poll/ It is rather long and detailed, so I'll take a subset of that content

Re: Draft Logo Survey

2013-04-24 Thread Rob Weir
to make a new proposal in a night :) Can Ünlüsoy 2013/4/23 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Can Ünlüsoy unlusoy...@gmail.com wrote: Rob, Thank for your help. By the way, can we update our proposals or add new ones until the final survey is opened? Yes

Re: Draft Logo Survey

2013-04-24 Thread Rob Weir
I'm still working on the questions, a laborious text entry task, but the images can be browsed directly here: http://survey.openoffice.org/upload/surveys/815178/images/ -Rob On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Robin Fowler

Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Logo Survey now Open!

2013-04-24 Thread Rob Weir
The Apache OpenOffice project is planning a brand refresh for our next major release, Apache OpenOffice 4.0. As part of this effort we are looking to update our logo. We've received 40 proposals from community members and we would like your feedback on these designs. You can find the survey

Re: Draft Logo Survey

2013-04-24 Thread Rob Weir
preference section Strongly dislike Dislike Neither like nor dislike Like Strongly like ### Regards, -Rob 2013/4/24 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org: I'm still working on the questions, a laborious text entry task, but the images can be browsed directly here: http://survey.openoffice.org/upload

Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Logo Survey now Open!

2013-04-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Albino B Neto bino...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/4/24 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org: http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/815178/ Good ! :-) I'm already spreading. 407 responses so far. Oh, my poor little server! -Rob Albino

Re: Draft Logo Survey

2013-04-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Claudio Filho filh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi 2013/4/23 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org: Please let me know immediately: 1) If there are any typos in the survey Rob, * in logo-7, the answer's

Re: Draft Logo Survey

2013-04-23 Thread Rob Weir
, sized to 400px width. See now: http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/815178/ (You might need to clear your cache to see the new image) -Rob Thanks, Can Ünlüsoy 2013/4/23 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Can Ünlüsoy unlusoy...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Rob

Re: Draft Logo Survey

2013-04-23 Thread Rob Weir
proposal that is ready now, post it and let me know about it. Ideally it will be 400 pixels wide so I can easily add it. Regards, -Rob Can Ünlüsoy 2013/4/23 Claudio Filho filh...@gmail.com 2013/4/23 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Claudio Filho I think I

Example of an SEO win

2013-04-22 Thread Rob Weir
An example of the relatively simple things we can do to improve search results related to OpenOffice. For quite a while now the top Google results for the query Apache OpenOffice was our AOO 3.4.0 press release. That is because of two factors: 1) That press release page was broadly covered in

Re: AOO in market

2013-04-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Yue Helen helenyu...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone here have some data on AOO in the overall productivity tools market? For example, the market ratio...any report? Have you seen this page on the wiki? http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Market_Share_Analysis This

Re: Website Work

2013-03-31 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Dave, We can consider not using a single CSS or template for the entire site. Rather we would partition the website and apply CSS and templates according to their context or navigation depth. Maybe a single CSS for

Thinking about AOO 50 million and 1 Year

2013-03-26 Thread Rob Weir
It seems like it was just yesterday that we were talking about the 40 million downloads of AOO. But I just checked the latest numbers and we're now over 43 million. At this rate (and it is accelerating) we'll hit 50 million by the end of April. That happens to be right around the 1 year

Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27

2013-03-22 Thread Rob Weir
on something smaller for the website and send it later on. Robin http://imagebin.org/251225 http://imagebin.org/251226 On 21 Mar 2013, at 22:21, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:15 PM

Re: [AOO 4.0 Branding Refresh] Call For Google Hangout

2013-03-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: I've posted the event to facebook so it makes it into people's news feeds tonight. Hoping to get the public chiming in the chat room during the live video and during comments and QA. Rob can you grant me access to the

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