Re: Introduction - NEW volunteer

2012-11-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Kadal Amutham vka...@gmail.com wrote: Will it be worth while to collect the details of name , phone number, country, native language, best time to call, and put in some spread-sheet, data base? We do have a wiki page where volunteers can record their

OpenOffice new marketing volunteers: Next Steps

2012-11-28 Thread Rob Weir
Some quick few thoughts on what it is like to volunteer on at Apache project. For some project functions -- like QA or support -- there is a pre-defined workflow. QA tests, writes up defect reports, tests again. That is their cycle. A new QA volunteer can quickly fit into this ongoing

Re: confirm subscribe to marketing@openoffice.apache.org

2012-12-02 Thread Rob Weir
Hello Rebecca, It looks like you forwarded this confirmation note to the mailing list. That won't work. You need to do a reply to the confirmation, which will send an email to a special coded address. Or, if you did not keep that confirmation email, you can send another note to

Re: Marketing Activities -- a list of areas needing volunteers

2012-12-03 Thread Rob Weir
Center . - Original Message - From: Rob Weir robw...@apache.org To: marketing@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 10:55:39 AM Subject: Marketing Activities -- a list of areas needing volunteers I've transcribed onto the wiki a set of marketing tasks that have

Re: Why do we need to market open source?

2012-12-06 Thread Rob Weir
deployments are also key. Regards, -Rob With Warm Regards V.Kadal Amutham 919444360480 On 4 December 2012 20:36, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Graham Lauder g.a.lau...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 03 Dec 2012 10:25:22 Rob Weir wrote: I saw

Re: Completed Infrastructure Module

2012-12-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Is the subject on the completion link correct? I just finished the marketing module and this is the link provided at the bottom. That looks like an error. I'll add it to my list of items to fix. Thanks! -Rob

Re: Introduction - Marketing Volunteer

2012-12-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:56 PM, P.P. Meyer ppme...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Apache Marketers, I'm Paul. I have been creating online marketing strategies for small businesses over the past ten years. I learned about SEO and long-tail tactics way before it was ever a fad. I'm completing my MBA

Re: Introduction - Marketing Volunteer

2012-12-10 Thread Rob Weir
. Regards, -Rob On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 2:52 PM, P.P. Meyer ppme...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Kadal, Do you know what platform the website is running from? Are they using CSS / blog or some other type? I might change

OSCON CFP Open

2012-12-17 Thread Rob Weir
I've updated our events calendar (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Events+Calendar) to add the OSCON Call for Participation: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013/public/cfp/251 The actual conference is not until July, so our 4.0 release should already be out by then. -Rob

Re: Google+ Community

2012-12-17 Thread Rob Weir
- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 6:12 PM To: d...@openoffice.apache.org Cc: marketing@openoffice.apache.org; us...@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Google+ Community A follow up from a previous note. We have a new Google+ Community set up for Apache

Re: [Iteration 1] Social Media Integration on OO.org Site

2012-12-19 Thread Rob Weir
the actual test file names and links onto the mailing list. That would encourage list subscribers to load the pages and since our behavior differs from the random visitor's behavior this can distort the experiment, -Rob On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote

International Mother Language Day (UN / UNESCO) March 21st -- Should we do anything?

2013-01-02 Thread Rob Weir
I think International Mother Language Day is relevant to a portion of our mission -- we're not just producing open source software for free distribution to the public. But it has been our longtime practice to try to support all languages, not just the major commercially-profitable languages. We

Re: Xmass is gone what's next.

2013-01-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: Unfortunately we didnt act for 2013 new years eve (something to consider for next year) we could ask for 2014 graphics already. :) So what's next, next major celebration or just return to the traditional logo and look

Re: CHIP Award Top Download 2012

2013-01-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Good news: Apache OpenOffice was in the Top 100 downloads of CHIP online for 2012 (it was in the top 10 too, of course). Cool. And I see that they offer both open source and commercial downloads, such as Acrobat Reader

Re: CHIP Award Top Download 2012

2013-01-08 Thread Rob Weir
of that page. -Rob With Warm Regards V.Kadal Amutham 919444360480 On 8 January 2013 02:42, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: http://www.openoffice.org/awards/

Re: International Mother Language Day

2013-01-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Kadal Amutham vka...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sir/ Madam I am Chennai, India. I am interested to know more about the plans of celebrating International Mother Language Day. Kindly let me have the details if any Did you receive any response? -Rob With Warm

Re: Open Office Award Page

2013-01-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Kadal Amutham vka...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Mr

Re: Open Office Award Page

2013-01-11 Thread Rob Weir
j...@oooes.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: If you have time to put together a simple prototype I'd love to see what this would look like. Here is a prototype on JFiddler, feel free to add/remove: http://jsfiddle.net/Km7YC/ -- Alexandro

Re: Open Office Award Page

2013-01-11 Thread Rob Weir
. - Original Message - From: Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org To: marketing@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 3:43:47 PM Subject: Re: Open Office Award Page On 1/11/13, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Alexandro Colorado j

Re: Open Office Award Page

2013-01-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On 1/11/13, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Alphonso Whitfield III awhitfi...@vital-inet.com wrote: which one can I use or are we still in the draft stage? I was going to post

Re: Open Office Award Page

2013-01-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 1/14/13 6:03 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: do we have missed here something after graduation, should it be simply openoffice? But we have two websites. So

Promoting the AOO 3.4.1 Refresh

2013-01-14 Thread Rob Weir
It looks like we'll be releasing a respin or refresh of Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 later this month with additional language support. Expected are: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Korean, Polish, Basque, Asturian and Scottish Gaelic. I'd like to quickly discuss what we can do to help promote this

Re: LinuxFest Northwest

2013-01-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lo...@apache.org wrote: From the organizer of the event: On 01/16/13 2:24 PM, Bill Wright wrote: I'm excited to let you know LinuxFest Northwest is now accepting Sponsors and Exhibitors via our website

Re: [Iteration 1] Social Media Integration on OO.org Site

2013-01-17 Thread Rob Weir
page, which is our next experiment is a separate thread. On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/9/13 2:53 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Rob Weir robw

Re: [Iteration 2] Social Media Integration on OO.org Site

2013-01-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, Starting a separate thread for integrating a 'Like Us' area into our website templates. The Experiment scope would be the home page, to provide users the ability to: - Follow Us on Twitter - Like Us

Re: A map of OpenOffice use?

2013-01-20 Thread Rob Weir
me your Google user-id (email address). This way we can work in parallel, adding a column for population, internet users, etc. -Rob With Warm Regards V.Kadal Amutham 919444360480 On 19 January 2013 03:04, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I was thinking of putting together a world map

Re: A map of OpenOffice use?

2013-01-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Roberto Galoppini rgalopp...@geek.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I was thinking of putting together a world map showing the use of OpenOffice, the kind with each country shaded or color coded to show

Re: A map of OpenOffice use?

2013-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
919444360480 914422396480 On 21 January 2013 09:01, Kadal Amutham vka...@gmail.com wrote: Who ever finds time, can fill the remaining Data, so that the document become complete With Warm Regards V.Kadal Amutham 919444360480 914422396480 On 21 January 2013 07:46, Rob Weir robw

Merging Lotus Symphony: Allegro moderato

2013-01-21 Thread Rob Weir
Our latest blog post: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/merging_lotus_symphony_allegro_moderato I've posted on our Facebook and Google+ pages, and once via Twitter: https://www.facebook.com/ApacheOO/posts/121057218069097 https://plus.google.com/u/0/114598373874764163668/posts/ipZVtpwoRBZ

Coverage of Symphony blog post

2013-01-22 Thread Rob Weir
Some coverage of the latest blog post on Symphony: (In German) http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/19363/symphony-verschmilzt-mit-openoffice.html http://www.golem.de/news/apache-openoffice-4-0-ibms-symphony-soll-openoffice-deutlich-besser-machen-1301-97058.html

Re: A map of OpenOffice use?

2013-01-22 Thread Rob Weir
21, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Kadal Amutham vka...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Mr. Rob, I tried to edit the document, but it is read only. Can you make it readable so that everybody can fill the data? OK. I gave you and Samer

Re: Brainsstorm

2013-01-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Kadal Amutham vka...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Mr. Rob, 1. Just have a look at http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com where new ideas for Ubuntu is discussed. Is there a similar facility for AOO? We don't have our own system for doing this, but we used something called

Re: A map of OpenOffice use?

2013-01-23 Thread Rob Weir
places like Russia and Canada look odd. I will see if I can make other visualizations as well, maybe Map is not the best visualization. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:10 AM, Kadal Amutham vka...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Rob Weir, The internet user data has been filled With Warm Regards V.Kadal

Re: A map of OpenOffice use?

2013-01-25 Thread Rob Weir
, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Kadal Amutham vka...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Rob, For the internet population I used the data from the wiki since the link was already in the google spreadsheet. For the population details, I typed population followed

Re: A map of OpenOffice use?

2013-01-25 Thread Rob Weir
it is again with the latest data. This is the best visual I think out of the few I tried: http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/visualizations/aoo-downloads-download-density On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:16 PM

Re: About International Mother Language Day

2013-01-30 Thread Rob Weir
a lot and I am looking forward for your directions. With Best Regards, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam kman...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This is Khan, Convener

Re: Introduction

2013-01-31 Thread Rob Weir
to the individual? Thanks for your help! Robin On 29 Jan 2013, at 22:04, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.com wrote: Hi, my name's Robin Fowler and I'm currently based in the UK. I love doing graphic design

Re: [Iteration 2] Social Media Integration on OO.org Site

2013-02-02 Thread Rob Weir
for Rob. Thanks! Samer On Feb 2, 2013 9:29 AM, Dave Fisher w...@apache.org wrote: Cool Position 2 has a problem. Breadcrumbs can be wide on the left so there is no room for more. I like 1 or 4. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 2, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sat, Feb 2

Re: Join The Marketing Project

2013-02-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Libby libby1...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello. In reference to: http://www.openoffice.org/marketing/marketing_how.html I'm most interested in joining your marketing project, but your link to Join page does not work for myself. I've tried this on different web

Re: [Iteration 3] AOO Video - Social Media Integration on OO.org Site

2013-02-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, In anticipation of AOO4, I want to start a discussion on the video and maybe a microsite to drive this video's overall presentation. -- Micro-Site Idea Micro-site for new users, references from

Re: [Iteration 2] Social Media Integration on OO.org Site

2013-02-03 Thread Rob Weir
Fisher w...@apache.org wrote: Cool Position 2 has a problem. Breadcrumbs can be wide on the left so there is no room for more. I like 1 or 4. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 2, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com

Re: About International Mother Language Day

2013-02-03 Thread Rob Weir
it, the hires version of the current logo is here: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg. Regards, -Rob Regards, Robin On 31 Jan 2013, at 05:23, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam kman...@gmail.com wrote: Hello

Re: Structuring The New Logo Proposal

2013-02-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Picking a logo, hmmm. First part is dates. We could find our dates by working backwards: 1. When is the estimated release date of AOO4? 2. When do we need to have a logo picked (consider time to integrate). 3. When do

OpenOffice User Survey (was Re: Help with marketing activity 2.0)

2013-02-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Paul Vella p...@lewers.com.au wrote: Hi all, ** ** I was looking at your website in the help wanted section and came across this: ** ** 2.0: Help design, conduct and analyze a survey of OpenOffice users, so we understand more fully who they are

Re: Structuring The New Logo Proposal

2013-02-06 Thread Rob Weir
, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: I just talked to a few full time designers at IBM I ran into while at lunch and showed them the proposals so far just as a what do you think? Just saying

Re: $21 million per day

2013-02-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Yes, yes, we're a non-profit organization. We don't charge for Apache OpenOffice. We don't pay developers.But we still do produce something of value, and that value can be estimated. People need office productivity

Re: [Proposal] IMLD - AOO Logo

2013-02-09 Thread Rob Weir
Regards, Khan Md. Anwarus Salam On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.com wrote: I would be happy to work on a banner. Hi Robin, that would be great! As you probably heard, the theme of IMLD

IMLD is one week away

2013-02-14 Thread Rob Weir
I think we agreed to do something for International Mother Language Day. It is coming up just a week from now, February 21st. So time is nearly out. We have a logo from Robin that we can use on the homepage. I can take the task to get that onto the website the day before, we we cover the 21st

Re: Draft blog post: International Mother Language Day 2013 -- Translations requested

2013-02-15 Thread Rob Weir
organization - As a volunteer-run, non-profit organization Don On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=international_mother_language_day_2013 Thanks to Khan for the background information and Robin for the logo design

Re: OpenOffcie Video demos

2013-02-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: Hi I want to know if there is any good OpenOffice demo video. Not only a commercial but something that is between a video tutorial and an announcement. Specially for 3.4. I think Drew did a video for AOO 3.4, but it

Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Kadal Amutham vka...@gmail.com wrote: The http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Dfd gives very few information how

40 million download mark for Apache OpenOffice 3.4.

2013-03-04 Thread Rob Weir
Yesterday we reached the 40 million download mark for Apache OpenOffice 3.4. Congratulations to all the volunteers who made this possible! More information can be found in this blog post on this topic: http://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_40_million_downloads As always, any help

Re: Apache Documentation Volunteers

2013-03-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:48 PM, James Pitt filmp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! My name is James Pitt, and I'm a true believer in the open source ideal of software for the masses. I'm also an experienced, credentialed entertainment professional and would love to lend my abilities to this work.

Re: 40 million download mark for Apache OpenOffice 3.4.

2013-03-05 Thread Rob Weir
of installations, hard to estimate With Warm Regards V.Kadal Amutham 919444360480 914422396480 On 5 March 2013 19:06, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Yesterday we reached the 40 million download mark for Apache

Re: Vote now for 2013 Readers Choice Awards (About.com)

2013-03-06 Thread Rob Weir
anti-acid tablets handy. -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 4:11 PM To: d...@openoffice.apache.org; us...@openoffice.apache.org; marketing@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Vote now for 2013 Readers Choice Awards (About.com

Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27

2013-03-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Document Freedom Day (DFD) promotes the use of open standards and interoperability in documents. OpenOffice has been a core part of DFD since it first started in 2008. Our community's support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF

Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27

2013-03-06 Thread Rob Weir
://opendocument.xml.org/wiki/odf-community-logo ODF is the Open Document Format standard, which OpenOffice supports. So there is a bird-thing going on in both that logo and the OpenOffice one. Maybe a bird being released from a cage? -Rob Regards, Robin On 6 Mar 2013, at 17:59, Rob Weir

Proposal: OpenOffice screenshots for publicity

2013-03-10 Thread Rob Weir
The PMC receives requests, every couple of weeks, from book publishers for permission to use OpenOffice screenshots in a book. Most often they are asking to use a specific screenshot from the website that they have identified, such as: http://www.openoffice.org/product/pix/writer-big.png

Re: Apache OpenOffice at SourceForge Enterprise Directory

2013-03-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Roberto Galoppini rgalopp...@geek.net wrote: SourceForge has just launched a new Enterprise Directory, a sub-section of our site focused specifically on Enterprise projects. These are the projects that are geared specifically for use within a company, you can

Re: Pinterest Account

2013-03-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Julian Hillebrand smallbrow...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I registered a few weeks ago for this mailing list and saw on the to-do list that someone needs to take care of the Pinterest account. I'm really interested in doing so. Does someone have the login

Re: Pinterest Account

2013-03-12 Thread Rob Weir
, == Julian Hillebrand On 12.03.2013, at 19:28, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Julian Hillebrand smallbrow...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I registered a few weeks ago for this mailing list and saw on the to-do list that someone

Re: Draft blog post for Document Freedom Day

2013-03-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 15/03/2013 Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Kadal Amuthamvka...@gmail.com wrote: Document Freedom Day, this year on February 21st, is a global celebration of the open standards, Thanks. I made

Re: Interview Qs for Doc Freedom Day

2013-03-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts oulipo.apa...@gmail.com wrote: Rob, or anyone else involved in ODF development and advocacy: I can help here. Doing this via email is best for me. -Rob Would you be interested in a very short interview, conducted via IM or email? The

Re: Linked from my site :)

2013-03-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:48 PM, atagak xplornet.ca ata...@xplornet.ca wrote: Got you linked from my site http://www.tagak.net Good job everyone and excellent suite program! Thank you! -Rob Take care Andrew Tagak Jr. -

Re: Logo Proposal

2013-03-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Juergen, Volunteers on the mailing list had suggested to post a blog and do a last push for submissions before I close. I knew for good co-operation and because it doesn't hurt to have more ideas I agreed with it. I'm

Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.com wrote: I'll probably find the time to make a logo. I've seen the official logo for 2013. Is there any other source of inspiration or any suggestions anyone has? The ODF Community Logo

Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Robin Fowler robin.fow...@outlook.comwrote: Sorry for taking so long, unfortunately I've not had much time recently. I've come up with a logo, it's still quite rough but might be better than

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

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: 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

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

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: 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

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: 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

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

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

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 -

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

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

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

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

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

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

2013-06-03 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

2013-06-06 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

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