dev Digest 27 Feb 2006 16:31:56 -0000 Issue 1032
Topics (messages 22994 through 22999):
Re: OpenOffice.org for all workstations of the University of Florida]
22994 by: Anthony Long
Re: Last appeal for the vote about official OpenOffice.org OEM label
22995 by: Bernhard Dippold
22996 by: Kazunari Hirano
Re: Some Office 2007 news
22997 by: Solveig Haugland
Re: Vote about official OpenOffice.org OEM label is over
22998 by: Bernhard Dippold
22999 by: John McCreesh
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Subject:
[Fwd: OpenOffice.org for all workstations of the University of Florida]
From:
Anthony Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:17:25 -0500
To:
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: OpenOffice.org for all workstations of the University of
Florida
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 10:39:21 +0100
From: René Leonhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Anthony Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear Mr. Long,
I have just read that a candidate for the Student Senate of the
University of Florida wants to introduce Open-Source-Software to all
workstations and to encourage the use of open document formats.
He is endorsed by Ren Bucholz of the EFF (Electronic Frontier
Foundation) and other representatives of important organizations.
I think that it is important to OpenOffice.org to help this campagne
in order to install OpenOffice.org on all university wokstations so
that the free use of the OpenDocument format is possible and the IT
fund of the university can be used for as many free projects as possible.
In addition there could be made installation CDs for laptops of
students and professors with Firefox and OpenOffice.org (Setup and
Portable) to spread the use of these important programs even more.
From my point of view at least one representative of OpenOffice.org
should contact Gavin Baker and add an entry under "In the media" on
the OpenOffice.org front page, as soon as OpenOffice.org is mentioned
explicitely in the campaign to be supported as well.
Unfortunately the voting is already next week (28.02. - 01.03.),
therefore quick action is essential.
His program:
http://www.gavinbaker.com/why/
List of supporters:
http://www.gavinbaker.com/endorsements/
<http://www.gavinbaker.com/endorsements/>
Source:
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/22253
Best regards,
René Leonhardt
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Subject:
Re: [Marketing] Last appeal for the vote about official OpenOffice.org
OEM label
From:
Bernhard Dippold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:56:45 +0100
To:
[email protected]
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Hi again,
the OEM label vote stopped at the part of the thread where we started
to discuss here principle goals and decisions for the marketing project.
As I told in my first mail the voting should close tonight - so
everybody wanting to join (or change his/her voting) is asked to do so
ASAP.
(I'll start counting tomorrow evening, so you'll have a few hours
more...)
Some more comments below.
Bernhard Dippold wrote:
Hi list members,
in the art project we designed different proposals for OEM labels
that should be sticked on PCs delivered with OpenOffice.org.
To come to an "officially approved" label I'd like to ask you to
vote on these labels (otherwise the 4 or 5 active people at the art
project would decide on their own).
For visual identity reasons we should have only one official label,
so I ask you to have a look at this website and vote with "+1" for
the label you like most.
http://www.familie-dippold.de/OEM_label_vote.html
Label A: Logo on white background with solid light blue gulls.
Label B: Logo on blue gradient with white wire gulls.
(now with capitalized "Included")
Label C: Logo on blue gradient with black wire gulls, "Included"
will have to be produced as a hologram.
Label D: Logo on blue gradient with black wire gulls - shaded
"Included".
Due to some proposals from the list I added another page containing
several versions of Label B:
http://www.familie-dippold.de/OEM_label_vote_B.html
I decided to use the capitalized version of "Included" as final one
because
- even if the non-capitalized "included" can be read more easily by
non native people (no mix-up between capitalized "I" and
non-capitalized "l"), I see the whole phrase "OpenOffice.org Included"
like a title - and therefore I learned in school to capitalize all the
important words.
- a serif font for "Included" avoids mix-up too, but it breaks the
togetherness between the logo and the additional line - you wouldn't
think of both parts of it as a single title (and the two fonts don't
really match from an artistic point of view)
- the modified gradient could be quite o.k. depending on the
background (on black or silver the other one looks more precious). But
with the broader blue part the logo and the wire gulls combine to some
kind of unity I personally like very much.
And as the artist I can decide ;-) (I could change my mind, if there
are lots of oppositional opinions, but I didn't get any answers by
now, so it seems not to be so important)
So please vote, if you haven't already done!
Best regards
Bernhard
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Subject:
Re: [Marketing] Last appeal for the vote about official OpenOffice.org
OEM label
From:
"Kazunari Hirano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:20:11 +0900
To:
[email protected]
To:
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Hi,
May I vote here?
Label B: Logo on blue gradient with white wire gulls (with capitalized
"Included")
+1
:)
Thanks,
khirano
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Subject:
Re: Some Office 2007 news
From:
Solveig Haugland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Sun, 26 Feb 2006 04:21:17 -0700
To:
[email protected]
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Hi,
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Jeffrey G. Causey, CPA wrote:
[snip]
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1927787,00.asp
Anyone see anything here that can be capitalized on as far as a
benefit or
selling point for OOo?
[snip]
Unrelated to the different suites, I think a major marketing point is
that it is could well be easier for people to learn OpenOffice.org
than to learn the new Office 2007 interface. Ribbon toolbars, etc. So
now is a good time to switch to OOo for less fuss and way less money,
rather than upgrade to 2007.
I've blogged on the topic here.
http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2006/02/microsoft_offic.html
Solveig
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Subject:
Re: [Marketing] Vote about official OpenOffice.org OEM label is over
From:
Bernhard Dippold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:13:42 +0100
To:
[email protected]
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Hello to all of you,
and thanks to all the people joining the voting.
From 16 Marketing Project members only one voted for Label D, all the
others preferred Label B (four of them named Label A as second choice).
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| So *Label B* (http://familie-dippold.de/OEM_label_small_new.png) |
| will be the new official OpenOffice.org OEM label. |
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I'll try to update the Art Project galleries as soon as possible (I
think I'll attach it to the CD-Art gallery), perhaps it could be
available from the web page at the end of next week...
Up to then you may download it from Issue 44459
(http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=44459) where I
attached the vector graphics source (SVG made with Inkscape) and a
1200 x 1200 pixel raster graphic (exported to PNG).
Could someone please transfer this information to the distribution
project - I think, there we can find most of the people not reading
this list, but providing OOo on computers. They should know, that
there does exist such a label- and that it has been officially
approved by the Marketing Project. For visual identity reasons they
are requested to use this label for computers shipped with OpenOffice.org
Best regards
Bernhard
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Subject:
Re: [Marketing] Vote about official OpenOffice.org OEM label is over
From:
John McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:17:32 +0000
To:
[email protected]
To:
[email protected]
On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 23:13 +0100, Bernhard Dippold wrote:
Hello to all of you,
and thanks to all the people joining the voting.
From 16 Marketing Project members only one voted for Label D, all
the others preferred Label B (four of them named Label A as second
choice).
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| So *Label B* (http://familie-dippold.de/OEM_label_small_new.png) |
| will be the new official OpenOffice.org OEM label. |
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Nice work
I'll try to update the Art Project galleries as soon as possible (I
think I'll attach it to the CD-Art gallery), perhaps it could be
available from the web page at the end of next week...
Good
Up to then you may download it from Issue 44459
(http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=44459) where I
attached the vector graphics source (SVG made with Inkscape) and a
1200 x 1200 pixel raster graphic (exported to PNG).
Could someone please transfer this information to the distribution
project - I think, there we can find most of the people not reading
this list, but providing OOo on computers. They should know, that
there does exist such a label- and that it has been officially
approved by the Marketing Project. For visual identity reasons they
are requested to use this label for computers shipped with
OpenOffice.org
I have a standard letter I send out to people asking for permission to
use logos etc - if you can get the image put into the Art gallery I'll
change the letter.
Good work all round - John
