Hey, In March (01. to 05.) the CeBIT show will be in Hannover, Germany. "CeBIT is the digital industry's biggest, most international event" - see www.cebit.de
We will have a booth there and we (the german community) will exhibit LibreOffice on three demo-points, so we will have all platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac OS). The booth is paid by OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. If someone wants to share - or just visit us - please contact me or someone else from the german community. I believe, this is a very good point to go public with LibO. We will have some marketing-material, which is prepared now, and wie will have a DVD. So, we just need a final version ;-) I hope, it will be finished latest first week of Feb - otherwise it is too late for producing DVDs. We will produce German marketing material, but it may be a good idea to have even some english infos. So feel free to spend ideas. I will publish links to German material here as soon as we will have first layouts. At this point I think about some "slogans" for getting startet. I will share my ideas: What is really new? Well, we have some nice improvements, but are the really spectacular? I don`t think so. It is jsut another office-suite and when we start again with "free", "OfficeSuite", "undependent", "odf" and all this technical stuff, who really wants to read this? So, I believe, we have to be emotional. Just for this start. Bring people to look at us, to try our software. Let`s go back: What is really new (in comparison to OOo)? I found one point: the color :-) From blue to green. So I created a very easy slogan for a small flyer: "neu ... grün ... sympatisch" - this is German, in translation it will sounds like: "new ... green ... sympathetic" In Germany the combination between "green" and "sympathetic" is not really new, but still positiv used. So - we will create a postcard flyer - in front just these three word on a green field, backsides some short information about LibreOffice and an invitation to visit our booth. That`s a first idea. What do you think? Best regards Thomas -- ## Marketing deutschsprachiges Projekt ## http://de.libreOffice.org - www.LibreOffice.org ## Vorstand OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. ## Mitglieder willkommen: www.OOoDeV.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
