Hey Open-office folks....get me off this list ASAP...Yes I wanted to help...and have seen comments to be filter out ALL these email...This I do love open open office...but this sucks...get me unprescribed ASAP...my mail box is full of this stuff...no i am not going to spend time figuring out how t filter all these emails out...Just Take me Off any and all list ASAP...I think you need to tell new subscribers that they will get emails from everybody that wants to help in your marketing...Come on you are smart people and you knew what would happen...Almost nobody wants the email address put out to everone in the world...Get me off this list!!!1
Again Please get me off you list...and how about putting a way to get off this list like unsubscribe??? Sorry to leave...but that is my last final word on this matter. Best regards. On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Stephen Williamson < [email protected]> wrote: > Rebranding needs to start by realizing that Microsoft Office and Windows 8 > will lose them millions of people. > > Open Office needs to be ready and welcoming. > > Steve > > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Hi marketing volunteers, > > > > great to see so many new volunteers here. Today I have a call for active > > participation and would like to invite you all to think how you can help > > here. > > > > We have already talked about some rebranding of OpenOffice for AOO 4.0 > > which is targeted for next year (March, April). There was already the > > idea of a branding contest (see > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Brand+Contest+RFP) > > but I don't know for sure the current status of this. > > > > But I know that we have to start the work now if we want to achieve > > something for the release. > > > > The questions are > > > > - what exactly do we want achieve for the release and in the product > > (eg. logo, intro screen, mime type icons, application icons for desktop > > integration, ....) > > > > - who take care of what > > > > - how can we move forward > > > > - timelines > > > > - .... > > > > I am personally not the best person for this tasks and can mainly > > support on a technical level. But I would like to share some ideas. > > > > ~30 million downloads of AOO at the end of the year since April is an > > impressive number. And 700K page hits on our website as well. I was > > thinking that it could be a good reference for professional designers, > > art schools) to be involved here in some way. Designing a new logo, or > > do some icon work (a high professional and consistent icon set for such > > an application is no trivial task), intro screen etc. that is seen by > > million of users or visitors of the website can be very motivating. > > > > Does anybody of you have contacts to designers or art school that do > > such industrial design for software products? Of do you have the skills? > > > > Anyway the idea is to promote the work later on in some prominent places > > and blog about it... > > > > Let us start to define the requirements and the timeline in more detail > > and let us start working on it. The time is running ;-) > > > > Juergen > > >
