On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Samer Mansour <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 1) Can I suggest we make the graphic change maybe 3-5 days before DFD. >> > Make an earlier blog post letting people know its coming up. We should go >> > viral before the day. >> > >> >> I agree. Even though the actual even is on a specific day we'll get >> more notice if we start a few days ahead of time. >> >> > I could create a small page about AOO and DFD and what it means to us. >> > Much like the download page, we can assign the social platform meta-data >> > image and text to the one we're promoting AOO with. We could then link >> it >> > to the early and day-of blog posts. >> > >> >> So the idea would be that visitors could like or share that page to >> their social network? I like that idea. Anything that we can do to >> turn it into a two-way engagement/sharing will be more effective than >> simply broadcasting information in a single direction. >> >> For example, with IMLD, the actual blog post did not get much of a >> response, but a simple Facebook post asking the question "How do you >> say 'free software' in your Mother Language?" got 45 comments, 44 >> likes, and 2 shares. >> >> >> > - - - - - >> > PAGE META DATA >> > [Image=AOO-DFD-Doodle.png] >> > [Title="Apache OpenOffice celebrates DFD, learn more here."] >> > [Text="AOO is committed to support ODF standards so that everyone can >> > access their information independent of the tools and suites they use. >> > Learn more here."] >> > >> > IN TYPICAL OO.org PAGE TEMPLATE >> > [Short brief about what it means to us. Benefits to society, talk about >> > owning your information and having the freedom to move to other office >> > suites and OS/Technology platforms. Talk about how we support multiple >> > platforms for that freedom. Windows to Linux to OS X] >> > >> > Let your friends know its document freedom day on March 27th: >> > [Share Facebook] [Share Twitter] [Share Google+] >> > > On previous DFD days, I coordinate a mini-site which include description of > the DFD, how OpenOffice.org is benefit of open standards and our commitment > to suppor them, and finally a few quotes from people around the community > sharing their thoughts on DFD, and finally a few relevant links. > > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Dfd >
There is some good material here we can reuse. But, if I understand the mechanisms correctly, we'll need to turn this into a standalone HTML page, not a wiki page. For the social integration to work we need to be able to control the page's <meta> tags in the header. -Rob > > >> > >> > Are you ready to be free? [Download Apache OpenOffice Today! possibly >> > href'd image] >> > - - - - - >> > >> >> "Liberate your documents" is a common DFD expression we could work with.. >> >> -Rob >> >> >> > Samer >> > >> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> 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) file format >> >> is broad: in the product of course, but also via our personal use, and >> >> via the efforts of our volunteers in OASIS maintaining the standard, >> >> and at Plugfests improving interoperability. >> >> >> >> I'd like to see us celebrate Document Freedom Day. I think we can do >> >> something similar do what we did for International Mother Language >> >> Day: Using social media and our website. We can reach nearly a >> >> million people when we do this, so it is very effective. >> >> >> >> To make this happen we need a few things to happen before, say March >> 10th: >> >> >> >> 1) An adapted logo for the website, something thematic. >> >> >> >> a) The hi-res version of the current logo is here: >> >> http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg >> >> >> >> b) For ideas, the official DFD art work is here: >> >> http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.html >> >> >> >> c) The final website logo should be 100px high, with width of 200-400px. >> >> >> >> d) If we can avoid putting the date in the logo we can reuse it in >> >> future years as well. >> >> >> >> 2) A blog post and/or press release. The week prior to DFD is >> >> "Sunshine Week" in the US, and is focused on open government >> >> (http://www.sunshineweek.org/). So I might try to write up something >> >> that connects the two, i.e., how the use of open standards helps >> >> promote open government. >> >> >> >> 3) Use our social media accounts to promote DFD on the day. >> >> >> >> >> >> Anyone interested in helping? >> >> >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> -Rob >> >> >> > > > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > Apache OpenOffice Contributor > http://es.openoffice.org
