On 11-01-12 01:36 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2011-01-12 10:33, Fabián Rodríguez a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> I am sending email invitations to my close network of friends and >> colleagues, and to projects I participate in, inviting them to join >> LibreOffice. I thought I'd share this. I'd like to ask where would be >> the best place in the wiki to put such examples and their translations ? >> I know within the Marketing project this makes sense but I also thought >> we'd need to expose this more. >> >> Of course adapt& customize them depending on your audience, if you end >> up using any of them! >> >> These are just 3 examples: >> >> For end-users: >> [Trisquel-users] An invitation to ask your questions about LibreOffice >> on "Ask LibreOffice" >> http://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-users/2011-January/002372.html >> >> >> For developers: >> [Trisquel-devel] An invitation to become a LibreOffice contributor >> http://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-devel/2011-January/000345.html >> >> >> For end-users, in French: >> [Trisquel-utilisateurs] Invitation à connaître LibreOffice >> http://listas.trisquel.info/pipermail/trisquel-utilisateurs/2011-January/000050.html >> >> >> Any comments/suggestions welcome. >> >> Fabian >> >> -- >> LibreOffice questions ? Des questions sur LibreOffice ? Preguntas acerca >> de LibreOffice ? Ask LibreOffice: http://libreoffice.shapado.com/ >> ~ >> Fabián Rodríguez >> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:MagicFab >> >> >> > > Thanks Fabian for your offer to share these. > > I myself am not in favour of posting these on our wiki pages as, > although they do mention LibreOffice they also mention other projects > that have no relationship with LibreOffice. I am in favour of > providing some text that could be used in formulating invitations to > join our membership, but as far as the personal aspect of inviting > people that one knows, this should really be left to the individual > sender to create.
Hi Marc, thanks for your comments. I suggested wiki pages as that's where new(er) advocates for LibO may end up and if I can save them 10 minutes of writing / translating, I'd love to do that. Not everyone will dig such stuff from the mailing lists. I am not sure I follow re: unrelated projects ? I mentioned libreoffice.shapado.com which is *dedicated* to helping LibO users. And I mentioned AskDebian which is another Q&A site about one of the primary target OSs for LibreOffice. > > This would be different, of course, if we were on a marketing > campaign. In this case I would be interested in seeing different > mock-ups of possible text. But this would be done in conjunction with > a marketing team tasked with such a particular project, with Italo's > supervision. > > Perhaps we could work on some material that our membership could find > useful should they decide to send out personal invitations if you > think this would be helpful. However, I think that our website should > have enough information available to put together enough of a > convincing argument to join our membership. I don't send emails I don't feel are useful :) But point taken... As I said in my post it's up for grans and if it's useful for someone, good. The whole point is to expose more the project. > > In fact, I am of the opinion that once a person lands on any > particular site, if they cannot see/find any usefulness for their own > interest/purposes, then it is not for them. This, in my opinion, is > what our site should attempt to accomplish: a convincing argument on > landing at our site, within little delay, and with clear objectives of > the LibreOffice suite -- downloading should also be easily done. I > also hold the same opinion on software. > > Cheers > > Marc > > Agreed 100%, however people need to come to such site in the first place. In Trisquel's case, no doubt devs know about it, but may not know about the Q&A site. In their users forums, I am also letting them know about the project itself. It's also a way to bridge both communities. On the subject of downloading, I am not so sure the "easily, with little delay" will be the same for all - not without a good connection, which is not guaranteed anywhere. I'll start another thread on the marketing list only later this week. A+ Fabian -- LibreOffice questions ? Des questions sur LibreOffice ? Preguntas acerca de LibreOffice ? Ask LibreOffice: http://libreoffice.shapado.com/ ~ Fabián Rodríguez http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:MagicFab -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
