On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 2011-02-28 13:04, Carl Symons a écrit : >> >> Nice. >> >> It could probably use a little more tweaking. Maybe when Drew returns >> from the SCALE Cloud 9; he usually has some good ideas. And it would >> be helpful to incorporate what was learned at SCALE. >> >> I'm not thrilled with "Bold LibreOffice Fundraising Goal!". It sounds >> like hype, and it isn't really all that bold. €50K in 8 days is over >> €200K for the fundraising period. So "bold" to me would be a new >> specific objective of €250,000 to be done by Mar21. >> >> How about "Revised LibreOffice Fundraising Goal!"? Or go big with "The >> Quarter Million Challenge". Or be specific about what the 1, 2 or 3 >> year budget is and show that. (I prefer a 3 year budget amount to a >> big number picked out of the air.) > > Hmm, we have to watch what we put on this as it may impact the SC plans for > LibreOffice. If we keep it somewhat generic, it would be better. As far as > €200K goes, I think that anyone would be surprised if we reached this ... > even more so than the original objective. Specifying another amount would > also suggest another SC meeting about the amount, which, IMO would be like > asking the same people to donate twice. > > I think the SC was taken so much by surprise that they really had not firmed > up any prioritized list of specific expenditures. Quite frankly, I think we > are all still pretty surprised. > > I don't particularly like "Revised", it sounds too opportunistic. Besides, > to make the title fit in that area we would be allowed a 4 letter word. How > about changing the text and keeping the "Bold" > > Present Text: > > Help fund the initial budget of our new Foundation. All donations will be > used to launch a viable enterprise. Visit our website to see your donated > money at work. > > New text: > > We all came together with amazing support for the Foundation. Let us now > take up this additional challenge to help fund the initial budget of our new > Foundation. All donations will be used to launch a viable and competitive > enterprise product. Visit our website to see your donated money at work. > > How does this sound? We are still affirming the SC documentation/ > announcement on the Challenge site. The text fits in the box at 10pt and > with sitting it under the title. Still looks very presentable. > > We are just running out of space for text, not to mention that the days left > in the campaign are running out for this flyer to be effective for anyone. > > >> >> documentfoundation.org needs to change "Help us funding the Foundation!" > > Yes. I think this is where we come in. We are the people who should be > offering up some suggestions. I have already mentioned about the wording of > this to someone on some list a while ago. > >> >> Let's go! People want to join in. They want to contribute. The poster >> and all other words (LibO& TDF websites) should give people good >> reasons to do what they want to do. I would also add something for >> organizations that are getting (or could get) real value from >> LibreOffice. >> >> Carl >> > > Cheers > > Marc > >
I think that your suggestions make sense. There are several different objectives that need to be balanced. Thank you for doing that. Carl -- 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 ***
