On Aug 4, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Graham Lauder <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:58:44 Andrew Rist wrote: >>> On 8/3/2011 2:27 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Marcus (OOo)<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>>> Do you mean this? >>>>> >>>>> http://www.openoffic.org >>>>> http://www.openoffic.org/news >>>>> >>>>> Or which landing pages do you have in mind? >>>> >>>> An idea: is there any easy way to get it into the header, so it is on >>>> every page? Something like "News: Apache OpenOffice.org!" with a >>>> link, perhaps to a new blog post. We could first write a blog post, >>>> specifically reaching out to OOo community members and telling them >>>> how they can get involved. Then, once that is posted, get that link >>>> out broadly, via the OOo website, wiki, mailing lists, forums, >>>> Facebook page, Twitter, etc. >>> >>> +1 >>> I will take care of updating OOo site when we are ready >>> Andrew >>> >>>> It might make sense to wait until we first do the source migration and >>>> have Bugzilla, the wikis and forums migrated. But right around then >>>> would be a good time to put out the word. >>>> >>>> >>>> -Rob >> >> >> We should probably be looking at a press release as well as part of that. >> We can use the announce@ list simultaneously, the majority of subscribers >> of >> which, are our target Audience. If people are subscribed to that list >> anything sent via that medium can't be considered spam. >> > > Graham-- > > Are you talking about [email protected]? We had a small discussion > about this list a few weeks ago and Marcus pointed out that that list is > "moderated ". So...yes, we should definitely use this and hope whoever IS > the moderator jsut pushes the announcement through. I don't think we got an > answer on this. I'll make some contacts and see what I can determine.
Kay, Is [email protected] moderated? If so that could why nothing has come through in a week. Regards, Dave > > >> Releases should go just to the tech press to remind them that the project >> is >> alive and kicking, wider than that is probably not necessary at this stage. >> >> Next press release after that should be to announce the "Non Apache" >> release >> if there is going to be one (I've made my feelings on this release known >> but >> we'll see what the consensus is) >> >> In the past press releases were hacked about with on the private PR list or >> on >> occasion the also private MarCon list, for obvious reasons. Is there a >> policy >> for creating such marketing materials here at Apache. >> >> Cheers >> GL >> >> >> >>>> >>>>> Marcus >>>>> >>>>> Am 08/03/2011 09:29 PM, schrieb Shane Curcuru: >>>>>> (Taking the opportunity to Refactor a new thread on OpenOffice.org) >>>>>> >>>>>> Are there any short term plans to update the main landing pages of >> the >>>>>> existing OpenOffice.org website(s) to provide user awareness of the >>>>>> transition of the product and project to Apache? >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't know 1) how long it will take to actually get this >>>>>> transitioned, and 2) how hard it is to update the Oracle-hosted >> sites, >>>>>> but I think it would be really useful to have a few blurbs about the >>>>>> future plans of Apache OpenOffice get put on the existing >>>>>> OpenOffice.org site sooner rather than later. >>>>>> >>>>>> The blog feed on the homepage is nice, but not enough. >>>>>> >>>>>> Or is this too much for the moment? >>>>>> >>>>>> - Shane >> > > > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "If you can keep your head when all others around you > are losing theirs - maybe you don't fully understand > the situation!" > -- Unknown
