On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:18:33 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.
Hi Kay Florian was one manager of the list IIRC and of course so was Louis. Louis is on the PPMC now, so unless there has been a change in terms of their abilities on the OOo lists then we should be good. Cheers GL > > > 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
