Re: English dictionary (Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary)

2014-10-28 Thread Alphonso Whitfield III





Wrong answer.The end user should not have to fix anything it should work when 
the product is downloaded or the application should not be included in the 
download. 

It worked without difficulty prior to the latest version being released. I sent 
true end users to download the software , they downloaded the software and the 
spell check dictionary did not work. This damages our credibility as an 
alternative solution to pay for products that are available. 

What is the timeline for the download to be corrected? 




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- Original Message -

From: Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org 
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org, market...@openoffice.apache.org 
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 4:44:54 PM 
Subject: English dictionary (Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary) 

On 27/10/2014 Alphonso Whitfield III wrote: 
 When is the English language dictionary going to be fixed in the spell 
 checker application? 

The English dictionary is not supposed to be fixed since it already 
works. If it doesn't work for you, try resettin your user profile. There 
are plenty of explanations around, see for example 
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12426 

Note that your comment has nothing to do with the original topic of this 
discussion. Please do change at least the subject (and possibly start a 
new discussion instead of replying to an existing one). 

Regards, 
Andrea. 

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Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-10-27 Thread Alphonso Whitfield III




When is the English language dictionary going to be fixed in the spell checker 
application? 



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- Original Message -

From: Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com 
To: marketing market...@openoffice.apache.org 
Cc: dev@openoffice.apache.org 
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 1:57:48 PM 
Subject: Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary 

Malte! 
So, you do realize this is probably one of the very very few witness 
accounts we have of the origins of StarOffice? (later OpenOffice) ... and 
if you were to consent to writing more--or being interviewed in a podcast 
for more--we, or at least I, would be grateful... and better informed of 
that application that has so formed my adult life. 

best 
louis 

On 27 October 2014 14:53, Malte Timmermann malte_timmerm...@gmx.com wrote: 

 Honestly, I don't agree on 30th Anniversary, but see 2015 as 25th 
 Anniversary. 
 
 StarWriter for text screens was written in Lueneburg near Hamburg. In 
 Pascal. By people which later didn't work on StarWriter for Windows. 
 
 In 1990, Marco started the new StarDivision location in Hamburg. 
 StarWriter for GUI systems to be developed from scratch. Written in C++. By 
 completely different people. 
 
 When I started there in 1991, there was only a Writer prototype, as we 
 also needed to first develop StarView, the class library for abstracting 
 from Windows, OS/2, Mac and Unix Motif. Yes, there was a StarWriter Mac 
 version in the beginning, long before it was canceled, and many years went 
 by before there was one again! The concept of StarView was to create native 
 system widgets for their corresponding components. As this approach lead to 
 different issues, and not all systems had the same set of widgets, we later 
 replaced StarView with VCL, as you know it today. 
 
 First versions of StarOffice for Windows contained Calc and Draw developed 
 outside from StarDivision, both using their own technology stack. Iirc, 
 StarOffice 3.0 was the first version of the suite with all components based 
 on StarView. 
 
 The English Wiki referenced page below is misleading wrt versions. There 
 also was a StarWriter 1.0 for Windows, many years after StarWriter 1.0 for 
 DOS (which already was available in version 6 then). 
 
 The version history is much better documented on the German Wiki page: 
 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice 
 
 Just some historical data :) 
 
 Best regards 
 Malte. 
 
 
 
 
 On 24.10.2014 17:25, Rob Weir wrote: 
 
 On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Roberto Galoppini 
 roberto.galopp...@gmail.com wrote: 
 
 2014-10-24 16:41 GMT+02:00 Rob Weir r...@robweir.com: 
 
 Those who know the history know that Apache OpenOffice is the 
 continuation of the OpenOffice.org project, which itself came from a 
 proprietary suite developed in Germany called StarOffice, which itself 
 started as StarWriter, an application written in 1985 by Marco Börries 
 . 
 
 So next year, in 2015, will be our 30th anniversary. 
 
 Any ideas what we might do? 
 
 For example, does anyone still have a Zilog Z80 (or an emulator) that 
 can run the original StarWriter? 
 
 
 I'm still a proud owner of a ZX Spectrum Sinclair 48k, never heard about 
 a 
 StarWriter app, though. Does it exist, ideas about to get it? 
 
 
 Cool! 
 
 This is from Wikipedia: 
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice#History 
 
 It references a page on our wiki that claims StarWriter 1.0 was 
 released in 1985. 
 
 No idea where to get the code. Maybe Juergen or another old-timer 
 would have a clue for us? 
 
 -Rob 
 
 Roberto 
 
 
 
 
 It looks like some emulators here: 
 
 http://www.z80.info/z80emu.htm#EMU_CPU_W32 
 
 It might be interesting to show the history of Writer, from release to 
 release, via a set of screen shots (or a movie) showing the evolution 
 of the UI. 
 
 Regards, 
 
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Re: 80 million downloads

2013-11-30 Thread Alphonso Whitfield III
Good points Louis., thanks. but we still need a maven or two to crack the 
larger corporate environment. 


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- Original Message -

From: Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com 
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Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 4:08:52 PM 
Subject: Re: 80 million downloads 


On 30-Nov-2013, at 15:47, Alphonso Whitfield III awhitfi...@vital-inet.com 
wrote: 

 The Libre Office is getting acceptance because of its affiliation with the 
 Ubuntu desktop and server operating platform. . 

It is claiming to be getting acceptance. It is being touted by a few supposedly 
prominent organizations, such as the South Tyrol org. But a few things. 

1. We have IBM as a far more powerful and important contributor than LO has 
Ubuntu and Canonical. We do not trumpet that affiliation as much as we could, 
no doubt because we do not want to be too tightly affiliated with IBM and be 
seen as an appendage of IBM. I don't think we are. But I understand the 
concerns. 

2. We need to use actual facts related to actual usage by enterprise-class 
users. Download numbers indicate, usually, individual users. These are 
important. But they do not persuade a lot of larger entities. (The Bring Your 
Own Device phenomenon is growing and is related to individual download numbers; 
but in the case of support, etc., one does, usually, need to have an enterprise 
buy it or enable that market; and support is often the point of decision for 
many.) 

And more on this tangent. The main point: facts and actual evidence. 

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 - Original Message - 
 
 From: Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com 
 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org 
 Cc: market...@openoffice.apache.org 
 Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 2:35:54 PM 
 Subject: Re: 80 million downloads 
 
 
 On 30-Nov-2013, at 14:15, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: 
 
 On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 13:56:19 -0500 
 Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: 
 
 
 On 30-Nov-2013, at 13:01, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: 
 
 On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 18:44:13 +0100 
 Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: 
 
 Le 27/11/2013 20:23, Rob Weir a écrit : 
 Yesterday we reached 80,072,389 downloads. 
 
 Well, I also saw this: 
 https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49t=62425 (South 
 Tyrol government to standardise on LibreOffice) and especially the quote 
 from last post: We opted for LibreOffice over OpenOffice because we 
 think this gives us more guarantees. It has a more consistent and 
 constantly growing community of developers and by statute has to be 
 independent from corporations, Pfeifer said. 
 
 LibO is getting more and more momentum (French referential uses LibO too, 
 something that will be implemented in more and more institutions). I 
 wonder why AOO doesn't report similar successes. 
 
 Are we lacking marketing power? Or key people? 
 
 Hagar 
 
 We are perhaps too polite. We don't indulge in 'slanging matches' with the 
 LibreOffice camp, unlike many of their proponents, who may not be as 
 connected with the main LibreOffice core group, as (for example) list 
 members here are with the Apache setup. 
 
 We should emphasise AOO's stability; unfortunately any argument for 
 stability or almost anything is very much an 'ad hominem' argument and can 
 be shot down by a vociferous and technically incompetent user (we hae seen 
 many such, both on this list and on the Forum(s)) who 'knows' that a 
 computer is a 'magic box' and expects it to accomodate his incompetence. 
 
 That said, and I agree with Rory, I also think that emphasizing AOO's use 
 by enterprises and other large-scale entities, would only help. And calling 
 out South Tyrol's claims wouldn't be bad, either. After all, they do not 
 seem to be based on anything like fact. 
 
 louis 
 
 It would be good to start by always refuting the claim that OO is dead; 
 our (AOO) claims must always be based on facts, not on the unsupported 
 assertions of ill-informed journalists. In the computer press one cannot 
 (unfortunately) insist on right of reply, which one usually can get in the 
 newspapers of record. 
 
 
 One of the things I did during Ye Olde OOo Days, that I would rather not 
 re-do, was use a rhetoric putting MSFT in the role of Bad

Re: 80 million downloads

2013-11-30 Thread Alphonso Whitfield III
The Libre Office is getting acceptance because of its affiliation with the 
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- Original Message -

From: Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com 
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org 
Cc: market...@openoffice.apache.org 
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 2:35:54 PM 
Subject: Re: 80 million downloads 


On 30-Nov-2013, at 14:15, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: 

 On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 13:56:19 -0500 
 Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: 
 
 
 On 30-Nov-2013, at 13:01, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: 
 
 On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 18:44:13 +0100 
 Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: 
 
 Le 27/11/2013 20:23, Rob Weir a écrit : 
 Yesterday we reached 80,072,389 downloads. 
 
 Well, I also saw this: 
 https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49t=62425 (South 
 Tyrol government to standardise on LibreOffice) and especially the quote 
 from last post: We opted for LibreOffice over OpenOffice because we think 
 this gives us more guarantees. It has a more consistent and constantly 
 growing community of developers and by statute has to be independent from 
 corporations, Pfeifer said. 
 
 LibO is getting more and more momentum (French referential uses LibO too, 
 something that will be implemented in more and more institutions). I 
 wonder why AOO doesn't report similar successes. 
 
 Are we lacking marketing power? Or key people? 
 
 Hagar 
 
 We are perhaps too polite. We don't indulge in 'slanging matches' with the 
 LibreOffice camp, unlike many of their proponents, who may not be as 
 connected with the main LibreOffice core group, as (for example) list 
 members here are with the Apache setup. 
 
 We should emphasise AOO's stability; unfortunately any argument for 
 stability or almost anything is very much an 'ad hominem' argument and can 
 be shot down by a vociferous and technically incompetent user (we hae seen 
 many such, both on this list and on the Forum(s)) who 'knows' that a 
 computer is a 'magic box' and expects it to accomodate his incompetence. 
 
 That said, and I agree with Rory, I also think that emphasizing AOO's use by 
 enterprises and other large-scale entities, would only help. And calling out 
 South Tyrol's claims wouldn't be bad, either. After all, they do not seem to 
 be based on anything like fact. 
 
 louis 
 
 It would be good to start by always refuting the claim that OO is dead; our 
 (AOO) claims must always be based on facts, not on the unsupported assertions 
 of ill-informed journalists. In the computer press one cannot (unfortunately) 
 insist on right of reply, which one usually can get in the newspapers of 
 record. 


One of the things I did during Ye Olde OOo Days, that I would rather not re-do, 
was use a rhetoric putting MSFT in the role of Bad Guy—in this case, the 
analogue would be replacing MSFT with LO. 

I think we are in agreement not to do that. 

What I did that was more positive was create the Major Deployments page. That 
was then taken to levels far above my initial frame and maintained for a long 
while. It showed those enterprise users we knew about, and did so per region, 
etc. 

I'd think something like that would be useful, again. My interest is not to 
critique others, exactly, but to make it easier for journalists to get the 
facts. 

And that leads me then to: What facts do we want to emphasize? 

The ones I generally point to: 

* QA excellence 
* Innovations—especially those that would be of interest to enterprises. (That 
is: it's nifty to have other sorts of innovation but if the innovations are not 
actually useful or of only limited use, then the quality of the innovation is 
diminished. Of course, myopic journalists can still—and will still—simply point 
to the numbers, in the abstract.) 
* Ease of use and support: How hard is it is for AOO to be adopted? To drop in 
as a replacement for whatever is there? To integrate with mobile ambitions? 
What languages? 
— regarding each of these, a key point is expected production not just by a 
vague claim of community but by a more identifiable body of stakeholders—that 
is, companies that have staked significant business on the development and 
distribution and also upkeep of AOO. 
— and in regards to languages, as I learned with OOo, it's one thing to have a 
gazillion localizations but it's quite another to maintain them. The more that 
can be said about the groups maintaining the localizations, the better; the 
more information, yes, but also the more that can be revealed about their 
fragilities. 
* mobile integration: nearly everyone associated with enterprises wants a 
mobile version of AOO. Such 

Re: 80 million downloads

2013-11-30 Thread Alphonso Whitfield III
I understand the message you stated is v clear but a personality associated 
with the product is not a bad thing, since you have declined the role maybe 
someone will step up into that role...intime 


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From: Rob Weir robw...@apache.org 
To: market...@openoffice.apache.org 
Cc: Alphonso Whitfield III awhitfi...@vital-inet.com, 
dev@openoffice.apache.org 
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 5:15:14 PM 
Subject: Re: 80 million downloads 

On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: 
 
 On 30-Nov-2013, at 16:56, Alphonso Whitfield III awhitfi...@vital-inet.com 
 wrote: 
 
 Good points Louis., thanks. but we still need a maven or two to crack the 
 larger corporate environment. 
 
 Done that, in previous instance of my role at OOo. It's not easy and does 
 require persistence. Then, I was also salaried by Sun/Oracle, though my hot 
 efforts on behalf of the community as such were sometimes met with cool 
 water. 
 
 But I do not think the tactics of yore are the ones to pursue now. 
 

Keep in mind that corporate successes are not necessarily 
publicly-known. I can say from first-hand knowledge that we're 
getting a good reaction to IBM's recently-announced service offering 
for AOO. But these corporations are unlikely to issue a press release 
announcing this fact. This is different from public agencies where 
their choices are a matter of public record. 

 I think that emphasizing, as I did, QA, innovation, and mobile options, as 
 well as the robust community that is reality based, is more important. 
 

1+ 

We're in a very different time than say, 2002, when open source was a 
new concept to many companies. The question is no longer, Should we 
use open source? but How should we use open source?. We already 
won that first war, making open source a legitimate option. What 
remains is a more conventional kind of technology use decision, which 
considers price, of course, but also features, interop, migration, 
training, etc., costs. 

In any case, the thing to keep in mind is that we are in no way 
diminished if someone decides to use LibreOffice. We should feel 
good whenever anyone uses our code, whether in the original Apache 
OpenOffice or whether in the winPenPack verison, the BSD port, the 
OS/2 port, the Solaris port or in LibreOffice fork. It is all good. 

-Rob 

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 From: Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com 
 To: market...@openoffice.apache.org, Alphonso Whitfield III 
 awhitfi...@vital-inet.com 
 Cc: dev@openoffice.apache.org 
 Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 4:08:52 PM 
 Subject: Re: 80 million downloads 
 
 
 On 30-Nov-2013, at 15:47, Alphonso Whitfield III awhitfi...@vital-inet.com 
 wrote: 
 
  The Libre Office is getting acceptance because of its affiliation with the 
  Ubuntu desktop and server operating platform. . 
 
 It is claiming to be getting acceptance. It is being touted by a few 
 supposedly prominent organizations, such as the South Tyrol org. But a few 
 things. 
 
 1. We have IBM as a far more powerful and important contributor than LO has 
 Ubuntu and Canonical. We do not trumpet that affiliation as much as we 
 could, no doubt because we do not want to be too tightly affiliated with IBM 
 and be seen as an appendage of IBM. I don't think we are. But I understand 
 the concerns. 
 
 2. We need to use actual facts related to actual usage by enterprise-class 
 users. Download numbers indicate, usually, individual users. These are 
 important. But they do not persuade a lot of larger entities. (The Bring 
 Your Own Device phenomenon is growing and is related to individual download 
 numbers; but in the case of support, etc., one does, usually, need to have 
 an enterprise buy it or enable that market; and support is often the point 
 of decision for many.) 
 
 And more on this tangent. The main point: facts and actual evidence. 
 
 louis 
  
  
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Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-28 Thread Alphonso Whitfield III
I agree with Kadal looks like more of the same. 


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From: Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com 
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org 
Cc: marketing market...@openoffice.apache.org, dev@openoffice.apache.org 
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 8:46:29 AM 
Subject: Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection 

I like the darker font colour for Apache, but prefer all caps as it supports a 
more balanced layout. The descender or long leg of the Apache letter p when 
rendered in lowercase causes tension as it stabs the openOffice logo type. 

Thoughts? 

Kevin 



On May 28, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Kadal Amutham vka...@gmail.com wrote: 

 Looks like we are retaining almost the current logo with some small changes 
 
 With Warm Regards 
 
 V.Kadal Amutham 
 919444360480 
 914422396480 
 
 
 On 28 May 2013 04:51, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: 
 
 
 On May 27, 2013, at 3:55 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: 
 
 [This was cross-posted, so I'm not clear what list was intended. Makes 
 tracking the discussion difficult.] 
 
 I'll bite: 
 
 I prefer Chris's latest. The weight of the lettering is more powerful. 
 I think the Apache should not be so thin. The form used by Samer works 
 better. I also think down-scaling will work better in this case. 
 
 As far as the orb goes, Chris's could be a tad larger, but not by much. 
 I prefer the orientation of the foreground bird to Kevin's, which has a 
 more threatening feel in my subjective experience. 
 
 These are good observations. 
 
 I would like to see it with an ffi ligature. 
 
 I think we should leave the 4 out. Others have mentioned that 4 is an 
 unlucky number is some cultures. Perhaps we have compromise and have both 
 versioned and un-versioned logo designs. If so then I think a treatment 
 like Version 4.0 in grey and blue might work. 
 
 Regards, 
 Dave 
 
 
 
 - Dennis 
 
 PS: Interesting that we've come around to a close variant of the current 
 logo. 
 
 -Original Message- 
 From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] 
 Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 03:22 PM 
 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; market...@openoffice.apache.org 
 Subject: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection 
 
 What we've done so far: 
 
 1) Called for logo submissions from the community 
 
 2) Many designers responded and we received 40 submissions. There was 
 a lot of cross-fertilization of ideas, as designers saw what others 
 had come up with, what worked, and borrowed ideas. 
 
 3) We did a survey of user responses to the 40 logo submissions. Over 
 5000 users offered their ratings and written comments. 
 
 4) Publish report and blog post on the results of the logo survey. 
 
 5) Invited the designers of the top-rated logos to read over the 
 survey comments and refine their designs and submit an updated 
 version. 
 
 That's where we are now. The updated logos (three of them) are on the 
 wiki now: 
 
 
 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Stage+2+Logo+Refinement 
 
 As you can see there is quite a bit of convergence on a design occurring. 
 
 So what next? 
 
 I'd like to propose some next steps. 
 
 A) Let's discuss the three designs on the mailing list for the next 
 week. The discussion might lead to further refinement. 
 
 B) If at the end of the week there is consensus on a single design 
 we'll go with that one. 
 
 C) If at the end of the week there is not consensus on a single 
 design, and the discussion is not leading us closer toward consensus, 
 then we'll have a 72-hour vote of PMC members to pick the logo. 
 
 Regards, 
 
 -Rob 
 
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Re: Results from AOO 4.0 Logo Poll

2013-05-03 Thread Alphonso Whitfield III
I can set up a page to compile the voting stats etc. If I had been able to 
participate more actively earlier I could had provided one for the larger logo 
voting and assessment. 

I can have it ready by 10 pm EDT USA if you like Rob? Please advise. 

You are the ringleader of this effort please provide some guidance and I can 
knock it out. 


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- Original Message -

From: Rob Weir robw...@apache.org 
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org, market...@openoffice.apache.org 
Cc: Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com, Michael Acevedo 
vea1...@gmail.com, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com 
Sent: Friday, May 3, 2013 3:46:33 PM 
Subject: Re: Results from AOO 4.0 Logo Poll 

I've updated the report to include links to the comments received for 
the top scoring logos. 

You can find links at the end of the report: 

http://survey.openoffice.org/reports/aoo40-logo-poll/ 

Or here: 

http://survey.openoffice.org/reports/aoo40-logo-poll/34.txt 
http://survey.openoffice.org/reports/aoo40-logo-poll/36.txt 
http://survey.openoffice.org/reports/aoo40-logo-poll/5.txt 
http://survey.openoffice.org/reports/aoo40-logo-poll/28.txt 
http://survey.openoffice.org/reports/aoo40-logo-poll/12.txt 
http://survey.openoffice.org/reports/aoo40-logo-poll/13.txt 
http://survey.openoffice.org/reports/aoo40-logo-poll/31.txt 

Next steps? As far as the survey goes, I think I'm done. We have a 
heap of data. I tried to make some sense of it. But it now is for 
the designers to take all this feedback and create one or more revised 
designs. Of the top scoring logos, two were from Kevin Grignon, one 
from Samer Mansour, two from Michael Acevedo and one from someone I 
haven't seen on the mailing list, but whose entry on the wiki was from 
Chris R. 

Maybe it makes sense in the next round to aim for one design per 
designer? If so, we can probably narrow it down to 3 or 4 choices, 
which we can either poll users again for, or just have a vote of 
project participants. 

There isn't much time yet, so could I suggest we aim for having the 
revisions done for next Friday, May 10th? Aim for 400 pixels wide, 
PNG with white or transparent background. 

Regards, 

-Rob 

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: 
 The survey ran for a week,and received over 5000 responses. I wrote 
 up the results, along with some charts, and put them here: 
 
 http://survey.openoffice.org/reports/aoo40-logo-poll/ 
 
 It is rather long and detailed, so I'll take a subset of that content 
 and spin it into a blog post over the next week or two. 
 
 If there is an approach to analysis that I missed, let me know. It is 
 easy for me to create additional tables or charts. 
 
 If any designer wants to receive the user comments on their logo let 
 me know the logo number and I'll send them to you. 
 
 Regards, 
 
 -Rob 

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Re: Results from AOO 4.0 Logo Poll

2013-05-02 Thread Alphonso Whitfield III
Thanks for the stats and analysis , I would recommend a playoff of the top 
five and then choose a final two from that group to come up with a definitive 
selection. 


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From: Rob Weir robw...@apache.org 
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org, market...@openoffice.apache.org 
Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 4:29:17 PM 
Subject: Results from AOO 4.0 Logo Poll 

The survey ran for a week,and received over 5000 responses. I wrote 
up the results, along with some charts, and put them here: 

http://survey.openoffice.org/reports/aoo40-logo-poll/ 

It is rather long and detailed, so I'll take a subset of that content 
and spin it into a blog post over the next week or two. 

If there is an approach to analysis that I missed, let me know. It is 
easy for me to create additional tables or charts. 

If any designer wants to receive the user comments on their logo let 
me know the logo number and I'll send them to you. 

Regards, 

-Rob 

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