[libreoffice-marketing] Re: testing out 2 new large word list English dictionaries.
Le 01/11/11 15:40, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions a écrit : I am testing out 2 new .oxt extensions. They are about 5.5MB each in size. If you would rather see the 98K word list, or the other sizes, let me know. I will be working on testing them out later. But, for my fist testing, I decided to go with a large word file. Here are the links. http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.4-installs/add-on-dictionaries-large-list/kpp-british-english-dictionary-large-list.oxt I tested installation of this one on the current master build, installation worked, but how does one know if it has replaced the initial dictionary ? Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Recruitment for Base (Was Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?)
Le 14/09/11 19:14, Robert Ryley a écrit : Hi Robert, In order to market the package productively, some input from the base developers would be helpful. I personally want to know 1. How integrated into writer, calc, etc. is base? 2. What exactly do we want base to do? Personally, if it isn't at least somewhat compatible with MS access, I don't know what the point is. I am not a developer, but I have been using the database stuff of OOo/LibO since before it even became open source, i.e. back in the day when it was still a proprietary StarDivision product - there has to my knowledge never been a specific remit for the database functionality to be Access compatible. It has always been more of a offer the broadest general support for as many db engines as possible kind of approach, and then this became a provide a portable cross-platform single file db solution, in order for Sun to try and offer something akin to MS Access' own single file db solution. This is why although it is possible to use LibO to read from MS Access db files on Windows OS only, none of the reports, queries, forms etc that are available in a MS Access file are exploitable. There is currently no support for reading MS Access files on any other OS from within LibO that I know of (possibly with an ODBC driver one can read and write to Access files on Windows, but I wouldn't know). On Mac, it is possible to have read-only MS Access ODBC driver connections by paying for ActiveConnection's ODBC proprietary driver, but I haven't tried it. On Linux, reading mdb files and their schemata is up to the linux mdb drivers project, which are not integrated into LibO as far as I know. So the state of affairs with regard to actually using MS Access data for anything other than reading on platforms other than Windows is pretty grim. This has been a problem for more than 10 years. 3. To recruit developers, or at least make better use of current volunteers, is there a willingness to explore/experiment with JVM compatible languages that might speed up development time (after the learning curve, of course)? The info gained from using base revisions might help other areas of the project without being too disruptive to other sections of the code. Also, working on something new and bleeding edge would create some developer interest in communities that wouldn't normally consider working on a boring office project. I could be wrong, but anything that involves more Java will probably not be immensely welcome in the project as the current trend is to try and remove as much of the Java dependencies as possible. 5. There are a lot of smaller DB backends that could be used. MySQL and Postgress aren't the only ones. SQLite is worthy of consideration if it makes technical sense to scrap what is currently used. Someone had started on trying to integrate SQLite into the code as a replacement backend for hsqldb, but it appears that has stalled (or at least I can't seem to find anything in the current code base relating to that effort). It is currently built when compiling the mozilla nss integration required for digital signatures, but apparently there are known problems on some of the build systems (e.g. MacOS) because of conflicts between system libsqlite and the one that is required for the moz component. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Recruitment for Base (Was Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?)
Le 14/09/11 22:40, Robert Ryley a écrit : Hi Robert, If there is a move away from java, that is going to make a significant portion of that documentation obsolete. Is there anything specifically related to the move away from java documented anywhere? Any idea what the API is going to be to replace it? AFAIK support for Java is not being dropped, i.e. the API and UNO will still support Java implementations of functionality, rather the hooks which provide currently provide certain functionality, e.g. the Wizards, are being converted to other coding languages, such as Python. The aim is reduce dependency on Java implementations where possible, replacing them with other coding alternatives. There has been a GSOC project this year to achieve that very goal, i.e. the migration of at least some of the assistants from a Java based implementation to a Python based implementation. These are currently in the 3.5 development branch of the code. I'm not actually sure if this is documented anywhere, but most likely this will have been decided in the Engineering Steering Committee meetings. The reports of these are posted on the wiki. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Recruitment for Base (Was Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?)
Le 14/09/11 03:39, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions a écrit : Hi all, If we had more documentation for and people who really knows Base, it would be easier to sell LO to some businesses. I know a user that I had to add Office 2003 to his system since that was a deal breaker. He has all of the books and modeling work in data base formats and cannot live without Access. He created those DBs with MSO 97 and did not upgrade to MSO 2003 until he switched computers and could not find the install CD for '97. So unless LO can easily use Access files and reports and forms he created over the years, he will not go to LO, even thought he likes the idea behind LO and FOSS. So we really need to get more people to learn Base and ways for other to easily learn how to use it. Writing documentation for Base is a pointless exercise for as long as the bugs which hinder the user from actually getting anywhere are not fixed. Currently it is like trying to sell a new car to someone where, once you get going, the motor drops out after 5 minutes. OK, so it is an exaggerated analogy, but realistically that is how it is today with Base (and it is not a new phenomenon, it has just got significantly worse since OOo released the 3.4-dev codebase and LibreOffice started). It is a chicken and egg situation : people don't want to use it or write documentation for it, because it doesn't work as designed. Developers do not want to fix something that people do not want to use, especially when : - the effort just to get into the codebase is huge ; - you have to know quite a lot about databases ; - you have to know a substantial amount about Java programming ; - you have to understand UNO, and how the C++ code within LibreOffice is bound to the Java functionality that Sun added on and made interdependent. Not bad for a job description, huh ? Good luck finding someone prepared to take that on :-)) Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Recruitment for Base (Was Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?)
Le 14/09/11 12:27, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, Hi :) There is an alternative. Kexi It's the KOffice / Calligra equivalent of Base but it is in better shape than Base. It already has a fairly strong community of devs. It is already free of Java and uses a few tiny Qt components instead. Qt is cross-platform too but apparently it's much easier to write. It supports a number of back-ends in the same way as Base so we wouldn't be taking a step backwards. Not that I want to put a downer on your suggestion, but have you actually tried installing and running Kexi on Windows and Mac ? On the Mac, you have to download and install the kde environment via macports or fink and then compile and install the koffice port from that...simplicity is not the word here, not to mention all the cruft that you end up putting on your system for no apparently good reason. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Recruitment for Base (Was Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?)
Le 14/09/11 15:05, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Hi Charles, The second point is about recruitment of developers. I hope that I'm not making myself a mistake in assuming that what is being understood is to actually hire developers... perhaps what is meant is attracting developers? In any case, we cannot mandate developers to work on something like we would do in a company. It's a big difference between a business and a FOSS community and project. Developers join by themselves, provided the information is there. Exactly, my comment as to the requirements of a developer were more in line with if a volunteer wants to step up this is how high the barrier to entry is going to be, and not at all a view to hiring a developer, which as you mention, is not something that really happens in FOSS projects (or else, only on rare occasions). I must admit I am myself very, very unclear on what we are trying to achieve with Base. And it's not just now, it's always been the case (for me, at least). Base was added to Openoffice.org as a new module and the whole experience was suboptimal. Well my memory is obviously slightly older than yours because I remember the days of OOo 1.1.x and prior to that with StarOffice, where databases were already accessible, where forms could be designed and made, and queries designed and run. I even designed a switchboard document with buttons that let me link and switch to forms for data entry. The rest, as they say, is history, and after some humming and hahing by Sun we ended up with the Base module as we currently know/love/hate it. mean time. The result now is not that we have developers not doing anything on Base (in fact, we do). The result is that there are less resources on this because developers are simply less interested in acting on it, and there's nothing we can force them to do (or not do). Quite. Hence, one thing that might help -and this is very much a call for brainstorm, with the hope that we collect expectations about Base- is to gather feedback from users, see what we can understand from their use, or non-use of Base, and not being afraid to ask some real questions. I actually think this would be a good idea : it was, after all (at least that is what we were led to believe), the results of a user survey that goaded Sun into action about designing Base2 (as opposed to maintaining/improving the then existing database capability). As an example: should Base be scrapped off? Should we use it as a front end to another DB? should we try to compete with Access? Should it be geared towards a more complete usage (read: integrated as a front end to enterprise DB); is it enough to squash the reported bugs on Base? etc. After that survey we can a) analyze the results b) take action in two forms: suggestions to the broader community (devs included) or writing a set of RFEs (Request For Enhancement). RFEs are something developers can work with. You may call them hacks, but the point is this; you describe in technical and functional terms, step by step, what a feature should be. Not just It should be able to compete with Access or it should be red. But rather: description of feature, rationale, behaviour, usage scenario, etc.. If a survey were to see the light of day, it would need to have the broadest possible communication, as the majority of Base users I know are not actually on any of the LibO lists, or at least their voices are not often to be heard. It would be interesting to hear what people still using OOo feel too, because on the Apache lists, IBM, for one, appears to have no real interest in a sophisticated frontend solution (they got rid of it completely in Symphony). So whilst the general discussion about Base could well be carried out on the discuss list, it would be good for discussions about making a survey to be kept here IMO. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Recruitment for Base (Was Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?)
Le 14/09/11 19:57, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Hi Charles, In fact, putting the survey online should not be impossible... But let's agree on the questions first. Hehe, always the difficult part... 1) Users typology - platform - modules that are the most used (list all LibreOffice modules and allow the responding person to select each of them from 1 to 5) OK so far, that would be similar to the Sun survey. 2) About Base: - use case typology (more input needed here, I won't be exhaustive) - do you use Base as a font-end to external DBs or do you rely on HSQLDB ? Or both? - hmm, we may need to cater for the non-technical user here : frontend and external DB could be confusing. Something like : If using Base, do you use : 1) builtin (native) HSQLDB ; 2) another database engine (e.g. mysql, postgresql, H2, firebird, DB2, etc) 3) if the answer to (2) was Yes, which kind of database engine ? 4) if the answer to (2) was Yes which kind of connector (JDBC, ODBC, MySQL C Connector extension, postgresql connector extension, some other driver etc) ? If using Base, do you : 1) need it for personal/domestic use only 2) need it for small scale professional use 3) need it for large scale, multi-user, business or organisation use - how would you rate Base? (choice between it's bad, it's very buggy, it's okay but it could be much better, I really like it). Scale of 1 to 5 (as in 1 for total agreement through indifferent (3) to 5 total disagreement with the statement) ? - what is the most blocking bug in Base according to you (free answer + possible pointing to a reported issue This would be a nightmare question in IMHO, probably attracting far too many diverse responses (and possibly even several in the same field). I'm not really sure what could be suggested instead, as anything like this will be bound to attract criticism for being too selective, focussed or oriented. Perhaps it could be worded thus : What single feature or functionality would you most like to see fixed rapidly ? (like I said, I'm not too happy with this kind of reasoning, especially where there are several issues that vie for popularity in my own mind ;-)) 3) Base in the future - do you plan to use Base more or less in the future? IMO a leading question, but hey I'm not a psychologist :-) - do you plan to use Base as a front end to external DB or do you plan to use it as a front end to the embedded HSQLDB? - do you think LibreOffice should get rid of Base? - If LibreOffice were to get rid of Base, what would you be using as a front end to databases? (freeform answer). Can't think of anything else offhand, but no doubt my brain will wake up again later :-)) BTW, I do not consider myself to be an expert in anything anyway related to survey materials, as I tend to be overly critical of them anyway !!! Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Multiple tabs in Libo
Le 06/09/11 13:58, Benjamin Horst a écrit : Hi all, Lotus Symphony, which is derived from OOo, has a great tabbed UI. Screenshots: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/product_wpe With IBM's announcement it was donating the Symphony code to Apache, it seemed possible (though unconfirmed) that this UI could become available to OOo and LibO. The UI of Lotus Symphony is a pale representation of the tabs that were available in Lotus SmartSuite (word processing) documents (which was IMHO excellent for document navigation). Additionally, the UI tabbed interface of current Lotus Symphony is apparently not part of anything that IBM will be releasing to the public domain any time soon (it was developed with Eclipse and Java and has special closed licensing issues from what I understand). There was a GSOC project to bring a tabbed interface to OOo in the version 1.x.x branches, but it never got integrated by Sun at the time, and the code didn't work in the 2.x.x branches, so assuming it could be found, it would need a complete rewrite. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Bsd
Le 12/05/11 17:17, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi all, A recent posting on the dev list by a user attempting to install the BSD port, through the use of the ports system, i.e. building, compiling, etc has indicated that it does not necessarily install as easily as one might think. However, BSD installable packages can be found : http://files.bsdroot.lv/my/FreeBSD/office-amd64/ http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-current/editors/libreoffice-3.3.0_1.tbz and also via the following command : portmaster -x libreoffice I will have to see if I can set up a BSD machine on some old machine laying around not doing much and try it out. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Bsd
Le 12/05/11 17:58, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, Fantastic! Thanks for checking that. I gather that it's usually fairly easy to install but occasionally people stumble into some weird problems for no readily apparent reason. Much the same as installs to any other OS really. However it seems that Bsd users are often more experienced and able to fix simpler problems themselves so we might not be hearing about all the problems and just get the toughest ones. I tend to send Bsd people straight to the devs list because hardly anyone on the users or marketing lists has a clue about Bsd. Yes, most people using BSD already know what they are doing. The forum discussions for FreeBSD and PC-BSD are also at hand for people having problems. I don't think you should install Bsd yourself except that it's interesting to explore and can lead to much greater understanding of your preferred OS too. Oh, I'm not worried about that, I've run various versions of BSD in the past, from 5.x through to 6.x, it is actually where I started building my own stuff really for the first time in a big way, so I know what lies in store :-)). My biggest issue with it was its (at the time) poor management of disk space, if you ran out, the whole system crashed and was often left in an unrecoverable state - by UFS file system, and the fact that it wasn't very good at supporting various wifi chipsets, even after building them :-/ Hopefully things have improved now :-) OpenOffice.org ran pretty well on it too. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: A note for Skype ConfCall participants
Le 09/05/11 17:06, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hi Florian, a short note to those wanting to participate in our conference calls via Skype: The amount of Skype dial-ins is limited, due to licensing issues. It might get even more restrictive now that Microsoft has bought up Skype. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: presentation templates
Le 03/05/11 14:37, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hi Florian, just to let you know, the German company PresentationLoad offers free presentation templates for LibreOffice: http://www.presentationload.com/en/LibreOffice/?campaign=Libreoffice Nice set of templates, kudos to them for making them available !! Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Starting something like LibreCon
Le 14/02/11 14:18, Marc Paré a écrit : Personally, I think that OpenOffice Oracle will now concentrate on java + cloud implementation while keeping a close eye on our code base. We should move away from java and start eyeing up and planning for cloud implementation as well. The cloud development orientation would also correspond to what IBM is offering with Lotus Live and Symphony. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Starting something like LibreCon
Le 14/02/11 14:53, Marc Paré a écrit : Are they moving away from Java? I have no idea, I only downloaded Symphony the other day to try it out and then promptly got an e-mail from IBM with an offering of their Lotus Live service - which went straight into the electronic wastebin :-)) Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [Localisation groups] Projects and communication
Hi Marc, Le 15/11/10 11:40, Marc Paré a écrit : Would there be any idea on how to do this efficiently? Within the OOo project, this task was carried out by the N-L leads and co-leads. Annoucements were made on the OOo announcement lists, then translated by the N-L leads/co-leads and then posted to the corresponding list. It actually worked pretty well IMHO. Alex -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Res: Res: Re: Change icon?
Hi Marc, Le 09/11/10 20:01, Marc Paré a écrit : Thanks Alex. Just for information, are you willing to help out with the legal aspects of the branding of LibO? It would really be handy if you could. We are often a little naive when proposing some of these things such as icons, mascot etc. We would definitely need some one talented in this domain. Yes, with the caveat that I can not possibly know each and every law of each and every country in which LibreOffice is going to be deployed ;-), but where I can help out, I shall try. Bear in mind that the US and, to a certain extent, even Canada, have different implementations and legal/legal policy viewpoints with regard to IP. It would be difficult for me to give advice about those aspects, and indeed, could be considered as illegal practice of law in those countries. This is probably one of the reasons why there are so few attorneys active in general in opensource projects (other than their general dislike of pro bono work), except to express themselves in very general terms or with respect to a particular territory. Alex -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Res: Res: Re: Change icon?
Hi David, Le 08/11/10 22:57, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, :-) They can certainly copyright their particular version. However, IANAL, but I don't think they can copyright the whole concept of a paper plane in general. Anyway, La Poste? Those guys can hardly stagger out of bed in the morning... I'd be surprised if there would be a problem... Anyway, their logo is in fact a bird, not a plane... Think again, they can and have sued people for trademark infringement of the marks they use to promote their business. Y'all should be checking whether the plane concept has been filed as a trademark in association with office activity, computing, or media (in the largest senses). BTW, I am a lawyer, specialising in intellectual property. Alex -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Res: Res: Re: Change icon?
Le 09/11/10 13:53, David Nelson a écrit : Since *you* are a lawyer and an intellectual property specialist, would there be any chance that *you* could maybe check the copyright status out for us? A very quick search in the European Community trademark database for the words paper plane threw up 3 results : - one owned by Nintendo, smack bang in the classes of goods and services in which LibreOffice would be active ; - and two others called Paper Planes Magazine owned by PUBLI GRAFIC EDITORES, SOCIEDAD LIMITADA. In the Hague Design Right database, a search for the keywords avion and papier: http://www.wipo.int/cgi-hag/guest/ifetch5?FRE+HAGUE-ALL.vdb+12-00+41312969-REVERSE+0+0+25920+F-FRE+1+1+1+25+SEP-0/HITNUM,B-FRE,,+DE%2favion+AND+DE%2fpapier+ This is naturally just a sample of what is out there. Alex -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Res: Res: Re: Change icon?
Le 09/11/10 14:54, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : Oh, and I forgot to throw in registered and unregistered industrial design rights ;-), which are cumulative with copyright in some jurisdictions and mutually exclusive of copyrights (but not trademarks) in others :-)) Enough to give any sane creator a major migraine. Alex -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Res: Res: Re: Change icon?
Hi David, Le 09/11/10 16:01, David Nelson a écrit : Hi Alex, :-) Thanks for your time on that... I guess that puts a stopper on the paper plane mascot idea then? Hmm, well, I don't really think the Foundation (or should I say the German OpenOffice.org Verein, since they are currently hosting and taking contributions and could be seen to be the responsible legal entity) can afford a potentially damaging and expensive trademark suit before it even officially has any legal existence ;-) And that just in one region of the globe. It would be rather embarassing for the project to find itself in the press for all the wrong reasons just after it had started up, IMHO. Alex -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Res: Res: Re: Change icon?
Le 09/11/10 17:07, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : It would be rather embarassing for the project to find itself in the press for all the wrong reasons just after it had started up, IMHO. Having said that, it could be argued that the inclusion of a graphical representation of a paper plane in a more complex semi-figurative representation (i.e. the proposed icons) is not likely to cause confusion in the mind of the general public, although I'm sure Nintendo could make like difficult if it wanted to...the question as ever comes down to who today has the money and guts to slog it out with a big name corporation that has a past history of asserting its IP rights. If the Foundation/Community/SC really wants to go with this, maybe they should get in touch with the FSF legal department. Alex -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
