Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Urgent need for a design before Tuesday
Sophie, et al; I feel a bit odd speaking up, since my participation is dormant, but it would probably help potential creator(s) to know the magazine's demographic or target audience. hth, -Craig On 01/30/2014 06:33 AM, Sophie wrote: Hi all, We have a proposal for a free ad in a magazine. The *deadline* is *Tuesday* The need is: a high res PDF, either: - 210x147mm with a 4mm bleed - 105x297mm with a 4mm bleed Could somebody help with a 4.2 dedicated ad? that will be greatly greatly appreciated, as you know several community members are preparing/attending Fosdem. Thanks a lot in advance, come back directly to me if you need more information. Cheers Sophie -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] First day of SCALE 11x
Of course! Thanks for the reminder, Charles. -Craig @socallinuxexpo http://twitter.com/socallinuxexpo A few other labels hashes I've been using... #libreoffice http://twitter.com/search?q=%23libreoffice @tdforg http://twitter.com/tdforg hope that helps, -Craig On 2/24/2013 12:41 PM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hey Craig, You're right ! Do you habe the hashtag for scale and anything the event might be identified with on social networks? Thanks, Charles. C. Olofson c.olof...@gmail.com a écrit : For all you social media mavens - Remember it's always a good time to tweet, plus, twirp, rattle or whatever -Craig On 2/24/2013 9:51 AM, Jean Weber wrote: Yesterday was the first day of our 2-day booth at SCALE 11x (Southern California Linux Expo). With only two people (J David Eisenberg and I) working the booth (10am-6pm), it was exhausting, but the feedback was great. Many people stopped to say I love your product and use it all the time and grab one of the I (heart) LibreOffice stickers. Some asked questions; a few had complaints, but the overall response was extremely positive. We handed out DVDs, flyers, stickers. We had a set of the v3.5 books; many people said, Wow, real boo ks! Several wanted to buy them, but seemed happy when we told them where to get free PDFs or buy the printed copies. Most visitors to the booth were Linux users, not developers; some were finding out about Linux and open source software for the first time. Marc, we got a few photos, but not as wide a variety as you want. We'll try to get a few more today, but with the two of us busy talking with people all the time, it's difficult to take pix. More later. Almost time to start again. At least we get to quit at 4PM today. --Jean -- Envoyé de mon téléphone avec Kaiten Mail. Excusez la brièveté. -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Enterprise adoption of LibreOffice
On 2/13/2013 3:55 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 02/13/2013 06:38 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote: On 2/14/13 12:18 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: Interesting, if MS became aware that say few large city that currently use MSO were considering LO they might make FUD attacks on LO. I do not know exactly how the MS support agreements work (I would assume something like $x / person for a years with option to renew) but non renewal would be a very good indication someone is switching to something else. Only a few large MS Office users have support agreements, because they already spend a large amount of money on licenses, but Microsoft visits them at least twice a year to try to sell on top of licenses. They use every opportunity to provide competitive marketing materials, and the fact that several users do not want to speak about migrations is due to the fact that they would immediately receive the visit of Microsoft sales people, who - in some cases - would try to discredit the CIO with his management because of the choice to use free software. Microsoft is very effective, although they are losign grip with their market because of their attitude. What is a typical license term? Years ago I worked closely with my company's sales team. What I noticed it was better to sell your products features and benefits and say nothing about your competitors unless directly asked by the customer. Then be very careful what you say to avoid antagonizing the customer and be very factual. I worked with chemical equipment manufacturers and our customers where often chemical engineers. The long term problem with FUD tactics is it risks one's creditability by becoming a known liar. It may take awhile. I can't speak to licensing terms but with respect to adoption of anything other than MSO: in my (limited) experience with both companies and non-profits, most resistance to moving away from MSO comes from the workers who use MSO. It doesn't matter whether one has a better non-free app (Wordperfect), a better cloud solution (Google Apps) or whether one can articulate the beauty of free-as-in-free-speech: Change, for most end users, is to be avoided in the extreme. That attitude, in my opinion, is the biggest barrier to LibO adoption; even bigger than MS' fud machine. fwiw, -Craig -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4.0.0.3 has no printer in Win7 - SHOW STOPPER
On 2/1/2013 12:47 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 02/01/2013 03:44 PM, Joel Madero wrote: On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:35 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com mailto:webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: I just installed 4.0.0.3 on my Win7 laptop. It will not show anyprinters at all. Claims there is noneis installed. 4.0.0.2 does prints fine, but 4.0.0.3 does not. This is a Show Stopper. Crap, can you open a bug report on free desktop. Our QA team will investigate. Best Regards, Joel -- *Joel Madero* LibreOffice QA Volunteer jmadero@gmail.com mailto:jmadero@gmail.com Never opened a bug report before, if I remember correctly. Do you want me to send you a screen clip of what it looks like off list? I have not installed .3 on any Ubuntu systems yet, but will go back to .2 for Win7 Looks like it's a fresh one, congratz. ;-) I poked around and couldn't find it here: http://goo.gl/4zTVd . Check out this outline for bug-reporting at the document foundation: http://goo.gl/ZSx6Q -Craig -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOffice Business cards
On 01/17/2013 07:01 AM, Marc Paré wrote: Hi Eliane and Italo Le 2013-01-17 06:06, Italo Vignoli a écrit : On 1/17/13 5:04 AM, Marc Paré wrote: We have a list of these items on our Conference kit page[2]. We have a booth at Scale that we will need to help organize for Jean. The BoD has just agreed to use MOO minicards for BoD and MC members, so Jean will receive her business cards for SCALE. If you want to have a look at the layout, you can find it here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/116590/minicards.pdf (just look at the visual layout). We have agreed to use the following standard title: Member, Board of Directors instead of Director, xxx, as in the example. Eliane: Thanks. Once you upload the source files I will put up a link to them. Italo: Thanks. Could I upload this to the wiki and then link to it on the wiki resources page? If you use if for BoD and MC members, could we also expand it for use by TDF members and conference business cards? Then we would all carry the same cards and this would add to the visibility of our brand. BTW ... I know that we are not to print business cards freely, I just want to leave examples on the wiki resources page so that we can refer to these the next time someone asks about them. We are normally asked about them close to conference times when people are busy. BTW .. I have been looking at VistPrint which serves both the N. S. Americas and Europe[1]. They also sell conference booth materials, swag, clothing and other marketing items that seems reasonably priced. We could purchase from them as well. If we approached them, they may give us corporate discount if we were to purchase all our items from them. Their printing locations are in Windsor, Canada (next the the US border), you can virtually yell across the river to our American cousins from there, and, Venlo IT. They also have an office in Paris.[2] It looks like they could serve a good part of our needs in these geographical areas. We would have to find another service such as them for the Asian, Arabian, African etc. markets. But it looks like VistaPrint could also serve these markets as well. IMO, VistaPrint would be a good choice of supplier for the TDF/LibreOffice. We have been talking about a TDF/LibreOffice store for quite a while, and I think it would be more efficient to get VistaPrint to work out a TDF/LibreOffice group of products that could support our needs. IMO we would not be efficient enough to support a LibreOffice store, we just lack the manpower to do this. Cheers, Marc [1] www.vistaprint.ca [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vistaprint We've been using Vistaprint for several year now. Mostly for business card runs (250/per) but, also, some swag (e.g. pens, t-shirts, bags). Overall, apart from the t-shirts, we've been happy with the quality of the runs. As well, they've been very responsive to emailed inquiries. The only, slight, downside in all of this has been their pricing structure: it's not what I'd call fully 'transparent'. I'm not saying it's bad but, for example, they might still charge for uploading custom images. I'm guessing no one's heard of an open source friendly print shop, similar to World Label? http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/pageinformation.htm fyi, -Craig -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: IMPORTANT !!! NEW Marketing Call Doodle January
An fyi; I notice there's a nice spot for comments below the Doodle form. It might be worthwhile for people to note there anything they hope to have mentioned in the meeting... a proto-agenda, perhaps? ;-) thanks Marc, -Craig On 01/05/2013 09:47 AM, Marc Paré wrote: :-) Le 2013-01-05 12:35, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Thank you Marc! Charles. -- 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] US Journalist blames LibO for lost work
fyi; I really really want to like Libre Office, but I just lost an hour of editing in a document due to some bizarre bug that I can't can now reproduce. And I was saving regularly. Crap, crap, crap. https://plus.google.com/113210431006401244170/posts/E7Ktup1Aq4M -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] US Journalist blames LibO for lost work
Exactly so, Italo. Thank you Charles for following through with this. -Craig On 12/13/2012 05:50 AM, Italo Vignoli wrote: I know Dan, he used to be a famous newspaper journalist (San Jose Mercury News, and then Silicon Valley Watcher), but now he is even more authoritative and influential as he has replaced Walter Cronkite at the Arizona State University School of Journalism (probably, the best worldwide). I am going to write him a personal message, as he might not see the G+ discussion. He is using Ubuntu, and I will try to discover which version of LibreOffice. Ciao, Italo On 12/13/12 2:45 PM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hold on right there. Dan Gillmore is a famous newspaper journalist from Silicon Valley and he's no bullshiter. I have asked him to send us a copy of this problematic document, we will see... -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] US Journalist blames LibO for lost work
Well; If this is considered 'best practices' or even 'good practice' the software should be set, by default, to do it then. Currently, in contrast, the Getting Started Guide (v3.5 p49) makes the choice of using *either* format appear inconsequential: If you routinely share documents with users of Microsoft Office, you might want to change the Always save as attribute for documents to one of the Microsoft Office formats. For what it's worth, this is a classic case of a crisis for a consumer goods company (i.e. s/w application publisher). The solution to this won't be found in providing helpful hints for the next time. It'll be found by being very responsive in providing status and resolution in the same forums where the crisis is being discussed by consumers. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_management#Examples_of_successful_crisis_management -Craig On 12/13/2012 10:14 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Jay's advice is pretty much the standard the Users List keep reiterating. Keep an original in native format and if you have to share with others give them a Doc NOT a DocX I've lost count of how many times a wide range of different people have said that on the Users List. Regards from Tom :) From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 13 December 2012, 18:01 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] US Journalist blames LibO for lost work On 12/13/2012 12:18 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote: On 12/13/12 6:17 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: Good question about document length and how was he saving. What I read did not have enough details to know truly what happened. Received both docs, unfortunately they are DOCX. Short doc, three pages, seems to be a format problem and not a content problem (the DOCX is damaged). As matter of good practice I always save or create as an ODF document. If I need to send it as some other format then I use Save As or FileExport -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- 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 -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Marketing Ideas
On 02/18/2012 06:54 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Goldfish wrote on 2012-02-18 14:40: 2. Can TDF place some free ads with Google others? Depends if we find a sponsor... Florian Is their a 'cheat sheet' for 'how to get a corporate sponsor?' Can't say I've done this before. -Craig -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] CeBIT preparations
On 02/05/2012 01:52 PM, drew wrote: On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 22:42 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello, we have booked a CeBIT booth together with FrODeV, but to be honest, despite lots of calls for action, the preparations are not really moving forward. I have not seen anyone working on creating or updating English materials, and organize that they are printed in time. In a nutshell, for international visitors, we right now simply have nothing at all to show or give away. :-( - are there two things that folks would want the most, in English? An update to the brochure about the product? Update to the postcard? Would you rather see stuff about the product or about the project roadmap? There is 30 days left (not much) but maybe could do two things in two days... snip I haven't been following the list for a while but, as Drew says, if you have a short-list of what English material is needed, I'll put 16 hours into it this week. -Craig -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Italo's announcement re: LibO online and link
The linky works for me (ubuntu vlc) but, for redistribution, it looks like Florian has the answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVR7HqDokmA Excellent developments! -Craig On 10/14/2011 07:36 AM, Marc Paré wrote: Italo just announced the coming of LibO online (on the announce mailing list), but, he also added a link. I just wanted to ask some of you to check the link. Could people check if the link works for you? Here is the link. http://people.gnome.org/~michael/data/2011-10-10-lool-demo.webm I am running it through VLC. We should make sure that people can see the video without any problems. Cheers, Marc -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Recruitment for Base (Was Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?)
On 09/22/2011 03:13 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: David Nelson wrote: Although, like Tom, I'd love to see TDF get something moving with Google (one of our supporters, no?) and work on Google Docs integration. What does GDocs have to do with Base specifically? My thought is that if it were a resource issue, a cloud store/sync play is more important to LO than Base. Google is a very logical first step. LO requires a cloud store/sync component analogous to MS Office365/Sharepoint[1]. Google already has one but only for MSO itself called OfficeConnect[2]. OfficeConnect was originally developed by two gents at DocVerse[3] which was acquired by Google. These two gents, Shan Sinha Alex DeNeui, still work at Google and were responsible for retooling their product into OfficeConnect. hth, -Craig 1) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/online-services.aspx 2) http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/officeconnect.html 3) http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/05/google-acquires-docverse-to-further-office-arms-race/ -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Building a network of marketeers
On 08/17/2011 06:14 AM, drew wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 14:58 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: drew wrote (17-08-11 14:52) if you want to look to a model then look to Ubuntu Local Teams Can you explain more? I thought you'd never ask Quick comment: IMO the way the Marcons structure was at OpenOffice.org was passive, you setup a list of individuals as contacts in local areas and then they waited for something to happen. What the Ubuntu Local Team approach does is say, you must demonstrate that there is: 1 - more then one person in an area as a contact 2 - these people are actively engaged in local activities 3 - REQUIRE feedback from these people on a regular basis [This has to be both a carrot / stick approach, heavy on the carrot] in other words, and I realize only my POV, it seemed that the Marcon model was passive, where as the Local Team approach is pro-active. Fabian Rodriquez made what I thought were good points along these lines a few months back, I think on the fr mailing list (discuss?) and I'll go look for that for a reference for this thread. //drew A powerful model, thx Drew -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] website terminology for free software
On 08/04/2011 01:36 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Florian, Florian Effenberger wrote (04-08-11 21:57) I've received a request to change two things on our website, regarding terminology: - Instead of solely using open source, I was asked that we should also use free software. - Linux should be referred to as GNU/Linux. [...] Shall we aim for achieving a good mixture of both terminologies? Anyone has severe concerns on that? Using 'free' along side 'open source' is good anyway, because it adds an extra dimension to our message, that is quite easy to understand. The use of 'GNU' does not add anything that is easy to understand. It's more something that people 'in the know' like to see. It might look a bit more weird to people that are new. But the change that it hurts is so small, that I do not object the use of GNU/Linux. Cheers, I agree with Cor on both items. -Craig -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] voiceovers for LibOCon
On 07/20/2011 04:40 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello, I still have the offer from a speaker to do voice-overs for LibreOffice. So far, we didn't make use of it. :-) What just popped to my mind was: Would it be helpful to have some voice-overs for the LibreOffice Conference? Is there any place we could air them, or do we have any videos that still need some sound? Florian There are voice-overs this person can do immediately, apart from specific events. We can always use (and re-use) thematic statements throughout our stock videos. This would be a great help since aural branding can be as important as visual. Just a modest amount of repetition will go a long way to building LibO's brand. We can accept this person's generous offer right now by using already available phrases (e.g. at libreoffice.org). We can then keep these in the can to use as desired. For example, either of these could be made the standard intro for all of 2011's conference video intros: LibreOffice is the free power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs LibreOffice is a comprehensive, professional-quality productivity suite that you can download http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ and install http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/installation/ for free. There is a large base of satisfied LibreOffice users worldwide, and it is available in more than 30 languages and for all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, Suse, ...). You can download http://www.libreoffice.org/download/, install http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/installation/ and distribute LibreOffice freely, with no fear of copyright infringement. Regards, -Craig -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] making the confcalls more attracting
On 07/09/2011 11:28 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello, the participation in the latest marketing conference calls hasn't been that overwhelming. :/ With this e-mail, I would like to discuss on how we can make these calls more attracting. Those who did not attend, I would like to ask, on why. :-) I didn't attend the last meeting simply because it fell on a major holiday. Prior to that, I'd been attending the NA marketing meetings lurking on lists to get a better feel for the org (I'm new to major FOSS projects). Looking forward, I imagine I'll be attending these meets in the future. -Craig -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Marketing ConCall minutes up on wiki
On 07/06/2011 06:23 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 07/06/2011 04:48 AM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-07-05 05:50, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hi Marc, Marc Paré wrote on 2011-07-04 21.32: The minutes of today's LibreOffice Marketing team ConfCall has been posted on the wiki[1]. thanks a lot for drafting the notes, much appreciated! I've just uploaded the audio recording as well. Florian Thanks Florian for doing this also. I have also left a note on the ES and FR lists about the minutes and mp3. I had forgotten to warn these groups of the meeting. I'll try not to do this again next time. Cheers Marc Marc Could you give a URL? I am having problems finding that page. Here you go: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls#July_4.2C_2011_.28Time:_1600UTC.29 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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] Another news-gathering tool
Hello; For those who are open to using Google News, I have created a news section which, theoretically, should collate all English language articles, world-wide, pertaining to either LibreOffice or The Document Foundation. (Unlike the other tools I'd found, this one searches for instances of either LibO or TDF.) You do not need to have an account with Google or log in to access this news section. To use: 1. Navigate to https://www.google.com/news 2. Click on Add a section, located on the upper right region of the page 3. Enter a string such as 'Document Foundation' and click 'Search'. 4. Click on the resulting title 'TDF-LibO' This should bring you back to Google's news reader. If you would like, this result may be localized by clicking on the edition link found in the upper right region (next to Add a section). By the way, if anyone knows how to enforce an all or international option for edition, please let me know and I'll modify this tool. fyi, -Craig -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Enjoy It!
Love the finish. Thanks for putting this together. -Craig On 06/27/2011 01:38 AM, drew wrote: Hi, Had the opportunity to represent LibreOffice/TDF at a recent Linux Festival two weeks ago. Took the chance to ask a few of the attendees what they thought about Libo - here is 90 seconds worth. http://www.youtube.com/user/libreofficeVols Best whishes //drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fw: [libreoffice-users] Steam Distribution Inquiry
Wow. A whole, new, worldwide distribution channel, predominantly for the Windows platform. It sounds intriguing. A few issues come to mind based on my (limited) experience w/ the current Steam client and Valve, in no particular order: * a mature, robust widespread distribution channel * a possible new channel for donation streams * wonderful platform stats (http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey) * client license is problematic (http://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/) * client launch is intrusive (lose mouse window focus) * client updates are frequent and mildly intrusive (~2/month) * client acts as licensing enforcer (and can be pretty draconian) * support for both Windows Mac OSX - planned support for Linux dropped Valve is one of the early SaaS pioneers and, like SalesForce, attempted to cater to businesses. They couldn't move past the gaming industry (until now) though and it hasn't always been a pleasant ride. For those who remember, there was a time when a person could go to a store, purchase and install a SteamPowered game but not be able to run the product unless the user had * a working internet connection * an account on Steam delivery/licensing servers This was done purely for considerations related to DRM/anti-piracy. I'm not trying to paint a completely bleak picture here but, for those who are unfamiliar with the software gaming industry, it's important to keep in mind that some of the (fully legal and ethical) tactics used by Valve for distributing/licensing games will probably conflict with F/OSS licensing and norms. In short, the licensing terms for their planned app store (and its servicing client) will have to represent a departure from Valve's current gaming-centric enforcement policies. There's a lot more I could address, if there's any interest. Apart from the concerns above, this represents a marvelous, marvelous opportunity. It makes me wonder whether we should be talking with other app stores (i.e. Apple?). Tom... good move passing this along. -Craig On 06/24/2011 06:31 AM, Benjamin Horst wrote: This could be a great channel to spread LibreOffice! Please let us know what you hear back from Mark at Valve Software. -Ben On Jun 24, 2011, at 7:46 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) The users list got an unusual email from a fairly vast organisation that is primarily a vast distribution network. A couple of people pointed them towards the marketing list but i think there are other issues that might require a dialogue with the Steering Committee and/or BoD and/or the Advisory Board. I have included my verbose response to their initial enquiry but please skip that and focus on their request at the bottom of this email. Two other people responded before me with RTFM type answers pointing them towards Marketing. I think we need to be more prepared next time but it's not really something that is easy to prepare for as it is unlikely to happen again. Regards from Tom :) - Forwarded Message From: Tom Daviestomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk To: us...@global.libreoffice.org Cc: ma...@valvesoftware.com Sent: Fri, 24 June, 2011 10:51:58 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Steam Distribution Inquiry Hi :) I think the main people you need to contact are the Steering Committee steering-discuss+subscr...@documentfoundation.org General discussions about other aspects of TDF are on a separate list discuss+subscr...@documentfoundation.org but the steering discuss is the more useful list for your needs i think. LibreOffice is released under copyleft agreements so you don't really need to even ask permission to copy and distribute. There are a few caveats of course. The original source code must be made available to anyone that wants it. If you want to mirror the TDF download sites then this list might be helpful for a quick result mirrors+subscr...@documentfoundation.org Further Detail If you make a profit then it would be best to give a percentage or just an amount of that back to TDF. Steam personel can modify the code but licensing and maintaining the result is tricky unless you choose the same copyleft agreement as the original. Many organisations put resources (time, personnel, whatever) into TDF to develop code, documentation, translations and so on to get some control over which issues are addressed in those areas. This will happen more although the individual volunteers base also grows rapidly and everyone is treated equally within TDF as it is a meritocracy. Some organisations such as Google, RedHat, Novell and so on have put people on an advisory board that advises the Steering Committee and the Board of Directors. Steam could become a full member at that level but it costs a bit and i am not sure about the details. Again that is an issue for the Steering Committee steering-discuss+subscr...@documentfoundation.org Side Issues If you want to create Dvds to distribute then there are
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Reminder: LibreOffice Marketing Conference Call for June 2011
On 06/22/2011 08:22 AM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-06-22 11:12, Italo Vignoli a écrit : On 6/22/11 5:04 PM, C. Olofson wrote: At 1502 UTC, The conference master has locked the room. You are too late. Sorry. Sorry, the room is unlocked now Still locked for me :-( Time to hone our German-speaking skillz grin -Craig -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Media Contacts for TDF
On 06/10/2011 07:19 AM, Italo Vignoli wrote: On 6/10/11 9:35 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: If anyone else wants to change/enhance his data, raise your voice now. :-) I would add the following: VoIP +39.02.320621813 gtalk italo.vign...@gmail.com skype italovignoli Also, to solve the time problem, I would use: Italo Vignoli (UTC+1, based in Milan, Italy) Here's my vote for the contact's template. Putting the geography first has the cognitive advantage of familiarity. It's a relatively small detail though. Italo Vignoli, based in Milan, Italy (UTC+1) Mobile: +39 348 565382 E-mail: italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org VoIP: +39.02.320621813 gtalk: italo.vign...@gmail.com skype: italovignoli Apart from the the individual's contact format, I recommend that the contact process be (very slightly) re-worked. Specifically, provide a unique email address for each; 1) 'General Inquiries' (e.g. i...@documentfoundation.org) 2) 'Press and Media Contacts' (e.g. pr...@documentfoundation.org) The benefit is that this raises the profile of the whole Press (with a capital 'p') ecosystem. The cost looks to me as being trivial. You probably know better. One last thing. In the following paragraph: We have a dedicated group of press contacts who are happy to answer your questions about The Document Foundation and LibreOffice. *To receive a reply in time, we recommend contacting us directly at i...@documentfoundation.org mailto:i...@documentfoundation.org, which will be distributed to all contacts below.* The phrase: *To receive a reply in time,* implies an already-established deadline. If, on the other hand, we are letting people know the fastest practical way to get a response, the following phrases are more precise (at least for colloquial American English speakers): *For the promptest response,* *For the quickest response,* *For the most timely reply,* etc. hope this helps, -Craig -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Marketing Team Newsletter and Blog
[N.B. for those without an Alfresco account, the manifesto is also available here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Next_Decade_Manifesto] -Craig On 05/17/2011 06:16 AM, John Shabanowitz wrote: Marc, After you asked me to write a mission statement, I started my research. I looked in Alfresco to see where everyone was headed. It seems the type of document, statement of values and direction, has already been written. It is LO_next_decade_manifesto.pdf. http://alfresco.libreoffice.org/alfresco/d/d/workspace/SpacesStore/064e9e2a-cff2-43e7-a35e-5b10b711729a/LO_next_decade_manifesto.pdf I suggest this document be adopted as the marketing blog mission statement. *John Shabanowitz http://libodocs.wordpress.com We're recruiting, come join us.* On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Marc Parém...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2011-05-12 13:38, John Shabanowitz a écrit : Marc, I'll help if I can. What is the vision or mission statement for the marketing blog? I understand there will be announcements and news of who and what organizations are using LibreOffice, but what else? How will you draw an audience and keep them engaged, keep them coming back? *John Shabanowitz http://libodocs.wordpress.com We're recruiting, come join us.* On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Marc Parém...@marcpare.com wrote: Hi John At this point it is just a step in the direction of setting up the blog. Would you be able to draw up a mission statement? You could post one on this list and we could all discuss it. Not to forget blogging about the conferences, LUG meetings where LibreOffice was represented, formation of different communities around the LibreOffice suite etc. We could work on a mission statement to better identify our expectations. Cheers Marc -- 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 -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Simple general LibreOffice flyer (WAS Re: Document Freedom Day Artwork)
Hi Marc, Tom; I don't mean to muddy the waters unnecessarily but, in the case of *BSD, support would be more likely coming from their end and not TDF's. Also: * there are a lot of unrelated *BSD's (e.g. Free-, Open- and netBSD) * *BSD apps aren't (normally) distributed as pre-compiled packages but as source to compile * once an app is in the ports, it (normally) has a maintainer (IOW, is supported) * checking w/those projects will show whether LibO is supported So, for example, to see whether an app is supported by FreeBSD, I * go to their central applications site: http://www.freshports.org * search on LibreOffice * find that 3.2.2 is the current ver and the maintainer is Baptiste Daroussin I'm not as familiar with the other *BSD's but, if you want, I'll poke around to establish whether they are maintaining LibO and at what version. hth, -Craig On 05/12/2011 04:05 AM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-05-12 06:45, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) Hah, i can't find it in the downloads drop-down any-more. I'm sure it was there quite recently. There was documentation on how to install LibreOffice in Bsd somewhere in documentation. Hopefully i might get time later to try to find it. Note that no other Office Suite works on Bsd afaik so it would be quite sweet to acknowledge it. Regards from Tom :) You may want to check on the dev list. If Bsd is officially supported, then we will make adjustments to our marketing materials. It would be nice if it were supported. AFAIK, there was talk of it on the dev list and some people got it to work, but then the threads just died out. Maybe there were problems with getting committed devs for BSD. Cheers Marc -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Bsd
On 05/12/2011 08:17 AM, Tom Davies wrote: It would be really great if the documentation team were told of any results you discover, or even better if you could help them with the installer pages. Should I email a list or any particular person? tia, -Craig -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Simple general LibreOffice flyer (WAS Re: Document Freedom Day Artwork)
On 05/12/2011 07:35 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: So what would you add to this sample document that would reflect BSD, or should it be kept the same? http://libreoffice-na.us/dvd-insert-mine-sample.pdf The BSD entry is relatively odd (because the OS works with ports packages). Happily, it makes for a briefer write-up. Here's my stab at it. *BSD * LibreOffice packages and ports are maintained by many BSD communities, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD and PC-BSD. Please check with these communities and reference their respective repositories for further information on system requirements and installation instructions. I can confirm that LibO is in the FreeBSD, OpenBSD and PC-BSD repositories. These three represent the lion's share for desktop BSD. As a side note, Robert Nagy, who's involved in LibreOffice development, is also the port manager for OpenBSD. They just interviewed him over at the TDF blog in January.* If we need anything else for the insert with respect to *BSD, we can always contact him. hope this helps, -Craig *http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/01/21/developer-interview-robert-nagy/ -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Bsd
Hi Alex; On 05/12/2011 08:44 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 12/05/11 17:17, Tom Davies a écrit : ...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 Just to be clear: if anything were to find its way into LibO marketing doc, it should steer users towards official packages (e.g. the second url above). Even then, at that point, we should be listing the port, as well as, the package repository and -of course- for each distro. grin For marketing collateral such as inserts flyers, that level of detail shouldn't be necessary. It is important, however, to reference availability on BSD in the same way it is important to dot our i's and cross our t's. BSD is a foundational community within the F/OSS ecosystem. Not mentioning it would be... odd. 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 -Craig -- 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] Sourceforge F/OSS event calendar
A couple of questions this raises: - do we want to collect and place calendars on the marketing wiki? - are there other comprehensive calendars like this that we should track? hth, -Craig We’ve compiled a list of FOSS-related events. Check out the upcoming events for those in your area and support FOSS! If you have a related event to add, please let Elizabeth Naramore (elizabethn .at. sourceforge .dot. net) know, and she’ll be happy to add it for you. http://sourceforge.net/blog/calendar-of-open-source-software-events/ -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] torrentfile for American DVD ISO
On 03/10/2011 09:04 AM, drew wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 17:46 +0100, Christian Lohmaier wrote: Hi *, On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Jeff Chimenejchim...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:38 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 03/10/2011 09:50 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions schrieb: 1) Tim will FTP a working image to Drew's server 2) We'll either seed the file from that server via sshfs, or we'll drag it to our workstations and seed from there. Either Drew or I will send you a .torrent It's pointless to first upload via ssh/ftp/whatever and then start seeding, when you can start seeding right away and upload it this way. I feel pretty strongly that we are at a spot right now where a shared copy need to get out, there are a few of ready to add the fnal edits and then share back to the others. So - seeding a torrent for files from Tim's PC is fine if that is manageable today. However if in the end it is quicker to just use an ftp client that Tim knows how to work with and use an intermediary spot to get shared access that is a winner in my book also, the ftp server is up, the account is setup, as is a private directory to receive the file(s) and we can share access amongst a small working group as needed. It also becomes a working space to put our work back into a whole, BTW. //drew What if Tim uploads the image to a file-sharing service? It's easy to do. The others, who want to set up torrent seeds or, who want to host the entire image can grab it from there. Filedropper, http://www.filedropper.com/, will host a file up to 5GB as long as it's downloaded at least one time per month. hth, -Craig -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] torrentfile for American DVD ISO
On 03/10/2011 10:25 AM, drew wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 10:09 -0800, C. Olofson wrote: On 03/10/2011 09:04 AM, drew wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 17:46 +0100, Christian Lohmaier wrote: Hi *, On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Jeff Chimenejchim...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:38 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 03/10/2011 09:50 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions schrieb: 1) Tim will FTP a working image to Drew's server 2) We'll either seed the file from that server via sshfs, or we'll drag it to our workstations and seed from there. Either Drew or I will send you a .torrent It's pointless to first upload via ssh/ftp/whatever and then start seeding, when you can start seeding right away and upload it this way. I feel pretty strongly that we are at a spot right now where a shared copy need to get out, there are a few of ready to add the fnal edits and then share back to the others. So - seeding a torrent for files from Tim's PC is fine if that is manageable today. However if in the end it is quicker to just use an ftp client that Tim knows how to work with and use an intermediary spot to get shared access that is a winner in my book also, the ftp server is up, the account is setup, as is a private directory to receive the file(s) and we can share access amongst a small working group as needed. It also becomes a working space to put our work back into a whole, BTW. //drew What if Tim uploads the image to a file-sharing service? It's easy to do. The others, who want to set up torrent seeds or, who want to host the entire image can grab it from there. Filedropper, http://www.filedropper.com/, will host a file up to 5GB as long as it's downloaded at least one time per month. Because it is not ready for full distribution - so putting to a place where we (the people working on it) can actually work on it collectively is the only real answer. There is a good solution right in front of us - why not use it. I'm not looking to cloud the issue. This is simply y.a. method for the image to find its way to your server (in case Tim finds it easier/faster/less complicated than ftp). I thought, at this point, that the emphasis is on making it available to you, Drew, sooner than later. If it matters how you get your image, ignore the suggestion. -Craig -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] torrentfile for American DVD ISO
On 03/10/2011 01:57 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 03/10/2011 04:31 PM, Jeff Chimene wrote: On 03/10/2011 02:23 PM, drew wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 16:13 -0500, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 03/10/2011 02:12 PM, drew wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 11:07 -0800, C. Olofson wrote: On 03/10/2011 10:56 AM, drew wrote: This is simply y.a. method for the image to find its way to your server (in case Tim finds it easier/faster/less complicated than ftp). I thought, at this point, that the emphasis is on making it available to you, Drew, sooner than later. If it matters how you get your image, ignore the suggestion. Hi Craig, Right - thanks and sorry for being quick there. Not a problem in the slightest, Drew. Thanks for driving this. Ha - Tim is the one cracking the whip...*chuckling* @Tim I mean that in the best way.. I here the whip cracking myself. Maybe my cat is using it now instead of his claws before I cut them back AGAIN. Well, if we can get the typos fixed soon, then we will have a finished product before the up-coming events. But at least we will give it our best try. ISO file to come online soon. After the DVD is locked, then I get to do some video editing for another project, before the lady who is the whip-cracker gets back from a month long Florida working vacation. Well back to the third project now. Will do more on the DVD tomorrow, and uploading in a few days. Tim it's great what your doing - just do what you can, when you can, and there are a few of us ready to work to get it finished up with you. It would be great to find someone willing to take a crack at the sleeve insert in the meantime - anyone? Sorry, I haven't been paying attention. What needs to be done? Go to the demo/testing site and help find the errors with the pages. Then we can get the pages finished and locked down so we give the pages to our translating teams to do their work. So go to the site. Look at the pages. Find the errors. Then I/we can get the editing finished. Lets get it done and on to the next stage of the project. Not to come off absolutely thick here but, what the address for the demo/testing site? tia, -Craig -- 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 ***
