[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Simple general LibreOffice flyer (WAS Re: Document Freedom Day Artwork)
Hi Drew Le 2011-05-12 01:16, drew a écrit : Thanks for doing this Drew. I think we need to review all of the marketing tools and add the scatter wherever we can. It just jazzes up everything really well. The only comments I have is p.1, 3rd panel The Multi-language office suite for should be capitalized as it is a title and looks a little unbalanced. Would it be OK to put: Multi-Language Office Suite for Microsoft Window Gnu/Linux Mac OSX Alright This would give it a triangular shape, lead the reader to the bottom LibreOffice logo and I think it would look nicer to the eye. If we do this, then we would want to copy this list order on p.2, panel 1 and have: MS Windows, Gnu/Linux, Mac OS X and OK There was also some feedback, via PM, from Tim - so here you go, with all of the changes http://lo-portal.us/temp/LibOPamphlet-may-11b.pdf //drew Great work! Reads well and looks great! 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] Re: Simple general LibreOffice flyer (WAS Re: Document Freedom Day Artwork)
Hi :) I know Bsd is not hugely well-known as a desktop but apparently LibreOffice works on the Bsd distros too, not just Windows, Linux Mac. Regards from Tom :) From: Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com To: marketing@libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 12 May, 2011 10:23:26 Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Simple general LibreOffice flyer (WAS Re: Document Freedom Day Artwork) Hi Drew Le 2011-05-12 01:16, drew a écrit : Thanks for doing this Drew. I think we need to review all of the marketing tools and add the scatter wherever we can. It just jazzes up everything really well. The only comments I have is p.1, 3rd panel The Multi-language office suite for should be capitalized as it is a title and looks a little unbalanced. Would it be OK to put: Multi-Language Office Suite for Microsoft Window Gnu/Linux Mac OSX Alright This would give it a triangular shape, lead the reader to the bottom LibreOffice logo and I think it would look nicer to the eye. If we do this, then we would want to copy this list order on p.2, panel 1 and have: MS Windows, Gnu/Linux, Mac OS X and OK There was also some feedback, via PM, from Tim - so here you go, with all of the changes http://lo-portal.us/temp/LibOPamphlet-may-11b.pdf //drew Great work! Reads well and looks great! 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
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Simple general LibreOffice flyer (WAS Re: Document Freedom Day Artwork)
Le 2011-05-12 05:52, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) I know Bsd is not hugely well-known as a desktop but apparently LibreOffice works on the Bsd distros too, not just Windows, Linux Mac. Regards from Tom :) Are these officially supported? We should only mention officially supported platforms. 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] Re: Simple general LibreOffice flyer (WAS Re: Document Freedom Day Artwork)
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 :) From: Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com To: marketing@libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 12 May, 2011 11:30:21 Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Simple general LibreOffice flyer (WAS Re: Document Freedom Day Artwork) Le 2011-05-12 05:52, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) I know Bsd is not hugely well-known as a desktop but apparently LibreOffice works on the Bsd distros too, not just Windows, Linux Mac. Regards from Tom :) Are these officially supported? We should only mention officially supported platforms. 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
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Simple general LibreOffice flyer (WAS Re: Document Freedom Day Artwork)
Hi Tim: Le 2011-05-12 10:35, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions a écrit : 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 This is a sample of some of the text needed for an insert for the inside of the DVD case for our distribution DVD of LibreOffice. We have a case cover, a label, and now we are working on an inserted document for that case. I/we want to keep it simple to use and read. It is going to be read by home and office users, tech people and general computer users. So it must be easy to read and understand by the user that has the least computer skills, who at least knows how to install their own software and use a web browser. We could make another document that is more tech oriented, and include that as well, but it will need some warning label stating that this is for those who need more technical information. BSD installation may be something that would be in such a technical document, if someone knows how to do such an install. Unless we hear differently from our devs we should keep it off the marketing material. We need the dev support to trouble-shoot and if it isn't there, then, we are just creating a big headache for ourselves for nothing. Tom -- could you check with the devs to see if it is supported? 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] 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: Simple general LibreOffice flyer (WAS Re: Document Freedom Day Artwork)
From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com To: marketing@libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 12 May, 2011 22:33:19 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Simple general LibreOffice flyer (WAS Re: Document Freedom Day Artwork) On 05/12/2011 10:49 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Bsd tends (or was in the past) far to techie for most people so leaving it off our marketing materials would probably make no difference to most people. Lets face it, mostly people will only notice the Windows part and ignore the rest. It's even possible that seeing mention of the other operating systems, such as Mac, might scare them off. Many computer shops only claim to be able to help Windows users but will often be happy to fix linux problems at a discount. They avoid mentioning that in their literature and advertising because it has been found to scare off Windows users. Windows has a serious malware problems so people get scared easily. That is why there will be a Windows-Only version as well, for those people we know that will only want or need to have a Windows version. Malware issues - well that it why I have about 1/4 of my CPU power on my Vista laptop running security software. Sometimes I use it to clean other people's drives by plugging in their drives a external ones. I shocked an insurance guy when his tried to infect mine but could not and there were over 1,000 security issues on his laptop's drive. It was much easier to do it that way than do all the work to get the software to work on his badly infected laptop. That is one reason I now us Ubuntu as my default desktop computer and my laptop is now dual-boot Vista and Ubuntu. People that use Bsd will mostly be used to the idea that if something works in linux then the source code can probably be acquired easily and probably compiled in Bsd fairly easily. So, i am quite happy with the idea of leaving Bsd off the marketing materials but one day it would be nice if we could be open and proud of what our devs people such as Baptiste Daroussin have achieved. Regards from Tom :) Never used BSD before, but someone told me that Mac used BSD as the starting point for OSX. Well, it would be nice to not have to deal with it if we do not need to deal with it. The less there is on the printed paperwork for people to deal with, the easier it could be do use. I just wish that Linux would be easier to install software, like Windows with their .exe files. Sometimes the .deb files are easy, but when you need to use the terminal for the install, like LibreOffice needs to, it is one more issue for people to not want to switch from Windows to Linux. I wonder if there would be an easier way for Linux to be installed? Include a single deb file to be clicked on that would to the rest of the install automatically, like some executable script that can be run via a file navigation system and not need to be run in terminal? HP now needs to have the drivers for its printers run the make utilities so that Ubuntu can use them. But all you have to do is run the .run script and the rest is done for you. I do not remember that was the case when I used Ubuntu 9.x 64-bit., or when I first used 10.04, but now it does. I just wish we had a better driver for the graphics printing. Hi :) How about just putting a title BSD and say something vague and general such as System requirements are likely to be similar for other operating systems. Contact TDF directly or the operating system's technical support for details.. Obviously tech support = community forums and such like but the words tech support sound better to people that are not familiar with OpenSource systems. Details would need too much updating but a vague nudge in the right direction is likely to be more than enough. Regards from Tom :) -- 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: Simple general LibreOffice flyer (WAS Re: Document Freedom Day Artwork)
Le 2011-05-11 18:21, drew a écrit : Hi Tim, others Just to let you know - I've taken the tri-fold pamphlet you mention there and reworked it, for the scatter branding. (That and I really did not like the 'dental chart' on the inside..) You can find the results here: http://lo-portal.us/temp/LibOPamphlet-may-11a.pdf (.odt is sitting next to it) If I don't get any 'could you change' type feedback, then I'll go ahead and push this to the wiki (pdf and odt) Thanks Drew -- 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: Simple general LibreOffice flyer (WAS Re: Document Freedom Day Artwork)
Hi Drew et al Sorry about the previous post. I hit the wrong button. Le 2011-05-11 18:21, drew a écrit : Hi Tim, others Just to let you know - I've taken the tri-fold pamphlet you mention there and reworked it, for the scatter branding. (That and I really did not like the 'dental chart' on the inside..) You can find the results here: http://lo-portal.us/temp/LibOPamphlet-may-11a.pdf (.odt is sitting next to it) If I don't get any 'could you change' type feedback, then I'll go ahead and push this to the wiki (pdf and odt) Thanks Drew Thanks for doing this Drew. I think we need to review all of the marketing tools and add the scatter wherever we can. It just jazzes up everything really well. The only comments I have is p.1, 3rd panel The Multi-language office suite for should be capitalized as it is a title and looks a little unbalanced. Would it be OK to put: Multi-Language Office Suite for Microsoft Window Gnu/Linux Mac OSX This would give it a triangular shape, lead the reader to the bottom LibreOffice logo and I think it would look nicer to the eye. If we do this, then we would want to copy this list order on p.2, panel 1 and have: MS Windows, Gnu/Linux, Mac OS X Thanks for doing this. 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
