Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Listing on the ODF Alliance membership
I'll see what I can do, Marc, as I'm myself the representative for the Alliance in France. Best, Charles. 2010/10/29 Marc Paré > I think it would be nice if a member of the SC would register as a member > of the ODF Alliance as it looks like we are not on their membership list. > They require someone who has authority to speak on the organisation's behalf > to sign up. You can sign up here: > > http://www.odfalliance.org/join.php > > Cheers > > Marc > > > -- > E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.orgfor > 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 > > -- 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] How to approach education
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My local school district is looking at doing a fairly large upgrade from MS Office 2007 to MS Office 2010 (no real reason, just the Microsoft rep said it's time) and I'm really wanting to sell LibreOffice HARD as an affordable alternative. Has anyone approached education (specifically in the USA) and how did you do it? What are the initial forays that you used and what were the results? Thanks, Anthony - -- Anthony Papillion Advanced Data Concepts Remote Technical Support and Software Development Office: (918) 919-4624 Mobile: (918) 320-9968 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iQIVAwUBTMp4sYeUq9QAeLbkAQI/jw//eN0Mqisju/vd5LcSEJREVIYy27f3glJc fKa4G9eq1DTOJ4fd87hPz6ZahrhPSa1Jr/0DxFUPdRTEjLWuuOSGC8x7tINypC/t tN4XH3E4lSI/2zOqD/RfGDStfzn9zdZ1W/+tioKCtOJn4ZdWqPgrG4opHauD3oKf 5F+giAmAiJv1kjDiloN7PQCwKtLpxzcJFKvA2AZBbi/wXbx/G5uIhYkJGhfG47/S tkqcEKfAwNfb+2172cW4+MZsy9LEgI15dHq9sHpTIQgID9+BT4IbWftXlhtsLVK8 ZUbbmPBv7Tkk/27GCUsaavtKcPWvmqOZJsMl92v2pLBgnSJCCk0z3ahJStPJhRN4 iBtliYyRGasXIzWmmDVP6PgAjq5DlERbWtX+9kdFm5QeWh7wiKZwadUIoULvKS6K 9MMdnLgKhFD89IUgPKpk25MeOIUHfNvkyohvuxgdnQD5d69fItFRF3AjQdG7Cdr2 kxcq0XkBn0qHqhna4XpPJ4l1dV29jZ1E2YNWAwsveVTBxha/Gr/8SXZk1jt3FeXi wNlAGFBAOHi6Sf/vev6P5xD+O8KEgh0Hg1FO2TC19ozYYNQIZ/5POWfxFImiBbpE sK5RizgusDnIx+PAK6eKyBewMZDL/LiGhQTxOj72imXf2GIePMfsXKsXqe3fjC+8 n/avPDS6NR8= =GSMk -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Listing on the ODF Alliance membership
Le 2010-10-29 03:17, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : I'll see what I can do, Marc, as I'm myself the representative for the Alliance in France. Best, Charles. Merci Charles. Salut! Marc -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Obstacles to ODF adoption
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 01:40 +0200, Inge Wallin wrote: Hi, > > Or get a port of LO/OOo to cell phones! > > Is that really possible? Nothing is impossible, but it will probably be very difficult! We are planning a certification for LO/OOo based on the European Qualifications |framework. Do you think there would be interest in a similar certification for Koffice? We have pretty well all the facilities in place, government and industry endorsement, on-line technology for recording evidence, quality assurance and certificate delivery. It would not be a lot of work to make this fit Koffice as well as LO/OOo. I think if an Office Suite dominates cell phone technology it will become the next MS Office or something close to it. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications A new approach to assessment for learning www.theINGOTs.org - 01827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] ODF Alliance weblog on Document Foundation Planet
Hi, Marc Paré wrote on 2010-10-29 05.46: Would it make sense to include the ODF Alliance weblog on the Planet? I think it would be a great idea to lend them support and this would affirm our support for the open document formats. http://www.odfalliance.org/blog/ If you think this is a good idea, could you pass it along to whoever is in charge of the Planet? I'm open for other votes, but I would only add those closely related to LibO/TDF, and having a dedicated feed for that, so we have only related topics in the planet. Florian -- Florian Effenberger Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Marketing leadership and Markeing Wiki and US Wiki
Hi Marc, Marc Paré wrote on 2010-10-20 15.36: Could we establish between ourselves who will take the lead as far as representing the marketing group? IMHO, I believe that one or two individuals (I prefer 2 individuals) should be elected to take the lead as the marketing spokesperson. We will have to report back to the SC from time to time on the direction/use/ ... of the marketing group. I think that we should discuss this so that we can move on with a well coordinated strategy. we're working heavily on our infrastructure and project structure at the moment. Let's wait a bit more until we decide on the marketing leadership, but you're right, this needs to be done. For now, TDF has four official spokespeople: Italo, Charles, Olivier and myself. We'll set-up some sort of marketing contacts for LibO soon, I guess. The second area that we should be organising is the Wiki. It now has the birthday icons on the front page. Could we ask that our leadership identify the individuals in the marketing team be the only people allowed to change the Marketing Wiki and any sub-pages? Our leads should also have the ability to "lock-down" any pages when this is required. We will also have to organise the US Marketing Wiki (as a sub-category) or the main Marketing Wiki with similar permissions although making the editing and lock-down priviliges only to the US Marketing members. Hm... I doubt that locking down a wiki is a good idea. A wiki is open for collaboration by anyone. Florian -- Florian Effenberger Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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] next conference call
Hi, this is a short reminder: Please cast your vote for our next conference call at http://www.doodle.com/aweg6a5s6722biny :-) Thanks, Florian -- Florian Effenberger Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] How to approach education
Hi Anthony, Here would be some possible approaches I would take, just based upon my experiences in education. 1. Try to find out if there are any teachers within the school district who are either a) already using open source software in the classroom or b) have an interest in open source software such as LibreOffice. If you are a parent yourself within the school district, asking your child's teachers for names of those who teach computer studies and then contacting them would be a good place to start. 2. If you find a teachers who is interesting in giving LibreOffice a try, first let them do so on their workstation. Let them be convinced that LibreOffice is a great tool for educating their students. 3. Let the teacher ask the IT staff (perhaps with your assistance if they desire) if they would be willing to install LibreOffice on a select number of workstations, to evaluate its potential. Giving more rational explanations for the desire to evaluate LibreOffice could help put IT staff in a less defensive posture and may warm up to the idea, depending on the person. Reasons you could give include the software's generous licensing terms, the ability for low-income students to have a copy of the software for their not-so-modern computer at home to improve their studies, the possibility to squeeze a few more years of life out of the school's aging workstations, etc. Be sure to emphasize you wish to evaluate it, not immediately trying to make a district-wide move to the software in the immediate future. The adoption of open source software, in my observations, has worked best when there is a genuine, organic interest from the teachers, administrators, students and/or IT staff. Schools often have a number of mandates they have to comply with. Figuring out a way to explain how open source software can help in meeting those mandates, and do it better than proprietary software, can go a long way toward helping in its adoption. It won't be something that happens immediately. Then again, like a lot of things in life, taking a slow, steady approach and building a solid foundation (ie people truly interested and convinced of open source software's potential in education) I think will win out in the end. Best regards, Gabriel -- Gabriel Gurley Educator and Author Website: http://www.gabrielgurley.com/ Quoting Anthony Papillion : My local school district is looking at doing a fairly large upgrade from MS Office 2007 to MS Office 2010 (no real reason, just the Microsoft rep said it's time) and I'm really wanting to sell LibreOffice HARD as an affordable alternative. Has anyone approached education (specifically in the USA) and how did you do it? What are the initial forays that you used and what were the results? Thanks, Anthony - -- Anthony Papillion Advanced Data Concepts Remote Technical Support and Software Development Office: (918) 919-4624 Mobile: (918) 320-9968 -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Obstacles to ODF adoption
On Friday, October 29, 2010 10:18:20 Ian wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 01:40 +0200, Inge Wallin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Or get a port of LO/OOo to cell phones! > > > > Is that really possible? > > Nothing is impossible, but it will probably be very difficult! > > We are planning a certification for LO/OOo based on the European > Qualifications |framework. Do you think there would be interest in a > similar certification for Koffice? We have pretty well all the > facilities in place, government and industry endorsement, on-line > technology for recording evidence, quality assurance and certificate > delivery. It would not be a lot of work to make this fit Koffice as well > as LO/OOo. I think if an Office Suite dominates cell phone technology it > will become the next MS Office or something close to it. I think there would indeed be interest in such a certification. But I must admit that I know nothing about it. What is the purpose of the certification and what advantages do you get by having it? And how much work is involved in getting it? -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Obstacles to ODF adoption
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 14:48 +0200, Inge Wallin wrote: > On Friday, October 29, 2010 10:18:20 Ian wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 01:40 +0200, Inge Wallin wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Or get a port of LO/OOo to cell phones! > > > > > > Is that really possible? > > > > Nothing is impossible, but it will probably be very difficult! > > > > We are planning a certification for LO/OOo based on the European > > Qualifications |framework. Do you think there would be interest in a > > similar certification for Koffice? We have pretty well all the > > facilities in place, government and industry endorsement, on-line > > technology for recording evidence, quality assurance and certificate > > delivery. It would not be a lot of work to make this fit Koffice as well > > as LO/OOo. I think if an Office Suite dominates cell phone technology it > > will become the next MS Office or something close to it. > > I think there would indeed be interest in such a certification. > > But I must admit that I know nothing about it. What is the purpose of the > certification and what advantages do you get by having it? And how much work > is involved in getting it? The certification really tells people that the holder of the certificate is competent at a particular level in the applications. Some governments use it to make sure training providers do provide the training because the certification company is effectively providing independent quality assurance. There are already vendor certifications for MSO (several) and more general certifications such as ECDL. ECDL certificated 9 million people last year in 43 countries. That would provide enough revenue to employ 100 or more developers for K-Office (Or OOo or odf). Our certification is based on the UK Qualifications and credit framework which is government regulated and referenced to the European Qualifications Framework which is only a couple of year old. It is competency based so if the candidate can provide evidence that they meet the assessment criteria they can be certificated. We authorise assessors to do this subject to us sampling their work for consistency. The evidence is provided via a customised Drupal CMS. There are some videos showing how the system works at www.theingots.org/community/kl -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications A new approach to assessment for learning www.theINGOTs.org - 01827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. -- 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] Fwd: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation
Hi, I'm forwarding this in case some of you are not subscribed to the info list. Kind regards Sophie -- Forwarded message -- From: NJ P Date: Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:50 PM Subject: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation To: i...@documentfoundation.org Link to Computer Weekly article - http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/10/12/243295/Can-Openoffice.org-rival-Microsoft-with-Libre-Office.ht Extract: - "Five ways Libre Office can improve to challenge Microsoft Rebuild community momentum and supplier ecosystem - the current steering committee of developers and national language project managers in charge of the foundation are unlikely to deliver the boldness of vision and swiftness of execution required by the project at this juncture. Suppliers need to co-operate to help the team and push the agenda forwards. Improve product for management for enterprise adoption - there is next to nothing for the enterprise administrator. Openoffice.org suffers from a lack of integration with document content as well as collaboration systems despite a wealth of open source offerings in these areas. Rethink the product - rethink the product entirely and start from scratch to create an internet-centric suite of modular, easily embedded components. Target developers - it also needs to promote embedding and use by developers and companies. For example, while there are many open source PHP scripts that enable developers to create Microsoft Office documents, not so many of them are available to create Openoffice ones. Focus on innovation - Firefox was not adopted because it was free but because it introduced new features such as multiple tabs. Source: Laurent Lachal, analyst at Ovum" -- Founding member of The Document Foundation -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Hey
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 16:28 -0400, Drew Jensen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 21:56 +0200, Volker Merschmann wrote: > > The new home is under construction, but I had a look today and think > > it will be finished soon. > > PrOOo-Box was the german CD-ROM-project at OOo and the people behind > > it will try to manage it for the international LO-community. > > Thank you Volker for the answer to that question. *ping* > > May I impose with a few others? Thanks. > > When you this was the OOo project isn't more appropriate to say it was > the project of http://www.ooodev.org/ ? > > On more then a few occasions in exchanges at OOo it was made clear to me > that the organizations behind the websites was not OO.o - but was > affiliated with it, loosely. > > Will that site be changing it's name then? > > Actually let me be more precise - in reading the front page of that site > the other day it seemed to say that ooodev.org would be renaming in > order to become the new holder of the TDF entity, legally speaking. Is > that an accurate reading of the text there - I used a translation tool > so it would not surprise me if I am somehow mistaken. > > Thanks again for your time here, it is much appreciated. > > Drew > > ps - one other item I notice that ooodev.org links over to > http://www.ooo-portal.de/ > > from > > http://www.prooo-box.org/foren.html for use of a forum. > > I assume that this is similar to what the CD distributor at > http://www.8daysaweek.co.uk/forums , where he also maintains a forum for > install support. > > Yet it is different, unless the two site ooodev and ooo-portal are run > from the same organization, which from what I see in a different thread > they are not. > > But still I'm now wondering then is ooo-portal going to be re-branding > also? Perhaps, as I say, you are not the correct person to ask on this > last point. > > > > > -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation
Maybe something that we should think about is creating a Document Foundation family of products. I would not really put more products into the main LibreOffice software, but find and/or create additional products that enhance the usability of LO. One thing we really need to think about is an email/calender product. and some kind of project management product that easily intergrates with LO, even if those products are ones that are out there already they need to be easily intergrated into LO. Are there any that have kind of staled that we could approach the community to help them out and bring them under the foundation to help them grow. Of course the easy thing to do would be a partnership with Mozilla, and use Thunderbird, and Lightening. I have always felt that the project has been missing email, calender and contact management software. James -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation
I think this is a great idea, and I was also wondering if the Scribus project couldn't be added to it. After all LibreOffice doesn't provide a REAL and COMPLETE publication solution face to INDesign, QuarkXpress etc ... Scribus is a good one, and is free. Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 09:29 -0400, James Walker a écrit : > Maybe something that we should think about is creating a Document Foundation > family of products. > > I would not really put more products into the main LibreOffice software, but > find and/or create additional products that enhance the usability of LO. > One thing we really need to think about is an email/calender product. and > some kind of project management product that easily intergrates with LO, > even if those products are ones that are out there already they need to be > easily intergrated into LO. Are there any that have kind of staled that we > could approach the community to help them out and bring them under the > foundation to help them grow. > > Of course the easy thing to do would be a partnership with Mozilla, and use > Thunderbird, and Lightening. > > I have always felt that the project has been missing email, calender and > contact management software. > > James > -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] ODF Alliance weblog on Document Foundation Planet
On Oct 29, 2010, at 4:30 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi, > > Marc Paré wrote on 2010-10-29 05.46: >> Would it make sense to include the ODF Alliance weblog on the Planet? I >> think it would be a great idea to lend them support and this would >> affirm our support for the open document formats. >> >> http://www.odfalliance.org/blog/ >> >> If you think this is a good idea, could you pass it along to whoever is >> in charge of the Planet? > > I'm open for other votes, but I would only add those closely related to > LibO/TDF, and having a dedicated feed for that, so we have only related > topics in the planet. I like Marc's idea of including it, but Florian's point is relevant, too. Maybe we could add it in a sidebar on the planet, blogroll-style? Ben > -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] ODF Alliance weblog on Document Foundation Planet
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 09:39 -0400, Benjamin Horst wrote: > Maybe we could add it in a sidebar on the planet, blogroll-style? +1 -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] How to approach education
Le 2010-10-29 03:33, Anthony Papillion a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My local school district is looking at doing a fairly large upgrade from MS Office 2007 to MS Office 2010 (no real reason, just the Microsoft rep said it's time) and I'm really wanting to sell LibreOffice HARD as an affordable alternative. Has anyone approached education (specifically in the USA) and how did you do it? What are the initial forays that you used and what were the results? Thanks, Anthony Hi Anthony: Here is an exchange that was done previously on this mailist. You may find it interesting: == Le 2010-10-15 15:51, Casey Adams a écrit : > Ping Mike Huffman on LinkedIn. He managed the Indiana open desktop project and has since left and is doing consulting. The project is probably about 5 years old and I know over 100,000 desktops have been deployed. > > Casey Adams > OS4Ed Founder > > - Original Message - > From: Marc Paré > To: marketing@libreoffice.org > Sent: Fri Oct 15 15:43:27 2010 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] list name for the US group > > Le 2010-10-15 15:24, James Walker a écrit : > >> >> I am all for that. last I had heard Indiana has plans to install 300,000 >> computers using a combination of Ubuntu, and Novell for operating systems. >> I am not too sure on how many of those they have in the field at this time. >> >> >> Check out this link for the Indiana Department of Education they have some >> good information there. >> >> http://www.doe.in.gov/olt/InACCESS/index.html >> >> James Walker == Cheers Marc -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Monfort Florian wrote: > I think this is a great idea, and I was also wondering if the Scribus > project couldn't be added to it. > > After all LibreOffice doesn't provide a REAL and COMPLETE publication > solution face to INDesign, QuarkXpress etc ... Scribus is a good one, > and is free. > > > Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 09:29 -0400, James Walker a écrit : > > Maybe something that we should think about is creating a Document > Foundation > > family of products. > > > > I would not really put more products into the main LibreOffice software, > but > > find and/or create additional products that enhance the usability of LO. > > One thing we really need to think about is an email/calender product. and > > some kind of project management product that easily intergrates with LO, > > even if those products are ones that are out there already they need to > be > > easily intergrated into LO. Are there any that have kind of staled that > we > > could approach the community to help them out and bring them under the > > foundation to help them grow. > > > > Of course the easy thing to do would be a partnership with Mozilla, and > use > > Thunderbird, and Lightening. > > > > I have always felt that the project has been missing email, calender and > > contact management software. > > > > James > > > > > > These great idea. I would also add because I think the market is still wide open is the cloud office suite (think google docs). We could develop a server based online office suite that is fully compatible with ODF. this would be great for education and "virtual offices." Another path would be mobile phones, this are is wide open for FOSS. Android, iPhone and blackberry ports of LO. And lastly, we could add (since we are dreaming of a family of products) a PDF editor (like acrobat pro). This functionality is basically in Scribus. -frank -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] ODF Alliance weblog on Document Foundation Planet
Le 2010-10-29 09:51, Drew Jensen a écrit : On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 09:39 -0400, Benjamin Horst wrote: Maybe we could add it in a sidebar on the planet, blogroll-style? +1 I am OK with this too. Marc -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Hey
Hi Drew, 2010/10/29 Drew Jensen : > On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 16:28 -0400, Drew Jensen wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 21:56 +0200, Volker Merschmann wrote: >> > The new home is under construction, but I had a look today and think >> > it will be finished soon. >> > PrOOo-Box was the german CD-ROM-project at OOo and the people behind >> > it will try to manage it for the international LO-community. >> >> Thank you Volker for the answer to that question. > > *ping* > I didn't forget about this, but asked a member of the board of OOoDeV to answer here. I will ping him too. ;-) Bye Volker -- ++ Volker Merschmann - ODF-Software Contributor -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Hey
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 15:56 +0200, Volker Merschmann wrote: > Hi Drew, > > 2010/10/29 Drew Jensen : > > On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 16:28 -0400, Drew Jensen wrote: > >> On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 21:56 +0200, Volker Merschmann wrote: > >> > The new home is under construction, but I had a look today and think > >> > it will be finished soon. > >> > PrOOo-Box was the german CD-ROM-project at OOo and the people behind > >> > it will try to manage it for the international LO-community. > >> > >> Thank you Volker for the answer to that question. > > > > *ping* > > > I didn't forget about this, but asked a member of the board of OOoDeV > to answer here. I will ping him too. ;-) > > Bye > > Volker Thank you and you may as well warn him I will be asking the same question that Jean from OOoAuthors has been asking for years - financial disclosure - where? Drew -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Obstacles to ODF adoption
Le 2010-10-29 04:18, Ian a écrit : On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 01:40 +0200, Inge Wallin wrote: Hi, Or get a port of LO/OOo to cell phones! Is that really possible? Nothing is impossible, but it will probably be very difficult! We are planning a certification for LO/OOo based on the European Qualifications |framework. Do you think there would be interest in a similar certification for Koffice? We have pretty well all the facilities in place, government and industry endorsement, on-line technology for recording evidence, quality assurance and certificate delivery. It would not be a lot of work to make this fit Koffice as well as LO/OOo. I think if an Office Suite dominates cell phone technology it will become the next MS Office or something close to it. I believe a certification for LibO is an important step and that the same should be done for the N. American market and others. Is there a way to certification on this side of the pond? Certification would help with establishing LibO in the educational and business fields in N. America. Marc -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Marketing leadership and Markeing Wiki and US Wiki
Le 2010-10-29 04:32, Florian Effenberger a écrit : The second area that we should be organising is the Wiki. It now has the birthday icons on the front page. Could we ask that our leadership identify the individuals in the marketing team be the only people allowed to change the Marketing Wiki and any sub-pages? Our leads should also have the ability to "lock-down" any pages when this is required. We will also have to organise the US Marketing Wiki (as a sub-category) or the main Marketing Wiki with similar permissions although making the editing and lock-down priviliges only to the US Marketing members. Hm... I doubt that locking down a wiki is a good idea. A wiki is open for collaboration by anyone. Florian Locking down would only be used when, for example, working on a project and a time limit has been imposed. Locking it down would prevent any changes to that particular page and a vote/decision could be cast. Marc -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation
Yes the PDF editor is already in Scribus, and why not Inkscape ? The goal would be to provide an entire work suite, so that the Document Foundation would give all the necessary work environment needed in education, real work situation. We need to think about everything. Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 08:53 -0500, Frank Esposito a écrit : > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Monfort Florian > wrote: > > > I think this is a great idea, and I was also wondering if the Scribus > > project couldn't be added to it. > > > > After all LibreOffice doesn't provide a REAL and COMPLETE publication > > solution face to INDesign, QuarkXpress etc ... Scribus is a good one, > > and is free. > > > > > > Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 09:29 -0400, James Walker a écrit : > > > Maybe something that we should think about is creating a Document > > Foundation > > > family of products. > > > > > > I would not really put more products into the main LibreOffice software, > > but > > > find and/or create additional products that enhance the usability of LO. > > > One thing we really need to think about is an email/calender product. and > > > some kind of project management product that easily intergrates with LO, > > > even if those products are ones that are out there already they need to > > be > > > easily intergrated into LO. Are there any that have kind of staled that > > we > > > could approach the community to help them out and bring them under the > > > foundation to help them grow. > > > > > > Of course the easy thing to do would be a partnership with Mozilla, and > > use > > > Thunderbird, and Lightening. > > > > > > I have always felt that the project has been missing email, calender and > > > contact management software. > > > > > > James > > > > > > > > > > > > > These great idea. I would also add because I think the market is still wide > open is the cloud office suite (think google docs). We could develop a > server based online office suite that is fully compatible with ODF. this > would be great for education and "virtual offices." > > Another path would be mobile phones, this are is wide open for FOSS. > Android, iPhone and blackberry ports of LO. > > And lastly, we could add (since we are dreaming of a family of products) a > PDF editor (like acrobat pro). This functionality is basically in Scribus. > > > -frank > -- 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] someone willing to interview some developers ?
Hi there, While talking with some people, we had the idea of making some interview with developers working on LibreOffice to publish on our site/wiki. No long stories, but cute, catchy you know. And regularly, e.g. every one or two weeks. Is there anyone on this list with maybe a little experience but anyhow joy in doing such interviews? Then pls let me know and we'll get it running. Regards, Cor PS If now one volunteers, I will volunteer myself, but that might be bad for a regular appearance ;-) -- - giving openoffice.org its foundation :: The Document Foundation - -- 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] Banner ?
Hi all, I've lost the track of where the Art material is discussed, but I've a request :-) LibO has been added to the GiantClients [1] site and they are asking for a banner to better advertise our suite, do we have anything I can send them to? Thanks in advance! [1]http://www.giantclients.org/?content=partner Kind regards Sophie -- Founding member of The Document Foundation -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Banner ?
Hi Sophie, Here may be what you are looking for: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding#Logos Best regards, Gabriel -- Gabriel Gurley Educator and Author Website: http://www.gabrielgurley.com/ Quoting Sophie Gautier : Hi all, I've lost the track of where the Art material is discussed, but I've a request :-) LibO has been added to the GiantClients [1] site and they are asking for a banner to better advertise our suite, do we have anything I can send them to? Thanks in advance! [1]http://www.giantclients.org/?content=partner Kind regards Sophie -- Founding member of The Document Foundation -- 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 -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Banner ?
Hi Gabriel, On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Gabriel Gurley wrote: > Hi Sophie, > > Here may be what you are looking for: > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding#Logos Great, thanks a lot! Kind regards Sophie -- Founding member of The Document Foundation -- 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] Document Freedom Day 2011 - Who will shephard - ?
Hi, Subject line says it all. Reference DFD 2010 http://documentfreedom.org/summary.en.html I have know idea who you contact. Every year at OO.o this would come up, as if anew, a month before the event - Let's not do that here. I'm sure there are people on the list that know more details - just looking for any info you have - maybe put it on a work page on the wiki, and set a calendar reminder for December to poke the list with an update. Seems like a natural fit DFD and TDF - would like to see us be pro-active about our involvement in 2011. Any hands - particularly if you where one of the OOo participants in past years, I think there are a few here. Best wishes, Drew -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation
On Oct 29, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Frank Esposito wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Monfort Florian > wrote: >> Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 09:29 -0400, James Walker a écrit : >>> Maybe something that we should think about is creating a Document >> Foundation >>> family of products. >>> >>> I would not really put more products into the main LibreOffice software, >> but >>> find and/or create additional products that enhance the usability of LO. >>> One thing we really need to think about is an email/calender product. and >>> some kind of project management product that easily intergrates with LO, >>> even if those products are ones that are out there already they need to >> be >>> easily intergrated into LO. Are there any that have kind of staled that >> we >>> could approach the community to help them out and bring them under the >>> foundation to help them grow. >>> >>> Of course the easy thing to do would be a partnership with Mozilla, and >> use >>> Thunderbird, and Lightening. >>> >>> I have always felt that the project has been missing email, calender and >>> contact management software. >>> >>> James > > These great idea. I would also add because I think the market is still wide > open is the cloud office suite (think google docs). We could develop a > server based online office suite that is fully compatible with ODF. this > would be great for education and "virtual offices." > > Another path would be mobile phones, this are is wide open for FOSS. > Android, iPhone and blackberry ports of LO. I think we need to look ahead to tablets, based on iOS and Android. According to recent news articles, sales of iPads have made Apple the number one computer vendor in the USA. Thinking strategically, it looks like the developing world may skip PCs entirely and adopt tablets as their standard computing platform going forward, just like they skipped landlines in favor of mobile phones. Microsoft Windows will have an enormous challenge to gain any foothold in this market, and MS Office too. Thus, we have an opportunity to start on a level playing field here, without the huge inertia MS has long enjoyed. On a fair playing field, we will win--no question. My strategic suggestion is that we build a "LibreOffice Touch" for Android and iOS tablets as the first new member of this broader family of products. Full ODF support will allow compatibility with LibreOffice, and consistent branding will help reinforce both product lines. (As for web office suites, I researched this recently. Zimbra provides open source web-based docs and spreadsheets that customers can install on their own servers, first launched in 2006: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/web2explorer/zimbra-launches-zimbra-documents/259 If we want to work in this area, collaborating with Zimbra could give us a jump start.) -Ben Benjamin Horst bho...@mac.com 646-464-2314 (Eastern) www.solidoffice.com -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Document Freedom Day 2011 - Who will shephard - ?
That would be the FSFE, I think. best, Charles. Le Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:59:24 -0400, Drew Jensen a écrit : > Hi, > > Subject line says it all. > > Reference DFD 2010 > http://documentfreedom.org/summary.en.html > > I have know idea who you contact. > > Every year at OO.o this would come up, as if anew, a month before the > event - Let's not do that here. > > I'm sure there are people on the list that know more details - just > looking for any info you have - maybe put it on a work page on the > wiki, and set a calendar reminder for December to poke the list with > an update. > > Seems like a natural fit DFD and TDF - would like to see us be > pro-active about our involvement in 2011. > > Any hands - particularly if you where one of the OOo participants in > past years, I think there are a few here. > > > Best wishes, > > Drew > > -- Charles-H. Schulz Membre du Comité exécutif The Document Foundation. -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation
Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 12:13 -0400, Benjamin Horst a écrit : > On Oct 29, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Frank Esposito wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Monfort Florian > > wrote: > >> Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 09:29 -0400, James Walker a écrit : > >>> Maybe something that we should think about is creating a Document > >> Foundation > >>> family of products. > >>> > >>> I would not really put more products into the main LibreOffice software, > >> but > >>> find and/or create additional products that enhance the usability of LO. > >>> One thing we really need to think about is an email/calender product. and > >>> some kind of project management product that easily intergrates with LO, > >>> even if those products are ones that are out there already they need to > >> be > >>> easily intergrated into LO. Are there any that have kind of staled that > >> we > >>> could approach the community to help them out and bring them under the > >>> foundation to help them grow. > >>> > >>> Of course the easy thing to do would be a partnership with Mozilla, and > >> use > >>> Thunderbird, and Lightening. > >>> > >>> I have always felt that the project has been missing email, calender and > >>> contact management software. > >>> > >>> James > > > > These great idea. I would also add because I think the market is still wide > > open is the cloud office suite (think google docs). We could develop a > > server based online office suite that is fully compatible with ODF. this > > would be great for education and "virtual offices." > > > > Another path would be mobile phones, this are is wide open for FOSS. > > Android, iPhone and blackberry ports of LO. > > I think we need to look ahead to tablets, based on iOS and Android. According > to recent news articles, sales of iPads have made Apple the number one > computer vendor in the USA. Thinking strategically, it looks like the > developing world may skip PCs entirely and adopt tablets as their standard > computing platform going forward, just like they skipped landlines in favor > of mobile phones. Microsoft Windows will have an enormous challenge to gain > any foothold in this market, and MS Office too. Thus, we have an opportunity > to start on a level playing field here, without the huge inertia MS has long > enjoyed. On a fair playing field, we will win--no question. > > My strategic suggestion is that we build a "LibreOffice Touch" for Android > and iOS tablets as the first new member of this broader family of products. > Full ODF support will allow compatibility with LibreOffice, and consistent > branding will help reinforce both product lines. > > (As for web office suites, I researched this recently. Zimbra provides open > source web-based docs and spreadsheets that customers can install on their > own servers, first launched in 2006: > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/web2explorer/zimbra-launches-zimbra-documents/259 > If we want to work in this area, collaborating with Zimbra could give us a > jump start.) > > -Ben > > Benjamin Horst > bho...@mac.com > 646-464-2314 (Eastern) > www.solidoffice.com > > I totally agree with Benjamin. Anticipating the reactions of the costumers is the best way the ensure visiblity against Microsoft, who will work for works suites on forgotten desktops. What's the next step ? -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Document Freedom Day 2011 - Who will shephard - ?
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 18:37 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > That would be the FSFE, I think. > > best, > Charles. > Excellent, and I expect you have contact there. So - just thinking that if DFD timing is around March again, it is a great opportunity. May I then, actually too late you raised your hand first.. I set a calendar reminder to poke you first week of December, so you could let the ML know about any date, if possible, in January. Then way we could produce a hand-out for the LibreOffice booth in LA the end of February. //drew -- 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
RE : Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Document Freedom Day 2011 - Who will shephard - ?
Ok, i'll see what i can do, don't hesitate to poke me back... Charles. Le 29 oct. 2010, 7:07 PM, "Drew Jensen" a écrit : On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 18:37 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > That would be the FSFE, I think. > > ... Excellent, and I expect you have contact there. So - just thinking that if DFD timing is around March again, it is a great opportunity. May I then, actually too late you raised your hand first.. I set a calendar reminder to poke you first week of December, so you could let the ML know about any date, if possible, in January. Then way we could produce a hand-out for the LibreOffice booth in LA the end of February. //drew -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.orgfor instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives ... -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] someone willing to interview some developers ?
I can. Dave Johnson On Oct 29, 2010 9:19 AM, "Cor Nouws" wrote: Hi there, While talking with some people, we had the idea of making some interview with developers working on LibreOffice to publish on our site/wiki. No long stories, but cute, catchy you know. And regularly, e.g. every one or two weeks. Is there anyone on this list with maybe a little experience but anyhow joy in doing such interviews? Then pls let me know and we'll get it running. Regards, Cor PS If now one volunteers, I will volunteer myself, but that might be bad for a regular appearance ;-) -- - giving openoffice.org its foundation :: The Document Foundation - -- 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 -- 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] Ubuntu 11.04 & Libre Office
According to this article, LO will be included in the April Ubuntu 11release, if ready. http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/news-on-default-applications-in-ubuntu.html I would like to make a request from the community that for the good of the LO project, we have everything in place, (code and marketing) by that release date. Can we do this? It would be huge. just my thoughts... -frank esposito -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ubuntu 11.04 & Libre Office
Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 14:09 -0500, Frank Esposito a écrit : > According to this article, LO will be included in the April Ubuntu > 11release, if ready. > http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/news-on-default-applications-in-ubuntu.html > > I would like to make a request from the community that for the good of the > LO project, we have everything in place, (code and marketing) by that > release date. > > Can we do this? It would be huge. > > just my thoughts... > > -frank esposito > Have also read that. Can anyone say if everything will be ready on time ? Or is that impossible to plan ? -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] someone willing to interview some developers ?
Hi Dave! Am Freitag, den 29.10.2010, 12:59 -0500 schrieb Dave Johnson: > I can. > > Dave Johnson Great & thanks Dave! I don't know whether Charles had this in mind, but I enjoyed the KDE interviews from time to time. Do you think about something like that? http://dot.kde.org/search/node/interview Cheers, Christoph > On Oct 29, 2010 9:19 AM, "Cor Nouws" wrote: > > Hi there, > > While talking with some people, we had the idea of making some interview > with developers working on LibreOffice to publish on our site/wiki. > No long stories, but cute, catchy you know. And regularly, e.g. every one or > two weeks. > > Is there anyone on this list with maybe a little experience but anyhow joy > in doing such interviews? [...] -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Open Source For America - Education Working Group - Hello World - kind of thing (y mah-bobby)
Added your email as discussion (talking points) to the Discuss page on the wiki http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User_talk:Drew/ed-21st-cent Thanks Drew -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] How to approach education
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 03:34 -0700, Gabriel Gurley wrote: > How to approach education Hi Gabriel, I've copied your email up to a wiki page I'm using to gather together material from the discussion list. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User_talk:Drew/ed-21st-cent#How_to_approach_education Fell free to use the wiki - as a wiki - and add, edit the page how ever you might see fit. Thanks Drew -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] someone willing to interview some developers ?
Hi Dave, Dave Johnson wrote (29-10-10 19:59) I can. Dave Johnson Thanks a lot Dave! I'll contact you soon for details, ideas and such, Cor On Oct 29, 2010 9:19 AM, "Cor Nouws" wrote: Hi there, While talking with some people, we had the idea of making some interview with developers working on LibreOffice to publish on our site/wiki. No long stories, but cute, catchy you know. And regularly, e.g. every one or two weeks. Is there anyone on this list with maybe a little experience but anyhow joy in doing such interviews? Then pls let me know and we'll get it running. Regards, Cor PS If now one volunteers, I will volunteer myself, but that might be bad for a regular appearance ;-) -- - giving openoffice.org its foundation :: The Document Foundation - -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation
Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 09:29 -0400, James Walker a écrit : Maybe something that we should think about is creating a Document Foundation family of products. I would not really put more products into the main LibreOffice software, but find and/or create additional products that enhance the usability of LO. ... One thing we really need to think about is an email/calender product. and some kind of project management product that easily intergrates with LO, even if those products are ones that are out there already they need to be easily intergrated into LO. Are there any that have kind of staled that we could approach the community to help them out and bring them under the foundation to help them grow. Of course the easy thing to do would be a partnership with Mozilla, and use Thunderbird, and Lightening. I have always felt that the project has been missing email, calender and contact management software. James Le 2010-10-29 09:33, Monfort Florian a écrit : I think this is a great idea, and I was also wondering if the Scribus project couldn't be added to it. After all LibreOffice doesn't provide a REAL and COMPLETE publication solution face to INDesign, QuarkXpress etc ... Scribus is a good one, and is free. I think LibreOffice is already a rather large suite, and the larger it is, the heavier it is and the harder it is to maintain and develop. So where shall we stop? There are good reasons to integrate Writer, Calc and Draw (or Inskscape) and Impress. After all, the same individuals typically will write letters and reports. Those documents are likely to include calculations or even simple tables, charts and basic plans. It is likely that the same document may lead to a corporate presentation. Likewise, teachers may work the other way around and prepare a presentation (i.e. their course) and an accompanying document (i.e. course material). So it makes sense to integrate all those modules, and even to develop a much better integration so that even tables written in a document (i.e. Writer doc.) are done using the Calc module. Better integration should also mean that a nice presentation done in Impress could be imported as is and expanded to make the accompanying document, for example. Right now, one has to restyle the entire document twice: once in Impress, once in Writer. As far as I am concerned, integrating a database into LibreOffice is not really essential. After all, it is not every day that one designs a database and writes a report within the same project. On the other hand, seamless data exchange between the database and Writer or Calc is essential. On the other hand, the publication is typically done afterwards, and very often by a different person than the one who wrote the document. So the important consideration is to allow one to import the ODT document and make a really good printed document, and ideally to allow one to export the text back in ODT for future work. It would also be good to develop filters that allow one to import an ODT document into InDesign and QuarkXpress. As for e-mail and calendar product, I find Thunderbird with Lightning a much better piece of software than Outlook. I also find it much easier to use, but my 13 other colleagues stick with Outlook 2003 and don't want to touch Thunderbird with a 10-ft pole. One nice feature of Lightning is that it allows me more than one calendar. -- Michel Gagnon Montréal (Québec, Canada) -- http://mgagnon.net -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] How to approach education
Le 2010-10-29 16:07, Drew Jensen a écrit : On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 03:34 -0700, Gabriel Gurley wrote: How to approach education Hi Gabriel, I've copied your email up to a wiki page I'm using to gather together material from the discussion list. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User_talk:Drew/ed-21st-cent#How_to_approach_education Fell free to use the wiki - as a wiki - and add, edit the page how ever you might see fit. Thanks Drew Hi Drew et al: I had also started a discussion thread on this mailist called: "LibO in Education" and LibO in Academia. I was hoping to use these threads to collect different ideas on how to better involve LibO in education and how to develop more of the LibO suite to attract different educational groups into the LibO fold. These threads have been quite active and many good ideas reside on their inner threads. I will also add your comments to both thread and see what kind of reaction this will muster. It would be nice to see if Drew's wiki will also get some kind of feeback Marc -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Academia
Here is an interesting thread that was posted recently. It would be nice to hear of your comments. = Quoting Anthony Papillion : > > My local school district is looking at doing a fairly large upgrade from > MS Office 2007 to MS Office 2010 (no real reason, just the Microsoft rep > said it's time) and I'm really wanting to sell LibreOffice HARD as an > affordable alternative. > > Has anyone approached education (specifically in the USA) and how did > you do it? What are the initial forays that you used and what were the > results? > > Thanks, > Anthony > > - -- > Anthony Papillion > Advanced Data Concepts > Remote Technical Support and Software Development > > Office: (918) 919-4624 > Mobile: (918) 320-9968 = Hi Anthony, Here would be some possible approaches I would take, just based upon my experiences in education. 1. Try to find out if there are any teachers within the school district who are either a) already using open source software in the classroom or b) have an interest in open source software such as LibreOffice. If you are a parent yourself within the school district, asking your child's teachers for names of those who teach computer studies and then contacting them would be a good place to start. 2. If you find a teachers who is interesting in giving LibreOffice a try, first let them do so on their workstation. Let them be convinced that LibreOffice is a great tool for educating their students. 3. Let the teacher ask the IT staff (perhaps with your assistance if they desire) if they would be willing to install LibreOffice on a select number of workstations, to evaluate its potential. Giving more rational explanations for the desire to evaluate LibreOffice could help put IT staff in a less defensive posture and may warm up to the idea, depending on the person. Reasons you could give include the software's generous licensing terms, the ability for low-income students to have a copy of the software for their not-so-modern computer at home to improve their studies, the possibility to squeeze a few more years of life out of the school's aging workstations, etc. Be sure to emphasize you wish to evaluate it, not immediately trying to make a district-wide move to the software in the immediate future. The adoption of open source software, in my observations, has worked best when there is a genuine, organic interest from the teachers, administrators, students and/or IT staff. Schools often have a number of mandates they have to comply with. Figuring out a way to explain how open source software can help in meeting those mandates, and do it better than proprietary software, can go a long way toward helping in its adoption. It won't be something that happens immediately. Then again, like a lot of things in life, taking a slow, steady approach and building a solid foundation (ie people truly interested and convinced of open source software's potential in education) I think will win out in the end. Best regards, Gabriel -- Gabriel Gurley Educator and Author Website: http://www.gabrielgurley.com/ = -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)
Le 2010-10-17 08:40, Marc Paré a écrit : Here is an interesting thread that was posted recently. It would be nice to hear of your comments. = Quoting Anthony Papillion : > > My local school district is looking at doing a fairly large upgrade from > MS Office 2007 to MS Office 2010 (no real reason, just the Microsoft rep > said it's time) and I'm really wanting to sell LibreOffice HARD as an > affordable alternative. > > Has anyone approached education (specifically in the USA) and how did > you do it? What are the initial forays that you used and what were the > results? > > Thanks, > Anthony > > - -- > Anthony Papillion > Advanced Data Concepts > Remote Technical Support and Software Development > > Office: (918) 919-4624 > Mobile: (918) 320-9968 = Hi Anthony, Here would be some possible approaches I would take, just based upon my experiences in education. 1. Try to find out if there are any teachers within the school district who are either a) already using open source software in the classroom or b) have an interest in open source software such as LibreOffice. If you are a parent yourself within the school district, asking your child's teachers for names of those who teach computer studies and then contacting them would be a good place to start. 2. If you find a teachers who is interesting in giving LibreOffice a try, first let them do so on their workstation. Let them be convinced that LibreOffice is a great tool for educating their students. 3. Let the teacher ask the IT staff (perhaps with your assistance if they desire) if they would be willing to install LibreOffice on a select number of workstations, to evaluate its potential. Giving more rational explanations for the desire to evaluate LibreOffice could help put IT staff in a less defensive posture and may warm up to the idea, depending on the person. Reasons you could give include the software's generous licensing terms, the ability for low-income students to have a copy of the software for their not-so-modern computer at home to improve their studies, the possibility to squeeze a few more years of life out of the school's aging workstations, etc. Be sure to emphasize you wish to evaluate it, not immediately trying to make a district-wide move to the software in the immediate future. The adoption of open source software, in my observations, has worked best when there is a genuine, organic interest from the teachers, administrators, students and/or IT staff. Schools often have a number of mandates they have to comply with. Figuring out a way to explain how open source software can help in meeting those mandates, and do it better than proprietary software, can go a long way toward helping in its adoption. It won't be something that happens immediately. Then again, like a lot of things in life, taking a slow, steady approach and building a solid foundation (ie people truly interested and convinced of open source software's potential in education) I think will win out in the end. Best regards, Gabriel -- Gabriel Gurley Educator and Author Website: http://www.gabrielgurley.com/ = -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation
Le 2010-10-29 18:16, Michel Gagnon a écrit : I think LibreOffice is already a rather large suite, and the larger it is, the heavier it is and the harder it is to maintain and develop. So where shall we stop? There are good reasons to integrate Writer, Calc and Draw (or Inskscape) and Impress. After all, the same individuals typically will write letters and reports. Those documents are likely to include calculations or even simple tables, charts and basic plans. It is likely that the same document may lead to a corporate presentation. Likewise, teachers may work the other way around and prepare a presentation (i.e. their course) and an accompanying document (i.e. course material). So it makes sense to integrate all those modules, and even to develop a much better integration so that even tables written in a document (i.e. Writer doc.) are done using the Calc module. Better integration should also mean that a nice presentation done in Impress could be imported as is and expanded to make the accompanying document, for example. Right now, one has to restyle the entire document twice: once in Impress, once in Writer. As far as I am concerned, integrating a database into LibreOffice is not really essential. After all, it is not every day that one designs a database and writes a report within the same project. On the other hand, seamless data exchange between the database and Writer or Calc is essential. On the other hand, the publication is typically done afterwards, and very often by a different person than the one who wrote the document. So the important consideration is to allow one to import the ODT document and make a really good printed document, and ideally to allow one to export the text back in ODT for future work. It would also be good to develop filters that allow one to import an ODT document into InDesign and QuarkXpress. As for e-mail and calendar product, I find Thunderbird with Lightning a much better piece of software than Outlook. I also find it much easier to use, but my 13 other colleagues stick with Outlook 2003 and don't want to touch Thunderbird with a 10-ft pole. One nice feature of Lightning is that it allows me more than one calendar. I also second Michel's concerns regarding making LibO larger. We have to be mindful that in adding more options to LibO that we become a programme with an unsustainable dev future. The really only option missing in LibO is, as often said, a mail and calendar agent. I too use the Thunderbird + Lightning option and it is a delight to use. Lightning still has a little more "growing up" to do, but Thunderbird is "rock solid" and rarely fails. Module integration should be strengthened just as described by Michel. This would be a very welcomed effort from the part of many users. Marc -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Document Freedom Day 2011 - Who will shephard - ?
Le 2010-10-29 13:07, Drew Jensen a écrit : On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 18:37 +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: That would be the FSFE, I think. best, Charles. Excellent, and I expect you have contact there. So - just thinking that if DFD timing is around March again, it is a great opportunity. May I then, actually too late you raised your hand first.. I set a calendar reminder to poke you first week of December, so you could let the ML know about any date, if possible, in January. Then way we could produce a hand-out for the LibreOffice booth in LA the end of February. //drew Hi Drew and Charles et al: Could we then all poke ourselves as I was also looking into this last night and would like to hold different events in Canada. I would also like to produce a hand-out at these events. Maybe we could coordinate with the hand-out production? Cheers Marc -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ubuntu 11.04 & Libre Office
Le 2010-10-29 15:12, Monfort Florian a écrit : Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 14:09 -0500, Frank Esposito a écrit : According to this article, LO will be included in the April Ubuntu 11release, if ready. http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/news-on-default-applications-in-ubuntu.html I would like to make a request from the community that for the good of the LO project, we have everything in place, (code and marketing) by that release date. Can we do this? It would be huge. just my thoughts... -frank esposito Have also read that. Can anyone say if everything will be ready on time ? Or is that impossible to plan ? I think at this point it is too early to promise, but, we were told to be ready between 4-8 weeks for a heads up for a possible release date. Marc -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Initial Presentation Template (DRAFT)
Hi all! Mmh, I'm replying to my own mail ... about 35 people had a look at the template, but there is still no reply. Does it meant that it works perfectly, and that we should move on to complete it? Would be great, but I doubt it ... *g* So for those who tried, please add either positive or negative feedback on the wiki page (see below), or just comment within this tread. Thanks! Cheers, Christoph Am Mittwoch, den 27.10.2010, 00:10 +0200 schrieb Christoph Noack: > Hi all, > > it is already past midnight, therefore just some short comments ... as > you may have read [1], I am currently working on a default presentation > template. Disclaimer: Not intended to be "really" used at the moment. > > As said, work in progress:. but I think it is a good time to check > whether the master pages and styles do really work, and to get some > initial comments concerning the visual representation. Of course, I've > tried to follow the recent branding guidelines [2]. > > To make it easy (for me), I've added some comments directly in the > presentation file. If you have some comments, then please post them to > this list, or (even better for traceability), add them to the wiki. > > Here you find both the presentation file and some room for comments (you > may even state if you like it *G*): > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Ideas#LibreOffice_Initial_Presentation_Template_.28DRAFT.29 > > > Cheers, > Christoph > > [1] > http://luxate.blogspot.com/2010/10/libreoffice-presentation-template-first.html > > [2] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding > > -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Open Source For America - Education Working Group - Hello World - kind of thing (y mah-bobby)
Le 2010-10-29 15:54, Drew Jensen a écrit : Added your email as discussion (talking points) to the Discuss page on the wiki http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User_talk:Drew/ed-21st-cent Thanks Drew Hi Drew: Link should be http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:MarcPare Cheers Marc -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Can we put marketing titles under our names?
Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2010-10-28 20:34, Andrea Pescetti a écrit : >> Marc Paré wrote: >>> I was just wondering, if I were to correspond to potential organisers >>> who could contribute to the LibO (in particular Canada) would it be >>> appropriate for me to put in a title under my name? I am just curious >>> if you did this with the OOo. >> >> I did it, and I still do, on OpenOffice.org mailing list, where I hold >> an elective position. But for a still informal group in a still informal >> foundation I agree with Drew that the situation is not clear-cut. I have never used a title referring to OOo, although I am the Italian MarCon and the president of the Italian association, and I am not going to use a title for TDF, not even when the foundation will be in place. I think that in a volunteer environment titles are by recognition. -- Italo Vignoli Mobile: +39.348.5653829 - VoIP: +39.02.320621813 Email: italo.vign...@gmail.com - Skype: italovignoli -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO Publicity
Marc Paré wrote: > Do we have anyone in charge of publicity yet? I was wondering because > the ODF Alliance publishes a newsletter and we could send publicity to > their newsletter. > > You will find their newsletter as well as their email for publicity here: > > http://www.odfalliance.org/mail_list.php Yes, I am in touch with them, and as soon as there will be a legal entity it makes sense to join the ODF Alliance. -- Italo Vignoli Mobile: +39.348.5653829 - VoIP: +39.02.320621813 Email: italo.vign...@gmail.com - Skype: italovignoli -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Can we put marketing titles under our names?
Le 2010-10-29 19:28, Italo Vignoli a écrit : Marc Paré wrote: Le 2010-10-28 20:34, Andrea Pescetti a écrit : Marc Paré wrote: I was just wondering, if I were to correspond to potential organisers who could contribute to the LibO (in particular Canada) would it be appropriate for me to put in a title under my name? I am just curious if you did this with the OOo. I did it, and I still do, on OpenOffice.org mailing list, where I hold an elective position. But for a still informal group in a still informal foundation I agree with Drew that the situation is not clear-cut. I have never used a title referring to OOo, although I am the Italian MarCon and the president of the Italian association, and I am not going to use a title for TDF, not even when the foundation will be in place. I think that in a volunteer environment titles are by recognition. Thanks Italo. Here is Canada, if I were to approach an organization, it would add more weight to my requests/proposals if there was a title to a name. Maybe a cultural gap? Marc -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Can we put marketing titles under our names?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/2010 6:57 PM, Marc Paré wrote: >> I have never used a title referring to OOo, although I am the Italian >> MarCon and the president of the Italian association, and I am not going >> to use a title for TDF, not even when the foundation will be in place. I >> think that in a volunteer environment titles are by recognition. >> > > Thanks Italo. > > Here is Canada, if I were to approach an organization, it would add more > weight to my requests/proposals if there was a title to a name. Maybe a > cultural gap? > > Marc Same thing here in the USA. Titles come in very handy, even if only serving to cue the person that you are acting on behalf of an established organization and not just yourself. Anthony USA - -- Anthony Papillion Advanced Data Concepts Remote Technical Support and Software Development Office: (918) 919-4624 Mobile: (918) 320-9968 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iQIVAwUBTMth34eUq9QAeLbkAQIanw//fa9BdjNlvmNshKKLK7n8GK6t9m6Q8iOE 6qfUuCsiOJg6nSZDTcxReY8zXH3zu0nXgTbu730XGuQvhQtCNy6yEeFIALs375kg 01vjYugxWl/WII5LAMCNYv2NQdGY4VzphywAUjlJMBahFN9QdruuCNx+Cuxu2itM i8hWmJCxi/DNhzxeVIqqK8lPW0huWJbXiKdOva8khyGAaSRdRGLltJpy1M8EoEWC eHtaKhtpVVsqEz4LR9eDVb8aMRK9zNAr4+horflZBPFX9FwhIyDVDpnTuCkGv34d n4DnXLXR47knGZiJUU9XrW/8jHMCeJWzpHgPUOtgbhGCFIzn5BUMVSdV3ZVFTZCs T5Z80Jv5+vgQNxFqCPa3ejNsGsLF6JZMxhgIkpGStcOzmyj0Dw4zmhG80i3X4KK1 fVo0SN1yaI93otutmyiasPIfeSjFhtzSh5qqcTceuH8/XNkRxICaHn9vpOXM09va Av2PJFSfEvjLxa1JZDc+sls3L787y9NdGMERgrL/GqAmZxxH7hPwX1ajX6yrYEct NYh4Szz5GJqd1xvrZWZw7MtBlwLFe5vZ2XkveOX/SAKILEg9+vGBnMMPmAifZWfN Tp6OgprJBWXYm5jmJ3h+4FYQrw1DjmSF6OJH6ruhbCebyJqQl4iMfYN7HeKQUTwu 33dgGl9642U= =dGSw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Can we put marketing titles under our names?
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote: > Marc Paré wrote: >> Le 2010-10-28 20:34, Andrea Pescetti a écrit : >>> Marc Paré wrote: I was just wondering, if I were to correspond to potential organisers who could contribute to the LibO (in particular Canada) would it be appropriate for me to put in a title under my name? I am just curious if you did this with the OOo. >>> >>> I did it, and I still do, on OpenOffice.org mailing list, where I hold >>> an elective position. But for a still informal group in a still informal >>> foundation I agree with Drew that the situation is not clear-cut. > > I have never used a title referring to OOo, although I am the Italian > MarCon and the president of the Italian association, and I am not going > to use a title for TDF, not even when the foundation will be in place. I > think that in a volunteer environment titles are by recognition. Also titles for marketing matters just as your email address, it brings a link with you and the organization. Although is not really about titles, it does serve that point. i wasn't too big on titles until I stop thinking about my personal preference but the receptor POV. > -- > Italo Vignoli > Mobile: +39.348.5653829 - VoIP: +39.02.320621813 > Email: italo.vign...@gmail.com - Skype: italovignoli > > -- > 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 > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español http://es.openoffice.org -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] someone willing to interview some developers ?
No problem. When is the deadline? On Oct 29, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Christoph Noack wrote: > Hi Dave! > > Am Freitag, den 29.10.2010, 12:59 -0500 schrieb Dave Johnson: >> I can. >> >> Dave Johnson > > Great & thanks Dave! I don't know whether Charles had this in mind, but > I enjoyed the KDE interviews from time to time. Do you think about > something like that? > http://dot.kde.org/search/node/interview > > Cheers, > Christoph > >> On Oct 29, 2010 9:19 AM, "Cor Nouws" wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> >> While talking with some people, we had the idea of making some interview >> with developers working on LibreOffice to publish on our site/wiki. >> No long stories, but cute, catchy you know. And regularly, e.g. every one or >> two weeks. >> >> Is there anyone on this list with maybe a little experience but anyhow joy >> in doing such interviews? > [...] > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Initial Presentation Template (DRAFT)
Le 2010-10-29 19:23, Christoph Noack a écrit : Hi all! Mmh, I'm replying to my own mail ... about 35 people had a look at the template, but there is still no reply. Does it meant that it works perfectly, and that we should move on to complete it? Would be great, but I doubt it ... *g* So for those who tried, please add either positive or negative feedback on the wiki page (see below), or just comment within this tread. Thanks! Cheers, Christoph Hi Christoph Look great! The LibO green is such an identifying colour. Nice colour pick. I think the green will be one identifying element that people will recognise and remember the most. Cheers Marc -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Initial Presentation Template (DRAFT)
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Christoph Noack wrote: > Hi all! > > Mmh, I'm replying to my own mail ... about 35 people had a look at the > template, but there is still no reply. Does it meant that it works > perfectly, and that we should move on to complete it? Would be great, > but I doubt it ... *g* So for those who tried, please add either > positive or negative feedback on the wiki page (see below), or just > comment within this tread. Thanks! Saw it and I think looks ok. Like the simplified style and sober background. I would have chosen a different color to black for the slides. Maybe a dark gray would add the style of Bevel. Also I would recommend not having the small icon on the lower left icon. The "office" seems to be pixelated and I would rather use that space for the date. Just my 2 cents. > > Cheers, > Christoph > > Am Mittwoch, den 27.10.2010, 00:10 +0200 schrieb Christoph Noack: >> Hi all, >> >> it is already past midnight, therefore just some short comments ... as >> you may have read [1], I am currently working on a default presentation >> template. Disclaimer: Not intended to be "really" used at the moment. >> >> As said, work in progress:. but I think it is a good time to check >> whether the master pages and styles do really work, and to get some >> initial comments concerning the visual representation. Of course, I've >> tried to follow the recent branding guidelines [2]. >> >> To make it easy (for me), I've added some comments directly in the >> presentation file. If you have some comments, then please post them to >> this list, or (even better for traceability), add them to the wiki. >> >> Here you find both the presentation file and some room for comments (you >> may even state if you like it *G*): >> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Ideas#LibreOffice_Initial_Presentation_Template_.28DRAFT.29 >> >> >> Cheers, >> Christoph >> >> [1] >> http://luxate.blogspot.com/2010/10/libreoffice-presentation-template-first.html >> >> [2] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding >> >> > > > > -- > 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 > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español http://es.openoffice.org -- 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
