[marketing] WollMux available in extension repository

2008-07-16 Thread Florian Effenberger
WollMux is an OpenOffice.org plugin. It features letterhead generation, advanced form functionality such as plausibility checks and computed data, special printing functions that deal with requirements of a public administration, and much more. The WollMux is an OpenOffice.org plugin developed

[marketing] Re: [art] Re: [marketing] Re: [art] Re: [marketing] splash screen contest extended for two weeks

2008-07-15 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, So you can just mark them as INVALID and leave a comment. all of the mare invalid, and so I stated it in the Wiki... Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[marketing] Re: [art] Re: [marketing] splash screen contest extended for two weeks

2008-07-15 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, as you have described the requirements you should sort out the invalid designs from the wiki and inform the authors. I'd love to, but I don't have their e-mail addresses... :-( Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PR

[marketing] splash screen contest extended for two weeks

2008-07-15 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, the Release Status Meeting decided to shift the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 by two weeks, which gives us additional two weeks for designing the splash screen. As Stella agreed to re-launch the contest, I happily announce the new deadline for sending in your drafts: MONDAY, JULY 28TH

[marketing] announcing final splash screen for 3.0

2008-07-14 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, I'm delighted to announce the final splash screen for OpenOffice.org 3.0: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/7/73/OOo30_splashscreen_draft-c.png Stella Schulze from Sun Microsystems won the race. ;-) Thanks Stella for your great proposal and for your quick and professional rea

Re: [marketing] OOo 3 download party / get.openoffice.org?

2008-07-12 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Cool. before I ask, does someone have an idea on how to fund these DVDs? Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [marketing] Requesting Materials

2008-07-09 Thread Florian Effenberger
Is it possible for shipping for free? Best would be to ask Louis directly. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [marketing] OOo 3 download party / get.openoffice.org?

2008-07-08 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I think this question should be directed to Apple. They are the one that know the requirements to promote products in their store. http://www.apple.com/contact/ I've got a good contact to Apple and will raise this, but I don't know if it works out. Florian

Re: [marketing] Re: Introduction

2008-07-08 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Samuel, Sorry i forgot to include my OOo user name. My OOo user name is Njuki. you now have Observer status. ;-) Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [marketing] OOo 3 download party / get.openoffice.org?

2008-07-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, We're trying to organize something in Paris if anyone is interested. It would not be a download party, but just a party with lots of people. Release partys would be a nice idea. I like the idea of getting together with developers and users... maybe we can do something like that in German

[marketing] splash screen for 3.0

2008-07-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello everyone, thanks to all of you for your great contributions regarding the new splash screen for 3.0. Unfortunately, some of the important requirements were missed by most people and given the short time frame until we need to deliver the new splash screen (next week's Monday, July 14th!)

Re: [marketing] OOo 3 download party / get.openoffice.org?

2008-07-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Malte, What about doing some OOo 3.0 download party / get.openoffice.org? We never can beat FF3 downloads, but surely it will give the release high visibility. if we find some people organizing this, you definitely have my vote. :-) We shouldn't try to copy Mozilla, so maybe someone has a

Re: [marketing] Requesting Materials

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, What happened to the mouse pads and USB drives. Seems they would be ideal. English materials should be available from Louis, but I don't know how much we have left... Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [marketing] OOo 3.0 colors

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Paulo, - are the icons going to change from the ones in the current m19 version ? as far as I know, the final icons are these: http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo30MimeType.html - are the colors of the different applications referred in the page 18 of the Style Manual going to cha

Re: [marketing] Requesting Materials

2008-07-04 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, A Pleasant day, I am RJ Ian S. Sevilla from Mindanao Open Source Society i will be organizing an FOSS event here in Isabela City, Baslan Philippines. In this connection i would like to request materials like cd's because i want OpenOffice to be part of the succesfully event. thanks for you

[marketing] introducing Wunna Ko Ko as MarCon for Burma

2008-07-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, it is my pleasure to introduce to you Wunna Ko Ko as MarCon for Burma (Myanmar). She is the lead of the Burmese NLC project for OpenOffice.org as well as the Burmese project lead of OpenSUSE. Her open source activities and experiences will help us to get more active in Burma. As she al

[marketing] Re: [project leads] OTS event postponed?

2008-07-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Alexandro, I really liked the idea, but I'm sorry that the feedback has been so low. I guess it's due (at least when I look at my schedule) very busy weeks, so most people might not have the time to join. Maybe trying again later on this year might be a good idea! Florian ---

Re: [marketing] Mozilla Thunderbird + Lightning promotion on OO.o

2008-06-25 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Vikram, 1. Thunderbird, Firefox, Openoffice should in integrated. as far as I know there are plans to do so, yes. :-) I don't know the roadmap, though, but don't expect a too tight integration for OOo 3.0. 2. Instant Messanger should be integrated. 3. Group calendering should be inte

Re: [marketing] finding a new splash screen for 3.0

2008-06-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, just a short reminder to all of you: The deadline for sending in the new splash screen proposals ends JULY 1ST, 2008 Please send in your contributions by then and add them to the Wiki page. Adding them to the Wiki page is MANDATORY. Only sending them to the art@ list is NOT enough. :

Re: [marketing] Mozilla Thunderbird + Lightning promotion on OO.o

2008-06-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, This is the plan, there will be a Lightning version available, the same as we plan to bundle with StarOffice. are there also plans to bundle or at least link to it from OOo 3? Maybe at the end of the setup? I don't know if we should go this far, as we never did that before with other pro

Re: [marketing] Mozilla Thunderbird + Lightning promotion on OO.o

2008-06-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Vikam, If you like i can give some good ideas which i got from my 8 years of working in open source. sure, feel free to do so! Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PR

Re: [marketing] Mozilla Thunderbird + Lightning promotion on OO.o

2008-06-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello Kay, In my opinion we should promote solution packages, because this is exactly what the competition does and this is what companies expecting. +1. Do you know the timeframe when the calendaring component will be integrated into Thunderbird? Will it be (timely) ready for OOo 3.0, or wi

Re: [marketing] Marketing Plan for the 3.0

2008-06-20 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Should we start from here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Marketing_3 ? John set this one up, so +1 :-) Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [marketing] Marketing Plan for the 3.0

2008-06-20 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Has this been done? I really think we have to start and I can gladly get such going doesn't seem so. ;-( But I fully agree... Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAI

Re: [marketing] finding a new splash screen for 3.0

2008-06-14 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I just wanted to inform you that we had to slightly adapt the rules. They are now as follows: * it should fit into the general look and feel of OpenOffice.org * the size of the splashscreen and the space for the progress bar should fit (see the existing splash screen, and also ref

[marketing] finding a new splash screen for 3.0

2008-06-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, as we await 3.0, it is time to find a new splash screen to reflect a new and fresh release. ;-) Some of you already sent in splash screens and designs, thank you very much for that. We've compiled a list of requirements that a new splash screen MUST fulfill. Anyone who already sent in

Re: [marketing] Call for papers for Virtual Talks

2008-06-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, ok lets try this: thanks, sounds good to me! Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [marketing] Call for papers for Virtual Talks

2008-06-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Alexandro, just my two cents: Maybe you should add more information on what "virtual" means, i.e. how the program is and what will be done. Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mai

Re: [marketing] Marketing Plan for the 3.0

2008-06-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Luke, Ok well, since I'm new to this place, I think I'm going to need some help from you guys :) So, do I pick up an issue from IssueZilla To-Do list (http://marketing.openoffice.org/art/to-do-artwork.html) or should I just ask what need's doing? I will bring up information regarding artw

Re: [marketing] Marketing Plan for the 3.0

2008-06-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, There you go: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Marketing_3 Feel free to add to it. thanks! Will have a look at it asap. Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [marketing] Marketing Plan for the 3.0

2008-06-09 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Well over last two weeks or so I've been watching the e-mail's coming and going through here, and well, seen as you say there's not many helpers, what you want help with? Generally I do artwork, so anything you need just ask :) I'll look forward to it. basically, we need people to work o

Re: [marketing] Marketing Plan for the 3.0

2008-06-09 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Sophie, Once the localization is over, I'll be able to help more and prepare a pdf guide like the one we had for 2.0 thanks a lot! I hope I can bring myself in more in the next weeks as well. Florian - To unsubscribe, e-m

Re: [marketing] Marketing Plan for the 3.0

2008-06-09 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Louis, No responses here... and 3.0 is getting closer. I see and I fear... not many helpers. :-( Currently I work on getting a CI/design for 3.0 (see my mail to project_leads), and we have Erwin's feature compilation. The latter needs to be updated, we should link to the Presenter Screen

Re: [marketing] 3 news clippings

2008-06-05 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I considered that, but (1) I thought before I could submit without a subscription there (2) I didn't get any bounce back rejections and (3) it's strange the messages just drop off suddenly March 19. I wonder if something has changed? it's normal that you don't get a bounce back. ;-) An

Re: [marketing] 3 news clippings

2008-06-04 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I was sending these to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a while before I realized it doesn't work anymore the list should still work, but you need subscribe yourself to it. Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fo

Re: [marketing] [Fwd: [webmasters] OO article]

2008-05-18 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Sohpie, This one is for you :) thanks! I just blogged it. ;) Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [marketing] [Fwd: [webmasters] Link to ODF incorrect]

2008-05-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, The link pointing to the ODF document on the page http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html seems to be wrong, could you correct it please? thanks, have fixed it. Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [marketing] [Fwd: [webmasters] Great Job]

2008-05-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Sophie, Some compliments :) thanks for sharing! I'd like to pass these on to Erwin Tenhumberg, he did a real fabulous job! Thanks also to Louis who transformed the Wiki page to a static HTML one! Florian - To unsubscri

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org wins the 2008 Duke's Choice Award

2008-05-14 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Perhaps we can link this from Marketing homepage? That would seem logical. sure. Where do you would like to link it from? http://marketing.openoffice.org/ or http://marketing.openoffice.org/press_kit.html? I prefer the later. Florian ---

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org wins the 2008 Duke's Choice Award

2008-05-14 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, is that linked from anywhere on the site? it's listed at http://about.openoffice.org Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org wins the 2008 Duke's Choice Award

2008-05-14 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Martin, It would be also interesting to collect all award we collected on a common page. there seems to be an outdated page on http://website.openoffice.org/files/documents/28/1858/awards.html I think we should continue that, try www.openoffice.org/awards/ Florian --

[marketing] OpenOffice.org wins the 2008 Duke's Choice Award

2008-05-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
OpenOffice.org wins the 2008 Duke's Choice Award for Fans' Choice. "The Duke's Choice Awards program recognizes the year's most influential Java technology-based applications submitted by developers and companies around the world. The winners are chosen by Vice President and Sun Fellow James Go

[marketing] OpenOffice.org wins Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards 2008

2008-05-04 Thread Florian Effenberger
Belltown Media, Inc., publisher of the award-winning monthly magazine Linux Journal, has announced the winners of its annual Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards. The 2008 winners appear in the June issue, with awards presented to vendors and organizations in 34 categories, ranging from favorit

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Release notes and other marketing materials ?

2008-05-03 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Erwin, I have started a wiki page for collecting content for the OpenOffice.org 3.0 feature list page that I talked about before: thanks a lot for the draft and the great work, that helps a lot! Florian - To unsubscribe,

Re: [marketing] Product info

2008-05-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, But the product information is not even displayed on our first page? I agree, maybe our website needs a little work on this... Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL P

Re: [marketing] Product info

2008-05-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Per, Where are we with our product information? Erwin posted a list of key features some days ago. Maybe someone can compile a website plus screenshots from that? Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [marketing] Moodle course for OOo

2008-04-29 Thread Florian Effenberger
...and you've been blogged ;-) Hi all, At http://theingots.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=11 There is a Moodle course for teaching/learning Open Office. Anyone is free to make an account and use the course and I can give edit permission to anyone that wants to make improvements to it. You can

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Release notes and other marketing materials ?

2008-04-28 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Erwin, Since OpenOffice.org 3.0 is a new major release, I think we need to prepare more marketing material than we did for the minor releases between 2.0 and 3.0. I fully agree. Thanks a lot for your feature list! Unfortunately, I'm quite overloaded this week, but I will have a look into

Re: [marketing] A new OOo brochure

2008-04-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Igor, I gonna translate the readme.txt file in english on the next week. I'll also add some explanations about how to make it printed by a professionnal printer (CMYK conversions etc.) thanks a lot, that definitely helps! Florian --

Re: [marketing] Re: Marketing Collateral/CDs etc...

2008-04-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Al, Blimey I'm thick. I've just realised what I've done! For some weird reason, I thought this was the ubuntu marketing list. Not enough caffeine this morning obviously. Sorry for the stupidity... nothing to worry. Just get yourself a coffee. ;-) As you may have guessed, I do have the sa

Re: [marketing] Marketing Collateral/CDs etc...

2008-04-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I'm wondering if there is a channel to request (and hopefully obtain) freebies or CDs and the like for the show and also, can we use the Ubuntu graphics etc in our own stand presentation material? Do canonical have much of a presence here? (I know of Jono Bacon but I don't think he is the

Re: [marketing] OOo brochure transalted to Spanish

2008-04-23 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Agustin, Thanks to Florian that uploaded it, you can access the OOo flier that Igor circulated in French translated to Spanish at: http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=755 thanks a lot for your help, this is much appreciated! Florian

Re: [marketing] A new OOo brochure

2008-04-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Sophie, English version is uploaded here http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=88390 I'll work on the read-me file later. thank you very much! I'll forward this to the DE project and the NLC project. Florian -

Re: [marketing] A new OOo brochure

2008-04-13 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Igor, Recently implicated in the OOo french community I started to work on a new brochure. again, thanks a lot for developing this new flyer! It would be very helpful if you could translate the most important parts at least into rough English, so others could work on it as well. Thanks

Re: [marketing] news on 2.4

2008-03-28 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi I'd like to join thanking all of you who have contributed! We had a straight release and good press, as Louis said. :-) Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [marketing] Missing links in release notes?

2008-03-28 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Andrew, By the way, I added http://www.oooninja.com/2008/03/new-features-openofficeorg-240.html to this wiki page under Blogs. People seem to like the article. thanks, this looks really great! A lot of people are also linking to the Wiki, so a nice design and good links are always welcom

Re: [marketing] Missing links in release notes?

2008-03-28 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Andrew, I did a lot of editing of the Features 2.4 wiki page that (to my surprise) became the release notes which exact Wiki URL are you referring to? Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional co

Re: [marketing] Our New Look

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, thanks also from my side. The new looks great and from what I've seen, the transition went smoothly. :-) Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [marketing] Is it legal to sell OpenOffice.org?

2008-03-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi John, I'd appreciate feedback on a draft FAQ - please feel free to edit the wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SellingOOo thanks for the draft, I like it! I'd just emphasize more that using the trademark and the logo of OOo needs approval by us. Florian

[marketing] MarCon for Malta

2008-03-23 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, we currently search for a new or additional MarCon for Malta. Mario Debono, the current MarCon, does not have much time in the future, so he asked for someone to take over his role or at least support him as a second MarCon. Does anyone know of any candidates, or does anyone want to v

[marketing] Re: [OOoCon] Possible need to postpone the OOoCon about two weeks

2008-03-20 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, sounds feasible for me, but we should fix the date soon and wait some days if anyone has already booked their flights. Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [marketing] Press kit link in our global website footer

2008-03-19 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Apart from the link: in the left margin it says: Downloads < 100 M. Sould be > I think? thanks, fixed it. Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [marketing] Press kit link in our global website footer

2008-03-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Per, thanks! I've informed Louis and added the redirect. Florian Hi, I think something has happened to our footer. It's pointing to our old 2.0 press kit again. Should we not remove the 2.0 pages, to make sure that no one is reading the stuff, and place a Http Redirect there to our cur

[marketing] Mayor of Munich against standardization of MS OOXML

2008-03-14 Thread Florian Effenberger
Mayor of Munich against standardization of MS OOXML A press release of the city of Munich today announced, that the mayor of Munich is against the standardization of MS OOXML. In an open letter to several representatives of standard bodies and the government, he outlined several reasons of why

Re: [marketing] Distribution of OOo in Myanmar

2008-03-13 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I'm not Andy, but I don't see any problems with your plans. Distributing the original OOo binaries and charging a small fee for it is okay. If you want to use your logo, you need to send a formal request, but that's about it. Florian -

[marketing] CeBIT 2008 - a huge success for OpenOffice.org

2008-03-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
I've just returned from CeBIT 2008 in Hannover (Germany). OpenOffice.org had a booth there organized by OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. and kindly sponsored by Apple, LinuxHotel, Duden and Azul Kaffee. We shared our booth with companies offering services and support around OpenOffice.org, namel

Re: [marketing] Document Freedom Day

2008-02-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I also think it may be interesting to participate, so I'd like to contribute if there is something I can do. thanks! Where are you located? Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-m

Re: [marketing] Google News in the Marketing Planet

2008-02-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Does anyone find the Google News feed useful? If not, I am inclined to remove it from the Planet... +1 - better remove it, as we don't know what sort of news is being published there. ;-) Florian - To unsubscribe, e-ma

[marketing] Document Freedom Day

2008-02-25 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, offlist, some folks were talking about the Document Freedom Day (http://www.documentfreedom.org) that'll take place on March 26th, and we thought it might be a great idea to join there, too. OOo was one of the first applications, if not the first, to adapt and implement the ODF, and it

[marketing] Re: Introducing myself

2008-02-21 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Richard, thank you very much for your mail and for joining us! I've granted you the observer status as requested. Your contribution is welcome! You've done the first step by subscribing to the list and introducing yourself. Just read a while and you see how it goes and which tasks are ari

Re: [marketing] OOo 2.4 release notes

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Erwin, O.k., I took a very first stab at the release notes for OpenOffice.org 2.4 by moving content from the "Feature Freeze Testing 2.4" wiki page to the following page: thanks a lot, this looks brilliant! I wanted to come up with a draft the next days as well, but you've been faster. :-

Re: [marketing] Proposal: Drop Win98 support with OOo 3.0 release

2008-02-13 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi John, "OpenOffice.org 2.4 will be the last version of OpenOffice.org for Microsoft Windows 98 and Me. As these versions of Windows are no longer supported by Microsoft, it is becoming impractical to make sure they will support all the new features planned for OpenOffice.org 3.0 and beyond.

Re: [marketing] Proposal: Drop Win98 support with OOo 3.0 release

2008-02-12 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Could you, please, elaborate? I'm no developer, but keeping code for a 10 year old, ugly operating system consumes a lot of time. If we want to reach a more modern code and architecture, we should drop support for it. Florian ---

Re: [marketing] Proposal: Drop Win98 support with OOo 3.0 release

2008-02-12 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I personally don't think that it is worth the efforts to maintain Win98 compatibility. I'm all in favor of keeping 2.x as the last Win98/WinMe version, providing only security bugfixes as we do with 1.1.5. This is not bad, it helps us keeping our code clean and smooth. Florian -

Re: [marketing] Proposal: Drop Win98 support with OOo 3.0 release

2008-02-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, How do we feel aout this from a Marketing perspective? I see no problems with abandoning '98 support. '98 and Me are way out of date and are not being used widely anymore. Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTE

[marketing] CeBIT in Hannover

2008-02-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, this year, we have some free day tickets for CeBIT in Hannover, where the Germanophone project will exhibit together with service companies. CeBIT is from March 4th to March 9th. If anyone from the community is interested in visiting CeBIT, please drop me a private e-mail with the amo

Re: [marketing] Campus Reps idea

2008-02-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Alexandro, Hi people looking at the Mozilla project they are having this initiative on Campus Reps (representatives) means an official contact that represents the community 'in campus'. basically, this is a good idea. However, in Germany, we faced serious problems with OOo in educational

Re: [marketing] Do we have any conection with O3Spaces

2008-01-30 Thread Florian Effenberger
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Re: [marketing] Do we have any conection with O3Spaces

2008-01-30 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Great, I would like to contact them directly, maybe someone from DE can introduce me to them. sure, let me know what your inquiry is about and I'll introduce you. Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a

Re: [marketing] Do we have any conection with O3Spaces

2008-01-30 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I wonder if we have any connections with the people that develop O3Spaces. I think these people were involved in the community a few years back but my mind can be playing me tricks. Anyone here remember the details? the Germanophone community has good contact to them, they often co-exhi

Re: [marketing] Re: Observer role in the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project

2008-01-30 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Agustin, welcome to the marketing project, and thanks for joining us! Everyone is invited to contribute. :-) You are subscribed to the correct list, as most marketing tasks are being done on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just look around, search the archives and wait until something interesting pops

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet

2008-01-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Yes, that will pick up everything no problem. The categories are for people who post on different topics / in different languages etc that would be great - thanks! Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet

2008-01-24 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi John, Following on from Florian's OOo Marketing Blog, I've been looking for a way to aggregate postings from this new blog with feeds from other MP people's existing blogs. I've run a test of what this might look like: http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/jpmcc/planet this looks brillant

Re: [marketing] announcing The OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog

2008-01-19 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I love blogs. And i'd love to have publishing rights too. have just sent you an invitation. Thanks Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [marketing] announcing The OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog

2008-01-18 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Graham, Excellent Idea, Publishing right s for me would be good thanks thanks! Just done so! Is there any way we can make the colour scheme more in keeping with rest of the site. It seems very orange. :) Will do so as soon as I have time. ;-) Florian

Re: [marketing] announcing The OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog

2008-01-18 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Marketing OSS: www.italovignoli.org Added. Associazione PLIO: associazioneplio.wordpress.com They seem to have only Italian language version? Then I'd propose not to add it. I'd like to keep the blogroll in English... Florian

Re: [marketing] announcing The OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog

2008-01-18 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I definitely need publishing rights. I hope that it will be possible to use the OOo Blogging Extension. Thanks, Italo I just sent you an invitation to publish via e-mail. The extension should be usable. Florian - To u

[marketing] announcing The OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog

2008-01-18 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I'm delighted to announce The OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog as a replacement for the newsletter blog. Not many posts have been seen on the newsletter blog, and I'd like to continously blog on the new site. Hopefully, many of you will join - if you need publishing rights, let me know. Th

[Marketing] OOo ads in Java setup

2008-01-14 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I just found out that there are new OOo ads in the Java 1.6u4 setup. Great idea! Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] Malta MarCon

2008-01-12 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, globalnet.mt is not a registered domain. global.net.mt is a registered domain and is a mail service provider. thanks. I mailed, and we'll see who replies. ;-) Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addit

Re: [Marketing] Malta MarCon

2008-01-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Italo, Try also [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] All the possible variables, I've found only a text version of his email address with spaces. thank you very much, will do so! Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EM

Re: [Marketing] Malta MarCon

2008-01-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Italo, Try these: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks a lot, will do so! Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Marketing] Malta MarCon

2008-01-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, does anyone know the e-mail address of Mario Debono, MarCon for Malta? His address seems to be invalid as well... Thanks Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Marketing] wrong MarCon mail addresses

2008-01-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, What does it take to become a MarCon? Complete knowledge in OOo? you need some experience with the community and the program, but you definitely don't need to be an expert. People should recognize and know you inside your local NLC group, so you can be voted for. :-) Florian -

Re: [Marketing] wrong MarCon mail addresses

2008-01-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
:-) Someone who cannot be contacted cannot be a contact John - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] wrong MarCon mail addresses

2008-01-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Alexandro, I sent an email to ES asking for possible MarCons volunteers for these areas. thanks! Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Marketing] wrong MarCon mail addresses

2008-01-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, I am not sure they are active anymore at least on the OOoES community. This is something I got a mental note on it but forgot to bring up. If you are looking for OOo contacts in Argentina I am able to provide you with some that are active in OpenOffice.org Spanish. Please shoot me an ema

Re: [Marketing] Spam from Apple Computer

2008-01-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Lars, What would be good, then, is that when the native Aqua version of OpenOffice.org is to be released, that we get the same or better level of service from Apple in regards to their spam. Below are the relevant message headers. we're in contact with Apple and hopefully will bring up som

Re: [Marketing] IMPORTANT: Planned mailing list changes

2008-01-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Actually it's for code. But the idea was to reach out to the broader community in order to define product features, so I'm confused about what we should do now. as it hasn't been used for ages, I'm for disabling it. It can easily be re-enabled when needed. Florian

Re: [Marketing] Openofficesite.com is selling OpenOffice for $29.

2008-01-09 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Kam, thanks for the message. Selling OOo is legal, but the site may contain a possible trademark violation. Will check that. Thanks, Florian I'm not sure if what they're doing is legal. And if is, OpenOffice should definitely be getting a cut of it. --

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