[native-lang] Re: [releases] Problem with QA tests and release of OOo 3.3.0

is a competing product, so is Oracle Open Office, and so is OOo4Kids. Maybe even OpenOffice.org Portable. If we remove all of those people, nobody's left in the Council... SCNR. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead Tel: +49 8341 99660880 Fax: +49

[native-lang] Re: Problem with QA tests and release of OOo 3.3.0

Hi, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote on 2010-10-16 00.49: I am shocked by what I have read in the minutes of the last Community Council. The minutes are there : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council_Log_20101014#Community_Council_Session It is about to force the members of the

[native-lang] OpenOffice.org HackFest 2010

and sponsoring! To register yourself, just drop a short note to hackf...@openoffice.org and we'll follow up with further information soon. Faithfully, your HackFest organizers Eike, Florian Thorsten hackf...@openoffice.org -- Florian Effenberger flo...@openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Marketing Project

[native-lang] Birthday Fireworks

Hi, I've uploaded the fireworks, that we had for the 10th anniversary of OpenOffice.org: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKP97vL4zgw HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OPENOFFICE.ORG! -- Florian Effenberger flo...@openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead Tel: +49 8341 99660880 Fax: +49 8341

[native-lang] Re: OOoCon 2011

, and there had been no other valid proposal except Paris. I'm sure you all will support Charles and the team for OOoCon 2011, and for 2012, I am sure we will go back to the normal way of finding a location. :-) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Marketing Project

[native-lang] Fwd: [marketing] August Newsletter - Any input from the Community projects ?

Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven http://www.oracle.com/commitment Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment -- Florian Effenberger flo

Re: [native-lang] Re: [marketing] What to do for 10 years OpenOffice.org?

;) Thanks! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead Tel: +49 8341 99660880 Fax: +49 8341 99660889 Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff - To unsubscribe

[native-lang] share your collaterals!

. You can find pictures of these at http://www.ooodev.org/fanartikel.html In addition to what you see here, we can also produce fleece jackets and sweaters, but the pictures are still missing. How about you? ;) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Marketing Project

[native-lang] Re: [marketing] Proposing MarCon for Pakistan

Hello Fouad, first of all, sorry for my delayed reply, and thanks for your kind offer to step into the role of a MarCon for Pakistan. We indeed do not have any Pakistan marketing contact at this very moment, so I'm happy to accept a new one. The process is to have a little public poll, and

[native-lang] OOoCon 2010 Call for Papers

OOoCon 2010 Call for Papers The OpenOffice.org Community Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary! This year's meeting will be held in one of Europe's most beautiful cities, Budapest, Hungary, from August 31st - September 3rd, 2010. We hope you will join us in our celebration and conference!

Re: [native-lang] OpenOffice 3.2 QA workshop in Sri Lanka

Hi Danishka, Danishka Navin wrote on 2010-03-16 07.32: Date: 25th March 2010 Duration: 1 day (8 hours) Products: OO.org Writer, Calc, Imperss and Base. Right now about 10 volunteers has been registered. thanks for sharing! Is there a website to it, so I can link? Florian

Re: [native-lang] OpenOffice 3.2 QA workshop in Sri Lanka

Hi Danishka, Danishka Navin wrote on 2010-03-16 08.37: I can update the si.openoffice.org page. that would be great! I'd then be happy to Twitter on it. Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [native-lang] Finland and Belgium

Hi Cor, Inspired by Leo's work: can you send me an invitation once more ;-) sure, every contribution is welcome! You should have received an invitation by e-mail now ;) Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [native-lang] Finland and Belgium

Hi Leo, I made my first blog and posted my first entry :-) You will find it here: http://leo-ooonewsfrombelgium.blogspot.com/ thanks a lot! Do you want to post it to the marketing blog as well? You should have author rights there. :-) Thanks Florian

Re: [native-lang] Finland and Belgium

Hi Leo, Yes, I do, but sorry I do not know how to do :-( Could you help? you should have received an automatic invitation from Google at your Gmail account :-) Then go to www.blogger.com, log on, and you should see the OOo marketing blog :) Florian

Re: [native-lang] Adware in OpenOffice.org?

Hi, What do you guys think? I have a very strong opinion *against* this. Against the idea itself, and against the way it was (not) communicated to the community. I'd rather stick to this short explanation on a public list. ;-) Florian

[native-lang] Re: [marcon] Re: OpenOffice.org Community Mapping Project

Hi, :-( We have only six community entries so far in our attempt to create an OpenOffice.org community map. None of the entries include developers. Our goal was to get off to a great start to this project with many entries in time for OOoCon 2008 in Beijing next week. I'd really love to

[native-lang] OpenOffice.org Community Mapping Project

Hello, I'm forwarding a request from Zaheda. As I'm on the road this week to present OpenOffice.org at the Systems trade show in Munich, please reply directly to her in Cc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks! Quoting Zaheda: == Recently I've been working to put together a project that, as far as I

[native-lang] Re: [marcon] Two million downloads

Hi, congratulations to all of us for this great effort! Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [native-lang] Pictures of the OOo3 Launch Party

Hi Charles, for those who couldn't attend, and those who could as well, here's some pictures of the event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ooo3launch/ thanks for these pictures, I've just blogged about them. :-) Thanks also for the great idea of celebrating, it looks like it was wonderful!

Re: [native-lang] Distribution plan for OpenOffice.org 3.0

Hi Joost, I have the plan to distribute 3.0 localizations via ../extended/localized (extended mirrors) and to distribute en-US binaries, source tarballs and SDK binaries via ../stable (regular mirrors). no concerns from my side. Florian

[native-lang] Re: On the 4th Italian OpenOffice.org conference

Hi Charles, This year the conference was taking place in Bolzano, a very nice city lost in the Alps south of Tyrol. It was a charming place, the kind that transforms you in a cookie monster as there is so much to eat and the place looks so comfortable and welcoming. But I digress. thanks

Re: [native-lang] current number of supported languages

Hi Tora, The translation coverage of OOo 3.0.0 is now summarized in the wiki http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Translation_for_3.0#Coverage thanks a lot! Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [native-lang] Please update download page

The same for Kurdish, we are at 2.4.1, the bouncer link is http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/?product=OpenOffice.orgos=winlang=kuversion=2.4.1 Fixed. Is there a reason why only the Windows build is available, or are the other links just missing?

Re: [native-lang] Please update download page

Hi, Can someone update http://download.openoffice.org/other.html page for us? I don't have modify permission for download module. You can find Mongolian downloads under http://mn.openoffice.org/about-downloads.html (version 2.4.0). just fixed. ;) Thanks! Florian

[native-lang] current number of supported languages

Hello, does anyone has the current number of supported languages for our 3.0 PR? We currently have 80 there, but I guess the number is a little bit higher, slightly over 90? Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [native-lang] current number of supported languages

Hi, I'm pretty sure we were about 90, but I can't confirm it at the moment... Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[native-lang] Re: [project leads] Registration for OOo N-L meeting

Hello Davie, Hello Andrea, thanks for your organization! I've just registered, although I'm still unsure whether I can attend or not. We are also booking some accomodations into youth hostel (approx 22Eur per night with Breakfast). Who was interested can write me in private. Yep, would be

[native-lang] announcing the winner of the splash screen poll

Hello everyone, I'd like to announce the winner of the splash screen poll. We had a total of 789 votes, which is a quite good count! The winner is Jacek Adamkiewicz: Proposal 3 http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/splashvote/Splash_b_ok.png with a total of 83 votes. You see that this

[native-lang] Vote on the OpenOffice.org 3.0 splash screen

OpenOffice.org 3.0 will get a new splash screen to reflect our new and fresh release, and the community has the final word on it. Several great proposals have been sent in, and we ask all community members to cast their vote. Together with the splash screen, two other design elements will be

Re: [native-lang] New Lead and Co-lead for the FR project

Hello Sophie, it is sad to hear that you left your role as Francophone project lead. The Francophone project has always been an example of a fantastic community with an even more awesome lead and a brilliant picture of how community building goes. I want to thank you personally for all the

[native-lang] splash screen contest extended for two weeks

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

[native-lang] Re: [marketing] Our New Look

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: [native-lang] The Native Language Confederation Planet is born

Hi, See http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet To have your blog added, please send me the URL for your blog feed (ATOM or RSS ok, NOT your blog home page) just blogged about it and added it to the blogroll. ;-) Florian

Re: [native-lang] Need info about bouncer (was Annual report from the Danish NLC community)

Hi, Sorry about the delay, no problem. :-) * How do we get started ? (should I contact osuosl.org directly or..?) To add new builds, you are best off asking Joost Andrae at Sun, he usually maintains this one and can tell you how to proceed. * Is bouncer a mirror network og just

Re: [native-lang] Annual report from the Danish NLC community

Hi Leif, thanks for the report! One of our goals for 2007 was to use Bouncer for handling the downloads. We need that for two purposes: 1) activation of automatic update 2) download statistics. Unfortunately we didn't succeed on this issue because no one has been able to tell us how it

Re: [native-lang] Re: [com] t-shirt distribution through NLC projects

Hi Graham, you are partially right. However, I think we could discuss over this issue for months, and in the end, we don't have anything, so I'd definitely vote for producing those t-shirts and maybe mugs/mouse pads/bags as soon as possible, so we have used the money and have some merchandising

[native-lang] Re: [com] t-shirt distribution through NLC projects

Hi, +1 for less t-shirts and more other giveaways... thanks for agreeing. I also think that 2000 shirts are too much... Perhaps something like think geek offers, where we have a series of options for consumers to choose that hare branded OpenOffice.org--mugs, t-shirts, buttons, laptop

Re: [native-lang] OpenOffice support in Ecuador and Latin America

Hi Alexandro, Hi Florian, how you doing, I am Alexandro of the OpenOffice.org ES community. Ecuador is in our area of work. I agree that Ecuador participation in our community is very limited and is our desire to expand it. We have an active community in neigbor countries like Colombia an

Re: [native-lang] OpenOffice support in Ecuador and Latin America

Hi Alexandro, Well I am ok with stablishing more MarCon but since the marketing efforts are more NLC-project wise. I would like him to be more involved with the efforts we are doing in other LA countries so he can leverage on that. We currently are working with chapters as opposed to

Re: [native-lang] OpenOffice support in Ecuador and Latin America

Hi Alexandro, Yes that was my original intend, that's why I replied in Spanish. Send him my email. thanks a lot! Will do so. :-) Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

[native-lang] OpenOffice support in Ecuador and Latin America

Hello, I have a request from someone who is interested in volunteering as OpenOffice.org marketing contact in Ecuador and Latin America. I think that Latin America is at least partially covered, but for Ecuador, I don't see any contact. Are there active parties around who might interested in

Re: [native-lang] The world of OOo

Hi Charles, The idea is to have a distributed conference (IRC, video, audio) around the L10N/NLC topics for OOo. I don't know if this will work out. Even some short IRC meetings have been problematic in the past. I think a better option would be to do more RegiCons, although it requires more

Re: [native-lang] Bouncer again

Hi Louis, I don't know either. I will raise them with OSL. But I think as I wrote to Joost and Andreas, we will have to use all data... The part that bothers me is the intervention of manual labour: I think that introduces errors (or can) and is just boring and tedious. Automating things will

Re: [native-lang] Bouncer again

Hi Louis, A long while ago, back in February, I asked about using Bouncer for downloads. [0] There were some considered objections, [1] but I think they may have been addressed since then. So... Do the NLC leads still have objections to using Bouncer? If yes, what are they? (Have they been

Re: [native-lang] Congratulations to the new grandmother!

Hi Sophie, I wish you all the best! Enjoy the time! Seeing in an innocent children's face and hearing his true laughter is one of the most beautiful things on earth... Florian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [native-lang] Congratulations to the new grandmother!

Hi, Thank you very much :) I'm sure that you'll meet Tewis Menja one day at the OOoCon ;) then we need a new subproject: http://babies.openoffice.org The younger you start... ;-) Have a nice evening! Florian - To

Re: [native-lang] CampOpenOffice.org in 2007

Hi, Thanks, Florian! I'd like to see as many NLC projects initiate camps like this as possible :-) My idea: to keep interest in OOo alive and to keep the idea that participating in the project is fun current. The camps can be focused on QA--but also on writing extensions, doing

[native-lang] CampOpenOffice.org in 2007

Hello everyone, some of you already may have heard about the DE project's so-called CampOpenOffice.org, which has been held in 2006, and will be held again in 2007. I have posted a summary last September, which you can read at

Re: [native-lang] Looking for mirrors -please help!

Hi Charles, The fr project is urgently looking for more mirrors given the constant surge in the number of downloads of OOo in french. I know that this may also be the case for other localized versions of OOo, so please, feel free to come up and say if you have the same problem. maybe you

Re: [native-lang] Looking for mirrors -please help!

Hi Sophie, This is the object of my call for help, it was not only directed for French. It's in fact a very very late follow up of the discussion you oppened on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list last summer. I'm sure that some universities or companies should be able to offer the 200 Gb needed for the

Re: [native-lang] OOoCON NLC meeting agenda

we will discuss some Marketing points at the meeting. okay, I leave that decision up to you, you definitely have more experience in these things. A MarCon meeting is a good idea anyway. :-) Florian -- ## Florian Effenberger ## Marketing/Öffentlichkeitsarbeit/Presse ## OpenOffice.org - http

Re: [native-lang] OOoCON NLC meeting agenda

, and I'm happy that the Germanophone project will be represented by its lead in Lyon as well. :-) Anyway, the NLC Party, however, is for everybody! That indeed sounds promising! :-) Florian -- ## Florian Effenberger ## Marketing/Öffentlichkeitsarbeit/Presse ## OpenOffice.org - http

Re: [native-lang] OOoCON NLC meeting agenda

that's what I thought, and I'm happy that the Germanophone project will be represented by its lead in Lyon as well. :-) That said, I don't know if she will be there, don't know her schedule for the Con - but we'll see. :-) -- ## Florian Effenberger ## Marketing/Öffentlichkeitsarbeit/Presse

[native-lang] Unavailability notice for September

to the limited time (I estimatedly leave the house at 6 or 7am and get back at 8 or 9pm...), but I have nice colleagues and am quite confident that we'll manage that. See you all back in October! Florian -- ## Florian Effenberger ## Marketing/Öffentlichkeitsarbeit/Presse ## OpenOffice.org - http