Re: [marketing-events] Open office Demo Videos

2005-08-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On Jul 20, 2005, at 4:58 AM, Dark Magician wrote: Hi Guys, I was looking at the microsoft site and they have these demos which show how to use the microsoft office to do all sorts of stuff. I was wondering if Openofficecould also do this as this may help encourage more people to use openoff

Re: [marketing-events] Desktop Linux Summit - OOo RegiCon

2005-08-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On Aug 27, 2005, at 5:18 AM, Ian Lynch wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 22:09 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: In Adam's note that started this thread on the Marketing list, he asked about organising a one-day OOo RegiCon before DLS, but so far we haven't really addressed that question; we got

Re: [marketing-events] Desktop linux summit

2005-08-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Adam, * On Aug 26, 2005, at 1:02 AM, Adam Moore wrote: On 8/25/05, Jacqueline McNally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ian Lynch wrote: On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 12:36 +0800, Jacqueline McNally wrote: There were too few people able to commit promised resources to the previous event. I thnk

Re: [marketing-events] Desktop Linux Summit - OOo RegiCon

2005-08-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On Aug 27, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Adam Moore wrote: Ryan is supposed to look into this. Ryan, if you don't have the time feel free to give me the contact information and I'll go ahead and make the contacts. Last year did Linspire approach us for the conference or did we approach them? It was

[marketing-events] 4th Southern California Linux Expo

2005-08-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
We have been invited to SCALE 4x. It is 11-12 February 2006. No information yet on funding, etc., but we'd probably just have a booth. URL: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/ Cheers, Louis

Re: [marketing-events] Desktop Linux Summit - OOo RegiCon

2005-08-28 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Adam, On Aug 28, 2005, at 2:34 AM, Adam Moore wrote: Let me make something clear. Although I do think that INGOTs is a great product and I support it whole heartedly, I represent OpenOffice first and sponsors second. Let me give you an example. At the NEA conference the sponsors were INGO

Re: [marketing-events] Desktop linux summit

2005-08-28 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Adam, On Aug 28, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Adam Moore wrote: [snip] Really I guess my question with this is who are we marketing to at OpenOffice. End users, developers, businesses, everybody? Having a Regicon gives us one big marketing tool. Everyone that comes to it is there to hear about

Re: [marketing-events] 4th Southern California Linux Expo

2005-08-28 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On Aug 28, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Adam Moore wrote: You can probably count me in. The fact that it's on a weekend is nice. :) On 8/27/05, Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We have been invited to SCALE 4x. It is 11-12 February 2006. No information yet on funding

Re: [marketing-events] 4th Southern California Linux Expo

2005-08-28 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hello, On Aug 27, 2005, at 7:17 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: We have been invited to SCALE 4x. It is 11-12 February 2006. No information yet on funding, etc., but we'd probably just have a booth. URL: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/ A booth there wou

Re: [marketing-events] 4th Southern California Linux Expo

2005-08-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On Aug 29, 2005, at 7:55 AM, Ian Lynch wrote: The thing is we did post about attending NEA and we posted a summary after attending with some analysis of the marketing strategy adopted and its implications for others doing the same thing but no-one seemed particularly interested. Maybe th

Re: [marketing-events] Desktop Linux Summit - OOo RegiCon

2005-08-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
s. Last year did Linspire approach us for the conference or did we approach them? On 8/27/05, Ian Lynch < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 11:14 -0400, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > > > > > Really need to sort this out before putting a lot of effort in.

Re: [marketing-events] Desktop Linux Summit - OOo RegiCon

2005-08-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On Aug 29, 2005, at 3:32 PM, Ryan Singer wrote: On 8/29/05, Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On Aug 29, 2005, at 11:34 AM, Ryan Singer wrote: > I'll call them today. I just moved to the Berkeley area, and so I > have no internet at home, only at work.

Re: [marketing-events] Desktop Linux Summit - OOo RegiCon

2005-08-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On Aug 29, 2005, at 3:52 PM, Adam Moore wrote: On 8/29/05, Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On Aug 29, 2005, at 11:34 AM, Ryan Singer wrote: > I'll call them today. I just moved to the Berkeley area, and so I > have no internet at home, only at work. A

Re: [marketing-events] Desktop linux summit

2005-08-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On Aug 27, 2005, at 3:46 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: [snip] Yes it was fun for those attending. Do you feel that team-building within the community is unimportant? For an open source project, I think that this sort of interaction between members is very important. After all, "fun"

Re: [marketing-events] Desktop linux summit

2005-08-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Adam, On Aug 29, 2005, at 11:34 PM, Adam Moore wrote: On 8/29/05, Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another thing that came out of the RegiCon was a contact that led > to the NEA conference, where a lot of teachers learned about OOo > for the first time. And u

[marketing-events] upcoming events

2006-01-05 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, There are several upcoming events that are of some interest. No idea if there are funds for them, so the most likely scenario will be to rely on local groups to manage the booths. The two most immediate are: * Southern California Linux Expo 4x (SCALE), 11-12 February, The Radisson Los An

Re: [marketing-events] upcoming events

2006-01-05 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
hi On 1/5/06 6:53 PM Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > >> There are several upcoming events that are of some interest. No idea if >> there are funds for them, so the most likely scenario will be to rely on >> local groups to manage the booths. >

Re: [marketing-events] Re: [Marketing] LCA 2006 report

2006-02-02 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2006-02-02, at 10:14 , Ian Lynch wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 02:04 +, Graham Lauder wrote: In conclusion many positives in terms of the greater conference. Many more educators are aware of OOo. We have a positive high profile as a project, especially in terms of the NLC. Ho

[marketing-events] LWE Boston

2006-02-02 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, LinuxWorld Expo Boston is coming soon: 3-6 April. I think it is very important that OOo be fully represented there. Not only is Massachusetts leading the fight for the government use of the opendocument format, which OOo uses, but a lot of media attention has been focused on that fight

Re: [marketing-events] Possible Events for OOo

2006-02-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks for the list Can I suggest we form a wiki dedicated to events? There could be a few categories/columns, one of them being importance and another possible attendees. Otherwise, I *know* we will lose this information. Who wants to start the wiki? The main page for the OOo wikis is:

Re: [marketing-events] Re: [Marketing] LCA 2006 report

2006-02-05 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2006-02-02, at 16:31 , Jonathon Coombes wrote: Hi Louis, How easy would it be for such an entity to transfer goods or money for events in Australia, Asia and Europe? Do we need to look at a number of sub-entities, or do you see no real issue here? Regards Jonathon -- I think but w

[marketing-events] LWE Boston & SF

2006-02-22 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, Big news: OpenOffice.org has been given booth space at both the LWE Boston (4-6 April) and SF (15-17 August). Yippee! What we need now is people to help staff the booth. I can give some advice and will try to coordinate the schedule as well as collateral, but would love help in t

Re: [marketing-events] LWE Boston & SF

2006-02-22 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2006-02-22, at 21:51 , Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Big news: OpenOffice.org has been given booth space at both the LWE Boston (4-6 April) and SF (15-17 August). Yippee! What we need now is people to help staff the booth. I can give some advice and will try to

[marketing-events] Other Non-Linux Confs [WAS: Re: [marketing-events] LWE Boston]

2006-03-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
hi On 2006-02-08, at 13:22 , James Walker wrote: I would agree here, I always wondered why we target Linux conferences, when what we should be doing is going to the windows ones :-D , but seriously what are the chances of attending something that is more targeted toward windows users, is

Re: [marketing-events] LWE Boston & SF

2006-03-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, (sorry for delay; was putting the package together, inter alia) On 2006-02-23, at 24:29 , Jean Hollis Weber wrote: [snip] What budget will you have for getting brochures printed and similar expenses? It sounds from a later comment in this note that you'll be relying on CD-ROM supplier

Re: [marketing-events] Other Non-Linux Confs - Global Creative Economy Convergence in Philadelphia

2006-03-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On Friday, March 10, 2006, at 09:27AM, Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi On 2006-02-08, at 13:22 , James Walker wrote: I would agree here, I always wondered why we target Linux conferences, when what we should be doing is going to the windows ones :-D , but seriously

Re: [marketing-events] Re: [Marketing] LWE Boston

2006-03-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
hi, On 2006-03-10, at 18:58 , Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I said in an earlier note that FoOD cannot offer free copies of these books, but upon further reflection, we can provide one copy of each book for display at the booth, if you are interested. Yes. Send them to the address I gave you

Re: [marketing-events] Re: [Fwd: [Marketing] OO.o Seminar in Dhaka, Bangladesh.]

2006-03-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, Thanks John! On 2006-03-18, at 05:09 , John McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 17:17 +0600, mak wrote: Dear All, I guess you missed the seminar for your busy schedule (it's far away, :-D too). Anyway, it went very well. More then 50 people joined the seminar; The number is too small b

[marketing-events] LWE Boston Update

2006-03-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, The status so far: * Leon Shiman of X.org is helping out on the ground in Boston. He's also arranged for me to be on a panel at the conference discussing OOo and ODF. * Kyle Korleski of the CDROM project has volunteered 1,000 cds of OOo 2.0.2 in English to be given out at the confer

Re: [marketing-events] LWE Boston Update

2006-03-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2006-03-18, at 17:35 , Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: * Books: Jean has suggested sending some ODF fellowship books, which is fine; I can display but not sell them. I'd hope that proceeds of any sell also go to OpenOffice.org marketing events. Correction

Re: [marketing-events] Other Non-Linux Confs - Global Creative Economy Convergence in Philadelphia

2006-03-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
7 I understand about the possibility of hidden costs, but until or if we hit that obstacle, let's see what we can do. True. Thanks Louis! np. -louis -Ben On Mar 18, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hi Ben, On 2006-03-10, at 10:12 , Benjamin Horst wrote: I was close to

Re: [marketing-events] Probably a silly suggestion...

2006-03-30 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2006-03-27, at 08:10 , Jo wrote: but have you thought of talking at Chamber of Commerce events? Yes. There are *many* :-) I know that small businesses would benefit tremendously from this software... they would certainly, but here is the logistical issue: contacting the releva

Re: [marketing-events] Invite

2006-04-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
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[marketing-events] OSCON Portland

2006-06-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi OSCON this year is 24-28 July, in Portland, Oregon, on the West Coast of the USA. Sun will have a pod there, and OOo will be represented by me and possibly others. (We were (or I was) hoping to have engineers there to conduct workshops for developers--OSCON is not quite FOSDEM but doe

[marketing-events] LinuxWorld Expo San Francisco

2006-06-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, Linux WorldExpo SF is this 14-17 August. LWEs in the past have been occasions for one suit to meet another and for open source projects to gain valuable recognition from suits. They are not occasions for developers. Last year, we did not attend and in the balance, it was not such a l

[marketing-events] Cancelling LWE SF

2006-07-12 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Given the total absence of responses to the call for participation in the upcoming LWE SF, I shall decline our invitation there Friday. Best, Louis

[marketing-events] EuroOscon 2006

2006-08-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
OpenOffice.org will be at EuroOscon 2006. It'll be held in Brussels, from 18-21 September. We'll have three hours set aside for discussions, tutorials, debates, and so on. That's two back-to-back BoFs. I'm also working on seeing if we can get an exhibit set up. But the BoFs may be more e

Re: [marketing-events] Call for presentations: Women's mini-conference at linux.conf.au 2007

2006-11-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I wonder if we should send these relevant cfps to the newsletter@ list; it is broadcast widely. That would be or events that are interesting and for which you need peopl. If you are agreeable, don't hesitate to send the link to [EMAIL PROTECTED] best, Louis On 2006-10-23, at 05:00 , Jacq

[marketing-events] LCAs...

2007-01-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi What can we do to make the LCA a bigger event for OOo? Australia is currently one of the leaders in adopting the ODF for its archives (or it was; not sure if it still is) Best, Louis

Re: [marketing-events] Details of OpenOffice.org Miniconf 2007

2007-01-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks, Jonathon! On 2007-01-20, at 18:53 , Jonathon Coombes wrote: Hi All, Here is a report of what happened with the OpenOffice.org miniconf. Thanks to the efforts of Jim Watson, a great day was organised and we had a registered attendance of 90 people. Some of the talks attracted more

[marketing-events] Fwd: Call For Presentations - SCALE 6x

2007-09-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
] Dear Louis Suarez-Potts, I would like to bring to your attention the 2008 Southern California Linux Expo's Call For Papers. We would like to encourage the OpenOffice community to participate in this year's call for papers. Our 6th annual event, SCALE 6x will be held on February 8-1

[marketing-events] Re: [Marketing] Re: [marketing-events] Fwd: Call For Presentations - SCALE 6x

2007-09-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
and call it, "/events.html . We can then link this to Marketing wiki and Marketing homepage. best louis Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Scale is an interesting and worthwhile event, from what I have heard from those here who have attended and from those in other projects who have g