Re: [libreoffice-marketing] inconsistent boilerplate

2011-06-30 Thread Tom Davies
All cool :) From: Simon Phipps To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 30 June, 2011 13:32:14 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] inconsistent boilerplate I tend to agree with your sentiment about StarOffice, but not for the boilerplate. The one propo

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] AppStore

2011-06-30 Thread Benjamin Horst
> On 27 Jun 2011, at 12:50, Benjamin Horst wrote: > >> When we discussed this last year, I researched a bit and found the following >> article from the FSF: >> http://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance >> >> The article's summary: >> >> An iPhone port of GNU Go is currently being dis

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Gmane test

2011-06-30 Thread Marc Paré
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[libreoffice-marketing] Gmane test

2011-06-30 Thread Marc Paré
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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] inconsistent boilerplate

2011-06-30 Thread C. Olofson
On 06/30/2011 06:35 AM, drew wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 10:47 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: I'll like to repeat Christoph's latest proposal - everyone agrees we can adopt this? == The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution of the LibreOffice Community into a ne

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] inconsistent boilerplate

2011-06-30 Thread drew
On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 10:47 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > I'll like to repeat Christoph's latest proposal - everyone agrees we can > adopt this? > > == > The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution of > the LibreOffice Community into a new, open, independent, and >

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] inconsistent boilerplate

2011-06-30 Thread Simon Phipps
I tend to agree with your sentiment about StarOffice, but not for the boilerplate. The one proposed here is about as long as it should be and I support it. {Terse? Mobile!} On Jun 30, 2011 8:29 AM, "Tom Davies" wrote: > Hi :) > > I am happy with not mentioning Star Office but i still think that n

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] repeating the marketing call soon?

2011-06-30 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 6/30/11 1:15 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Yes, the meeting happened but decisions lack gravitas due to the low number of people involved. In small new(ish) (within the last 20 years) co-operatives the ideal work-around is for the next meeting to vote on accepting the minutes and separately vote on

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] inconsistent boilerplate

2011-06-30 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Flo, On 24/06/2011 14:58, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, [...] Sounds good to me! What do others think? +1 Kind regards Sophie -- Founding member of The Document Foundation -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] inconsistent boilerplate

2011-06-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I am happy with not mentioning Star Office but i still think that not mentioning it misses an opportunity 1) to show how old and established LO really is 2) to show that forking can lead to success 3) that this latest break is not so unusual. Just as the break away from Star Office led Ope

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] repeating the marketing call soon?

2011-06-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes, the meeting happened but decisions lack gravitas due to the low number of people involved. In small new(ish) (within the last 20 years) co-operatives the ideal work-around is for the next meeting to vote on accepting the minutes and separately vote on accepting the decisions made.

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] repeating the marketing call soon?

2011-06-30 Thread drew
On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 10:53 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi Drew, > > drew wrote on 2011-06-29 22.48: > > Right - from time to time things happen - that's life. It is not that > > big a deal really, it's just good to stick with the basics - we have > > open discussions, which means that pho

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] inconsistent boilerplate

2011-06-30 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-06-30 04:47, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hello, thanks for the feedback! I too share the view that mentioning StarOffice will unnecessarily complicate things, so we should leave it out. Well, OK, I don't think we need to make a big case of it. One last remark though is that if we d

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] repeating the marketing call soon?

2011-06-30 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Drew, drew wrote on 2011-06-29 22.48: > Right - from time to time things happen - that's life. It is not that > big a deal really, it's just good to stick with the basics - we have > open discussions, which means that phone calls are recorded and posted. > > That's it - all I'm saying is stic

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: address change working

2011-06-30 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Bruce, Bruce Martin wrote on 2011-06-27 17.53: > I had also noticed your very capable contributions along the way (kudos) > and surmised when I saw you had gone towards LibreOffice that likely you > and enough more were anxious about the danger of Open Office becoming > "less open" on a gradua

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] inconsistent boilerplate

2011-06-30 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, thanks for the feedback! I too share the view that mentioning StarOffice will unnecessarily complicate things, so we should leave it out. Marc Paré wrote on 2011-06-24 23.48: > Should there also be mention of the type of licence we have adopted -- > opensource copy-left -- . Do we need t