[libreoffice-marketing] Hilighting Entry-Level Talks at the next LibreOffice conference

2018-10-02 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, at this years LibreOffice conference, I gave a talk about a very, very specific technical topic on Writer internals. I assume maybe a dozen souls were really the right target audience for it. I dont think the talk was a waste of time, as I hope it still is very helpful for these folks.

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libo-marketing-priv] LibreOffice Tips

2015-11-23 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 01:42:17AM +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: > We are collecting tips related to LibreOffice - any kind: configuration, > deployment, howto, workarounds, suggestions - to spend as "gifts" for > users during the upcoming Xmas season. Cloph has already collected a > number of

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOffice weekly newsletter

2014-06-18 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:03:45AM +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: - again, thank you for all this I like the breadth and quality of content. Let's make this a collaborative effort. For sure. But the initial idea was to keep it oriented to developers as much possible. Although I'm not against

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] USB 'card' draft content for CeBIT

2014-01-23 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, About the frontside: Im not a native english speaker, so please find one to check the wording. FWIW I think I would drop the World's part and would not do the germanish looking capitals. As for branding, the usual branding guidelines apply[1] -- as is they seem good to me, but _if_ e.g. the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] USB 'card' draft content for CeBIT

2014-01-23 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 01:50:12PM +0100, Thomas Krumbein wrote: It is still an official USB-Stick and the non-TDF product is only part of the german stick - TDF do not have a Fan-article shop and frodev is not so far from TDF (it is still the founder;));) So to secure same design of

[libreoffice-marketing] [bjoern.michael...@canonical.com: getting LibreOffice/TDF on betterplace.org]

2013-06-13 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
- Forwarded message from Bjoern Michaelsen bjoern.michael...@canonical.com - Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:58:01 +0200 From: Bjoern Michaelsen bjoern.michael...@canonical.com To: merket...@global.libreoffice.org, disc...@de.libreoffice.org Subject: getting LibreOffice/TDF on betterplace.org

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Hamburg Hackfest Flyers -- please verify

2013-06-11 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:02:12AM +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Bjoern, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote (11-06-13 03:22) https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:HackfestHamburg2013Flyer.odg Ah, you want explanantion on the hackfest :) Yes, for the university students this IMHO makes sense

[libreoffice-marketing] Hamburg Hackfest Flyers -- please verify

2013-06-10 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi all, with some good help and inspiration from Issa, Cor and others on the design list, I hacked up a flyer for distribution at a local university. It would be great if someone (preferibly german -- for the texts) could check the result at:

[libreoffice-marketing] Microsoft seems to have bought advertising space on our twitter timeline

2013-05-30 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, Microsoft seems to have bought advertisement space on our twitter timeline, we should take that as a compliment: https://plus.google.com/101094190333184858950/posts/Lvjhs34bQ2d Please share! Best, Bjoern -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Ask.LibreOffice.org and Bugzilla Twitter accounts

2013-05-17 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi Zeki, On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 02:27:05PM +0300, Zeki Bildirici wrote: We had used this method in Pardus GNU/Linux and it worked. After asking to Florian for his advice that if is this possible to use this channels for LibreOffice, i've creaed two twitter accounts. The new accounts are:

[libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Bay Area Meetup on May, 11 2013

2013-04-26 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, as just announced on the blog: http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2013/04/26/libreoffice-bay-area-meetup-on-may-11-2013/ we have a meetup arranged at the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California on May 11, 2013. Please register in calendars and share far and wide! ;) Best, Bjoern --

[libreoffice-marketing] Python IDE competition (was: ... clearly encouraging Python extensions)

2013-04-04 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 12:28:07PM +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: As for IDEs: Actually I dont think that many Python stuff is done in a IDE -- most is simply written in an editor. I

[libreoffice-marketing] Printing on Tuesdays: New LibreOffice killer feature, please promote widely

2013-04-01 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, I cant express how excited I am about this one. We have a proof-of-concept for the exciting 'Print on Tuesdays'-feature available for download here: http://skyfromme.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/libreoffice-prints-on-tuesdays-only/ Please promote it far and wide, so we get good testing before

[libreoffice-marketing] Hackfest Freiburg 2013

2013-03-26 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi all, I just created a skeleton wikipage for the Freiburg Hackfest at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Freiburg2013 anyone wanting to help out with completing it is invited (e.g. the usual suspects creating a Hackfest Freiburg logo like

[libreoffice-marketing] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events update

2013-03-26 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, I just updated: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events a bit, adding: - re-publica - OpenDocument-Kongress für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung - SIGINT 13 - Hackfest Freiburg - possible US meetup please check and update and amend stuff as needed. Best, Bjoern -- Unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Java dependencies

2013-03-13 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:47:35PM +0100, Christian Lohmaier wrote: Hi Paolo, *, On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Paolo Pelloni pa...@paolopelloni.it wrote: I am using right now LO 4.0 downloaded from web on Ubuntu and I need Java to be able to play embedded videos in Impress No, that's

[libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice on lwn

2013-03-01 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, LibreOffice is on lwn wrt to the gbuild migration: http://lwn.net/Articles/540550/ Best, Bjoern -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

[libreoffice-marketing] Froscon 8 and QA-Wochenende

2013-02-11 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi all, FrOSCon 8 is bootstrapping: http://www.froscon.de/en/home/ maybe we should join, of move an existing meeting there (e.g. the QA Wochenende done last year) as it allows us to connect with a wider audience? Best, Bjoern -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

[libreoffice-marketing] re:publica 2013 volunteers

2013-01-17 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, re:publica 13 is around the corner: http://re-publica.de/ and the call for papers is open until the end of this month. Looking at the archive at: http://archiv.re-publica.de/ we as a project (rather than a product) we fit in perfectly well. Lets show the world outside how we are about

[libreoffice-marketing] FOSDEM 2013 videos and slides

2013-01-03 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, do we have a slideshow planned for FOSDEM? IIRC in previous years we had slides presenting LibreOffice as a product, which is wrong for that audience. IMHO showing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3To0wrawYg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gIqOOajdYQ

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Latest Hardware and OS

2012-12-21 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:01:01AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: iHi, On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 06:57:53AM +, Michael Meeks wrote: Ho hum; the Raspberry Pi version is mostly Rene's work with the Debian packages; I'd stick to just having the Linux + ARM architecture for that rather

[libreoffice-marketing] Auctioning of RasPis

2012-12-19 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, here is the auctioning off of the Raspberry Pis: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2828 I bet there is a lesson to be learned from that for funraising. Best, Bjoern -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-marketing] Flyer: Donate 10$ to LibreOffice

2012-12-17 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, I think, this: https://plus.google.com/117384859835715173104/posts/FyvFXRJ32CM is an awesome idea. Please reshare. Oh, and: if someone contacts Thomas if we can upload that as marketing material on our wiki that would be awesome. Best, Bjoern -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Funding Wishlist

2012-12-03 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 04:45:26PM -0400, marc.p...@libreoffice.org wrote: Hi everyone, In trying to better assess the TDF/LibreOffice funding requirements, we are compiling a wishlist of funding request particular to your team's needs. While there is no guarantee that this will get you

[libreoffice-marketing] volunteer wanted -- playterm session

2012-11-30 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi list, On: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41291 there is a nice playterm session explaining how to get your first build done. It also has been converted to a nice youtube video by cloph. I would love to see a volunteer showing up and wrapping this nice video in a good text for

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Otto Kekäläinens talk -- proposing to kill the features section on the webpage, have adopters section instead

2012-10-25 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 08:36:52AM +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Let have both. Features list is usually requested strongly by local groups. Yes, but is that the question that we should ask ourselves when putting something on the webpage? Or rather: What helps us grow users and esp.

[libreoffice-marketing] Otto Kekäläinens talk -- proposing to kill the features section on the webpage, have adopters section instead

2012-10-24 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, walking through the slides at (I didnt see the talk): http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121022-01.en.html I have to agree: The adoptors need to be right on the frontpage. Lets instead kill the section: https://www.libreoffice.org/features/ (excepting the new in 3.X sections). Those pages

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] libreoffice.org does look rather sterile -- lets mix in community pictures into the slideshow

2012-10-15 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 06:07:45PM +0100, Tom Davies wrote: If we have pictures of people then i think a good mix of people might help.  All white, youngish chaps in jeans and t-shirts looks more like a national-front rally than an international community. 

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Website EasyHack: Ask users to contribute while they are running their download

2012-10-14 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 01:46:49PM +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: I like the various ideas. What about a combination: - link during download - at the end of the installation process there is a small text + pointer / link. And mention that there is an entry in the Help menu. - a menu Help Support

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Funding Wishlist

2012-10-14 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 05:38:57PM -0400, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: I would like to see more marketing and group meeting in the USA and Canada. It would be nice to promote regional distributions, like the NA-DVD project, but we need more LO promotion in this side of the ocean PERIOD.

[libreoffice-marketing] libreoffice.org does look rather sterile -- lets mix in community pictures into the slideshow

2012-10-14 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, FYI, I just filed: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55970 and would be happy for comments. It says: The frontpage of the product at: http://www/libreoffice.org look rather sterile. The slideshow could be a way to improve that. Instead of showing only screenshots, we should

[libreoffice-marketing] awesome alliterations: Limerick loves LibreOffice

2012-10-12 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi all, fyi: http://beginlinux.com/blog/2012/10/tlwir-46-limerick-loves-libreoffice/ Best, Bjoern -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

[libreoffice-marketing] Website EasyHack: Ask users to contribute while they are running their download

2012-10-09 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, FYI, I just created an EasyHack for the website with the topic Ask users to contribute while they are running their download. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55796 Best, Bjoern -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-marketing] Ubuntu Community Team on Air Collecting Donations -- TDF should do the same

2012-10-04 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, the Ubuntu Community team is on air for 24h non-stop right now at: http://marathon.ubuntuonair.com/ collecting donations for charities. We should try the same some day collecting for TDF, with people from different teams (marketing, l10n, docs, QA, development) collecting donations for

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Photo Shuffler on Donation page -- need more photos

2012-09-27 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi Marc, On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 05:56:15AM -0400, Marc Paré wrote: We are just putting together a new Donations page. I would like to add more photos to the SilverStripe photoshuffler that you see on the page.[1] Would any groups have photos that we could use with the PhotoShuffler. We

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Photo Shuffler on Donation page -- need more photos

2012-09-27 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:06:51PM +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: Here are more photos: http://sweetshark.livejournal.com/10514.html http://sweetshark.livejournal.com/9361.html http://blog.thebehrens.net/2012/04/16/libreoffice-hamburg-hackfest-2012/ http://blog.thebehrens.net/tag

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Code of Conduct

2012-09-26 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:32:37AM +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Charles wrote: Maybe such a code of conduct is needed, I don't dwell too much on the users list to be frank. However, what's really important is to have this code enforced, and that means to have community members who are able to

[libreoffice-marketing] QA call moved to one hour earlier at 1300UTC

2012-09-26 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, as per: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Libreoffice-qa-LibreOffice-QA-Call-2012-09-07-td4005656.html the QA call moved to default to 1300UTC on every second Friday. Can somebody please update the calendars? Thanks, Bjoern -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Forums? (was: Nabble: friend or foe?)

2012-08-31 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, let me state two opinion frontup for this discussion: - A user forum is important, and something we need to care about in the current state of the project - however, it is not a trivial task at all -- and launching a forum is pretty much a hit or miss, so we would need to get it right the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Forums? (was: Nabble: friend or foe?)

2012-08-31 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 01:21:41PM +0100, Tom Davies wrote: I think the idea is to have a forum alongside the mailing-lists.  mostly. Many people find forums easier to understand or have more experience with them from using them in other projects. Yes, that is a big plus for forums:

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Forums? (was: Nabble: friend or foe?)

2012-08-31 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi Jean, On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 10:37:06AM +1000, Jean Weber wrote: Your view of forums is much broader and quite different from what I was thinking about, which was specifically for user support, similar to what was set up for OOo (now AOO): http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ I

[libreoffice-marketing] Ubuntu Developer Week

2012-08-28 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek/ is something we should definitly be able to copy for our project -- although mayb e with a different name. In Ubuntus culture developer names everything from design over QA over packaging, while in our project the work mostly refers to

[libreoffice-marketing] Marketing EasyHack: Use gource on core repo

2012-08-14 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi all, here is approximately one year since we migrated LibreOffice to one core repo: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-August/016125.html I think it would be totally awesome to run gource: http://code.google.com/p/gource/ over that one year and show how we are doing.

[libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Media Collection -- a proposal: looking for volunteers

2012-08-11 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi all, here is another thing that we need someone to push forward for the conference, if we find a volunteer for it (yes, that implies I wont be able to spend too much time on it myself): The conference will be a great opportunity to collect media about our community at work: pictures, video,

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOffice Media Collection -- a proposal: looking for volunteers

2012-08-11 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 01:27:05PM +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: - additionally a easily accessable ftp-server for dropping larger videos etc. on a second thought, even that might not be needed, if our wiki does allow upload of sufficient size. In which case the task is even simpler: Get

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Defining a marketing strategy

2012-08-11 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:20:32AM +0200, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Thanks for creating the page, but ... I will not be attending Berlin as I doubt very few Americans (South, Central or North) will have the funding abilities to do so. I think it is essential to involve people esp. from

[libreoffice-marketing] Please add LibreOffice QA Weekend 2012 in Essen to Event calendar

2012-08-06 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, can you add: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DE/QAWochenende2012 the german QA Weekend on Sept. 28-30, 2012 in Essen, Germany to the event calendar? Best, Bjoern -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: download libreoffice

2011-02-24 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
for maverick available in the ppa. Best Regards, Bjoern -- https://launchpad.net/~bjoern-michaelsen -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: download libreoffice

2011-02-23 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
version for Natty. Please keep in mind that these releases have not yet been thoroughly tested. If they are, they will appear in the main repositories. So: no need to hunt around for the builds, they will show up in your Update Manager soon enough. Best Regards, Bjoern Michaelsen -- https

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: download libreoffice

2011-02-23 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
interested to hear about that. Best Regards, Bjoern Michaelsen -- https://launchpad.net/~bjoern-michaelsen -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: download libreoffice

2011-02-23 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
been started: the human/humanity theme for Libreoffice is already in master. Best Regards, Bjoern Michaelsen -- https://launchpad.net/~bjoern-michaelsen -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing

[libreoffice-marketing] Outdated screenshots on homepage

2011-02-23 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi all, this screenshot: http://www.libreoffice.org/assets/resized_screenshots_avoid/Screenshot-01.png shows in the slideshow on the frontpage and contains the outdated icons with OOo branding. Can somebody update that? Best Regards, Bjoern -- https://launchpad.net/~bjoern-michaelsen