Re: [libreoffice-marketing] OpenOffice.org Roles

2010-10-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Andy Brown wrote on 2010-10-16 20.24: It is a total shame that they are doing this. What next are they going to request all that are connected to the LibreOffice community that to stop being part of the OOo community? Those that are working on the Documentation project can not be

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Joining the marketing list

2010-10-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Melissa, Melissa Ladd wrote on 2010-10-17 10.45: I just joined this marketing mailing list. I am by no means techy but I was an OOo user and am now a LibreOffice user, and would like to be of help in any way I can. Perhaps more on the aesthetics and how to market to women, than the techy

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] OpenOffice.org Roles

2010-10-17 Thread Heinz W. Simoneit
Hi *, Florian Effenberger schrieb: Hi, Andy Brown wrote on 2010-10-16 20.24: It is a total shame that they are doing this. What next are they going to request all that are connected to the LibreOffice community that to stop being part of the OOo community? Those that are working on the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Free Bibliographic Software

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-16 18:26, j.martin.pedersen a écrit : Hi Martin Welcome to the marketing list and many thanks for your input. The purpose of the marketing list is to discuss the various approaches to marketing the LibreOffice brand. Your input is exaclty the type of input that I am particularly

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Free Bibliographic Software

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-17 07:13, Marc Paré a écrit : Le 2010-10-16 18:26, j.martin.pedersen a écrit : Hi Martin Welcome to the marketing list and many thanks for your input. The purpose of the marketing list is to discuss the various approaches to marketing the LibreOffice brand. Your input is exaclty the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Academia

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
Re: Free Bibliographic Software This is a copy of a thread that Martin had started re: Free bibliographic software. This copy also includes my answer to his thread. Marc === Le 2010-10-16 18:26, j.martin.pedersen a écrit : Hi Martin Welcome to the marketing list and many

[libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
I am interested in the marketing of LibO as an effective tool in education. In particular JK (kindergarten) to the end of High School (or comparable to this internationally as well). Is LibO, in your opinion, a good and effective tool for educational purposes? If we were to project target the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] OpenOffice.org Roles

2010-10-17 Thread Florian Effenberger
+1 from my side - sadly it seems as if the decision is not up to us... Andy Brown wrote on 2010-10-17 17.55: I am starting to see the effects and don't like what I see. The community is the volunteers. From the developers to the end users that provide user support on the list/forums. The

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Academia

2010-10-17 Thread Benjamin Horst
In addition to the bibliography tools you mention in an offshoot of this thread, I've heard many requests for a note-taking application of some kind. (With the interface of Writer and the backend data storage provided by Base, maybe?) -Ben On Oct 17, 2010, at 8:28 AM, Marc Paré wrote: This

[libreoffice-marketing] First Branding Material Arrived :-)

2010-10-17 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi all, some people already asked for the branding material source data (e.g. SVGs) to join the graphic creation wave. I have also been asked by the TDF team, whether I could explain how to use the graphics - at the moment, we really aim to not only to create a great basis for the community

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] IRC channel?

2010-10-17 Thread Sadiq Saif
Perhaps this info should be added to the wiki? :) Sadiq S mailto: sadiq.9...@gmail.com Blog: www.staticsafe.me Twitter - www.twitter.com/staticsafe Facebook- www.facebook.com/static.safe On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.orgwrote: Is on Freenode:

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Joining the marketing list

2010-10-17 Thread Benjamin Horst
Melissa Ladd wrote on 2010-10-17 10.45: I just joined this marketing mailing list. I am by no means techy but I was an OOo user and am now a LibreOffice user, and would like to be of help in any way I can. Perhaps more on the aesthetics and how to market to women, than the techy aspects,;-)

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] OpenOffice.org Roles

2010-10-17 Thread Andy Brown
On Sun Oct 17 2010 19:24:11 GMT-0700 (PDT) Ramon Sole wrote: Hi *, I disagree, I feel same people can't be ruling OOo and TDF. And I see a clear Conflict of Interest for people in the Community Council. Both communities will be able to collaborate in tons of things, but the project leaders

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-17 19:27, Sadiq Saif a écrit : Price may be one marketing point, though this may be offset by training and support costs. But we must keep in mind the huge amount of mind share that MS Office has build up over the years. People are too used to Office and how it works. In fact even if

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-17 Thread Sadiq Saif
Yes, indeed I'm a Canadian living in Toronto and a student in the TDSB. Sadiq S mailto: sadiq.9...@gmail.com Blog: www.staticsafe.me Twitter - www.twitter.com/staticsafe Facebook- www.facebook.com/static.safe On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2010-10-17