Re: [libreoffice-marketing] [LibreOffice Drink] Suggestions (branding colour palette)

2010-11-15 Thread Simon Brouwer
Hi, I would advise against association of LO with an alcoholic drink. It's a bad idea to alienate users who have strong feelings against the consumption of alcohol. Best regards Simon Marc Paré schreef: I know we are all busy with getting the bumps ironed out of the LibO suite, but here is

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Logo/mascot competition

2010-11-15 Thread Gianluca Turconi
Il 15/11/2010 10.51, Thorsten Wilms ha scritto: You will often see lots of participants with little or no design education and a panel of judges that have little to no clue what they are actually looking for, either. Do you think BMW, Apple or Gucci would hold a logo design contest? Folks,

[libreoffice-marketing] [Localisation groups] Projects and communication

2010-11-15 Thread Marc Paré
I am getting a little worried that some of our discussion results may not be getting back to the localisation groups. For example: we have the Drupal Website Development Team with a list of tasks that need to be filled; the new LibreOffice Release Party page where people can sign up their

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [Localisation groups] Projects and communication

2010-11-15 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Marc, Le 15/11/10 11:40, Marc Paré a écrit : Would there be any idea on how to do this efficiently? Within the OOo project, this task was carried out by the N-L leads and co-leads. Annoucements were made on the OOo announcement lists, then translated by the N-L leads/co-leads and then

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Logo/mascot competition

2010-11-15 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) Thorsten, I will let this thread sit and, hopefully, catch responses for a couple of days, and then I'll write back with answers. Thank you for having replied. David Nelson -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [LibreOffice Drink] Suggestions (branding colour palette)

2010-11-15 Thread Michael Wheatland
As an Australian I am dissapointed not to be drinking an ice cold Libre Bitter. http://lh4.ggpht.com/_JhQh-j4VZdw/TOEsj6XPrDI/Bh4/57CFJyA4N30/s800/LO%20beer.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D21EHpWVKXQ A hard earned thirst needs a big cold beer and the best cold beer is free. :)

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [LibreOffice Drink] Suggestions (branding colour palette)

2010-11-15 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-15 07:57, Michael Wheatland a écrit : As an Australian I am dissapointed not to be drinking an ice cold Libre Bitter. http://lh4.ggpht.com/_JhQh-j4VZdw/TOEsj6XPrDI/Bh4/57CFJyA4N30/s800/LO%20beer.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D21EHpWVKXQ A hard earned thirst needs a big

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [Localisation groups] Projects and communication

2010-11-15 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-15 06:20, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : Hi Marc, Le 15/11/10 11:40, Marc Paré a écrit : Would there be any idea on how to do this efficiently? Within the OOo project, this task was carried out by the N-L leads and co-leads. Annoucements were made on the OOo announcement lists,

[libreoffice-marketing] Article on LibreOffice in PC Inpact French tech mag.

2010-11-15 Thread Marc Paré
From the French mailist, here is the link to an article on LibreOffice: http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/60374-libreoffice-document-foundation-paradigme-contenu.htm and for those who can't read French, here is the Google translations of the page:

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Logo/mascot competition

2010-11-15 Thread John Baer
Hello everyone, I added LibreOffice Artwork to Artwork Team project board ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Tasks ) and created a draft specification to provide guidance to our team ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/Request-5 ). An outstanding issue is where submissions will be posted.

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] 15 days of a video channel

2010-11-15 Thread Drew Jensen
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 11:56 -0500, Drew Jensen wrote: Number of video _views_ at the LibreOffiveVols You Tube Channel for 1st fifteen days: 982 Sorry one correction - 1st ten days. -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are

RE: [libreoffice-marketing] [LibreOffice Drink] Suggestions (branding colour palette)

2010-11-15 Thread Brenden Seibel
I would advise against association of LO with an alcoholic drink. +1 -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Logo/mascot competition

2010-11-15 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/15/2010 10:13 AM, Gianluca Turconi wrote: What else are the governmental invitation for competitive bids in whatever subject a government can be interested in? They are just contests with guidelines. And they work for whole states. Have

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Last 30 days of Tweets - LibreOfficeVols (and Me)

2010-11-15 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-15 11:50, Drew Jensen a écrit : Top 10 click thru rates, by country http://twitpic.com/374r5i/full Of interest to me there is, Columbia, Venezuela and Mexico. None of these had ever made the top 10 when I tracked OO.o tweets. All countries - in order: United States, Other, France,

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fleeing the paper airplane : )

2010-11-15 Thread Leo Moons
Hello Lucas, Your logo proposal looks great to me: I even see an opened laptop in the L and a videoscreen in the O. On the other hand, I am/was a great fan of the seagulls in OOo, which represented freedom in all its aspects. I am not sure if a touch of this is possible; it is just an idea of

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Logo/mascot competition

2010-11-15 Thread Graham Lauder
On Monday 15 Nov 2010 21:25:24 David Nelson wrote: Hi list, :-) I'm really happy to have started up the contact with Ubuntu Artwork, and very grateful for the kind and positive response from John Baer, Shane Fagan and others. @TDF guys: I'd like to make one last plea for my idea of a

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fleeing the paper airplane : )

2010-11-15 Thread Graham Lauder
On Tuesday 16 Nov 2010 08:51:45 Leo Moons wrote: Hello Lucas, Your logo proposal looks great to me: I even see an opened laptop in the L and a videoscreen in the O. On the other hand, I am/was a great fan of the seagulls in OOo, which represented freedom in all its aspects. NONO, no gulls

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fleeing the paper airplane : )

2010-11-15 Thread Carlos Jenkins
2010/11/15 Graham Lauder yori...@openoffice.org: On Tuesday 16 Nov 2010 08:51:45 Leo Moons wrote: Hello Lucas, Your logo proposal looks great to me: I even see an opened laptop in the L and a videoscreen in the O. On the other hand, I am/was a great fan of the seagulls in OOo, which

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fleeing the paper airplane : )

2010-11-15 Thread Andy Brown
On Mon Nov 15 2010 13:00:27 GMT-0800 (PST) Graham Lauder wrote: On Tuesday 16 Nov 2010 08:51:45 Leo Moons wrote: Hello Lucas, Your logo proposal looks great to me: I even see an opened laptop in the L and a videoscreen in the O. On the other hand, I am/was a great fan of the seagulls in OOo,

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] [LibreOffice Drink] Suggestions (branding colour palette)

2010-11-15 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi all! Just stepping in ... Although some people don't like the idea of promoting alcohol, I think it's more than allowed to brainstorm how we can make our first release even more unique. Thus, this is - considering the non-alcoholic idea - insanely cool! Am Montag, den 15.11.2010, 09:26 +0100

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [MEETINGS] Next Marketing Conference Call, Date / Time

2010-11-15 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:20:53 -0600, Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.com wrote: Hi Marc! Am Samstag, den 13.11.2010, 22:22 -0500 schrieb Marc Paré: Le 2010-11-13 16:31, Christoph Noack a écrit : Would it make sense for you to put up your times first and then we can then add ours? This

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: feedback idea: Tell us what do you use and want to improve

2010-11-15 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-15 17:44, Alexandro Colorado a écrit : Ubuntu had an ideastorm-like app to address issues and promote the most popular solution through votes. Not sure if you seen it. I think google translate has an api to on the fly locales. This can help us push the solutions across different

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [MEETINGS] Next Marketing Conference Call, Date / Time

2010-11-15 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-15 19:35, Bernhard Dippold a écrit : Perhaps it would be an idea to expand the timeline to include next week too? (I don't know if I can attend either, but perhaps others?) Best Bernhard I also agree. Days go by so fast. Marc -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Logo/mascot competition

2010-11-15 Thread Graham Lauder
On Tuesday 16 Nov 2010 12:48:38 Christoph Noack wrote: Hi Thorsten, hi David! Before I start: I really appreciate any activity which strengthens our community, improves collaboration and - not to forget - improves how our users perceive our software and the community. Reading the initial

[libreoffice-marketing] Press Kit -- what should there be in the LO press kit?

2010-11-15 Thread Marc Paré
Again, with the looming release of the final version of LO 3.3, I was wondering if we should also take a closer look at the items that we should find in our LO Press/Media Kit. This is also linked to the LO Release Party wiki page

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Logo/mascot competition

2010-11-15 Thread John Baer
Bernhard, Thank you for your kind comments. A couple of follow up comments on Flickr. I believe our community would agree with your comments as we are investigating a better solution. However, what I like about Flickr is this. * It is available now and ready to use. :-) * It has a large

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [MEETINGS] Next Marketing Conference Call, Date / Time

2010-11-15 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Marc, hi Bernhard! Am Montag, den 15.11.2010, 22:23 -0500 schrieb Marc Paré: Le 2010-11-15 19:35, Bernhard Dippold a écrit : Perhaps it would be an idea to expand the timeline to include next week too? I also agree. Days go by so fast. I would agree, too. But the main host is usually