[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Linux Conference Australia 2014
Le 03/05/13 02:37 AM, Jean Weber a écrit : Linux Conf Au 2014 will be 6-10 January in Perth, Western Australia. Call for papers opens 1 June. They will probably have their usual Open Day on the following Saturday (11th). I shall plan to attend, request a table for TDF/LO, and propose a talk and a mini Conf, as I did last year. Developers would be more likely to have talks accepted, so I hope others will also make proposals. http://lca2014.linux.org.au/ Marc, please add to calendar. --Jean Done. I have also listed you as the contact person. Please check the listing on the calendars to make sure I have not missed anything. Cheers, Marc -- Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com http://www.parEntreprise.com parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] [ACTION ITEM] Major Deployments wiki Page for LibreOffice
I am just tagging this as an action item ... ahem ... for that Marketing Easy Hacks page that I'll get to soon. Marc Le 02/05/13 11:25 AM, Benjamin Horst a écrit : I know there is a page that list articles by region, but it does not help with a quick look at the who and how many have switched. I helped maintain this page a few years ago. It should provide a good starting point for what you need-- http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments -Ben Benjamin Horst bho...@mac.com 646-464-2314 (Eastern) www.solidoffice.com -- Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com http://www.parEntreprise.com parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Brochure templates -- Official and Community (easy on ink) versions
We have completed the template design of the official and community brochures. Thanks to all of the people who participated in creating these on the design list. We can now start working on content for these brochures. There is a list of brochure-types on one of our discussions. If you feel like you are able to help out with content for any brochure-type, feel free to start a thread to develop the content. We should be able to compose content for most of the brochure-types and then offer these to our native language teams for them to work on. We will need to prepare 4 brochures for each brochure-types (1-official A4 version; 1-official USLtr version; 1-community A4 version; 1-community USLtr version). Have fun participating on the content creation. OFFICIAL BROCHURE The official version is really for off-set printers and the design notes on the centre panel should really be followed (the design font and colors are listed) The files can be found here: [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeV.4.0.x-OfficialBrochureTemplate-A4.odt [2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeV.4.0.x-OfficialBrochureTemplate-USLtr.odt COMMUNITY BROCHURE The community version is really for conferences, LUG meetings, small print runs on business/home printers, etc. The community version makes use of the community logo (it does NOT have the subline The Document Foundation. It is also designed to be as ink-friendly as possible without compromising the look and feel of a LibreOffice brochure. The files can be found here: [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeV.4.0.x-CommunityBrochureTemplate-A4.odt [2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeV.4.0.x-CommunityBrochureTemplate-USLtr.odt Cheers, Marc [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/7893 -- Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com http://www.parEntreprise.com parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Brochure-type: General Information
This is the thread to develop the brochure-type General Information brochure. I have uploaded a sample brochure with the content. We should first re-read the content, and once we have agreed on the content, proofed the content and formatted the content, we can move on to completing the rest of the remaining 3 versions of this brochure. The reason I started with the USLtr is that Tim says that he has a pressing need for this particular type of community brochure for an upcoming meeting/event. Please have a look at the content and make any suggestions to improve the text on this thread. You may find the file here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeV.4.0.x-CommunityBrochure-GeneralInformation-USLtr.odt -- Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com http://www.parEntreprise.com parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Seeking for list moderators
Hello, at the moment, we are looking for volunteers who could help moderate this mailing list. If you are interested, the only requirement is that you are subscribed to the list yourself and read its mails in a somehow timely manner, but that's about it. Moderation means dealing with e-mails that do not automatically make it to the list, which you then manually forward, or reject. This happens either when an e-mail comes from an unknown sender, e.g. when a project member uses a different address for posting. It also occurs when someone unexperienced writes to the list, thinking it's a private account, but in fact it's a public list. You'll receive the message to be moderated via e-mail, which you then can either moderate through, or reject. Is someone interested in joining our efforts? It'd be much appreciated - just drop me an email (please also copy me directly, and not only the list), then I'm happy to add you to the list of moderators. Thanks! Florian -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Fostering project internal communication
Hello, sorry for spamming all the lists, but in the light of recent events and discussions, I'd like to make all of you aware of an important mailing list, that so far has not been used as extensively as it should be, which led to some frustration and communication issues. As part of our mission to foster the project internal communication, I'd like to tell you about our so called projects mailing list, which Sophie initiated quite a while ago, and which should be used for communication amongst the various projects - e.g. design and marketing, development and marketing, UX and development, and the like. The list's intention is not to be a gossip list where everything should be thrown at, but to make all affected projects aware of important changes. Philosophy: Low traffic, but important topics. Some examples are: Change of version numbers, a new slogan, design changes, new products. In other words: Everything that has an impact on other areas of working than the one where the change originally comes from. If one team decides LibreOffice will now be called different, and has a shiny new colour, surely marketing should know in time. Well, a bit of a made up example, but you get the point... ;-) We have seen some unpleasant events in the past, that based on my experience, are mostly due to the lack of communication, or due to miscommunication. To avoid that in the future, I'd like to call out to everyone of you, if you are active in one of the subprojects, to also join this mailing list by sending an empty e-mail to projects+subscr...@global.libreoffice.org and following the instructions mailed back. At least one or two representatives from *each* project should join this list, to act as a gateway. I will soon follow up further with some details and topics that have reached me the past weeks, and how we could solve them. Again, sorry for spamming, and have a great weekend! Florian -- Florian Effenberger, Chairman of the Board (Vorstandsvorsitzender) Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Brochure-type: General Information
On 05/04/2013 05:54 AM, Marc Paré wrote: This is the thread to develop the brochure-type General Information brochure. I have uploaded a sample brochure with the content. We should first re-read the content, and once we have agreed on the content, proofed the content and formatted the content, we can move on to completing the rest of the remaining 3 versions of this brochure. The reason I started with the USLtr is that Tim says that he has a pressing need for this particular type of community brochure for an upcoming meeting/event. Please have a look at the content and make any suggestions to improve the text on this thread. You may find the file here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeV.4.0.x-CommunityBrochure-GeneralInformation-USLtr.odt YES I have some presentations coming up, starting in June. Also, every time I chat up someone about LibreOffice, all I can currently do is give them a business card. Maybe a DVD if I really get someone hooked. But if I had a few brochures in my case/bag that I take with my 50% of the time, it would give them some physical thing with information about LO to take home andmaybe show to the families. There are places in libraries, and other locations, where you see brochures being displayed. I would love to get a bunch of LO brochures placed in these locations. Since LO is a free service/product it may be allowed there. Half of the brochures are for advertising for tourism locationsand businesses. But there are some for other things. I would like to do an open event at thedowntown library branch to talk about LibreOffice as a replacement for MSO. There are a lot of things I do not use LO for that might come up in such a meeting/presentation, so it would take a lot of prep time before I will do that type of open meeting. The suits I want to do, as soon as I get the materials needed so I can schedule it, is for several of the local Kiwanis organizations. I am part of the Kiwanis organization already, so I just need to get my presentation scheduled for one of their lunch meetings. LO will be the second topic I presented to these suits. The only problem will be that half of the men/women are over 50 and set in their ways. I would love to do a presentation to the younger Kiwanis family groups thatwould have no issues to useLO instead of MSO. They have not spent years at work using MSO and does not want to learn a new system. SO I need marketing materials. Brochures. Signs, Handouts. All of that type of thing. I burn and print my own DVDs. Now I have a printer that can print 13 by 19 inch paper, if I can find it. It may be able to print out 12 inch wide by 4 foot long sheets cut from roll paper. Right now, I print out 11 by 17 inch tabloid/ledger size paper in both the standard and cover stock weights of paper with that printer. The signs are small, but not as small as a letter or A4 size sheet. SO please help us edit the brochure content to make it ready for me, and others, to use. I print off dozens at atime, or as many as I can print and fold, using my home/officeprinters, in the time I have to do that task. I have printed them off on white and pastel colored paper stock and used a monochrome laser and/or an inkjet printer. It all depends what group of people I hand the brochure to. Full color, text and paper, tends to go to the businesses, while monochrome text/images tend to go to the people I chat up at various non-business locations. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Brochure-type: General Information
Hello Tim, Le Sat, 04 May 2013 10:13:41 -0400, Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com a écrit : On 05/04/2013 05:54 AM, Marc Paré wrote: This is the thread to develop the brochure-type General Information brochure. I have uploaded a sample brochure with the content. We should first re-read the content, and once we have agreed on the content, proofed the content and formatted the content, we can move on to completing the rest of the remaining 3 versions of this brochure. The reason I started with the USLtr is that Tim says that he has a pressing need for this particular type of community brochure for an upcoming meeting/event. Please have a look at the content and make any suggestions to improve the text on this thread. You may find the file here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeV.4.0.x-CommunityBrochure-GeneralInformation-USLtr.odt YES I have some presentations coming up, starting in June. Also, every time I chat up someone about LibreOffice, all I can currently do is give them a business card. Maybe a DVD if I really get someone hooked. But if I had a few brochures in my case/bag that I take with my 50% of the time, it would give them some physical thing with information about LO to take home andmaybe show to the families. There are places in libraries, and other locations, where you see brochures being displayed. I would love to get a bunch of LO brochures placed in these locations. Since LO is a free service/product it may be allowed there. Half of the brochures are for advertising for tourism locationsand businesses. But there are some for other things. I would like to do an open event at thedowntown library branch to talk about LibreOffice as a replacement for MSO. There are a lot of things I do not use LO for that might come up in such a meeting/presentation, so it would take a lot of prep time before I will do that type of open meeting. The suits I want to do, as soon as I get the materials needed so I can schedule it, is for several of the local Kiwanis organizations. I am part of the Kiwanis organization already, so I just need to get my presentation scheduled for one of their lunch meetings. LO will be the second topic I presented to these suits. The only problem will be that half of the men/women are over 50 and set in their ways. I would love to do a presentation to the younger Kiwanis family groups thatwould have no issues to useLO instead of MSO. They have not spent years at work using MSO and does not want to learn a new system. SO I need marketing materials. Brochures. Signs, Handouts. All of that type of thing. I burn and print my own DVDs. Now I have a printer that can print 13 by 19 inch paper, if I can find it. It may be able to print out 12 inch wide by 4 foot long sheets cut from roll paper. Right now, I print out 11 by 17 inch tabloid/ledger size paper in both the standard and cover stock weights of paper with that printer. The signs are small, but not as small as a letter or A4 size sheet. SO please help us edit the brochure content to make it ready for me, and others, to use. I print off dozens at atime, or as many as I can print and fold, using my home/officeprinters, in the time I have to do that task. I have printed them off on white and pastel colored paper stock and used a monochrome laser and/or an inkjet printer. It all depends what group of people I hand the brochure to. Full color, text and paper, tends to go to the businesses, while monochrome text/images tend to go to the people I chat up at various non-business locations. Let's get organized here :-) How about this: I'm making a list below, you fill the status of each item and / or add a few more: * brochure * DVD/DVD sticker * button/small banner/may be printed in a sticker * T-shirt * banner/poster Let us know. Cheers, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder Director, The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint Mobile Number: +33 (0)6 98 65 54 24. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Spain's Extremadura starts switch of 40, 000 government PCs to open source
Hi :) I get the impression that all 5 areas use GnuLinux (and therefore probably LibreOffice) already in some areas. So i suspect this is not so much a switch away from MS Windows and MS Office but more a consolidation onto LibreOffice. So, not a trial period or bunch of noobs with no experience but a follow-through due to LibreOffice having proven itself better through being used in those places. It's not people flailing around desperately seeking a new answer that may fall for FUD and switch again and again. it's a strong move in a determined direction after long testing and long-term experience. It's a solid move. I think that makes a stronger case for celebration Regards from Tom :) From: Fabian Rodriguez magic...@member.fsf.org To: Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com Cc: marketing@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 2 May 2013, 15:03 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Spain's Extremadura starts switch of 40, 000 government PCs to open source On 2013-05-02 09:25, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: Fabián, you are saying that these 40,000 PCs would use Linux and LibreOffice, instead of Windows and MS Office? According to the article, yes. I am just confirming what I saw. I also visited the Andalucía region and it's the same scenario there. That was *in 2007*. I am really glad that Fabián let us know about the Spanish region that is switching. We need to see more of that. Yet we really need a list somewhere reflecting these articles and the numbers. White paper / use cases from the commercial support companies behind GNU/Linux and those listed for LibreOffice (where is that list again) should help. Not every company thinks about writing those and making them public, though. F. -- Fabián Rodríguez http://libreoffice.magicfab.ca -- 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: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
