Re: [libreoffice-marketing] public sector will use ODF in Hungary in the future
Hi Péter, Szakál Péter wrote on 2011-06-03 15.59: On the 1st of June a conference has been held in the Hungarian Parliament, called The Parliement of Information Society. During the event Mr. Zsolt Nyitrai, the state secreter of ITcommunication declared that the government is working right now to come up with a law saying that the Hungarian public sector will use ODF in the future, wich is the document format used by open source office solutions, like LibreOffice, OpenOffice etc... thanks a lot for sharing these excellent news! :-) Good to have you with us! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Reminder: New list address tomorrow
Hello, this is just a short reminder that tomorrow, Thursday, these lists will get new addresses. For details, see http://www.mail-archive.com/marketing@libreoffice.org/msg03174.html As soon as the change is in effect (I plan for the evening, based on German=UTC+2 time), I will ping this list again. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Media Contacts for TDF
Hi, Simon Phipps wrote on 2011-06-08 15.31: If I had to invent something, it would be along the lines of a Communications Working Group that was open to membership from anyone who would agree to its rules (confidentiality until release, have media training, communicate only the group consensus as TDF's position, for example). I would then use the mail alias of that Working Group as the press contact on any releases, and have the most qualified member pick up each inbound request. maybe this makes it a bit more clear: For the TDF as (soon to be) legal entity, we need a few named people who are allowed to speak on behalf of the entity. I am open to anyone joining the group who is qualified, but I would propose indeed we make a media training first for those people. Either face to face in Paris, or for those who cannot attend, via Skype/phone. For LibreOffice as a project and community, and not TDF as legal entity, I am currently working on having a marketeer network, with dedicated contact people in various countries. I've talked about that during the latest marketing conference call, and also presented this to the lists already. I would like to have several contact people in each country, who are resonsible for press contacts, drafting and translating PRs and the like. Does that sound like what people have in mind? Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Media Contacts for TDF
Hi, Paulo de Souza Lima wrote on 2011-06-08 15.52: Sounds ok also. Maybe a marketing workflow could be placed in the marketing wiki page. So we could reproduce it locally. indeed, that's a plan. Due all currently going on, I just miss the time, but I want to work in it :) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-website] conference website
Hi, Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2011-06-06 10.28: I think we can now publish the CfP and announce it... ok. @Christian: When you have published the page, let me know, and I'll fire off an announce. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: marketing confcall for June
Hello, Florian Effenberger wrote on 2011-06-02 18.48: it's time to have another marketing conference call. :-) I have added some proposals to a Doodle poll - let me know when you have time, so we can pick a date: http://www.doodle.com/ydxwk7sqynvswa99 don't forget to cast your vote. :-) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] marketing confcall for June
Hello, it's time to have another marketing conference call. :-) I have added some proposals to a Doodle poll - let me know when you have time, so we can pick a date: http://www.doodle.com/ydxwk7sqynvswa99 Looking forward to hearing from you! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: www.libreoffice.org.br
Hi, Luiz Oliveira wrote on 2011-06-01 14.32: There is something wrong!! libreoffice.org.br is points to libreoffice.orgnot to pt-br.libreoffice. libreoffice.com.br is ok pointing to pt-br.libreoffice.org thanks for the note - should be fixed now. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: RE : Re: LibOCon.com domain -- proposal
Hi Marc, Marc Paré wrote on 2011-05-25 17.29: Done. I've set the .ca to redirect to libocon.com. Should not take long to propagate. Let me know if there any problems. thanks a lot! Seems to work like a charm. ;) As soon as the non-transfer period of the registry runs out in July, I'll get back to you for transferring the domains. Thanks a lot! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Software Freedom Kosova
Hello, I received an invitation to Software Freedom Kosova 2011 (SFK11) by FLOSSK - Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova at University of Prishtina on November 4th, 2011 http://drupal.flossk.org/conferences/sfk11 Anyone wants to follow-up on that? I currently can't plan that much in advance. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: RE : Re: LibOCon.com domain -- proposal
Hi Marc, Marc Paré wrote on 2011-05-24 19.39: I have all 4 that you listed. Should I input the DNS? I can't seem to find my notes of DNS's from the last time I pointed a site to TDF. I guess the best would be if we only took .com .net and .org - for .ca we need a local address, so TDF cannot take it legally, and for a global conference, we do not need it. However, feel free to host and redirect it directly. For the .com .net and .org, can you enter the following DNS servers? ns1.first-ns.de robotns2.second-ns.de robotns3.second-ns.com Then the domains will be in the TDF infrastructure. Re: local residential address. Feel free to use my address if you wish for any .ca domains. I have a few online businesses it could be listed under, my main one is parEntreprise.com Thanks for the offer, that's nice! I guess we don't need the .ca domain, but feel free to keep it :) Thanks again, Marc! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: PR translations
Hi, Takeshi Abe wrote on 2011-05-24 16.05: What we agreed during the latest marketing conference call, is to build up a network of marketeers, so we have a bit more structure inside, and some responsibilities defined. On some mailing lists I see a lack of activity, and I would like to work together with all of you in building up local communities, especially in terms of marketing. That sounds reasonable. Local markets are worth to explore. I definitely think so. It is no secret that also within OOo, some marcons have been active, others haven't at all. That's why I want to build a network of active marketeers, so we can work effectively together. I'll follow-up on that hopefully soon. Hm, I do *not* think that the same-time translation of the original announcement is needed in general, because it means an extra step required for delivering security fix. But sooner translation can be desirable if, e.g., the message contains description of procedures which users have to perform to avoid the vulnerability, instead of the software upgrade. (Anyway this may be rather off-topic in this list.) Right now, we haven't issued any security bulletin so far, which is good news. :) What I would propose is that we see if translating them after we have published them is enough, or if we need an additional way of posting it in advance and under confidentiality to some marketeers to translate in time. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] changes for this mailing list
Hello everyone, as part of our membership process, we also would like to give @libreoffice.org e-mail forwarders to our approved members. Thanks to the folks from Heinlein Support in Berlin, who offered to take care of the mail forwarding and to program a web tool to enable users to configure the forwarding! In order to be able to use two different mail servers -- one for mailing lists, and one for the mail forwarders -- we have to change the addresses of a few mailing lists. In a nutshell: All lists currently known as @libreoffice.org will in the future be known as @global.libreoffice.org In detail: accessibil...@libreoffice.org = accessibil...@global.libreoffice.org des...@libreoffice.org = des...@global.libreoffice.org documentat...@libreoffice.org = documentat...@global.libreoffice.org l...@libreoffice.org = l...@global.libreoffice.org marketing@libreoffice.org = market...@global.libreoffice.org proje...@libreoffice.org = proje...@global.libreoffice.org us...@libreoffice.org = us...@global.libreoffice.org webs...@libreoffice.org = webs...@global.libreoffice.org You do *not* have to un- or resubscribe from any lists, as the list of all recipients will be automatically transferred to the new addresses. The subject prefix, like [libreoffice-website], will also stay the *same*. What *will* change is the address you have to send e-mails to, and the headers like List-Post and List-ID. So, in case you filter your e-mails based on the headers, you *do* need to act. This is most likely the case if you use a local mail client like Thunderbird. Webmail services like Google Mail usually do *not* make use of these headers. The change will be effective during the day of Thursday, June 9th I will send a follow-up e-mail when the addresses have changed. Immediately after that, assume the old addresses will stop working. I will try to set them as aliases for a few days, but I cannot guarantee it will work out. However, *no* e-mail will be lost -- in case there is no alias in place, you will receive a bounce message and can re-send the mail again. Sorry for these inconveniences, but they will help us in providing e-mail forwarders for our members. In case of questions, feel free to ask me directly, or on the website@ mailing list. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] changes for this mailing list
Hi, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote on 2011-05-25 13.45: are you saying that we now will need to change the sending address to this? yes. So if we are sending a new email to the marketing, or users, lists, we will have to add the global. the the address? Exactly. But addresses like market...@us.libreoffice.org will by unchanged? Correct. Any list that already has a subdomain, like @us.libreoffice.org, @de.libreoffice.org and so on will be *unchanged*. The same is true for lists at @documentfoundation.org - it solely affects @libreoffice.org so we have to do the changeover that day, and not before or after that date? Exactly. Not before that day. Chances are, I keep an alias for a while, but in case that's technically not possible, you will receive a bounce on the old address, as soon as the change is effective. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] changes for this mailing list
Hi, Tom Davies wrote on 2011-05-25 19.07: At a guess using Reply to emails sent from the list will send to the right place unless you carefully time it exactly wrong;) yes and no. :) For new mails after the 9th, yes. For old mails, there will still be the old reply-to address, so that might bounce later on. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brazilian domains
Hi, just a quick update from my side on a few topics. Sorry that I am quite late, but the last days have been insanely busy for me. So: Nearly all Brazilian domain names now point to the TDF/LibO sites, and I would like to thank, amongst many, Claudio and Olivier for their support in these matters. Despite all that has been said, having the TDF domains redirected worked without a big discussion, so thank you again for that. In addition, pt-br.libreoffice.org shows the TDF mailing lists. Again, thank you very much for that, that is really appreciated. Should you need more technical options, or more lists, let me know. The domain name that does currently not point to the LibO site is www.libreoffice.org.br, but at least mid-term, to me it would be *VERY* important that it is also hosted inside the TDF infrastructure. I see that there is a lot of content from the past years, and I surely do not want you to remove that content, as it seems to be widely used. However, what I do not understand is why it has to be served with the LibreOffice domain name. You cannot be using that domain name longer than eight months, as before, there was no LibreOffice. So, why not offer it with another domain name, and handing over libreoffice.org.br to the TDF infrastructure? I am happy to have it show a temporary information pointing to the new site, and we can also talk about a timeframe during that the domain still points to the site. However, after some weeks, it should also point to pt-br.libreoffice.org. Regarding the legal requirements in Brazil: For .org.br, our ISP can *not* provide a trustee service, whereas for the other .br domain names, it can. So, as said, I am happy to arrange a trustee contact if needed with any of the Brazilian NGOs and make the content of the contract public. There's nothing to hide, and I can only emphasize this: I want to work with the Brazilian community at large, not taking sides, but rather working united, speaking out with one voice. And I have a feeling we're coming closer to that. Thanks to everyone who contributed. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: PR translations
Hi, Takeshi Abe wrote on 2011-05-09 12.13: In Japanese community, so far we have moderators which choose and translate announcements to be brought to annou...@ja.libreoffice.org. Translated drafts are always reviewed in disc...@ja.libreoffice.org publicly before submitted so it causes delay, but not so bad since those who want news hang onto the global list anyway. thanks a lot for letting me know! What we agreed during the latest marketing conference call, is to build up a network of marketeers, so we have a bit more structure inside, and some responsibilities defined. On some mailing lists I see a lack of activity, and I would like to work together with all of you in building up local communities, especially in terms of marketing. What it should be considered differently is the ones on vulnerabilities and security fixes. How can we dispatch translation of such a urgent message as soon as the global announcement tells? Do you think these are needed in translation, or would the English version be sufficient? Thanks, Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibOCon.com domain -- proposal
Hi Marc, Marc Paré wrote on 2011-05-12 15.18: In the meantime, I have also reserved the http://www.libOCon.com; domain which now points temporarily to the http://www.LibreOffice.org; site until we get a LibreOffice Conference site/pages built or until I am sent nameserver changes for the domain. I just thought it would be best to be proactive with this. I have also registered the .net/.org/.ca as well and have them pointing temporarily to my website. thanks a lot for your kind offer and support, that is really appreciated! Sorry for stepping in so late with this. My first idea when we announced the conference of course was LibOCon, as this was the natural abbreviation. :) So, from my side, I would be happy to use this and the domain names. Charles, as the organizer of this years conference, what do you think? If we were to use libocon.org, the right time would be now, otherwise we'd better stick with conference.libreoffice.org Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Marketing Team Newsletter and Blog
Hi Marc, Marc Paré wrote on 2011-05-12 14.59: During the last confcall, we discussed having a monthly newsletter highlighting our accomplishments and news items related to LibreOffice marketing activities. Drew has graciously agreed to help out with this. thanks to both of you for your help, much appreciated! Following the lead from the Documentation Team, there was also an attempt on my part to see if there was any interest in creating a blog site for our team. If there is an interest in maintaining a blog could we have a show of hands as to how many would be willing to help contribute to the blog? Always best if there are many contributors as this creates buzz around our product. In the meantime, I have created a blog site on the Wordpress site[1] where the Documentation Foundation and the new LibreOffice Documentation Team blogs are located. I tried it back in OpenOffice.org times, and after two years, except the fantastic contributions from Gabriel Gurley, I was the only publisher, so I decided to stop the blog. If we maintain a marketing blog, it must be actively contributed to, otherwise it will shed a bad light on our marketing efforts. ;-) So, if we find enough contributors, that would be great! I surely can write something from time to time, but don't count me in as regular blogger for the moment, as I am rather busy these days. What we can always easily set-up is a marketing planet, so we combine blogs from our marketeers at http://planet.documentfoundation.org/marketing For the SC blog (blog.documentfoundation.org), we use WordPress.com as a hosted service, which I can recommend. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: RE : Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibOCon.com domain -- proposal
Hi Charles, BTW, your (web?) mail client is a mess. It breaks subjects (RE : is not a valid prefix), and also threads, which will result in broken archives. Just for your information. :-) Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2011-05-23 18.39: I don't really care and this decision should not only be mine. What I want is to have information, registration and the cfp online asap:-) Ok, then I will coordinate with Marc on connecting the domain names to our servers. For the forms (registration etc.), best is to ask the website list, IIRC someone already was working on that. For the press release and the CfP text, I can have a look this week. Marc: The easiest would be if you connected our DNS servers to the domain name, and we then can transfer them to TDF later on (there's a 60 day block for transfers after a registration). Would that be ok for you? If you want a financial compensation for the registration fee, we could do so via PayPal. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] FSFE interview
Hi, I'm proud of being this months fellower interview at FSFE, where I also had the chance to talk about LibreOffice: http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=308 Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Abbreviation for LibreOffice?
Hi, Joe Collura wrote on 2011-05-09 18.02: 0) i think 'LibO' abbreviation is confusing to me as it sounds like the name of a programming library. whenever i read 'LibO' i think library-O (truly my nerd bias) but in that respect maybe 'LibreO' is a less confusing abbreviation alternative? hm, just from a gut feeling, I'd say that LibreO might be a bit harder to pronounce than LibO. I'd avoid LO though, as it sounds like loo. :-) i understand the programmers/contributors feelings about oracle but still think that in the long run that IF the 'openoffice' trademark would be TURNED OVER to the document foundation that it should be put to use as it would reinforce the continuity of my entry/mid level users. it took me like 5y to get them to stop calling it 'ms word' for petes sake and identify the bird logo. I think that LibreOffice is a good brand already, with a good reputation. In terms of business, OpenOffice.org surely might be widely known, as it has been in existance for ten years already. However, in terms of community, LibreOffice is the much better brand, as it explains we're not open, but free (libre) now, and it marks the start of a new era. That's of course just my personal take, comments welcome. :) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Who has issues dialling in?
Hi, Helmar wrote on 2011-05-16 18.59: but do you intend to keep using Skype even after the Microsoft purchase? I never liked Skype. It's proprietary, and while it can get through most firewalls with basic features, calling behind firewalls can be a real pain. I had to open a dozen ports to make it work at all, and sometimes, the sound quality isn't what it should be. I am much in favor of using a real phone or SIP client, but I see there are countries where Skype is the only cheap solution. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] yesterday's confcall recording online
Hello, yesterday's marketing conference call recording is now available from http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls#10-May-2011 Thanks for joining! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brazilian domains
Hello Paulo, Paulo de Souza Lima wrote on 2011-05-10 03.21: The websites itself? No. Domains? maybe. Until the NGO is not completely undone (legaly talking...) the domains are safe. Once the NGO is competely over, the domain must be transfered to another NGO (and it MUST be an NGO, as said, I talked to our ISP, and they offer a trustee service for Brazilian domains, so we can transfer the domain to someone holding it for TDF. I will verify again with them based on the information you gave me (NGO needed), but in case that's indeed possible, wouldn't it be the best solution, to have the domain names independent from one entity? not a person or a private company). I suppose that ALTA could kindly offer to do that, but if you decide it it will be a proof that TDF members are not reliable for Brazilian Community. Sorry for these words, but it's the crude truth. I am happy to make a trustee contact with one of the Brazilian non-profit organizations, in case our provider does not offer a trustee service for .org.br domain names. I am also happy to show that trustee contract to the public then -- so there should be no risk for anyone, whether it's ALTA or another entity. migration to TDF websites. As I stated before, personally, I really don't care who will own libreoffice.org.br domain name. And I think people in the community doesn't care at all. But as I said before: giving the I heard something different about that. I heard that the libreoffice.org.br domain cannot be given to us or put under TDF control, and I even read that some people are to hand out e-mail addresses @libreoffice.org.br. So, I am glad that you don't care who will own that domain name, but it seems not everyone shares that. ownership to the people who are threatening us will be a shame and an insult. Does the German association, that at the moment legally represents TDF until it is a legal entity by itself, threat you? If not, I guess you have no objections to us having a trustee contract with our provider to host the domain names, or if that is not possible, with any of the Brazilian NGOs. As said, I am happy to show that trustee contact in public then. Are there any objections to that? But, yet, my first question is not answered: Why North American Community can use the brand in their domain name and Brazilian Community can't? This is a real strage behavior. I'll reply to that in your other mail soon. And I have another question: Will we be allowed to use that brand in our magazine, once it's a real contribution to Libreoffice marketing? We have a trademark policy in place that has been discussed and agreed upon in public, with everyone being able to contribute: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TradeMark_Policy So, legally spoken, you need permission to do so, but in general, I personally have no objection. If the project is introduced to the list, with everyone from the Community being able to join, so it's not a closed group, and it follows our open, transparent and meritocratic principles: Of course. You should formally ask as described in the Trademark Policy, but I have a feeling you might get a positive reply. :-) It is not about keeping all legal assets just for us. Us is the Community, we decide together on how to use these, in the - you get it - open, transparent and meritocratic process. That decision is independent from individuals, and that's exactly why TDF has been set-up. We want to be independent, and be able to host all assets for the Community. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brazilian domains
Hello, Florian Effenberger wrote on 2011-05-10 11.36: as said, I talked to our ISP, and they offer a trustee service for Brazilian domains, so we can transfer the domain to someone holding it for TDF. I will verify again with them based on the information you gave me (NGO needed), but in case that's indeed possible, wouldn't it be the best solution, to have the domain names independent from one entity? Paulo is right - we indeed need a local representative for .org.br, our ISP can only offer trustee service for the other Brazilian TLDs. However, as said, I am happy to work out a trustee contract with any of the Brazilian NGOs and show it in public. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: A note for Skype ConfCall participants
Hi, Alexander Thurgood wrote on 2011-05-10 15.15: It might get even more restrictive now that Microsoft has bought up Skype. indeed. I never liked Skype that much, but for many people, it is important, because either we have no dial-in in their country, or calling is expensive anyways. I have one idea for the Skype limitation I'd like to test out, and in parallel setting up a dedicated Asterisk machine with dial-ins in the yet unsupported countries, to relax the situation a bit. Hope it works... Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Abbreviation for LibreOffice?
Hi, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote on 2011-05-08 05.22: Is LibreOffice a registered trademarked yet? yes, it is. But I don't think this touches the discussion about the abbreviation a lot. :-) Then there could be a decision to trademark LibO, LibrO, and/or some other abbreviation for LibreOffice. That could settle what is preferred to be used. Then there would be a consistent abbreviation to be used when spelling out the full name is not convenient. Actually, I added both abbreviation to my spelling checker for Thunderbird. We haven't come up with something official yet, and for example, journalists will use the one or the other abbreviation. I personally use LibO, for example at Identi.ca and Twitter, others use LibreOffice or even LO there. To me, LibO is a good choice, as it seems to be rather unique, and still is short. However, it needs to be adapted for other things. If we want to abbreviate the LibreOffice Conference with LibOCon, that could as well be the Library of Congress. :-) The same goes for sayings like Freedom Never Tastes So Suite. We need to have a consensus on saying for LibreOffice that could be used on marketing materials. Maybe someone could make a Wiki page with a list of ideas for marketing saying and what items it could/should be placed on. That same page could have suggestions on what abbreviations could/should be used where and not to be used where. This way we, as a hole, would have some guidelines. Any volunteers to do organize such a web page? Feel free to put it on the agenda for the next marketing call. :) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Drafting Conference 2012 Call for Locations
Hello, during the last Steering Committee call, we agreed that at the same time or shortly after announcing the Conference 2011 Call for Papers, we should also issue a public Call for Location for the even next year. Quoting from http://conference.libreoffice.org/pr/: The location for the LibreOffice Conference in 2012 will be decided by the Community in an open Call for Locations process, details about which will be announced soon. Anyone wants to start a draft? We should also discuss this during tomorrow's marketing conference call, so I'll add it to the agenda. We should embed some information in this, the latest CfLs for the OOoCon that John and I drafted might be helfpul. We tried to make clear this is a community event, where some active community on the location is needed, and what is required on infrastructure, how much work it means etc. - and we should do so for the LibreOffice conference as well. This definitely helps to avoid proposals like we received a few years ago, where some commercial event organizers wanted to host the conference, without any connection to the community, or where someone wanted to do this on his own as one-man-show. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] A note for Skype ConfCall participants
Hello, a short note to those wanting to participate in our conference calls via Skype: The amount of Skype dial-ins is limited, due to licensing issues. We therefore ask that you use either SkypeOut or a regular phone, instead of the Skype contact. The Skype contact should be used by those who cannot participate otherwise, or for whom dialing in via phone is expensive. One more reason for open standards... let's see if we can set-up a direct SIP connection soon. :) Sorry for the inconveniences, Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Brazilian domains (was: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] PR translations)
Hello, I'd like to add a few thoughts of mine to this thread. I am very sorry to hear what happened and still is happening in Brazil. To me, as for the whole Steering Committee, it has always been very important to be not on one side. It is sad for me to see that there seem to be two groups and lots of changes, and I have worked with trust, respect and joy with members of both groups, and I would like to do so in the future as well. As Brazil is far away, and I don't know the situation very well, I always tried to stay out of the line of fire, which I hope is understandable. Sorry if this now sounds rather harsh, but my take is: Domain names with LibreOffice or The Document Foundation should be under control of The Document Foundation, and the official mailing lists for each project have to be the ones we offer. Let me explain why: It is not about controlling things or not allowing others to be active. In contrast, we would like to have people active on their own, without asking us for permission. Our approach is open, meritocratic and transparent. However, we all have learned from the past that it can happen too quick that projects and groups go their own way, and confusion is created on who is talking on behalf of whom. Diversity can be a gift, but it can also be a high risk if we are too diverse. Hosting a website under the LibreOffice or TDF domain name with own content soon will create the idea that this content is official. Even more, it will spread knowledge and tools, which in the end can have bad consequences for us. Don't get the impression that we do want to dictate what you have to use. I know that the situation and requirements are different from country to country, and that some users are more comfortable with this tool, others with other tools. We try hard to provide something everyone can benefit from, and I invite you to raise concerns, questions and wishes to our public mailing lists. We are all TDF, so there is no one dictating things. Sure, sometimes there's one in charge who has to wear a hat and have the final say, and there is also the Steering Committee if in doubt, but that's no different to any well-developed open source community. For the current situation, to me it is rather clear: Please connect the TDF and LibO domain names in Brazil to our nameservers, so we can point them to our infrastructure. If there are legal concerns of being the domain holder, but having services connected to our servers, please let me know -- there is a legally working way to transfer the domain names to the German association and later on to the Foundation when it exists. I've already discussed that with our provider, who provides a trustee service in Brazil if needed. What I neither can understand nor accept is that a website is built in parallel, e-mail addresses are being handed out, and separate mailing lists are created. I guess I repeat myself by saying that I want all of us to work on one thing, united, speaking with one voice. Too much diversity and parallel universes do not help, they do harm. They harm a lot. Of course I respect the work that the Brazilian community has done the past years, but it can be no argument that you now need the LibreOffice domain name for connecting your servers, otherwise data from five years would be lost. How long has the LibreOffice name been existing? Roughly seven months, so this is no argument. I am happy to provide you a DNS alias so you have a domain name to connect your machine to, in case you don't have any other domain name available -- but the main website really needs to point to the TDF infrastructure. pt-br.libreoffice.org is our Brazilian website, and contributors are welcome. I am also more than happy to provide a link to previous content from there if this is suitable. But, please, do not build up your parallel universe with own sites, tools, addresses and mailing lists. Especially in these times, working united, collaborating as a team, exchanging thoughts as friends, is more important than ever. I beg your trust, and ask you to cooperate with us in this matter. We are flexible in tools and sites, and we can improve things when improvements are needed, but TDF has been created to have all assets in one hand, independent, safe, stable and secure. Joining us in this mission is, I hope, also to upmost interest for you. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] PR translations
Hi, Italo Vignoli wrote on 2011-05-07 15.35: For the time being, I would avoid announcements of betas outside the announce@ mailing list (which has over 7000 subscribers, many of them journalists). Any other channel would make these announcements look as official, while we are still trying to improve the quality. I guess it depends. I forward the beta announcements to many journalists in Germany, and we receive lots of good feedback and articles, so this is good PR for us. It might depend from country to country, but I would not explictly forbid it. :-) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] additional German confcall numbers
Hello, some participants from Germany had problems with dialing in to the steering committee calls as well as the marketing conference calls. Our phone conference provider informed us about additional numbers that are currenty not listed on the public page. If you have issues dialing in, try one of these. For landline users, there's now also +49 89 66 6 66 08 93 +49 40 95 06 99 70 In addition, for users of German mobile networks, there's one number in the vistream network available. In case your provider locks participation in the conference, try this number: +49 15 70 - 333 6000 In all cases, to be sure about coverage with flatrates, please ask your provider directly. Thanks to talkyoo for their generous sponsorship, and their providing of additional numbers! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] preparing the tracks for the LibreOffice Conference in Paris
Hi, Italo Vignoli wrote on 2011-05-05 23.14: I would rather prefer to have a lower number of speakers and a higher number of open discussions, and a couple of training sessions in order to have more people capable of preparing and presenting a jaw dropping set of slides at conferences. Our capability of presenting the project at all levels is key today, and will be even more important in the future. +1 In Budapest we tried to host a long session, but we could have used a second session of that length for marketing... Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] PR translations
Hello, this is just a quick question to our local communities - who is regularly translating our announcements (like beta3, beta4 and the like) into their local language and distributes it to the community and the local press? I'd like to keep the national press informed as well, and if you need any help in that, please let me know. :-) I know we haven't defined a process and responsibilites for that yet, so let's work on it. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] informing people about confcalls
Hello, in order to raise awareness for our marketing conference calls, what do you think about sending out an announcement to announce@? No formal PR, just a short note. I just digged through the archives, and we didn't send something out like that yet, I only blogged about it. I don't want to spam people, but on the other hand, raising awareness for it could greatly help getting marketing contributors, and shows the world what we're doing. Thoughts? Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] informing people about confcalls
Hi Drew, drew wrote on 2011-05-04 17.03: I don't think pushing out an email on announce, once a month, would be spamming. Then again might be a way to start talking about a monthly newsletter - marketing sounds like a section name, to me anyhow. good idea, indeed! I've added this to the agenda at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls#Agenda I recall we talked about this before, and I really would love to have some monthly newsletter, podcast, whatever. Also a suggestion to do the same for all four marketing mailing lists, Int., PY, ES and US, as a standard matter of practice. Even if only in English, I don't believe folks on the Spanish speaking lists will mind. (?) Speaking English on the call, IMO, is likely more of a hurdle for some, I know speaking Spanish would be for me. That's a different issue I suppose, but still, it does IMO help when the invitation is direct. What I can offer, and would greatly appreciate, is local marketing conference calls. We can use the existing confcall infrastructure if some group wants to have a talk in their language. I think besides working on a global marketing, the local marketing is equally important. Countries and habits differ, so exchanging on a local level in the native language is a real good idea. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Marketing ConfCall May 2011
Hi, Florian Effenberger wrote on 2011-04-26 11.44: it's time for another marketing conference call. I propose the second week of May for that, during the week. Let us know when you have time :-) http://www.doodle.com/994qbp8puwagrzs8 I will close the poll tomorrow, so last orders, please. ;-) At the moment it looks like it will be this Tuesday or Friday, 1600 UTC (=1800 German time). Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Conference CfP
Hi Charles, Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2011-05-03 08.58: I'd like to move on with the Call for Papers. We need to have a Papers Reviewing Committee and a deadline where both the papers submission form and the review team are in place. Can we form the team by the end of this week and have the page ready around the same time? indeed, that would be good. I guess during one of the last SC calls, we explicitly stated we do not want to have only the steering committee in, so this can be considered a public call for reviewers. :-) Reminder (see the website mailing list) we have the following structure for the conference: 4 +1 tracks: - Development Track - Technical Bird of Feather Sessions (no need for papers) - Community Building Track - Marketing Track + ODF MasterClass. Is this already fixed, can you confirm? If so, I'd like to add it to our conference web site. Just let me know. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Conference CfP
Hi, Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2011-05-03 10.21: indeed, that would be good. I guess during one of the last SC calls, we explicitly stated we do not want to have only the steering committee in, so this can be considered a public call for reviewers. :-) Yes indeed :) perfect! I just blogged, twittered and dented about it. :-) Will put the tracks online now. Yes this is fixed. I can send you pictures, logos, etc. as well very soon. Thanks a lot! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] presentation templates
Hello, just to let you know, the German company PresentationLoad offers free presentation templates for LibreOffice: http://www.presentationload.com/en/LibreOffice/?campaign=Libreoffice They usually offer templates for PowerPoint on a paid basis, and now they have extended their offers for LibreOffice. :-) Enjoy! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Marketing ConfCall May 2011
Hi, this is just a short reminder to cast your vote. :-) I'd like to announce the date soon. Florian Florian Effenberger wrote on 2011-04-26 11.44: Hello, it's time for another marketing conference call. I propose the second week of May for that, during the week. Let us know when you have time :-) http://www.doodle.com/994qbp8puwagrzs8 Thanks, Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Marketing ConfCall May 2011
Hello, it's time for another marketing conference call. I propose the second week of May for that, during the week. Let us know when you have time :-) http://www.doodle.com/994qbp8puwagrzs8 Thanks, Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: preparing the tracks for the LibreOffice Conference in Paris
Hi Charles, thanks for the proposal, and sorry for my late reply! Your proposal sounds good to me, nothing to add from my side. Michael Meeks wrote on 2011-04-19 17.05: But - I wonder: I'd imagined this would primarily be a conference focused on members core contributors - so IMHO the CfP should make it clear that we are not primarily soliciting end-user focused talks, but talks on how to improve / structure / grow our community, and/or how to improve / co-ordinate our marketing etc. Agreed. I think this is what we in fact have discussed before in the SC phone conferences. Do we have a papers committee yet to write the CfP etc. ? We need one, definitely. Maybe issueing a Call for Papers via the marketing@ and discuss@ mailing lists, so we can involve the Community? We also need a mailing list we can refer people to. I want to avoid setting up another list for the moment -- technically it is no issue, but we then soon run into the we-have-100-mailing-lists-and-post-to-five-in-a-row-to-reach-everyone problem. I propose to use discuss@ and marketing@ for that, and set-up a dedicated list only when needed. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Reminder: ConfCall tomorrow
Hello, this is a reminder for tomorrow's marketing conference call. For details, see http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls#Next_Call Looking forward to hearing you! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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] Six Months of Freedom and Community
On September 28th, 2010, The Document Foundation was announced. The last six months, it feels, have just passed within a short glimpse of time. Not only did we release three LibreOffice versions within three months, have created the LibreOffice-Box DVD image, and brought LibreOffice Portable on its way. We also have announced the LibreOffice Conference for October 2011 and have taken part in lots of events worldwide, with FOSDEM and CeBIT being the most prominent ones. People follow us at Twitter, Identi.ca, XING, LinkedIn and a Facebook group and fan page, they discuss on our mailing lists with more than 6.000 subscriptions, collaborate in our wiki, get insight on our daily work in our blog, and post and blog themselves. From the very first day, openness, transparency and meritocracy have been shaping the framework we want to work in. Our discussions and decisions take place on a public mailing list, and regularly, we hold phone conferences for the Steering Committee and for the marketing teams, where everyone is invited to join. Our ideas and visions have made their way into our Next Decade Manifesto. We have joined the Open Invention Network as well as the OpenDoc Society, and just last week have become an SPI-associated project, and we see a wide range of support from all over the world. Not only do Novell and Red Hat support our efforts with developers, but just recently, Canonical, creators of Ubuntu, joined as well. All major Linux distributions deliver LibreOffice with their operating systems, and more follow every day. One of the most stunning contributions, that still leaves us speechless, is the support that we receive from the community. When we asked for 50,000 € capital stock for a German-based foundation, the community showed their support, appreciation and their power, and not only donated it in just eight days, but up to now has supported us with close to 100,000 €! Another one is that driven by our open, vendor neutral approach, combined with our easy hacks, we have included code contributions from over 150 entirely new developers to the project, alongside localisations from over 50 localizers. The community has developed itself better than we could ever dream of, and first meetings like the project’s weekend or the QA meeting of the Germanophone group are already being organized. What we have seen now is just the beginning of something very big. The Document Foundation has a vision, and the creation of the foundation in Germany is about to happen soon. LibreOffice has been downloaded over 350,000 times within the first week, and we just counted more than 1,3 million downloads just from our download system — not counting packages directly delivered by Linux distributors, other download sites or DVDs included in magazines and newspapers — supported by 65 mirrors from all over the world, and millions already use and contribute to it worldwide. With our participation in the Google Summer of Code, we will engage more students and young developers to be part of our community. Our improved release schedule will ensure that new features and improvements will make their way to end-users soon, and for testers, we even provide daily builds. We are so excited by what has been achieved over the last six months, and we are immensely grateful to all those who have supported the project in whatever ways they can. It is an honour to be working with you, to be part of one united community! The future as we are shaping it has just begun, and it will be bright and excellent. -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Free Google advertising for non-profits?
Hi, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote on 2011-03-19 15.10: I was told that someone with the TDF/LibreOffice committee has applied or something for this service [I think if I remember correctly]. indeed. A few weeks ago, we received a German newsletter about a free Google ad program for charities. I don't recall the exact name, maybe it's a different program, but we have applied. They, however, told that a decision might take up to six months... Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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] marketing confcall on March 29th
Hello, the next marketing confcall will take place on Tuesday, March 29th at 16:00 UTC (=18:00 German time) *** Remember that in some countries, daylight saving time will be in effect by that date *** To determine your local date and time, see the converter in the Doodle poll at http://www.doodle.com/nn9gubpev28kzeus Dial-in details will be provided in time. Please add you desired agenda items and topics you want to discuss about at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls#Agenda Thanks a lot, and looking forward to hearing you! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Free Google advertising for non-profits?
Hi, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote on 2011-03-18 17.26: Is LibreOffice organized or registered as a non-profit organization? I found this link in one of the e-newsletters I receive daily. I wonder if this free advertising would be something that TDF and LibreOffice would qualify for? Free advertising is something LibreOffice could sure use to spread the word about this great package and the open source software cause. thanks for pointing this out! Indeed, we already applied for that -- sorry if I've missed to communicate it on this list. As soon as we receive a reply from Google, I'll let you know. :) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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] next marketing conference call
Hello, it's time for a new marketing conference call! I've added some proposals to Doodle. Please cast your vote and let us know when you have time: http://www.doodle.com/nn9gubpev28kzeus If you wonder about the available time slots: My time is fairly limited at the moment, so I've just added dates and times when I am available. If these do not fit, and someone else can moderate a call at a different time, I'm fine with that as well. :-) Thanks! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] remove
Hi Tom, Tom Davies wrote on 2011-03-03 13.38: Ok, so it seems to be another problem that some people do have and some people don't. I have noticed that Windows users seem to have the problem and i have seen it in Ubuntu. Perhaps it is just Yahoo misbehaving again. I have written to Yahoo customer support a number of times about various issues but have never heard back. There is a user forum but their answers are along the lines the lines of Look, ponies. I was hoping their new beta testing might accept user-input or just be fixed but sadly not. Still they are very popular and used by a LOT of people so we need to be able to work with them in some way rather than blaming users for the faults created by organisations. I agree that it's sad that so many users are affected -- or in theory could be affected, as it seems that this problem doesn't occur for everyone. Christian Lohmaier wrote it works for him, so having some more feedback on this (which we should discuss on the website list probably) would be helpful to nail down the issue. :) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] remove
Hi, Todd Thompson wrote on 2011-03-02 23.11: remove Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@documentfoundation.org In your case, you maybe should write to marketing+unsubscribe-dig...@documentfoundation.org as it's described in the help text Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] remove
My fault - it should be remove Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org In your case, you maybe should write to marketing+unsubscribe-dig...@libreoffice.org as it's described in the help text Florian Effenberger wrote on 2011-03-03 10.09: remove Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@documentfoundation.org In your case, you maybe should write to marketing+unsubscribe-dig...@documentfoundation.org as it's described in the help text -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] remove
Hi Tom, Tom Davies wrote on 2011-03-03 10.34: Unfortunately the marketing+ bit at the start of the email address is almost always handled differently from the the rest of the email address. So, it looks as though the instructions say to send an email to normally, clicking the link should work. :-) With GMail, it is a known bug that it doesn't work, but that's GMail's fault. + addresses are in the RFC (standard). something needs to be sorted out. Would it be possible to change the unsubscribe instruction to marketing.h...@documentfoundation.org instead of marketing+h...@documentfoundation.org or something because that + sign in the middle really makes things confusing for a lot of systems. Sadly not. Only bogus sytems can't handle this. It's sad that GMail is affected. :/ Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] remove
Hi Tom, Tom Davies wrote on 2011-03-03 12.31: Gmail and Yahoo are both affected. They might be bogus systems but they are 'quite' widely used so we need to find a way of getting something that does work with both. Blaming users and expecting them to change systems is not a winning strategy. It might be good to develop working relationships with Yahoo Gmail devs and management to see if their bogus systems can be corrected. we will see what we can do, but first we need to nail down the problem - some users seem to experience it, and others don't. Tom, a personal wish: Can you please avoid the fullquotings? It is generally considered a bad idea to full quote one's message and then put your reply on top or at the bottom of it. Rather, quote the lines you are referring to and then reply, like I do for this mail. The way you are quoting makes it extremely hard to follow the threads, and it migth annoy some people. :-) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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] LibreOffice Conference to be held in Paris this October
LibreOffice Conference to be held in Paris this October First annual project meeting from October 12th to 15th The Document Foundation today announced the first annual LibreOffice Conference, which will be held in Paris from October 12th to 15th. Carrying on the tradition of previous OOoCon conferences, the LibreOffice Conference will be the event for those interested in the development of free office productivity software, open standards, and the OpenDocument format generally. We're proud of what we have achieved so far with LibreOffice and The Document Foundation. We are seeing a rapidly-growing ecosystem built on free software, and the LibreOffice Conference will be an exciting opportunity to meet our Community members, developers and hackers, says Charles Schulz, Steering Committee member of The Document Foundation and one of the organizers of this year's conference. Paris has long been a strong supporter of free software and, following a fantastic release party in 2008, plans for another event in Paris were already being made during the last OOoCon. So, we're happy to announce our first conference taking place in the heart of France. The LibreOffice Conference will host several tracks on various aspects of LibreOffice, including adoption, migration, development and interoperability. More information about the venue and a call for papers will be available soon. The location for the LibreOffice Conference in 2012 will be decided by the Community in an open Call for Locations process, details about which will be announced soon. The website for the LibreOffice Conference is at http://conference.libreoffice.org Information on LibreOffice can be found at http://www.libreoffice.org The home of The Document Foundation is at http://www.documentfoundation.org About The Document Foundation The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution of the LibreOffice Community into a new, open, independent, and meritocratic organization over the next few months. An independent foundation is a better reflection of the values of our contributors, users and supporters, and will enable a more effective, efficient and transparent community. TDF will protect past investments by building on the achievements of the first decade, will encourage wide participation within the community, and will co-ordinate activity across the community. Media Contacts Florian Effenberger (Germany) Landline phone: +49 8341 99660880 Cellphone: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff E-mail: flo...@documentfoundation.org Olivier Hallot (Brazil) Cellphone: +55 21 88228812 E-mail: olivier.hal...@documentfoundation.org Charles H. Schulz (France) Cellphone: +33 6 98655424 E-mail: charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org Italo Vignoli (Italy) Cellphone: +39 348 5653829 E-mail: italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Thousands of donors contribute €50,000 in just eight days to The Document Foundation
Hi, Luiz Oliveira wrote on 2011-02-26 15.12: Just out of curiosity, do you know the effective participation of Brazil in donations? It may be a percentage. sadly not yet - I will work on extracting currencies and e-mail domains out of the PayPal spreadsheet, but it will take some time :) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff :: LibreOffice needs your support for setting up its Foundation! :: Join our fundraising at http://challenge.documentfoundation.org -- 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] Thousands of donors contribute €50,000 in just eight days to The Document Foundation
Thousands of donors contribute €50,000 in just eight days to The Document Foundation LibreOffice Community accomplishes next major milestone Ongoing donations to support marketing, infrastructure and development The Community around LibreOffice, the free personal productivity suite, has accomplished the next major milestone in establishing The Document Foundation as a legal entity. In just eight days, some 2,000 donors from all over the world contributed €50,000 for the capital stock necessary to set-up the legal entity in Germany. We still can't believe it, says Florian Effenberger, Steering Committee member. It happened in such a short period of time and was beyond our wildest expectations. You all really rock! On behalf of the Community, the Steering Committee would like to thank all the donors for their generous support. The €50,000 collected will form the Foundation's paid-up capital, ensuring a permanent future for the organization after the legal paperwork is complete, based in Germany. The capital will be frozen assets for the Foundation: the funds cannot be spent, and we will be able to avail just the annual interest. All money donated from now on will actually bankroll our ongoing running costs for things such as marketing, hardware, infrastructure, attending trade shows, initial financing of merchandising material and, of course, developing new and exciting ideas. So we still need your support: Every donation helps to pay for our future operational running, Effenberger adds. Details on how to donate to The Document Foundation and how the money will be spent are available at http://challenge.documentfoundation.org Information about LibreOffice can be found at http://www.libreoffice.org The home of The Document Foundation is at http://www.documentfoundation.org About The Document Foundation The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution of the LibreOffice community into a new, open, independent, and meritocratic organization over the next few months. An independent Foundation is a better reflection of the values of our contributors, users and supporters, and will enable a more effective, efficient and transparent community. TDF will protect past investments by building on the achievements of the first decade, will encourage wide participation within the community, and will co-ordinate activity across the community. Media Contacts Florian Effenberger (Germany) Mobile: +49 151 14424108 - E-mail: flo...@documentfoundation.org Olivier Hallot (Brazil) Mobile: +55 21 88228812 - E-mail: olivier.hal...@documentfoundation.org Charles H. Schulz (France) Mobile: +33 6 98655424 - E-mail: charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org Italo Vignoli (Italy) Mobile: +39 348 5653829 - E-mail: italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Posts to marketing@libreoffice.org denied
In order to post to this list, the list address must be contained in either the To: or Cc: header. = you Bcc'ed the marketing mailing list? webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote on 2011-02-25 17.27: I wonder why this was sent to me? -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff :: LibreOffice needs your support for setting up its Foundation! :: Join our fundraising at http://challenge.documentfoundation.org -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Posts to marketing@libreoffice.org denied
If you look at the message that was attached, you only had the us marketing list in To :-) webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote on 2011-02-25 18.13: I included the normal email address, like I always or so I thought, in the TO: box. I have Marketing and US Marketing addresses in my contact list. If I clicked on Bcc, then it was not meant to be done. Oh well, I will re-send it. -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff :: LibreOffice needs your support for setting up its Foundation! :: Join our fundraising at http://challenge.documentfoundation.org -- 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] Dial-in details for today's marketing confcall
Hello, today, at 1600 UTC, we will be hosting our next marketing conference call on LibreOffice. The main topic will be to talk about fundraising for the foundation. Some information on this can be found at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Foundation_Fundraising For your local date and time, see http://www.doodle.com/7i3zmzhqcbtbrsqx?newDesign=true The current list of dial-in numbers is available at http://www.talkyoo.net/main/telefonkonferenz_internationale_rufnummern. Please note that the Skype gateway is not always reliable. The conference room number is 53 71 38. The PIN is 824. To switch to English voice prompts, press the star key (*) at the beginning. When you are not speaking, please mute your microphone. You can do so either on your phone, or by pressing *1 during the call. To unmute it, press *1 again. Looking forward to hearing you, Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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] LibreOffice Community starts 50,000 Euro challenge for setting-up its foundation
LibreOffice Community starts 50,000 Euro challenge for setting-up its foundation German-based model provides best stability and safety for users, adopters, developers and enterprises Race for funds open until March 21st The Internet, February 16th, 2011 - The community around LibreOffice, the free office productivity suite, today announced its fifty-thousand Euro challenge for setting-up The Document Foundation as a legal entity. The race for funds is open until March 21st 2011, which marks the beginning of Spring in the northern hemisphere. All users - especially enterprises - are invited to donate to the capital stock of the future foundation. After thorough investigation, the Steering Committee came to the conclusion that a foundation based in Germany would provide the best stability, not only for our users, but also for adopters, developers and enterprises. For achieving this stability, a capital stock of at least 50,000 Euros is considered best practice in Germany, says Florian Effenberger, Steering Committee member of The Document Foundation. Now that we have our first release of LibreOffice, which has been downloaded and installed all around the world, the time has come to legally establish the future home for our community. All donations will be used for setting-up The Document Foundation, and after the fifty thousand Euros has been collected for the capital stock, donations over the top of that sum will be fed directly into the future foundation's budget to cover operating costs. Should the race for funds not succeed, The Document Foundation will use the donations to incorporate itself in a different country that requires less capital stock, such as the United Kingdom. To achieve their ambitious goal of a Foundation in Germany in just five weeks, the community has set-up a dedicated website with detailed information at http://challenge.documentfoundation.org The site will also give adopters, community members and corporate sponsors a voice, and will have special features rolled out at the accomplishment of each donation milestone. We have seen wide support from many organizations, and the amount of volunteer work that has been put into The Document Foundation is just amazing. Without people donating their free time, knowledge and creativity to what will be the future home of LibreOffice, we wouldn't be where we are today. However, volunteer work alone can't fund the necessary capital stock, which is why we have started a public race for donations, especially targeting contributions from enterprises and public administrations adopting LibreOffice, and those interested in an independent, vital and growing ecosystem around free office productivity software, Florian Effenberger adds. Information about LibreOffice can be found at http://www.libreoffice.org The home of The Document Foundation is at http://www.documentfoundation.org About The Document Foundation The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution of the OOo Community into a new, open, independent, and meritocratic organization within the next few months. An independent Foundation is a better reflection of the values of our contributors, users and supporters, and will enable a more effective, efficient and transparent community. TDF will protect past investments by building on the achievements of the first decade, will encourage wide participation within the community, and will co-ordinate activity across the community. Media Contacts for TDF Florian Effenberger (Germany) Mobile: +49 151 14424108 - E-mail: flo...@documentfoundation.org Olivier Hallot (Brazil) Mobile: +55 21 88228812 - E-mail: olivier.hal...@documentfoundation.org Charles H. Schulz (France) Mobile: +33 6 98655424 - E-mail: charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org Italo Vignoli (Italy) Mobile: +39 348 5653829 - E-mail: italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOffice Community starts 50, 000 Euro challenge for setting-up its foundation
Hi Marc, Marc Paré wrote on 2011-02-16 15.43: Nice to see this happen. There was talk of making the banner available for one enterprise. Are we going to make this banner available for downloading for other enterprises or individuals who would be interested in supporting LibreOffice through displaying a banner for the fundraiser? If so, as well as having a large banner, could we also offer a smaller banner and also a square banner for left or right positioning on a site? making them available sounds like a good idea. We need some more banners, like one for a website that will advertise us, and one for a printed magazine -- we should collect the results in the wiki, definitely. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Great artwork
Hi Paulo, Paulo José wrote on 2011-02-15 22.17: Yesterday I finished the 3D version of the main icon set of LibO and today I made two first real wallpaper. Maybe they are too much bright, so let me know what you think. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Wallpaper-LibO-1.png http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Wallpaper-LibO-2.png They are in 16:9 aspect ratio. they are just amazing -- thanks so much! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] I want your face on video :-)
Hi Paulo, Paulo de Souza Lima wrote on 2011-02-13 15.48: Hi, the our case (brazilians) we can talk in Portuguese and include subtitles in English. I can't see any problem with that. What do you think? sure, go for it! :-) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] I want your face on video :-)
Hi, Luiz Oliveira wrote on 2011-02-12 23.55: The video must be in English? it would be ideal, but if you can target Brazilian audience with Portuguese video, go for it :-) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Where are the press clippings?
Hello, Luiz Oliveira wrote on 2011-02-12 23.50: I like the initiative. We will collaborate with it as possible. I'll try to fill up with the news in Brazil on LibreOffice, BrOffice and TDF. I have already put some links. thanks a lot! By Monday or Tuesday, we will send out a PR -- feel free to translate it then! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Where are the press clippings?
Hi, Marc Paré wrote on 2011-02-12 03.26: Tom and I have tried to collect as many as we saw on the lists. The German, French and Spanish sections are filling their sections on their own. As a suggestion, for marketing purposes, we are trying to list them in such a way that it is easy to scan the lists and see which press organizations are covering LibreOffice the most. thanks a lot for the information and your work :) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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] I want your face on video :-)
Hello, as part of the Foundation fundraising (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Foundation_Fundraising) we could also host some videos with voices of the Community. I cannot promise anything, not even that we eventually will use the videos, but as time is running out fast, this is a call for your face on video. :-) So, if you have something to say why LibreOffice is great, why the Foundation is important and why people should donate, take a webcam, record a video and send me the link, so we can make something out of it. Funny recordings are as welcome a serious clips! Remember to use a free license for the content. :) Thanks! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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] Where are the press clippings?
Hello, as part of the fundraising... I guess I'll use that intro for a few more e-mails. :-) I recall people collected press clippings in various language. Is http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_In_The_Press the up to date page with these? I'd like to collect them on the fundraising website for a reference. Thanks, Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Starting something like LibreCon
Hi Markus, Markus Franz wrote on 2011-02-09 20.02: I'd love to hear your thoughts about having a dedicated conference for LibreOffice / TDF. thanks a lot for the proposal - what a timing. :-) We're indeed right now working behind the scenes on a LibreOffice Conference and plan to introduce the idea to the Community very soon. Your contribution then would be very much welcome! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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] next confcall on 16th at 1600 UTC
Hello, the next marketing confcall will take place on Wednesday, February 16th at 1600 UTC For your local date and time, please see http://www.doodle.com/7i3zmzhqcbtbrsqx?newDesign=true Please add your desired agenda items to http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls#Agenda Dial-in details will be made available in time. Looking forward to hearing you, Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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] talk about software deployment
Hello, I was invited to LOADays in Antwerp, Belgium, to deliver a talk on LibreOffice software deployment mid of April. However, I don't know if I can make it, so I'd like to ask if one of you with expertise in this area would be interested to go there? Travel funding might be possible. *NOTE* Please ping me offlist, as I'm not subscribed to the Freedesktop.org list at the moment. Thanks, Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Authorized information source about security fixes
Hi, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote on 2011-02-05 11.42: I agree. Having a distinctive page likewww.libreoffice.org/security with information on all security issues affecting LO, the versions that fixed it and links to the commits fixing it is very useful and following best practices. I hope we have something like that in place for the next release. Right now, my information is that we have fixed everything that's also fixed in OOo 3.3, but for future releases, a dedicated site makes sense, indeed. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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] Reminder: Cast your vote on the poll
Hello, this is just a reminder. Don't forget to cast your vote on the poll for our next confcall at http://doodle.com/7i3zmzhqcbtbrsqx Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Joining in marketing
Hello Jesso, Jesso Murugan wrote on 2011-02-01 07.31: Helping libreoffice take root in India would be my pleasure and duty as well. If any help is required, I'll be glad to pitch in. thank you very much for your introduction, and welcome to the show -- great to have you on board! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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] The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3
The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3 The first stable release of the free office suite is available for download The Internet, January 25, 2011 - The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3, the first stable release of the free office suite developed by the community. In less than four months, the number of developers hacking LibreOffice has grown from less than twenty in late September 2010, to well over one hundred today. This has allowed us to release ahead of the aggressive schedule set by the project. Not only does it ship a number of new and original features, LibreOffice 3.3 is also a significant achievement for a number of reasons: - the developer community has been able to build their own and independent process, and get up and running in a very short time (with respect to the size of the code base and the project's strong ambitions); - thanks to the high number of new contributors having been attracted into the project, the source code is quickly undergoing a major clean-up to provide a better foundation for future development of LibreOffice; - the Windows installer, which is going to impact the largest and most diverse user base, has been integrated into a single build containing all language versions, thus reducing the size for download sites from 75 to 11GB, making it easier for us to deploy new versions more rapidly and lowering the carbon footprint of the entire infrastructure. Caolán McNamara from RedHat, one of the developer community leaders, comments, We are excited: this is our very first stable release, and therefore we are eager to get user feedback, which will be integrated as soon as possible into the code, with the first enhancements being released in February. Starting from March, we will be moving to a real time-based, predictable, transparent and public release schedule, in accordance with Engineering Steering Committee's goals and users' requests. The LibreOffice development roadmap is available at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan LibreOffice 3.3 brings several unique new features. The 10 most-popular among community members are, in no particular order: the ability to import and work with SVG files; an easy way to format title pages and their numbering in Writer; a more-helpful Navigator Tool for Writer; improved ergonomics in Calc for sheet and cell management; and Microsoft Works and Lotus Word Pro document import filters. In addition, many great extensions are now bundled, providing PDF import, a slide-show presenter console, a much improved report builder, and more besides. A more-complete and detailed list of all the new features offered by LibreOffice 3.3 is viewable on the following web page: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes/ LibreOffice 3.3 also provides all the new features of OpenOffice.org 3.3, such as new custom properties handling; embedding of standard PDF fonts in PDF documents; new Liberation Narrow font; increased document protection in Writer and Calc; auto decimal digits for General format in Calc; 1 million rows in a spreadsheet; new options for CSV import in Calc; insert drawing objects in Charts; hierarchical axis labels for Charts; improved slide layout handling in Impress; a new easier-to-use print interface; more options for changing case; and colored sheet tabs in Calc. Several of these new features were contributed by members of the LibreOffice team prior to the formation of The Document Foundation. LibreOffice hackers will be meeting at FOSDEM in Brussels on February 5 and 6, and will be presenting their work during a one-day workshop on February 6, with speeches and hacking sessions coordinated by several members of the project. The home of The Document Foundation is at http://www.documentfoundation.org The home of LibreOffice is at http://www.libreoffice.org where the download page has been redesigned by the community to be more user-friendly. *** About The Document Foundation The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution of the OOo Community into a new, open, independent, and meritocratic organization within the next few months. An independent Foundation is a better reflection of the values of our contributors, users and supporters, and will enable a more effective, efficient and transparent community. TDF will protect past investments by building on the achievements of the first decade, will encourage wide participation within the community, and will co-ordinate activity across the community. *** Media Contacts for TDF Florian Effenberger (Germany) Mobile: +49 151 14424108 - E-mail: flo...@documentfoundation.org Olivier Hallot (Brazil) Mobile: +55 21 88228812 - E-mail: olivier.hal...@documentfoundation.org Charles H. Schulz (France) Mobile: +33 6 98655424 - E-mail: charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org Italo Vignoli (Italy) Mobile: +39 348 5653829 - E-mail: italo.vign
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [us-marketing] Marketing ConfCall agenda/topics - was Reminder: Marketing ConfCall
Hello, Fabián Rodríguez wrote on 2011-01-20 13.16: Thanks for the reminder. Is there an agenda somewhere ? I couldn't find it. I'd love to bring the following subjects up briefly: - Logo status and remaining action items (trademark, licensing, terms of use) - Promotional material (I'd like to propose to use CafePress as an interim was of gathering funds and getting the brand exposed) - LibreOffice in Libraires (based on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuInLibraries) - LIbreOffice distributor guideline (I'd like to help here, combined with the above Libraries effort, to get the most LibO media in the hands of advocates and users) feel free to add them to http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls#Agenda - however, I think for today's call, we won't be able to discuss about more than the 3.3 release, as this will take some time. We can, however, talk about the items the next call. :-) Thanks for your contribution! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [us-marketing] Marketing ConfCall agenda/topics - was Reminder: Marketing ConfCall
I guess I just replied to the steering-discuss list :) David Nelson wrote on 2011-01-20 13.35: Could you look at my post to you about the SC confcall tomorrow? I never imagined you would schedule it at such short notice.;-) -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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] marketing todos for 3.3 release
Hello, as we are quickly reaching our 3.3 release, during today's marketing conference call, we collected items that should be done for the release day. The date itself is not clearly fixed yet, but I expect it to be within the next few days, so we should take a chance to work on it over the weekend. :-) Here's the list, any additions welcome: * the local websites as well as libreoffice.org itself should be prepared with the news * we need to translate the features page into the various languages * ideally, this comes also with localized screenshots that are used to outline the new features * the PR will soon be circulated and should then be translated into the various languages and prepared for distribution * you can add local quotes if you want * we should point to local or global events where LibO community members can be met, like FOSDEM and CeBIT: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events * we should throw local release parties: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/LibOReleaseEvents * we might decide on a slogan to use for certain marketing activies: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Slogan (#35 seems to be a good choice :-) * we need to get in touch with journalists * for the spokespeople, I'm sure there are lots of local contacts who built connections with journalists over the last years, and you are of course free to talk about LibreOffice, the product and the community * for media requests specifically concerning the Foundation, please route them to the TDF spokespeople, currently Charles, Italo, Olivier and myself * we should get global quotes, Charles and I am working on this Sorry for this rather short compilation, and especially sorry for staying so absent in the marketing list the last weeks. The infrastructure and the foundation things kept me rather busy, but I am now slowly coming back also to marketing and will contribute as I did during my OOo times. :-) We will also gradually improve structure, like local marketing contacts and the like, so the workflow is even more optimized for 3.3.1 and 3.4. :-) Thanks for all your help! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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] Marketing ConfCall this Thursday
Hello, the LibreOffice Marketing Conference Call will take place this Thursday, January 20th, at 1800 UTC+1. For your local date and time, see http://www.doodle.com/3wf6zk7tzdekfx23?newDesign=true Please add your favorite agenda items to http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls#Agenda and keep in mind we will limit this call to one hour. The current list of dial-in numbers is available at http://www.talkyoo.net/main/telefonkonferenz_internationale_rufnummern. Please note that the Skype gateway is not always reliable. The conference room number is 53 71 38. The PIN is 832. To switch to English voice prompts, press the star key (*) at the beginning. When you are not speaking, please mute your microphone. You can do so either on your phone, or by pressing *1 during the call. To unmute it, press *1 again. Looking forward to hearing you! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Reminder: Poll on phone conference
Hi, Florian Effenberger wrote on 2011-01-07 14.08: this is just a short reminder to cast your vote for our next phone conference: http://www.doodle.com/3wf6zk7tzdekfx23 I will close the poll by Sunday, to announce date/time and agenda soon, so cast your vote if you haven't already. ;) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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] announce DevRoom schedule?
Hello, what do you think about announcing the DevRoom schedule via annou...@? Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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] poll on next marketing conference call
Hello, I'm still on vacation until the 10th, but I'd like to start the poll on the next conference call already to help planning the next weeks. :-) So, please cast your vote here: http://www.doodle.com/e2unkgkz5n6sr5kv?newDesign=true Thanks! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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 ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Hi David, David Nelson wrote on 2010-12-23 16.44: I second the seasonal greetings to all. ;-) And to you, Florian, I wish you a happy and restful time. You have put great energy and work into giving leadership and guidance to the community, and don't think that we are not aware of it. You do indeed deserve some moments of quiet pride and satisfaction in what you have put into the project. Let's *all work hard* in 2011 to make the values of Free Open Source Software thrive. thank you very much for the kind words, they are really appreciated. :-) It's good to see that one's efforts are visible, even if a lot of work is going on behind the scenes. I'm currently just sporadically checking mails, doing nothing but relaxing, which feels really good and hopefully gives me the powers I need for 2011. :-) Have a great time! ;) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- 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: LibO Advert sample
Hi Dave, the list doesn't allow attachments. Can you upload it to the wiki and post a link on the lists? Thanks, Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-marketing] Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Hello, I would like to wish all of you a merry Christmas in peace and silence, some joyful days with your beloved ones, and a happy, successful and healthy new year! This year was an amazing one for all of us. Together and united, we have achieved so much in just a short period of time. I am thankful for what we do day by day, and I am proud of being part of such a wonderful community. What we have achieved already is the sign of a healthy, vital and living community, of a community that works together and united and speaks with one voice, a community that values the true roots of free software. Enjoying this every day pays for all the long nights and exhausting work. Thank you for being with us, thanks so much for all these great contributions -- and I am very much looking forward to the exciting things that will happen in 2011. Merry Christmas everyone! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-marketing] We have a stand at FOSDEM!
Good news everyone :-) I just received the following mail: Your request for a stand of LibreOffice at FOSDEM 2010 has been accepted, and we will put the following at your disposal: - on Saturday from 10:00 to 18:00 and Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00, - 2 table(s) of 2 meter width and 1 meter depth, 2 seats per table, - most probably in the H building (subject to change), - best-effort wireless interenet and one(!) type C/E power plug. If you want to decline this offer, please tell us as soon as possible. We provide only one power plug per stand, but you can hook up several multi-socket power chords. Because we can not provide those for every stand, we must ask you to bring your own multi-socket power chords. To make the stands look more professional, we would also like to ask you to bring a table cloth that covers the table and the front of it. The front side is a very good place to put your logo and name in large on, this will increase your visibility. We will stick A4 sheets with your project name on the tables, so you'll know where to install stuff. The best time to build up your stands in the H building is around 09:00. From 09:30-10:00 the people start to rush in, heading for the opening talks. In the AW building, things are typically more quiet until the opening talks are finished, which is around 12:00. Yippieh! ;-) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-marketing] FOSDEM programme
Hello, for the FOSDEM stand, the reply will come soon - there is a slight delay on the organizers' end. :-) For our DevRoom, the CfP ended yesterday and here are the results: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Events/Fosdem2011 What do you think, do we already have enough? Do we need more or different talks? Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Certification project
Hi Ian, Ian Lynch wrote on 2010-12-02 22.05: Current situation is that Manfred Reiter and myself have organised a preparatory meeting in Berlin 28th January. We have confirmed delegates attending from the UK, DE, Ro, BG, CZ, ES also possibly NL and IT too. Anyone else wanting to attend should e-mail Manfred (or me and I will forward it) as we have to tell the venue how many people will be there. If there is interest we can try to arrange a conference or at least an IRC session for part of the time. the discussion with use of the mark, endorsement by the foundation and the like have to be taken with the steering committee, I guess -- but independent from that, I am interested to join. My finances don't permit me a trip, but maybe we can set-up a conference call on that day? I am happy to provide dial-in options. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-marketing] presentation templates for LibreOffice
Hello, I'm in touch with a company offering professional presentation templates for sale. They were interested in supporting LibreOffice by providing a bunch of templates free of charge, exclusively for LibreOffice users. The current idea is that they will prepare a special landing page on their site, listing these templates exclusively for LibreOffice. The download will take place from their servers. I would promote this with a note to our mailing lists (not announce, no PR) and a post to Twitter and Facebook, and maybe the XING group. The templates per se are not under a free license, but free of use and modification for LibreOffice users. What do you generally think of that? Sounds like a win-win situation to me. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] presentation templates for LibreOffice
Hi Sophie, Sophie Gautier wrote on 2010-12-17 15.49: . In what language are the templates currently, German or English? Will we be able to localize them? I guess only in German. But if we translate them, I guess they will be happy :) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] presentation templates for LibreOffice
Hi Christian, Christian Lohmaier wrote on 2010-12-17 16.39: I wonder how that exclusively for LO users would work, but apart from that: sounds great :-) I guess not in terms of license, but in terms that the page is hidden and will only be communicated over LibO channels. :-) Ah, so the licence terms restrict their use to LO. Some people will not like that, but then again those people don't need to use it :-) Nope, I guess it won't. Any other user can download the files as well. :-) Yes - unless the download requires filling out personal details and whatnot... I told them that if they want to do so, I am not happy, but if they insist, it's ok -- then they would have to offer the download, however. It seems that they won't ask for personal data, but rather hope on word of mouth, and then it would be even ok for me to host the files at our infrastructure. Will they package it as extension? (I guess/hope so, since that way they can display their Licence terms to the user in a standard fashion, and installation/removal of the templates is easy for the user as well) I guess they don't know how that works. :-) If anyone wants to help, sure! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] presentation templates for LibreOffice
Thanks a lot, sounds good - will ping you when I have the files ;) Christian Lohmaier wrote on 2010-12-17 20.59: Ah, OK - I repackaged the extensions for libreofficebox (http://www.libreofficebox.org/assets/templates/libreofficebox-de-vorlagen.oxt), and I surely can do it once again:-) -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Press Kit -- what should there be in the LO press kit?
Hi, Marc Paré wrote on 2010-12-06 08.52: It could also be as simple as creating a simple email group used for a specific task. No need to create a private mailing list. Once the task is complete the email group is disbanded and the results are made public in due course. Of course the email group would always have to include some members of the SC for transparency at the SC level. What would really be needed is a secure site to hold the documentation being worked on; part of the wiki that would be accessible for only certain members. Unless the newly created email group/mailing list decided to delegate the care of the documentation in some members hands. But yes, there should be a way for some groups to work in a secure area where such materials may be considered time or public sensitive. I think a mailing list is best, because we then have archives and know how to deal with it. Another tool will just cause confusion. :-) As for the wiki or collaboration tool, someone suggested Etherpad. Anyone has experience? Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Sorry I have not been very active lately
Hi James, James Walker wrote on 2010-12-02 21.00: My son gets married on the 11th, so we all that craziness to deal with. Can't wait for the new year to get here, maybe then it will slow down. :-) enjoy and have a great time! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Press Kit -- what should there be in the LO press kit?
Hi Ralph, Ralph H. wrote on 2010-12-03 16.24: the pirate party of germany had an open list and an open wiki to create and talk about press releases. it did backfire in all possible ways. we had vandalism, presspeople trying to get a pressrelease earlier*, very long discussions with people not in the pressteam (making the release late) thanks for sharing. I see the concerns. Then I would propose one private list for marketing in general, and avoid the distinction we had over at OOo with marcon@ and pr@ - I guess one closed list is enough, and we should make everything public that's possible. People usually tend to send everything to the private list, which is bad. :-) What do you all think about one private list? Thoughts very much welcome. (I always have very bad feelings about private lists...) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[libreoffice-marketing] professional speakers
Hi, I don't know if I already mentioned this, but we currently have two offers from professional speakers to do audio and voiceovers for LibreOffice. One of them speaks English, the other German - so if there's any need for that, ping me, I can establish contact (they are not subscribed to this list). Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Sorry I have not been very active lately
Hi James, James Walker wrote on 2010-12-02 14.17: What a month, I cannot remember a month that has been so crazy for me in a long time. I seem to have missed a lot that went on. I should be back now and ready to jump back in. welcome back! Hope all is well on your side! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] introduction
Hi Ralph, Ralph H. wrote on 2010-11-29 15.58: my Name is Ralph Hunderlach and i was told by Florian Effenberger there is still help needed. I hope i can provide some help. I have made some experience as organizer and helper of the trader and exhibitor parts for some conventions of the german anime club Animexx*, press officer of the german pirate party, and managed the wikipedia boot at the systems trade show in munich. All of those for several years. Should there be more questions, just ask. welcome to the show, and great to have you on board - thanks for the introduction! At the moment, lots of work is going on in various areas of TDF, and lots of structures are being built. The next major event for sure will be the release of LibreOffice 3.3, most probably in December or January. We need to prepare a press release (a German draft already exists and circulated on the DE list), a decend web site, a features page and the like, and any help we can get is highly welcome. :-) We are also working on a CMS managed website, see http://(de.)test.libreoffice.org, where any help is welcome. Maybe it could be interesting to hear the records of the latest marketing conference calls we do, available at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls#Archives Thanks for being with us! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
