Re: What are we doing about Munich?

2014-08-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Even if the story is not completely what was initially reported. There > is a momentum to put create/sugest rolling back Linux in the Munich > city counsil. > > Are we doing anything regarding acknowledging that we are and have a > pres

Re: What are we doing about Munich?

2014-08-25 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On > I have very good ties with the people from The Linux Action Show > podcast[1], they were talking about this issue in Germany and would be > interested if you could be a guest for interview about the situation > and maybe help get more

Re: What are we doing about Munich?

2014-08-25 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] > > I could even write something about it, because to me the situation > > is well known. Would it be quite useful to do that? Perhaps > as a blog > > post in https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/? > > Please do. If you don't have the rights to publi

Re: What are we doing about Munich?

2014-08-24 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 8/24/14, Jörg Schmidt wrote: >> From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On > >> If you havent really read all the articles, the media is backpedalling >> from what it was a greatly missconstrude headline news. > > I have read many articles, although certainly not read all. > > Ab

Re: What are we doing about Munich?

2014-08-24 Thread Alexandro Colorado
A most wanted work is the tracking and documentation of success stories Eric tenenbaum used to do this work on the wiki. Please search for success stories On Aug 24, 2014 12:41 PM, "Andrea Pescetti" wrote: > Jörg Schmidt wrote: > >> I believed the situation in Munich would generally (and interna

Re: What are we doing about Munich?

2014-08-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jörg Schmidt wrote: I believed the situation in Munich would generally (and internationally) known. Not necessarily. For example, I casually read, on mainstream news, that Munich was going back to Windows (and amusingly I had read about Munich adopting LIMUX only from specialized sites). No f

Re: What are we doing about Munich?

2014-08-24 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On > If you havent really read all the articles, the media is backpedalling > from what it was a greatly missconstrude headline news. I have read many articles, although certainly not read all. Above all, I know the situation in Munich ve

Re: What are we doing about Munich?

2014-08-24 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 8/24/14, Jörg Schmidt wrote: >> From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On > >> Yes but the damage most time is NOT local. And that makes us act >> globally and locally. There was a big misstransalation of the news >> mainly because of sensationalist titles that affect the global

Re: What are we doing about Munich?

2014-08-24 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On > Yes but the damage most time is NOT local. And that makes us act > globally and locally. There was a big misstransalation of the news > mainly because of sensationalist titles that affect the global > perception of Open source (not jus

Re: What are we doing about Munich?

2014-08-24 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 8/24/14, Jörg Schmidt wrote: >> From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On > >> And that's part of the problem. We need AOO-german nationals to work >> on transfering that communication into english (not only translate but >> present it). Otherwise we are behind a language paywal

Re: What are we doing about Munich?

2014-08-24 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On > And that's part of the problem. We need AOO-german nationals to work > on transfering that communication into english (not only translate but > present it). Otherwise we are behind a language paywall (and yes I > know Gtranslate is goo

Re: What are we doing about Munich?

2014-08-23 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 8/23/14, Jörg Schmidt wrote: >> From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On >> Is there any documentation, reports, or things that can serve as a >> research material for people outside of germany. (blog posts, >> articles, discussions, prefferably in english) > > I know on this i

Re: What are we doing about Munich?

2014-08-23 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On > Is there any documentation, reports, or things that can serve as a > research material for people outside of germany. (blog posts, > articles, discussions, prefferably in english) I know on this issue unfortunately only German-language

Re: What are we doing about Munich?

2014-08-23 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 8/23/14, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello Alexandro, *, > >> From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On >> Behalf Of Alexandro Colorado >> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2014 5:55 PM >> To: OpenOffice Marketing >> Subject: What are we doing about Munich? >> >> Even if the story is not com

Re: What are we doing about Munich?

2014-08-23 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello Alexandro, *, > From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On > Behalf Of Alexandro Colorado > Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2014 5:55 PM > To: OpenOffice Marketing > Subject: What are we doing about Munich? > > Even if the story is not completely what was initially reported. Ther