Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Conference call tomorrow

2010-10-25 Thread David Nelson
Hi Drew, :-) On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 13:45, Drew Jensen d...@baseanswers.com wrote: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/msg00365.html Added that as a link to the agenda page on the wiki http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/ConfCalls#Agenda Cool, thanks. :-) David Nelson --

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Invite a pro graphic artist to contribute logo/icon design [was: Conference call tomorrow]

2010-10-25 Thread Graham Lauder
On Monday 25 Oct 2010 14:25:36 David Nelson wrote: Hi, :-) I mentioned this idea in another thread but did not see any conclusive responses... so given the potential importance of the issue, I am broaching the subject in a dedicated thread... A project's logo and a software's icons (to

[libreoffice-marketing] PIN for tomorrow's con call

2010-10-25 Thread Anthony Papillion
Hello Everyone, I don't think I got the PIN for the con call tomorrow. Would someone be kind enough to forward it to me? Thanks! Anthony -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/

[libreoffice-marketing] Oracle's OpenOffice in Libre Software World Conference

2010-10-25 Thread timofonic timofonic
Hello. I'm not sure what one of the two mailing lists suits best, so I reply in both because it may have different topis on each thread. Oracle's OpenOffice (oOO) is going to participate in the Libre Software World Conference (LSWC). LSWC is the spiritual sucessor of the Open Source World

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Invite a pro graphic artist to contribute logo/icon design [was: Conference call tomorrow]

2010-10-25 Thread David Nelson
Hi Graham, :-) On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 15:12, Graham Lauder yori...@openoffice.org wrote: I would oppose this in the strongest possible terms, when that has been done in the past, the artist, disappears after taking the glory and they are never seen again.  The art project became almost

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Oracle's OpenOffice in Libre Software World Conference

2010-10-25 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:39 AM, timofonic timofonic timofo...@gmail.comwrote: Hello. I'm not sure what one of the two mailing lists suits best, so I reply in both because it may have different topis on each thread. Oracle's OpenOffice (oOO) is going to participate in the Libre Software

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Oracle's OpenOffice in Libre Software World Conference

2010-10-25 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-25 04:11, Alexandro Colorado a écrit : On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:39 AM, timofonic timofonictimofo...@gmail.comwrote: Hello. I'm not sure what one of the two mailing lists suits best, so I reply in both because it may have different topis on each thread. Oracle's OpenOffice (oOO)

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] PIN for tomorrow's con call

2010-10-25 Thread Anthony Papillion
On 10/25/2010 2:07 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Anthony Papillion papill...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Everyone, I don't think I got the PIN for the con call tomorrow. Would someone be kind enough to forward it to me? Thanks! Anthony snip I think is on the

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] Oracle's OpenOffice in Libre Software World Conference

2010-10-25 Thread Jesús Corrius
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:39 AM, timofonic timofonic timofo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I'm not sure what one of the two mailing lists suits best, so I reply in both because it may have different topis on each thread. Oracle's OpenOffice (oOO) is going to participate in the Libre Software

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] PIN for tomorrow's con call

2010-10-25 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Anthony Papillion wrote on 2010-10-24 11.19: Not that I see. It gives the room number but says The PIN will be announced in time. thanks for notifying me. I just added the PIN. Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] PIN for tomorrow's con call

2010-10-25 Thread Anthony Papillion
On 10/25/2010 2:33 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: snip Not that I see. It gives the room number but says The PIN will be announced in time. thanks for notifying me. I just added the PIN. Thank you sir! -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] Oracle's OpenOffice in Libre Software World Conference

2010-10-25 Thread timofonic timofonic
Hello. I have no contacts with the organizers, but you can contact with most of them at the Asolif mailing list http://www.asolif.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/comunicacion Other than that, maybe someone can contact the oOO presentation responsible person. Any possible solution to The Document

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Oracle's OpenOffice in Libre Software World Conference

2010-10-25 Thread Jesús Corrius
However if the speaker can manage himself to get to it, he will be welcomed. They also told me that Oracle's speaker is paying his own expenses as well, mainly because he got invited to the Valencian educational lliurex event. Louis used to be listed in the lliurex schedule, but I see he's not

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] Oracle's OpenOffice in Libre Software World Conference

2010-10-25 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi, 2010/10/25 timofonic timofonic timofo...@gmail.com: Hello. [...] Other than that, maybe someone can contact the oOO presentation responsible person. Any possible solution to The Document Foundation having some presence in this FOSS event? I don't know, if it is a good idea to contact

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Invite a pro graphic artist to contribute logo/icon design [was: Conference call tomorrow]

2010-10-25 Thread Ivan M.
Hi David, I'd like to add a +1 to Graham's points in relation to past experiences. I'm not against inviting others to participate, but I am concerned about the mandate(s) that such invitations might imply for reasons I'll outline below. On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:07 PM, David Nelson

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] Oracle's OpenOffice in Libre Software World Conference

2010-10-25 Thread Italo Vignoli
timofonic timofonic wrote: Other than that, maybe someone can contact the oOO presentation responsible person. Any possible solution to The Document Foundation having some presence in this FOSS event? Nooo way, it's an Oracle employee. Maybe ask him why Oracle flies someone from Canada if

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming

2010-10-25 Thread Ivan M.
Hi Bernhard, all, On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: Hi Christoph, all [...] And by the way: I also included yellow color idea and updated the proposal which is based on your proposal ... Some of the colors that have been chosen are quite

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] Oracle's OpenOffice in Libre Software World Conference

2010-10-25 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-25 06:20, Italo Vignoli a écrit : timofonic timofonic wrote: Other than that, maybe someone can contact the oOO presentation responsible person. Any possible solution to The Document Foundation having some presence in this FOSS event? Nooo way, it's an Oracle employee. Maybe ask

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Invite a pro graphic artist to contribute logo/icon design [was: Conference call tomorrow]

2010-10-25 Thread David Nelson
Hi Ivan, :-) On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 18:00, Ivan M. iv...@patentpending.co.nz wrote: ... repeated one-time contributions are unsustainable and damaging, and that was kind of the norm in OOo's Art project. Contributions that introduce large inconsistencies in branding are particularly

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Invite a pro graphic artist to contribute logo/icon design [was: Conference call tomorrow]

2010-10-25 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) Just a few questions, after having read Bernhard's reply in a separate thread: 1) Could one see a precise and comprehensive list of all the graphics needed at the present time? 2) What set of standard tools do you want to work with? (Gimp and Inkscape? Anything else?) 3) I saw your

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Invite a pro graphic artist to contribute logo/icon design [was: Conference call tomorrow]

2010-10-25 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) Just a couple I forgot: 9) Do you have any standards/guidelines established that you want contributors to adhere to, apart from [1], [2] and [3]? Or are you open to completely different ideas? 10) What license do you require for offered material? GPL? LGPLv2? [1]

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] Oracle's OpenOffice in Libre Software World Conference

2010-10-25 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2010-10-25 06:20, Italo Vignoli a écrit : timofonic timofonic wrote: Other than that, maybe someone can contact the oOO presentation responsible person. Any possible solution to The Document Foundation having some

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Microsoft posts video of customers criticizing OpenOffice

2010-10-25 Thread jonathon
On 10/24/2010 12:53 AM, Michel Gagnon wrote: Free support: This support is most suitable for individuals. Paid Level 1 support: This support level is suitable for individuals, SOHO, and organizations that want per incident support; Paid Level 2 support: This support level is most suitable

[libreoffice-marketing] Free Bibliographic Software

2010-10-25 Thread Benoît Majerus
Joining the discussion on zotero. In my university (Free University Brussels) most of the researcher in humanities are using Zotero and we are all stuck to OpenOffice as long as their is no (easy to use) LibreOffice plugin. Best Benoît -- Benoît Majerus | collaborateur scientifique FNRS | ULB |

[libreoffice-marketing] LibreOfficeOK Twitter account and Blog

2010-10-25 Thread Anthony Papillion
Just announcing this for those who might be interested. I've just created the LibreOfficeOK Twitter account and blog. For now, the Twitter account will be a placeholder for official LibreOffice news and information but, eventually, I'll be building a team to promote and support LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOfficeOK Twitter account and Blog

2010-10-25 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Anthony, thank you for your interest in LibreOffice and the Document Foundation. If you look at this page: http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/ You will see there already are official LibreOffice news and information. But feel free to blog or tweet about LibreOffice, of course. Best,

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOfficeOK Twitter account and Blog

2010-10-25 Thread Anthony Papillion
On 10/25/2010 2:48 PM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Anthony, thank you for your interest in LibreOffice and the Document Foundation. If you look at this page: http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/ You will see there already are official LibreOffice news and information. But feel free to blog

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Proposal for new Wiki Page(s) - event organizer kit

2010-10-25 Thread Benjamin Horst
To circle back: did you end up creating these pages, Drew? I saw a lot of positive feedback, and would like to read them myself, for potential future uses! Thanks, Ben On Oct 14, 2010, at 7:22 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: Hello, Was thinking that it makes sense to setup an event organizer Kit

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming

2010-10-25 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Ivan, Bernhard, I just saw your mails ... and I really miss the time to highlight them properly. But at least, an answer ;-) Am Montag, den 25.10.2010, 23:20 +1300 schrieb Ivan M.: So, I tried creating something along those lines with the current LibreOffice colors and the results are far

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Proposal for new Wiki Page(s) - event organizer kit

2010-10-25 Thread Drew Jensen
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 17:12 -0400, Benjamin Horst wrote: To circle back: did you end up creating these pages, Drew? I saw a lot of positive feedback, and would like to read them myself, for potential future uses! Hi Ben Actually nope - I didn't get to making the pages - I did get to

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Invite a pro graphic artist to contribute logo/icon design [was: Conference call tomorrow]

2010-10-25 Thread jonathon
On 10/25/2010 12:44 PM, David Nelson wrote: 2) What set of standard tools do you want to work with? (Gimp and Inkscape? Anything else?) I'm aware of the failings of Draw, when compared with The Gimp and Inkscape. Nonetheless, I think that Draw should be considered as one of the standard

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Invite a pro graphic artist to contribute logo/icon design

2010-10-25 Thread Bernhard Dippold
David Nelson schrieb: Hi, :-) Just a few questions, after having read Bernhard's reply in a separate thread: 1) Could one see a precise and comprehensive list of all the graphics needed at the present time? We should start collecting them at the wiki. There are central graphics (logo,

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Invite a pro graphic artist to contribute logo/icon design [was: Conference call tomorrow]

2010-10-25 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-25 19:00, Dave Johnson a écrit : I'd like to see Inkscape and GIMP-like features incorporated in to Draw. M$ Office 2010 has photo editing and simple video editing. Kino comes to mind. On Oct 25, 2010, at 5:41 PM, jonathon wrote: On 10/25/2010 12:44 PM, David Nelson wrote: 2)

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming

2010-10-25 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-25 17:43, Christoph Noack a écrit : Personally, I think we should stick with the LibreGreen 1 at the moment, but if you have something in mind to improve the remaining colors, please don't hesitate to suggest them (especially the lighter colors need some iteration). There is already

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming

2010-10-25 Thread Ivan M.
Hi Marc, Christoph, all, On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: [...] I actually like the LibO green. It is refreshing and NOT blue. I know that blue is usually picked for its psychological feeling of calmness, but the LibO green is a nice departure of this. +1

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Microsoft posts video of customers criticizing OpenOffice

2010-10-25 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-25 12:37, jonathon a écrit : On 10/24/2010 12:53 AM, Michel Gagnon wrote: Free support: This support is most suitable for individuals. Paid Level 1 support: This support level is suitable for individuals, SOHO, and organizations that want per incident support; Paid Level 2

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Microsoft posts video of customers criticizing OpenOffice

2010-10-25 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-25 22:44, jonathon a écrit : On 10/26/2010 01:05 AM, Marc Paré wrote: Do the levels line up? I think so. Level 2 support doesn't always require an in person visit. But an in-person visit should be by at least a level 2 support person. [I'm talking about the theory, not the

[libreoffice-marketing] Setup user group micro-blog for LibreOffice booth at SCALE 9x

2010-10-25 Thread Drew Jensen
Hi, I went ahead and setup a user group on the libreoffice User Vols micro-blog for the Southern California Linux Expo, scheduled Feb 25-27 http://libreofficevols.status.net/group/scale9x Primarily this is for pushing information out, not for working as on an email list, but still, if you are