Re: [libreoffice-marketing] branding colors - missmatch

2011-01-20 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Christoph Noack wrote: > > There is still another problem. You desided to use a "Vegur"-font as a > > standard font. Unfortunatly this font does not have all nessessary > > characters (f.e. no "ä", "ü", "ö", "ß") - so it is not possible to use > > this font for text. > > This was not a very good id

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreGraphics Meeting

2011-06-12 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > a friend of Florian and mine pointed us to a quite unique event in the FLOSS > world, the LibreGraphics Meeting (http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org) . > The 2011 edition just ended but since we do have a graphics application > (Draw), it could be interesting to join that

[libreoffice-marketing] Extension website - broader publicity wanted

2011-08-19 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi there, so it seems Andreas & the team made great progress with the extension website, and ask for more broader testing / playing with it. Anyone here wanting to draft some blog post announcing it to the wider public? Links: - http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Extensions_Repository - http:

[libreoffice-marketing] Release of 3.4.3 due on Wednesday - someone wanna draft a blog/announcement?

2011-08-29 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi there, this is a heads-up that, barring any showstoppers found, we plan to release 3.4.3 on Wednesday. Would someone be willing to draft a blog/announcement message, e.g. based on http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/08/17/libreoffice-3-3-4-is-ready-for-download/ or http://blog.documentfo

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Recruitment for Base (Was Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?)

2011-09-22 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi David - always helps to Cc people you address, otherwise things may linger in my inbox for a while, depending on where I focus on. David Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Ian Lynch wrote: > > I know that the PostgreSQL developers are interested in closer > > integration with OO

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Someone wants to setup demo shop with CafePress? (was: Re: LibreOffice merchandise)

2011-11-07 Thread Thorsten Behrens
leif wrote: > I have created a shop on http://www.spreadshirt.com named > http://libreoffice.spreadshirt.dk and i would like to share my > experiences with you. > Hi Leif, wonderful - having someone go & setup a demo site was exactly what was needed here, thanks for that! Back in the day, we loo

[libreoffice-marketing] Fw: [ODFPlugtest] Call for proposals for 8th ODF plugfest in Brussel

2012-01-25 Thread Thorsten Behrens
FYI - - Forwarded message from robert_w...@us.ibm.com - From: Arthur Buijs To: plugt...@opendocsociety.org Date: 01/17/2012 08:08 AM Subject:[ODFPlugtest] Call fo proposals for 8th ODF plugfest in Brussel Sent by:plugtest-boun...@opendocsociety.org

[libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice developer digest

2012-05-08 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi there, yeah, $subject is not new, but I thought I would run this idea past you folks here again. ;) It would be just wonderful, if we could have a weekly digest on the TDF blog highlighting what has happened in developer land, in layman's terms. Examples of what I have in mind: * http://blog

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice developer digest

2012-05-11 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Cor Nouws wrote: > Now the routing is clear, I hope I can do it fast and regularly. > Looking in the git-commits is something I do anyway. > Wow, nice work - thanks so much for taking over! Cheers, -- Thorsten -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problem

[libreoffice-marketing] Next year: opportunity for professional silk-screen LibreOffice swag production

2012-05-29 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi there, while at LinuxTag last weekend, I chatted with the girl, running the resident swag shop there, nicely located at the main entrance / exit aisle. Her deal is to produce real silk-screened cotton prints (on http://www.basic-wear-gmbh.de/ basics currently), sell them at the venue rather af

[libreoffice-marketing] Trip report Berlin townhall reception

2012-06-12 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi there, this is a quick report from an event Mike and I have participated in Thursday last week - TDF got invited to a Berlin townhall reception, out to all newly-established foundations from the last 12 months. The reception was formally hosted by Berlin's mayor, represented by his undersecret

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Draft Conference PR

2012-06-25 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > Their reason is that "in order to avoid any friction, ODF plugfests > should take place in neutral venues, for instance not in LibreOffice > Conference or AOO conferences". > Like the 2009er plugfest at the Orvieto OOoCon? ;) Cheers, -- Thorsten -- Unsubscribe instruc

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Defining a marketing strategy

2012-07-17 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Jean Weber wrote: > Anyone can do the same: have a plan and a proposal and apply to > Friends for money if TDF doesn't have (or doesn't approve) > funding. > Hi Jean, and a very big thank you to the Friends here - TDF much appreciates their (and others) help in funding our common cause. Cheers,

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Mailing list statistics for 2012-10-08

2012-10-08 Thread Thorsten Behrens
69439567 +-+ All lists 939 159917 Cheers, -- Thorsten Behrens, Director, Deputy Chairman of the Board The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Funding Wishlist

2012-10-14 Thread Thorsten Behrens
guage) versions where applicable): > > > Yep, and that's exactly what other projects do, too. I know e.g. Gnome has a number of Peli Cases, containing the above, that can be FedEx-ed around the world, for community members to setup a booth. Cheers, -- Thorsten Behrens, Director, Deputy

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice for smartphones

2013-01-21 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Florian Effenberger wrote: > that was me, and it was about the LibreOffice Impress Remote for > Android. IMHO, this one will be ready with 4.0 and allows > controlling the presentation from an Android device. > > We definitely should emphasize this often and loud. :-) > Please check back with the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Marketing Call TODAY

2013-01-25 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > This call is only about a follow-up on the 4.0 launch preparation. (so > no specific agenda, we just need updates and decisions). > Hi Charles, thx for running this - I'll try to attend, if there's any questions regarding development. Cheers, -- Thorsten -- Unsubscri

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Messaging for the 4.0

2013-01-29 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Florian Effenberger wrote: > Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2013-01-28 17:42: > > * Are you a keynote master? We have something for your Android > > smartphone... > > Thorsten poked me on a similar thought a few days ago, stating that > this specific tool might NOT be ready with 4.0. So,

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] FOSDEM photo reminders

2013-01-29 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Marc Paré wrote: > If you do these, make sure you get people's permission so that we > can use the video on marketing campaigns both on internet and any > other media. > For video, this is of course best done by filming the consent. To be on the safe side, we need a similar statement for the photo

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Messaging for the 4.0

2013-01-29 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Marc Paré wrote: > Thorsten: Do you know if the Win and IOS versions are being worked > on actively? > Win: code is there, but needs some love. Mac: some code on my disk, unknown amount of work to get it to fly. iOS devices: no app whatsoever yet, the remote client is exclusively Android for the w

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOffice Swag/Merchandise Bulk Purchase?

2013-04-09 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Robinson Tryon wrote: > > Great! If you get designs finalized for those, please do poke > > board-discuss - I guess there is some universal need for that. Can I > > add Rollups, that's always cool for setting up booth w/o knowing if > > there is a wall to hang a poster to? > > Sure thing. We're mo

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice stickers - proposal for odering

2013-05-21 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Cor Nouws wrote: > Jean Weber wrote (17-05-13 22:35) > >I want at least 1,000 of the Love stickers (110x25) for OSCON, to be > >shipped to an address in the USA. I'll need them by 19 July. So I > >hope we can get a budget for them. > > I'll try my best and am confident that we can do it in time ;)

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Logo/Design for Tshirt(s)

2013-07-23 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > Cor Nouws and Thorsten Behrens. > Actually Kendy - let me fwd separately. :) Cheers, -- Thorsten -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ P

[libreoffice-marketing] anyone working on a LibOCon 2013 presentation template yet?

2013-08-29 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi there, with the conference four weeks out, anyone able to quickly whip up a presentation template? Or maybe there is one already, and I missed it in the wiki? Thanks a lot, -- Thorsten -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice

[libreoffice-marketing] USB 'card' draft content for CeBIT

2014-01-21 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi, Thomas came up with the really nice idea to produce a chunk of USB 'business cards' (instead of usb thumbdrives) for the upcoming CeBIT, which provide some space for marketing content. Current draft is here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Bildmuster_USB_Stick_Kreditkarte.PNG , wo

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Key signing party in Bern, how to participate

2014-07-30 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Sophie Gautier wrote: > The local organization team in Bern, namely Pete Stephenson and > Jean-Louis Fuchs, are handling a key signing party during the > LibreOffice conference in Bern (the date will be soon on the site). > That's awesome, kudos to Pete and Jean-Louis! Looking forward to meet a FO

[libreoffice-marketing] Fw: 14 February 2015 - I love Free Software Day

2015-02-11 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi, FYI - sounds ideal for spreading on social networks shortly before. :) - Forwarded message from Matthias Kirschner - Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 17:24:03 +0100 From: Matthias Kirschner Subject: 14 February 2015 - I love Free Software Day Dear all, I am quite sure many of you receive a

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libo-marketing-priv] BoD Newsletter

2015-06-18 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Italo Vignoli wrote: > Draft of BoD newsletter attached. Will be distributed at the end of the > month. Please add whatever you consider relevant. > Hi Italo, reads great to me - maybe add items that are not really news, but would benefit from some more publicity, like open job postings or tender

[libreoffice-marketing] Updates / design ideas for hackfest & mini-conf flyers?

2016-02-08 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi guys, there's some preps & planning under way to have a hackfest combined probably with a Spanish mini-conference in April: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/LibreOffice_Espania_Summit , and it would be cool to have some flyers to distribute at the local university. The wiki has a g

[libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice stickers to unixstickers.com?

2017-05-11 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi, just got poked on IRC today - can we somehow upload/make available LibreOffice sticker designs from https://www.unixstickers.com/ ? Note that I don't know the page, nor vet it - just thought that the idea is valid, like we have tshirts & mugs available on order, too. Cheers, -- Thorsten --

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Linux Magazine LibreOffice special -- copies to give away

2018-12-12 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Mike, Mike Saunders wrote: > I think we should try to get the magazines into the hands of new > users, and people who aren't aware of LibreOffice. (Instead of, say, > just handing them out at Linux/FOSS events, where some people may > take them as freebies, but never really look into them.) > Y

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOfficeFR community - Request for presentation at FOSDEM hackfest

2020-01-05 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hey William, William Gathoye (LibreOffice) wrote: > I'm very pleased to announce that today LibreOfficeFR overtook > LibreOfficeBR in terms of followers on Twitter: reaching nearly 3000 > followers and 12 000 tweets published. LibreOfficeFR is now the first > native language community on Twitter j

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Question regarding Microsoft Store download of Vanilla Libreoffice

2020-01-05 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Drew, Drew Jensen wrote: > Are there any automatic updates with the Vanilla LibreOffice $9.99 > package? > Indeed, we're updating LibreOffice Vanilla (more or less) in lock-step with the TDF releases. Unfortunately 6.3.4 is not yet available, due to a smallish validation issue & vacation time.

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Question regarding Microsoft Store download of Vanilla Libreoffice

2020-01-08 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Drew, Drew Jensen wrote: > Really my question just comes down to how I should read one sentence in the > CIB press release. > and > Other than that I was curious as to which version of LO would come > with Vanilla and I take it from your reply that today this would be > 6.3.3; so may I take it

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Question regarding Microsoft Store download of Vanilla Libreoffice

2020-01-15 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi William, William Gathoye (LibreOffice) wrote: > - LibreOffice Vanilla is only available in English and German, other > languages are absent from the interfaces and from the options. The > Microsoft account he uses is well defined in French (France) and the > Windows he uses is using the same la

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Question regarding Microsoft Store download of Vanilla Libreoffice

2020-04-29 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi William, all, a quick update - after getting 6.3.5 finally shepherded through a while ago, we've now switched to the 6.4 series, with currently 6.4.3 being available in the Windows Store. William Gathoye (LibreOffice) wrote: > - LibreOffice Vanilla is only available in English and German, othe

[libreoffice-marketing] Update regime for Store versions (was: Question regarding Microsoft Store download of Vanilla Libreoffice)

2020-05-04 Thread Thorsten Behrens
did consider option 3 a good compromise between end-user and project needs, so opted for that. But the project might want to consider other regimes (or we could test them out). There's also perhaps a bit of a risk contradicting our still/fresh release branding too much on the stores. > Thorsten Behr

[libreoffice-marketing] Fw: [Bug 134486] UI: Branding: LibreOffice Personal edition

2020-11-06 Thread Thorsten Behrens
I believe its useful to join the discussion threads somehow: - Forwarded message from bugzilla-dae...@bugs.documentfoundation.org - Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:43:22 + From: bugzilla-dae...@bugs.documentfoundation.org Subject: [Bug 134486] UI: Branding: LibreOffice Personal edition htt

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Moving to LibreOffice 8?

2023-03-30 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi y'all, Uwe Altmann wrote: > Am 29.03.23 um 12:28 schrieb Clocked Modular: > > Is it an option to stick to 7 as long as there are no major changes? > > With a six monthly release plan it is not that easy to have major changes ;-) > Yes, I believe that's the important point. No single release o

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Moving to LibreOffice 8?

2023-03-31 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi László, all, Németh László wrote: > The next release has already got major improvements. My favorites ( > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.6): > Two more in-progress features of, I believe, some importance: * theme support in Impress (Tomaž, Collabora) * multi-color gradient

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-design] Moving to LibreOffice 8?

2023-04-07 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi y'all, Mike Saunders wrote: > Well, one argument is that we have very limited resources to support two > branches. LibreOffice 7.5 won't be around forever, so at some point we'll > need to push people to update to 7.6/8.0, as the previous version won't be > maintained and could potentially have

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice merchandise ideas for FOSDEM (and other events)

2023-12-19 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Mike Saunders wrote: > Of course, whatever we produce and bring has to be affordable, > transportable and environmentally friendly. Let us know your ideas > :-) > Beer/coffee mats are great, affordable & usually made from recycled paper, so that fits the bill. I had some company-branded chocolate

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Reflections On Today's Meeting

2024-01-18 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi y'all, Mike Saunders wrote: > Yes, and we suspect (and have done some research) that a big chunk of those > donations-while-downloading are from users who've been using LibreOffice for > a while, and are downloading an update. (After all, someone trying > LibreOffice for the very first time is

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO registration page gone?

2010-10-28 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Anthony Papillion wrote: > I totally agree with you, Marc, and I'm surprised to hear the > registration page has been taken down. While it's true that it is a > nuisance, to remove it altogether removes an enormous opportunity for > accurate data collection. > > Instead of removing the registratio