Re: Marketing Volunteering

2012-12-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/12/2012 John Hutchings wrote: Hi, I am very interested in taking some part in marketing for Openoffice. Welcome, John, and make sure you are subscribed to the marketing mailing list, otherwise you will miss all discussions and calls for actions! You have two options: 1) Receive all

Re: Christmas theme for OO site

2012-12-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alexandro Colorado wrote: Most years around Xmass we theme the site with a Season graphic or design, wonder if we would do somerhing for this year. Why not? Feel free to propose enhancements. We have three suitable DIVs in the HTML code, bannerleft, bannerright and bannercenter where a small

Re: info: Additional Licensing requirements if any for use of Open Office for Professional Work in Companies

2012-12-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
anand.vasappanavara wrote: Greetings from Tata Motors! We are happy to note your foundation's work in developing open office tools for the world. We have been using your tools for my academic personal activities from some time now. would like to suggest their introduction for its use for

Re: Xmass is gone what's next.

2013-01-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: [Alexandro] next major celebration or just return to the traditional logo and look forward on bigger tasks like the new theme. What else has widespread interest? I would use the normal logo except for the end-of-year holidays and for exceptional cases where we want to

Re: Merging Lotus Symphony: Allegro moderato

2013-01-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
kedarnath wrote: is this why AOO extension and template services - http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/ and http://templates.services.openoffice.org/ gave today the ominous message This is surely unrelated to Rob's blog post (they are on different servers), the issue is being discussed

Re: Branding Refresh For AOO 4.0 [Closing in 72hrs]

2013-03-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 02/03/2013 Samer Mansour wrote: I've populated some minimal how to participate info on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Apache+OpenOffice+4.0+Brand+Refresh+Project. Could you help with making that a blog post? Even if its short Call For Designers And a link to the above

Re: Branding Refresh For AOO 4.0 [Closing in 72hrs]

2013-03-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
15:46, Samer Mansour wrote: That looks great! OK, now published: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/call_for_designers_apache_openoffice (and thank you for writing most of the text, actually!) Regards, Andrea. - To

Re: [AOO 4.0 Branding Refresh] Call For Google Hangout

2013-03-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Samer Mansour wrote: Please reply so I can get an idea of how many people plan to attend on which dates . Feel free to attend both. I will be taking attendance for minutes purposes as well. eg. Samer Mansour - Saturday Sunday I may be able to make one between Saturday and Sunday, but I won't

Re: Conversation: Pick A Logo

2013-03-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Robin Fowler wrote: Due to the opinions I've seen so far I've decided to make a new design: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/27846912/OO_4_final_design_Robin-Fowler.jpg?version=1modificationDate=1364582663662 Overall it has a flat look and yet still some depth to make it

Re: nuevo openoffice

2013-04-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Joan Masgoret wrote: Buenos dias, Sabeis para cuando saldra la nueva version 4 de Apache Openoffice.? [ This mailing list is in English ] Hi, please see https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Planning for a tentative schedule. Regards, Andrea.

Re: Conversation: Pick A Logo

2013-04-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 08/04/2013 Robin Fowler wrote: I think it's important to get the priorities right here. In my opinion the priority is to have a modern, good-looking and recognisable logo that the community has chosen to be representative of their product I agree. And I would add: the project communication,

Re: Draft Blog Post: Results of Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Logo Survey

2013-05-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=results_of_apache_openoffice_4 I was able to get comments from each designer except from Chris R (no contact info available) Assuming it was submitted through the wiki, any cwiki administrator (like Dave) will be able to

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 28/05/2013 Rob Weir wrote: That's where we are now. The updated logos (three of them) are on the wiki now: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Stage+2+Logo+Refinement As you can see there is quite a bit of convergence on a design occurring. This is just right for a product

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-06-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/05/2013 Chris Rot wrote: I have removed v4 and added variants overview PNG/PDF in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Stage+2+Logo+Refinement :

Re: Source Code being used by LibreOffice

2013-06-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Samer Mansour wrote: On Jun 7, 2013 10:35 AM, Kadal Amutham wrote: Why both AOO and LO, which are open source, are required in this world? Can just one serve the purpose? Everybody used to be more or less happy with OpenOffice until late 2010. A group decided to fork OpenOffice (which is

Re: Source Code being used by LibreOffice

2013-06-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Antoine Chevrier wrote: if I would be one of strategic decision maker of both project, I would place this on top position of decisions of both project OpenOffice is not the group that forked. It continued the OpenOffice experience. And continued in a way that makes all code and contributions

Re: please help me

2013-06-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kaptan Zor wrote: Hello, My Name is Mustafa and i want to download open office itürkish version in to my computer which has mac os x 10.8.4. I could not find any link to download. This is link is not used http://www.openoffice.org/tr/ also http://www.openoffice.org/tr/indirme-adresleri.html is

Re: please help me

2013-06-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
As Kadal writes (I'm forwarding his message, below, to Mustafa), even 30 minutes per day make a difference. Anyway, OpenOffice 3.3.0 in Turkish is still available from http://www.openoffice.org/download/legacy/other.html Regards, Andrea. Kadal Amutham wrote: Even if you work 30 minutes a

Re: Copy of mail sent to LibreOffice

2013-06-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kadal Amutham wrote: Two separate teams of volunteers are doing the same work. Teams are not necessarily separated. I am sorry to say that this crime is happening in both LO and AOO All contributions made to OpenOffice (or to Apache projects in general) can be freely reused (and some are

Re: Blog down?

2013-07-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/07/2013 18:09, Rob Weir wrote: I think we should plan on announcing the AOO 4.0 release availability via a website page rather than a blog post. We had issues with the 3.4 and 3.4.1 releases as well, where the load from the announcement (including press articles pointing to the blog post)

Re: Public uncertainty about the role of Oracle

2013-07-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jörg Schmidt wrote: Especially in Germany rumors regarding Oracle hurt us very much OpenOffice was under the Oracle stewardship for less than 18 months (Jan 2010-Jun 2011), and some people loved to hate that. Now it has been under the Apache stewardship, and totally independent of Oracle,

Re: CD

2013-08-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Swanica wrote: a while ago I bought Open Office and also ordered a CD-ROM, but sadly I never received a CD-ROM. The programm is working fine, but I would like to have it on CD. Due to computercrash I don’t have the email anylonger from whom I bought it in the Netherlands and I can’t find any way

Re: Marketing Volunteer

2013-09-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Forwarding to Michele. Michele, you may want to subscribe to this mailing lists, all information at the link below. Andrea On 09/09/2013 Alexandro Colorado wrote: Welcome in, please spend sometime reading the introductory modules, if you havent done so already.

Re: Partnering with openoffice for software monetization

2013-10-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: My impression is that Vlad was interested in working with Apache OpenOffice. I confirm that the Apache OpenOffice project is not interested in partnerships like the one Victor Vlad proposed at the moment. Regards, Andrea Pescetti - Apache OpenOffice Program

Re: Partnering with openoffice for software monetization

2013-10-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alexandro Colorado wrote: This is the second time this Conduit software was mentioned during the week, a frustrated user said he experienced this software as he was downloading openoffice. That user never told us what he exactly downloaded and whether he clicked on some banners, or decided to

Re: ApacheCon Presentation Videos Available; Update on Events

2013-11-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/10/2013 Donald Harbison wrote: The two sessions on the Apache OpenOffice project delivered at the ApacheCon North America event in Portland, Oregon on February 27th are finally posted on youtube. Thank you! The presentation is nice and audio is OK, but slides are really unreadable...

Re: [Proposal] Update 'Get It Here' Banner

2013-11-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/11/2013 Samer Mansour wrote: Ok no one voted +1 nor -1 explicitly, but it sounds like people are happy with the new banner. ... http://dynomie.com/ext/getithere2.png Sure, it was lazy consensus on my side. Nice job! Regards, Andrea.

Re: Pearson (Fourth Attempt) Permission Request; RMS Project ID # 28041 and Cite # 21.00

2013-11-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/11/2013 Samer Mansour wrote: Our mailing list strips away attachments, if your e-mail isn't specific enough it may be difficult for someone to take ownership and reply to you. This request is being handled. Actually, it was already handled at the first attempt, but it seems we are

Re: draft blog post: Call for Comments: Apache OpenOffice Distributor Best Practices

2013-12-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 04/12/2013 Rob Weir wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=call_for_comments_apache_openoffice This idea has been in my queue for a while. I'd like to push it out now for public comment, and based on that try to get a new distributor page set up by January. Nice idea, I

Re: AOO Distribution Policy

2013-12-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/12/2013 Larry Sadler wrote: In response to the Call for Comments ... Distributor Best Practices, I suggest a clause pointing out that AOO is governed by the [appropriate] licence agreement and subject to legal remedies under that licence for misuse such as charging to the software . I

Re: Review and possible interview

2013-12-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
marina t wrote: Who could I contact, who would like to answer a few questions as an official representative of the Apache OO project? It's very rare that we speak officially on behalf of the project. The press contact channel is pr...@openoffice.apache.org that is forwarded to the people you

Re: About International Mother Language Day

2014-02-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/02/2014 Khan Md. Anwarus Salam wrote: Like last year, I can write a blog post about IMLD and the history behind it. We are now very close to the deadline, so if you can write something we can look into publishing it, even though I'm not sure whether there will be enough time to

Re: Question

2014-03-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 02/03/2014 Fred wrote: I'm so impressed with this program, I would like to place a link on my web site and see what happens. Hello Fred, thank you for appreciating OpenOffice. The best solution in your case is described at http://openoffice.apache.org/get-it-here.html and you don't need

Re: Question

2014-03-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alphonso Whitfield III wrote: Is there a way I can upload Open Office to my cloud server for use by my team and clients and not violate the user license? The license allows redistribution in general. You can see some easy-to-read explanations at

Re: Learn more about openoffice to my job

2014-05-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/04/2014 Raul De Obaldia wrote: I would learn a lot more and I wonder if there is a certification, grade or diploma in the use of openoffice. The project doesn't offer official certification services. Third parties organize OpenOffice trainings and, possibly, some kind of certification.

Re: Updating AOO Carousel on SourceForge

2014-05-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/04/2014 Roberto Galoppini wrote: as you might know we have an AOO carousel displayed on our front page - see https://sourceforge.net/directory/ - and I'd like to update the content. We can add the 100 M mark, but I need your help to cover also new features. Indeed this banner needs

Re: Deceit on a Dutch internetsite

2014-05-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/05/2014 Pierre Thijssen wrote: On the dutch internetsite www.officebestellen.nl they let you download Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 when you have pay 49,95 Euro. I did this thinking another office programm , i have download your programm free Thank you for reporting this. We see many of those,

Re: Preparing for interview on Chilean TV show

2014-05-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/05/2014 Alexandro Colorado wrote: On 5/17/14, James Grenier wrote: Is there an official spokesperson who should be referred to if members of the mainstream or new media ask? MarCons used to be them (Marketing Contacts). I used to be one for Spanish countries on the OOo days. At the

Re: Crazy idea for fun video

2014-05-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/05/2014 Rob Weir wrote: I'm thinking, what if we did something like that for OpenOffice? Here we have a seemingly impossible feat of technology, a complex application, but no giant corporation. How can such a thing exist? Isn't this far beyond the capabilities of a bunch of volunteers?

Re: Any AOO on LinuxTag? others?

2014-05-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 08/05/2014 Alexandro Colorado wrote: I wonder how much participation are we having participation on the world wide events and if we are coordinating boots about it. I've just answered a mail on the dev list about this: http://markmail.org/message/t4ucngkjexk6ozga (European events, mostly

Re: Any AOO on LinuxTag? others?

2014-05-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/05/2014 Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: It is rarer that we allocate money for travels. This usually happens when OpenOffice has a strong presence at an event, such as a whole day track like at ApacheCon or FOSDEM. And, even in those

Re: Apache@ OSCON question

2014-07-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/06/2014 Kay Schenk wrote: 200 buttons were ordered and Melissa has received them and will be taking them on to OSCON. It's very good to finally have some merchandising items updated. Here is the link to the WackyButtons product if anyone wants to reuse this 1 design --

Re: deliver openoffice software in a bundle with learning course

2014-07-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 03/07/2014 klaus-peter.dally wrote: we launch a learning course on CD. We want also offer on this CD your software. Is this allowed? In general this is possible. But make sure you comply with the license and trademarks. See http://openoffice.apache.org/license.html and

Re: The Award button from the most popular technology portal Instalki.pl in Poland.

2014-07-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/07/2014 Marketing instalki.pl wrote: Appreciating the high quality of *StarOffice* Of... StarOffice? Please let me know if you have any possibility to post our Editors Choice Button. We will be very pleased that youcan honor our Award. Well, thank you for the award, assuming you

Re: Openoffice.DE: Request to be added as reference member

2014-07-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Copying the (international) dev list for tacit approval. If nobody objects within 3 days, people who are maintaining the German page http://www.openoffice.org/de/marketing/referenzkunden.html will add you. Note: in general we don't link to third-party sites, so the link to your company site may

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

Re: Fwd: Your project is a Project of the Week on SourceForge!

2014-08-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Samer Mansour wrote: I've responded saying the information there is correct, but some reason our video is no longer there. I don't know what happened to the older video, its just a white space now. I'd rather remove the white-space until a suitable video is available. If I click the link I end

Re: Fwd: Your project is a Project of the Week on SourceForge!

2014-08-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Samer Mansour wrote: That explains it, I don't have flash installed. OK, understood. I have updated the OS X, Linux and Windows Default download, it will take a few minutes to propagate. Thanks! I already see 4.1.1 correctly. Regards, Andrea.

Re: page error

2014-09-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alexandro Colorado wrote: Seems this is the original article. http://idealware.org/articles/comparing-microsoft-office-open-source-alternatives No. Ours is from 2008, theirs is from 2013. https://wiki.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=MicrosoftOffice_vs_OpenOfficeaction=history (that said, it

Re: German OpenOffice-Topic-Page with free Advertorials on PC-MAGAZIN.de

2014-09-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Detlef Nannen wrote: 2014-08-10 13:46 GMT+02:00 Andrea Pescetti: Thank you, but we are not interested in this kind of activities. You can find more at https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/not_interested And by the way, we don't have a pro version and we don't have any plans about it! I am very

Re: open office template redistribution

2014-09-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/09/2014 Jörg Schmidt wrote: From: Magnus Gernlein [mailto:m...@vorlagen.de] i am representing vorlagen.de, a german online-shop for forms and templates of all sorts. we would like to offer open office templates to our visitors (free download of course). can we freely do this or is any

Re: unofficial?

2014-09-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/09/2014 Jorg Schmidt wrote: From: Peter Hagen [mailto:pe...@willow-media.nl] http://www.officebestellen.nl/ someone already looked up the Chamber of Commerce number and it seems to be fake also. Thank you, but I can see no difficulty, because it is neither prohibited OpenOffice for sale,

Re: unofficial?

2014-09-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jörg Schmidt wrote: when I say the icons are _part of the software_, I mean the physical software. This is a contrast to the name, because the name is the _name_ of the software, _not part_ of the physical software. I'm not a lawyer, of course. But there is a difference between what the

Re: OpenOffice community survey - Please take it!

2014-09-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
it there it would be perfect. For any comments, follow-up to the dev list only. We've fixed some technical and wording issues; if you experience problems when submitting please inform the dev list d...@openoffice.apache.org Thanks, Andrea. On 12/09/2014 Andrea Pescetti wrote: I've prepared

Re: Licensing Question

2014-10-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
clarifications. And thank you for promoting Apache OpenOffice. Best regards, Andrea Pescetti - Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: marketing-h

English dictionary (Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary)

2014-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/10/2014 Alphonso Whitfield III wrote: When is the English language dictionary going to be fixed in the spell checker application? The English dictionary is not supposed to be fixed since it already works. If it doesn't work for you, try resettin your user profile. There are plenty of

Re: Valid site to download?

2014-12-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
david ong wrote: One suggestion is to make the headling for the search result to include Official page, instead of small print. Good catch. We did it, for example, for the Italian site http://www.openoffice.org/it/ but indeed not for the English one http://www.openoffice.org/ I hope someone

Re: Advertising campaing proposal

2015-01-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
servers and we don't host advertisement on the openoffice.org domain. Best regards, Andrea Pescetti - Apache OpenOffice PMC. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: marketing-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail

Re: Removal of content request from https://www.openoffice.org/ui/accessibility/ (Fwd: MODERATE for u...@jspwiki.apache.org)

2016-10-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 20/10/2016 Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez wrote: the removal of content request is actually hosted at https://www.openoffice.org/ui/accessibility/ Moving Juan Pablo to BCC (and the domain mismatch is already being handled elsewhere). So we are left with the following: -- Forwarded

Re: This can not be true

2016-10-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jörg Schmidt wrote: no reasonable planning takes place. How can it be that even though *there was a help offer for the translation*, a press release is simply published in English without coordinating internationally? I agree with Joerg here. We did it for the release notes, and we can do

Re: This can not be true

2016-10-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jörg Schmidt wrote: From: Andrea Pescetti Joerg, what if we create a copy of the Press Release on the CWiki and we append each translation as child page? Would it work? Yes, that would be a possibility. Page created at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.3

Re: About discrimination...

2021-08-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Persy Morell Guerra wrote: I was trying to download form : https://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/4.1.10/binaries/es/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.10_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_es.tar.gz/download Please check whether one of the following alternative mirrors works for you and let