Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-13 Thread Sam Ruby
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On 13 Jul 2011, at 15:10, Sam Ruby wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: >>> >>> On 13 Jul 2011, at 14:29, Sam Ruby wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On 13 Jul 2011

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-13 Thread Simon Phipps
On 13 Jul 2011, at 15:10, Sam Ruby wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: >> >> On 13 Jul 2011, at 14:29, Sam Ruby wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: On 13 Jul 2011, at 12:55, Sam Ruby wrote: > If a project decides to

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-13 Thread Sam Ruby
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On 13 Jul 2011, at 14:29, Sam Ruby wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: >>> >>> On 13 Jul 2011, at 12:55, Sam Ruby wrote: >>> If a project decides to create a canonical place to find things like extensi

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-13 Thread Malte Timmermann
When just considering my own preference, w/o trademark implications: +1 for "Apache OpenOffice", or for keeping "OpenOffice.org" to stick with the well known brand. As "OpenOffice.org" can't be used w/o the Apache prefix, this only leaves us with "Apache OpenOffice". +1 because I like it, a

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-13 Thread Simon Phipps
On 13 Jul 2011, at 14:29, Sam Ruby wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: >> >> On 13 Jul 2011, at 12:55, Sam Ruby wrote: >> >>> If a project decides to create a canonical place to find things like >>> extensions and templates then we will expect the (P)PMC to demonstrat

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-13 Thread Sam Ruby
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On 13 Jul 2011, at 12:55, Sam Ruby wrote: > >> If a project decides to create a canonical place to find things like >> extensions and templates then we will expect the (P)PMC to demonstrate >> active oversight of that repository. > > To clar

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-13 Thread Simon Phipps
On 13 Jul 2011, at 12:55, Sam Ruby wrote: > If a project decides to create a canonical place to find things like > extensions and templates then we will expect the (P)PMC to demonstrate > active oversight of that repository. To clarify this, Sam: Do you mean that any external repository would n

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-13 Thread Sam Ruby
Again, I want to drive home the difference between questions of law (which we forward to attorneys) and questions of policy (which are determined by the appropriate Officer of the ASF). If you wish to advocate for a change to the Branding Policy, perhaps the best way is to propose a patch to the f

Re: ooo blog (was: RE: ooo-dev list subscriber stats?)

2011-07-12 Thread Shane Curcuru
Reminder: you will need some folks with the appropriate Admin role to moderate (or screen out) comments on your blog. I imagine once you start posting you may get a number of readers. Folks may also be interested in following Planet Apache: http://planet.apache.org/ - Shane On 7/8/2011 5:1

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Shane Curcuru
On 7/12/2011 10:03 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: On 12 Jul 2011, at 13:32, Kai Ahrens wrote: Of course it makes a difference to ask our users instead of asking some deeply involved people on this list, having very subjective interests in one or the other direction. And in the end, the user rules, n

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Shane Curcuru
To top post on the top posting, I think the most important thing to consider is: this decision does not need to be made today. Or even this week. Or even this month. I think it would be far more valuable in the near future to get some code in place, and provide better public explanations of

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Dave Fisher
On Jul 12, 2011, at 6:58 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: >> >> On Jul 12, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Danese Cooper wrote: >> >>> To recap...I think this might be a slightly different situation than Apache >>> has previously experienced and it might be worth hav

Re: ooo blog (was: RE: ooo-dev list subscriber stats?)

2011-07-12 Thread Shane Curcuru
Indeed, the podling will need to conform to the Apache Project Branding Requirements before it graduates to TLP: http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs Note that a key requirement is using a project (and product) name in the form of "Apache Foo". What the Foo is is up to the project to

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Sam Ruby
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Jul 12, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Danese Cooper wrote: > >> To recap...I think this might be a slightly different situation than Apache >> has previously experienced and it might be worth having the ASF Trademark >> watchdogs and ASF lawyers talk

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Dave Fisher
On Jul 12, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Danese Cooper wrote: > To recap...I think this might be a slightly different situation than Apache > has previously experienced and it might be worth having the ASF Trademark > watchdogs and ASF lawyers talk through the pros and cons of what's possible > / advisable t

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Danese Cooper
To recap...I think this might be a slightly different situation than Apache has previously experienced and it might be worth having the ASF Trademark watchdogs and ASF lawyers talk through the pros and cons of what's possible / advisable to do in this special case. That conversation could impact /

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread luizh...@gmail.com
Hi, 2011/7/12 Pedro F. Giffuni > > > --- On Tue, 7/12/11, Graham Lauder wrote: > ,,, > > > > All this under the OpenOffice.org Brand. There has > > been a lot of noise around LibreOffice with those > > Linux Distributions who used Go-OOo now distributing > > with LO, but those numbers, compare

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog) - Take care of the users!

2011-07-12 Thread Rob Weir
day. > >  - Dennis > > -Original Message----- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 17:57 > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog) > > +1 > > That works for me, con

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- On Tue, 7/12/11, Graham Lauder wrote: ,,, > > All this under the OpenOffice.org Brand.  There has > been a lot of noise around LibreOffice with those > Linux Distributions who used Go-OOo now distributing > with LO, but those numbers, compared to OOo across all > platforms are miniscule and

RE: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog) - Take care of the users!

2011-07-12 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 17:57 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog) +1 That works for me, conceptually. I don't have any history with OpenOffice.org, the project

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Dave Fisher
Yes, exactly! Sent from my iPhone On Jul 12, 2011, at 8:39 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: >> >> On Jul 12, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: >> >>> >>> On 12 Jul 2011, at 15:38, Dave Fisher wrote: On Jul 12, 2011, at 7:03 AM, Simon

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Sam Ruby
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Jul 12, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > >> >> On 12 Jul 2011, at 15:38, Dave Fisher wrote: >>> >>> On Jul 12, 2011, at 7:03 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: >>> On 12 Jul 2011, at 13:32, Kai Ahrens wrote: > > Of course it

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Dave Fisher
On Jul 12, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On 12 Jul 2011, at 15:38, Dave Fisher wrote: >> >> On Jul 12, 2011, at 7:03 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: >> >>> >>> On 12 Jul 2011, at 13:32, Kai Ahrens wrote: Of course it makes a difference to ask our users instead of asking some >>

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Simon Phipps
On 12 Jul 2011, at 15:38, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Jul 12, 2011, at 7:03 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > >> >> On 12 Jul 2011, at 13:32, Kai Ahrens wrote: >>> >>> Of course it makes a difference to ask our users instead of asking some >>> deeply involved people on this list, having very subjective

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Sam Ruby
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: >> >> On 12 Jul 2011, at 13:32, Kai Ahrens wrote: >>> >>> Of course it makes a difference to ask our users instead of asking some >>> deeply involved people on this list, having very subjecti

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On 12 Jul 2011, at 13:32, Kai Ahrens wrote: >> >> Of course it makes a difference to ask our users instead of asking some >> deeply involved people on this list, having very subjective interests in >> one or the other direction. >> >> And i

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Dave Fisher
See Daneese Cooper's emails. On Jul 12, 2011, at 7:03 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On 12 Jul 2011, at 13:32, Kai Ahrens wrote: >> >> Of course it makes a difference to ask our users instead of asking some >> deeply involved people on this list, having very subjective interests in >> one or the o

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Simon Phipps
On 12 Jul 2011, at 13:32, Kai Ahrens wrote: > > Of course it makes a difference to ask our users instead of asking some > deeply involved people on this list, having very subjective interests in > one or the other direction. > > And in the end, the user rules, not any marketing speech. While th

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Kai Ahrens
Am 12.07.2011 14:36, schrieb Marcus (OOo): > Am 07/12/2011 02:28 PM, schrieb Kai Ahrens: >> Am 12.07.2011 14:18, schrieb Marcus (OOo): >>> Am 07/12/2011 02:01 PM, schrieb Kai Ahrens: Am 12.07.2011 12:30, schrieb Marcus (OOo): > When the users actually do what they want to name the product

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 07/12/2011 01:41 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: >> >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Graham Lauder >>  wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 20:21 +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote: Javier Sola wrote on Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 18:43:17 +0700: >

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 07/12/2011 02:28 PM, schrieb Kai Ahrens: Am 12.07.2011 14:18, schrieb Marcus (OOo): Am 07/12/2011 02:01 PM, schrieb Kai Ahrens: Am 12.07.2011 12:30, schrieb Marcus (OOo): When the users actually do what they want to name the product and/or project, IMHO then there is no need to change anyth

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Kai Ahrens
Am 12.07.2011 14:25, schrieb Marcus (OOo): > Am 07/12/2011 01:41 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Graham >> Lauder wrote: >>> On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 20:21 +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote: Javier Sola wrote on Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 18:43:17 +0700: > If Apache forced this

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Kai Ahrens
Am 12.07.2011 14:18, schrieb Marcus (OOo): > Am 07/12/2011 02:01 PM, schrieb Kai Ahrens: >> Am 12.07.2011 12:30, schrieb Marcus (OOo): >>> When the users actually do what they want to name the product and/or >>> project, IMHO then there is no need to change anything that you cannot >>> predict. The

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 07/12/2011 01:41 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Graham Lauder wrote: On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 20:21 +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote: Javier Sola wrote on Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 18:43:17 +0700: If Apache forced this without discussion it would be a bad start for the project.

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 07/12/2011 02:01 PM, schrieb Kai Ahrens: Am 12.07.2011 12:30, schrieb Marcus (OOo): When the users actually do what they want to name the product and/or project, IMHO then there is no need to change anything that you cannot predict. Then we can stick with the known brand name and also avoid a

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Kai Ahrens
> These seems like something we could debate endlessly without > resolution. But I wonder if a more definitive answer might come from > a survey of users and other market participants, looking at branding > perceptions, trying out a few variations on the name, seeing which > ones elicit the most p

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Kai Ahrens
Hi Marcus, Am 12.07.2011 12:30, schrieb Marcus (OOo): > When the users actually do what they want to name the product and/or > project, IMHO then there is no need to change anything that you cannot > predict. Then we can stick with the known brand name and also avoid any > legal problems with comp

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Graham Lauder wrote: > On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 20:21 +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> Javier Sola wrote on Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 18:43:17 +0700: >> > If Apache forced this without discussion it would be a bad start for >> > the project. >> >> You're misportraying the fa

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Marcus (OOo)
When the users actually do what they want to name the product and/or project, IMHO then there is no need to change anything that you cannot predict. Then we can stick with the known brand name and also avoid any legal problems with companies that use also "OpenOffice" as brand. Marcus Am 07

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Kai Ahrens
Am 12.07.2011 10:59, schrieb Graham Lauder: > http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html > > It is important that we maintain that share and grow it. > There is a large community: 35,000 individuals subscribed to OOo > maillists when I last che

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Armin Le Grand
Am 10.07.2011 20:19, schrieb Donald Harbison: No need to drag the .org into the future, if Apache is prefixed. If no prefix, yes, we lead with the trademark of record: OpenOffice.org. IMHO. Let's simply use Apache OpenOffice. +1 Keep it as simple as possible. For the non-IT centric rest of man

RE: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Gavin McDonald
> -Original Message- > From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Alexandro Colorado > Sent: Tuesday, 12 July 2011 6:46 PM > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; ga...@16degrees.com.au > Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog) > > O

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Graham Lauder
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 20:21 +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Javier Sola wrote on Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 18:43:17 +0700: > > If Apache forced this without discussion it would be a bad start for > > the project. > > You're misportraying the facts; it's a preexisting Apache policy that > predates OOo bei

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Alexandro Colorado
; ga...@16degrees.com.au > > Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog) > > > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Gavin McDonald > > wrote: > > > > > You misunderstood, > > > > > > the project name becomes the subdomain name associated wit

RE: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Gavin McDonald
> -Original Message- > From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Alexandro Colorado > Sent: Tuesday, 12 July 2011 6:36 PM > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; ga...@16degrees.com.au > Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog) > > O

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Alexandro Colorado
gt; From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Alexandro Colorado > Sent: Tuesday, 12 July 2011 5:58 PM > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; ga...@16degrees.com.au > Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog) > > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:41 AM,

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Pavel Janík
On Jul 12, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Pavel Janík wrote: >> It seems to me that a lot of the problem arises in keeping the development >> project and the product brand names exactly the same. > > Another proposal: > > Product name: OpenOffice.org. > > Project name: Apache OpenOffice.org. .. and domai

RE: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Gavin McDonald
posting, one of the sins of replying to html email. Gav… From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Alexandro Colorado Sent: Tuesday, 12 July 2011 5:58 PM To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; ga...@16degrees.com.au Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog) On Tue

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Gavin McDonald wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Marcus (OOo) [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] > > Sent: Tuesday, 12 July 2011 5:11 PM > > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org > > Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re:

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Graham Lauder
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 19:54 -0400, Carl Marcum wrote: > It seems to me that a lot of the problem arises in keeping the > development project and the product brand names exactly the same. > > If there are indeed going to to be 2 websites, OpenOffice.org which is > where end users go to get the pr

RE: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Gavin McDonald
> -Original Message- > From: Marcus (OOo) [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] > Sent: Tuesday, 12 July 2011 5:11 PM > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog) > > Am 07/12/2011 08:55 AM, schrieb Pavel Janík: > >> It

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 07/12/2011 08:55 AM, schrieb Pavel Janík: It seems to me that a lot of the problem arises in keeping the development project and the product brand names exactly the same. Another proposal: Product name: OpenOffice.org. Project name: Apache OpenOffice.org. I'm strongly against mixing OOo

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-12 Thread Alexandro Colorado
2011/7/12 Pavel Janík > > It seems to me that a lot of the problem arises in keeping the > development project and the product brand names exactly the same. > > Another proposal: > > Product name: OpenOffice.org. > > Project name: Apache OpenOffice.org. > > I'm strongly against mixing OOo and OO

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Pavel Janík
> It seems to me that a lot of the problem arises in keeping the development > project and the product brand names exactly the same. Another proposal: Product name: OpenOffice.org. Project name: Apache OpenOffice.org. I'm strongly against mixing OOo and OO here. -- Pavel Janík

RE: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
o-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog) It seems to me that a lot of the problem arises in keeping the development project and the product brand names exactly the same. If there are indeed going to to be 2 websites, OpenOffice.org which is where end users go t

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Carl Marcum
It seems to me that a lot of the problem arises in keeping the development project and the product brand names exactly the same. If there are indeed going to to be 2 websites, OpenOffice.org which is where end users go to get the product, help, etc. and the .apache.org where the development pr

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Kay Schenk
On 07/11/2011 10:37 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Manfred A. Reiter wrote: 2011/7/11 Rob Weir: 2011/7/11 André Schnabel: Hi, Am 11.07.2011 18:39, schrieb Rob Weir: From a branding perspective you did have the opportunity to start fresh, but you did not go with a

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Danese Cooper wrote on Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:41:30 -0700: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Daniel Shahaf > wrote: > > > Javier Sola wrote on Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 18:43:17 +0700: > > > If Apache forced this without discussion it would be a bad start for > > > the project. > > > > You're mispo

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Dave Fisher
On Jul 11, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Danese Cooper wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Daniel Shahaf > wrote: > >> Javier Sola wrote on Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 18:43:17 +0700: >>> If Apache forced this without discussion it would be a bad start for >>> the project. >> >> You're misportraying the

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Danese Cooper
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Javier Sola wrote on Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 18:43:17 +0700: > > If Apache forced this without discussion it would be a bad start for > > the project. > > You're misportraying the facts; it's a preexisting Apache policy that > predates OOo bein

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Manfred A. Reiter wrote: > 2011/7/11 Rob Weir : >> 2011/7/11 André Schnabel : >>> Hi, >>> >>> Am 11.07.2011 18:39, schrieb Rob Weir:  From a branding perspective you did have the opportunity to start fresh, but you did not go with a ".org" name. >>>

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
2011/7/11 Rob Weir : > 2011/7/11 André Schnabel : >> Hi, >> >> Am 11.07.2011 18:39, schrieb Rob Weir: >>> >>>  From a branding perspective you did have the opportunity to start >>> fresh, but you did not go with a ".org" name. >> >> It did not matter that we had the opportunity to start fresh - wha

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Javier Sola wrote on Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 18:43:17 +0700: > If Apache forced this without discussion it would be a bad start for > the project. You're misportraying the facts; it's a preexisting Apache policy that predates OOo being proposed as a podling. Now, we're generally reasonable people he

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Ian Lynch
On 11 July 2011 17:58, Rob Weir wrote: > 2011/7/11 André Schnabel : > > Hi, > > > > Am 11.07.2011 18:39, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> > >> From a branding perspective you did have the opportunity to start > >> fresh, but you did not go with a ".org" name. > > > > It did not matter that we had the oppo

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Rob Weir
2011/7/11 André Schnabel : > Hi, > > Am 11.07.2011 18:39, schrieb Rob Weir: >> >>  From a branding perspective you did have the opportunity to start >> fresh, but you did not go with a ".org" name. > > It did not matter that we had the opportunity to start fresh - what really > did matter was that

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Am 11.07.2011 18:39, schrieb Rob Weir: From a branding perspective you did have the opportunity to start fresh, but you did not go with a ".org" name. It did not matter that we had the opportunity to start fresh - what really did matter was that we *had to* start fresh. Anyway - every

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Andre Schnabel > wrote: > > Hi, > > > >> Von: Javier Sola > > > >> > >> This product competes with another one whose main disadvantage is not > >> having the name OpenOffice.org, and who is already producing wo

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Andre Schnabel wrote: > Hi, > >> Von: Javier Sola > >> >> This product competes with another one whose main disadvantage is not >> having the name OpenOffice.org, and who is already producing working >> software, more advanced that this project at this time, and g

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 07/11/2011 05:18 PM, schrieb Andy Brown: Kay Schenk wrote: On 07/11/2011 04:06 AM, Graham Lauder wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 11:12 +0100, David McKay wrote: On 09/07/11 07:58, eric b wrote: The .org is and was always essential to the community. Why? Out of the folk on the OOo forum

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi André 2011/7/11 Andre Schnabel : > Hi, > [...] > So - if the Apache project does not want to use the brand "OpenOffice.org", > maybe ask Oracle to hand it over to TDF instead. > +1 ;-) > Ok, just joking - I would not expect this to happen. > > But anyway - everyone who would say "no" to the

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Andy Brown
Kay Schenk wrote: > > > On 07/11/2011 04:06 AM, Graham Lauder wrote: >> On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 11:12 +0100, David McKay wrote: >>> >>> On 09/07/11 07:58, eric b wrote: The .org is and was always essential to the community. >>> Why? Out of the folk on the OOo forum who expresse

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Kay Schenk
On 07/11/2011 04:06 AM, Graham Lauder wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 11:12 +0100, David McKay wrote: On 09/07/11 07:58, eric b wrote: The .org is and was always essential to the community. Why? Out of the folk on the OOo forum who expressed an opinion to me, no one liked it. It was a perpe

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Kazunari Hirano
efectural government's offcial homepage. http://www.pref.yamagata.jp/ou/somu/020051/openoffice_dounyu.html [1] http://about.openoffice.org/#logo [2] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/JA/Marketing/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments >From this thread "OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Simon Phipps
On 11 Jul 2011, at 14:16, Andre Schnabel wrote: > So - if the Apache project does not want to use the brand "OpenOffice.org", > maybe ask Oracle to hand it over to TDF instead. > > Ok, just joking - I would not expect this to happen. More than that, as far as I can tell TDF are perfectly happy

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Fred Juan DIAZ
--- En date de : Lun 11.7.11, Graham Lauder a écrit : > [...] > I'm just mindful that change for change sake is not > a reason to dump an established brand and > in fact change in the rest of the infrastructure is an > excellent reason > for retention and strengthening of that > brand    > [...]

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > Von: Javier Sola > > This product competes with another one whose main disadvantage is not > having the name OpenOffice.org, and who is already producing working > software, more advanced that this project at this time, and getting the > favor of some distributions. So - if the Apache

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Graham Lauder
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 07:36 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > > As Peter Junge has stated, this discussion has a repetitive deja vu feel > > about it. > > > > It would only be repetitive if circumstances were the same. They > aren't. Perhaps the full magnitude of this has not hit, but things > are very di

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Javier Sola
I agree with this. This product competes with another one whose main disadvantage is not having the name OpenOffice.org, and who is already producing working software, more advanced that this project at this time, and getting the favor of some distributions. I work with both projects, and at

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Graham Lauder wrote: > On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 11:12 +0100, David McKay wrote: >> >> On 09/07/11 07:58, eric b wrote: >> > >> > >> > The .org is and was always essential to the community. >> > >> Why? Out of the folk on the OOo forum who expressed an opinion to me,

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Graham Lauder
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 08:34 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > > But seriously, the ".org" was added to make the name unique. It also > occurred during the .com bubble when making your product sound > internetty would make your stock price quadruple over night. So we > ended up with a lot of silly names

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Graham Lauder
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 11:12 +0100, David McKay wrote: > > On 09/07/11 07:58, eric b wrote: > > > > > > The .org is and was always essential to the community. > > > Why? Out of the folk on the OOo forum who expressed an opinion to me, no > one liked it. It was a perpetual reminder that the product

Re: ooo blog (was: RE: ooo-dev list subscriber stats?)

2011-07-11 Thread IngridvdM
Gavin McDonald wrote: Ok, the URL can be anything that starts off with blogs.apache.org/ So that can be blogs.apache.org/ooo blogs.apache.org/openoffice blogs.apache.org/openofficeorg (no dots or caps in the url Im afraid) For the blog url I would choose one of the longer speaking versio

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-10 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 14:19, Donald Harbison > wrote: > > No need to drag the .org into the future, if Apache is prefixed. If no > > prefix, yes, we lead with the trademark of record: OpenOffice.org. IMHO. > > Let's simply use Apache OpenOf

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-10 Thread Greg Stein
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 14:19, Donald Harbison wrote: > No need to drag the .org into the future, if Apache is prefixed. If no > prefix, yes, we lead with the trademark of record: OpenOffice.org. IMHO. > Let's simply use Apache OpenOffice. Agreed. The ".org" is an anachronism from a long time ago

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-10 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Kai Ahrens To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:21:35 +0200 > Am 10.07.2011 20:19, schrieb Donald Harbison: >> No need to drag the .org into the future, if Apache is prefixed. If no >> prefix, yes, we lead with the trademark of recor

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-10 Thread Christoph Jopp
Am 11.07.2011 01:51, schrieb Dave Fisher: > The domain openoffice.org will certainly be transferred to the ASF and the > ASF will host the website. There may be some subdomains that are externally > hosted. (external to the ASF.) as part of an overall openoffice.org > community. The trademark wi

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-10 Thread Dave Fisher
The domain openoffice.org will certainly be transferred to the ASF and the ASF will host the website. There may be some subdomains that are externally hosted. (external to the ASF.) as part of an overall openoffice.org community. The trademark will still belong to the Apache Software Foundation.

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-10 Thread Christoph Jopp
Am 10.07.2011 20:19, schrieb Donald Harbison: > No need to drag the .org into the future, if Apache is prefixed. If no > prefix, yes, we lead with the trademark of record: OpenOffice.org. IMHO. > Let's simply use Apache OpenOffice. I might be totally wrong (especially as I'm not a lawyer) but ther

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-10 Thread Ian Lynch
On 10 July 2011 22:21, Kai Ahrens wrote: > Am 10.07.2011 20:19, schrieb Donald Harbison: > > No need to drag the .org into the future, if Apache is prefixed. If no > > prefix, yes, we lead with the trademark of record: OpenOffice.org. IMHO. > > Let's simply use Apache OpenOffice. > > +1 > Ok, +1

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2011-07-10, at 17:21 , Kai Ahrens wrote: > Am 10.07.2011 20:19, schrieb Donald Harbison: >> No need to drag the .org into the future, if Apache is prefixed. If no >> prefix, yes, we lead with the trademark of record: OpenOffice.org. IMHO. >> Let's simply use Apache OpenOffice. > > +1 > > Reg

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-10 Thread Kai Ahrens
Am 10.07.2011 20:19, schrieb Donald Harbison: > No need to drag the .org into the future, if Apache is prefixed. If no > prefix, yes, we lead with the trademark of record: OpenOffice.org. IMHO. > Let's simply use Apache OpenOffice. +1 Regards Kai

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-10 Thread Pavel Janík
> http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-family710 > > > "Open Office" is an international trademark of a Ubuntu business. No, they are as bad in their IP review as Sun and Oracle were in protecting and correctly using their trademark. -- Pavel Janík

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-10 Thread Kay Schenk
2011/7/10 Pavel Janík > > On Jul 10, 2011, at 8:22 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: > > > OpenOffice.org would make a good name for a new non-profit umbrella > > organisation co-ordinating the interests of Apache OpenOffice, > LibreOffice > > and the proprietary downstreams they support... > > > > Just sa

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-10 Thread David McKay
On 10/07/11 19:19, Donald Harbison wrote: No need to drag the .org into the future, if Apache is prefixed. If no prefix, yes, we lead with the trademark of record: OpenOffice.org. IMHO. Let's simply use Apache OpenOffice. +1. On Jul 10, 2011 1:27 PM, "Marcus (OOo)" wrote: OK, to let the nam

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-10 Thread Pavel Janík
On Jul 10, 2011, at 8:22 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: > OpenOffice.org would make a good name for a new non-profit umbrella > organisation co-ordinating the interests of Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice > and the proprietary downstreams they support... > > Just sayin' Yes. And I think there is nothing

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-10 Thread Simon Phipps
OpenOffice.org would make a good name for a new non-profit umbrella organisation co-ordinating the interests of Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice and the proprietary downstreams they support... Just sayin' S. On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Donald Harbison wrote: > No need to drag the .org into

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-10 Thread Donald Harbison
No need to drag the .org into the future, if Apache is prefixed. If no prefix, yes, we lead with the trademark of record: OpenOffice.org. IMHO. Let's simply use Apache OpenOffice. On Jul 10, 2011 1:27 PM, "Marcus (OOo)" wrote: > OK, to let the name start with "Apache" seems to be a requirement. >

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-10 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > OK, to let the name start with "Apache" seems to be a requirement. > > Am I right when I see more people saying that it should be named "Apache > OpenOffice.org" and not "Apache OpenOffice"? > Please let's keep OpenOffice.org. This would be

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-10 Thread Marcus (OOo)
OK, to let the name start with "Apache" seems to be a requirement. Am I right when I see more people saying that it should be named "Apache OpenOffice.org" and not "Apache OpenOffice"? BTW: I don't want to get rid of the ".org" extension on any price. Due to the new Apache home I just wanted

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-09 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Ivo Hinkelmann wrote: > > I would also prefer that we just called it "OpenOffice.org". This brand > > is known everywhere and this is not a fork but the moved "original" OOo > > project. > > Same for me. This Apache podling has many nice fea

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