http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8230 <pre>Le 17/05/13 02:57 PM, Marc Paré a écrit : I have uploaded a new version of the USLtr General Information brochure[1]. It now has the right font and the hyphenation has been re-done. It can be used as is, but, Jean and I have found that our printers print the section breaks that are made up of tildes "≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈" differently; some print with gaps between the tildes some not. I have left a note on the design list to see if they could come up with a graphic to replace the tildes. Once we come up with a graphic design, I'll update the brochure with it. Otherwise, it is done. I will just wait to see how long it will take to get the graphic from the design team and then announce if on the Projects list. The only last thing to do are: * complete the A4 version (Jean and I can help complete this) * do up the .pdf versions of the brochures (I'll make up the set of .pdf versions) We then need to move on to the "Community Brochure" which is needed by Jean for the next conference. Some of you may want to help work on it by visiting the workspace page. Cheers, Marc [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeV.4.0.x-OfficialBrochureTemplate-USLtr.odt [2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/brochuretypes/LibreOfficeCommunity </pre> Marc Paré 2013-05-19T11:29:52 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8229 <pre> The Gallery Page for Flyers/Fliers and Brochures https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Gallery_Flyers has been edited to reflect the new "General Information - Community" version of the brochures. Letter - .odt and .pdf - "completed?" A4 - .odt - "work in progress?" I thank all of the people that has help in this effort. I hope that the A4 version will be "completed" soon. Once done, that is one more good marketing material/handout that our English users can have access to for their marketing needs. I do hope that the other brochures, maybe not the official one, will be placed on this gallery page for users to have easy access to. I know that I had "re-started" this brochure project, due to my real needs. Then Marc and Tom got on board. Then others like Jean came to help as well. The more people we have to do this, the more ideal are available and the better these marketing materials will be. I really wish we, as a group, would have taken on this task during the first year of LibreOffice. But writing the first manuals and books were a priority and so other projects fell by the way side. So thanks again everyone. I will do my best to spread the LibreOffice message to my local community. Now I just need to figure out some good intro letters to go along with LO 4.0.x when I visit my local governments and community centers, again. Many of these places have new "management" so it will be new to them. On 05/17/2013 01:07 PM, Tom Davies wrote: </pre> Kracked_P_P---webmaster 2013-05-18T13:10:55 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8228 <pre>On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Florian Effenberger &lt; floeff&lt; at &gt;documentfoundation.org&gt; wrote: +1 to what Florian said. Awesome work. Thanks! Joel </pre> Joel Madero 2013-05-17T22:18:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8227 <pre>Hi Jean, Jean Weber wrote (17-05-13 22:35) I'll try my best and am confident that we can do it in time ;) Great .. Good to read that I found me a fan in you :) Lovely to read. Hope you don't mind that - once we are that far - I'll send some others too ;) Cheers, Cor </pre> Cor Nouws 2013-05-17T21:03:47 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8226 <pre>Hi Marc, Marc Paré wrote (17-05-13 21:04) Yes. Having looked at costs involved some time ago, that definitely is cheapest. But of course it's not meant to block anyone else with inspiration to do something on his/her own. (I would never try to prevent that - just look how I handle myself and you understand why ;) ) Cheers, </pre> Cor Nouws 2013-05-17T20:56:05 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8225 <pre> 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 want more for other conferences starting in January next year, so perhaps 2,000 and I'll take some home with me after OSCON. They were very popular at SCALE this year. --Jean </pre> Jean Weber 2013-05-17T20:35:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8224 <pre>Hi Cor, Le 17/05/13 10:33 AM, Cor Nouws a écrit : Thanks for the offer. Who would you order these for? Do you mean that you would pre-order a large order and then send them to conferences, meets, etc.? Cheers, Marc </pre> Marc Paré 2013-05-17T19:04:35 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8223 <pre>Hello Zeki, Zeki Bildirici wrote on 2013-05-17 13:27: I'd like to take a chance to say a big thank you for your great work! It's fantastic how fast you have come up with this solution, and I really love the idea. Thank you so much, and keep up the good work - you rock! :-) Florian </pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-05-17T19:00:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8222 <pre>Le 17/05/13 01:07 PM, Tom Davies a écrit : The marketing team is providing an official brochure for the project, there is no reason for us to deviate from our design. It will only take a little more time to complete it and will look great. This will also impact the other official brochure-types. There is no point in going through a design process and then abandon it. Feel free to publish it the way it is now if you are in a hurry. But, the real completed brochure will be uploaded as soon as it is fixed. Cheers, Marc </pre> Marc Paré 2013-05-17T18:57:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8221 <pre>Hi :) Given how close to completion i think stick with the font being used to avoid having to re-word anything and avoid that whole fuss with hyphenation again.  It looks good as it is! Regards from  Tom :) </pre> Tom Davies 2013-05-17T17:07:01 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8220 <pre>Hi, (One of the longer standing items...) Since producing stickers central and then shipping is most cost-effective, and having some experience, I volunteer to order some kinds of stickers. We have/had two kinds: a. normal logo [1] (110 X 35 mm) b. the love-variant [2] (110 X 25 mm) I noticed at booths / sticker hand-outs that people also look for smaller sizes. For - let me call it - guerilla-stickering ;) So I propose to do also do sizes 60 x 20 / 60 x 14 (approximately - didn't check this with a printer.) If we a sort of agree, I can ask for the budget. Opinions? Maybe - when we work on it anyways - there's an addition design that we can order for :-) Cheers, Cor 1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Branding#Guidelines_and_Best_Practices_3 2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Material#Stickers_.28Designs_for.29 </pre> Cor Nouws 2013-05-17T14:33:44 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8219 <pre>17 May 2013 14:50 tarihinde "Bjoern Michaelsen" &lt; bjoern.michaelsen&lt; at &gt;canonical.com&gt; yazdı: Hi Bjoern stuff same stuff. I used tweeterfeed.com for Ask, and dlvr.it for buzgilla. Both works well. &lt; at &gt;Tor Of course it is, we can change the about section as per the suggestions :) Best regards, Zeki </pre> Zeki Bildirici 2013-05-17T13:52:47 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8218 <pre>Hello Zeki, Le vendredi 17 mai 2013 à 14:27 +0300, Zeki Bildirici a écrit : Cool! Let's tweet, facebook and Gpluss that :-) Best, </pre> Charles-H. Schulz 2013-05-17T12:25:08 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8217 <pre> --tml </pre> Tor Lillqvist 2013-05-17T11:54:50 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8216 <pre>Hi Zeki, On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 02:27:05PM +0300, Zeki Bildirici wrote: thats awesome and at least for Bugs was on my TODO list for a long time (actually there was a twitter account already created). We also have: https://twitter.com/LOcommits We could also have one for gerrit updates. What are you using to feed the stuff to twitter? It might make sense to consolidate all the feeds to use the same stuff -- I would be happy to hand to over the LOcommits account. Best, Bjoern </pre> Bjoern Michaelsen 2013-05-17T11:50:00 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8215 <pre>Hi, You know social media is a very effective channel for getting people's attention. Also it can be used a regular reminder/ping'er/poke'r for communities. So using the social media's advantages to increase the community's attention on Ask.LibreOffice.org site and Bugzilla will be good imho. We had used this method in Pardus GNU/Linux and it worked. After asking to Florian for his advice that if is this possible to use this channels for LibreOffice, i've creaed two twitter accounts. The new accounts are: LibreOffice Bugzilla: https://twitter.com/LibreOfficeBugs Ask.LibreOffice.org: https://twitter.com/AskLibreOffice I've connected ask site's new question feeds and bugzilla's new bug's feeds to this accounts. The goals of having this accounts are: · To keep more attention on questions and bugs · Make community contribution process more social · To poke/ ping community’s members and asking for the minimum contribution that can give constantly · Spread the questions and bugs to their networks to find answers as soon as possible which will increase the possibility find the person whom has the answer · Make our ask and bugzilla more open to the community and increase the number of persons(not regular contributors) Well, there is also reasons under the “What current situation misses” questions · Having lots of bugzilla mails is not for ordinary community members, people does not want their inbox is filled with bug mails which most of them are not in interested. But twitter streams are different, it comes and passes through no rubbish left there. Trying to confirm a bug is generally a simple work to do, we can involve more people(other than the regular bugbusters) to have with this feeds. · Visiting ask site is not a practical exercise made every time, or getting feeds from Google Reader is not practiced by everyone, but most people use social media actively. This means more eyes will be on ask and bug sites constantly. · As said above, having constant attention for this sites are not possible for passive contributors · There is no chance to spread the questions through LibreOffice related networks. But with this accounts, the followers will generate a core LibreOffice network which will be feed through this accounts. I hope that this accounts will help to decrease the unanswered questions in the ask site(1.191 questions ~1/3 ) and activate more members to help triage bugs in bugzilla. If you have a twitter account please follow and promote/announce this accounts. Of course the most important thing is the interest of community and the will to became a part of this wonderful community to make LibreOffice the best free Office suite ever. Best regards, Zeki </pre> Zeki Bildirici 2013-05-17T11:27:05 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8214 <pre>Le 16/05/13 10:34 AM, Marc Paré a écrit : There are some tweaks coming to the official brochures. Thanks for your patience. Cheers, Marc </pre> Marc Paré 2013-05-17T06:44:37 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8213 <pre>Le 16/05/13 09:19 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster a écrit :&gt; On 05/15/2013 &gt;&gt; I have now proofed the Official brochures. The US-Letter one looks &gt;&gt; fine. I have made some changes to the A4 version, as I did for the &gt;&gt; community brochure. The A4 Official brochure is here: &gt;&gt; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeV.4.0.x-OfficialBrochure-GeneralInformation-A4.odt &gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; IMO all 4 of these are good to go. &gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; --Jean &gt;&gt; &gt; &gt; Thanks Jean &gt; Sorry, not ready yet! Unfortunately, could we take a look at these again? I notice that they are in Liberation font and not in the OpenSans fonts that the design notes prescribe. We used the OpenSans fonts as these mimicked the website new page -- it uses the same fonts. I have now fixed the problem with the templates which were sending people to the wrong website. It got mixed in with some of our edits. My apologies for this. Jean, could you test the links on the template pages, download the fonts and then change both the A4 and the USLtr to the right OpenSans font? This will be a good test to see if all of our design notes work. Tim and I both have the OpenSans installed on our boxes. If you don't have time, I could do the changes and then you could just take a look at the files to proof again. The OpenSans is a tighter font and may affect the hyphenation. Just by way of explanation for everyone, the Official versions were made with offset printers in mind and these were designed to look like our iconic v.4.x.x look on our website and with the idea that they would be printed professionally. Cheers, Marc NB: Here are the template pages: [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeV.4.0.x-OfficialBrochureTemplate-A4.odt [2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeV.4.0.x-OfficialBrochureTemplate-USLtr.odt </pre> Marc Paré 2013-05-16T14:34:01 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8212 <pre>Le 16/05/13 04:06 AM, Italo Vignoli a écrit : Thanks Italo. All sensible information. Cheers, Marc </pre> Marc Paré 2013-05-16T14:01:56 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8211 <pre> Thanks Jean </pre> Kracked_P_P---webmaster 2013-05-16T13:19:27 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8210 <pre>Hi, On Monday, 2013-05-13 11:59:06 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: As we plan to have more conferences ;-) I suggest a hierarchy that includes the year, e.g. http://conference.libreoffice.org/2012/talks/ Since the http://conference.libreoffice.org/talks/ URL is now in the wild that could be made an index page listing the available years. Eike </pre> Eike Rathke 2013-05-16T12:42:20 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing