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://comments.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://comments.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</pre> Zeki Bildirici 2013-05-17T11:27:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8192 <pre>Our friends at the free software foundation would like it if we used the GNU PDF logo vice Adobe's. . </pre> Dave Johnson 2013-05-15T22:01:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8190 <pre>Just f.y.i, I know that our friends over at GA to GN you PDF would appreciate using their logo instead of Adobe's thanks </pre> Dave Johnson 2013-05-15T21:36:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8183 <pre>Hello Tom, Your recent posts on the marketing list have been, for a very large part, distracting and disturbing the progress of the team. The comments you have made have not been the result of an actual contribution from your side and their content did not help improve the ongoing work that was being discussed. On the contrary, your posts seemed to have reflected your opinion on general matters and on the LibreOffice software suite itself that was out of context with respect to the discussion at hand. What is even more disturbing is that we, the board of the Document Foundation, have received off list complaints of long term contributors who hold us that they were not reading this list anymore because of your posts. We would like to remind you that this list, as well as others, are communication tools for the LibreOffice project contributors and do not exist for any other purpose. If you were to continue to post similar comments we will be forced to moderate your messages. On behalf of the Board, </pre> Charles-H. Schulz 2013-05-15T09:36:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8161 <pre>Hi All, On the 9th of june the Dutch LibreOffice-community organises it's 7th community-day in Arnhem (NL). Would it be possible to add it to the calander? More information can be found on: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/NL/bijeenkomst_09-06-2013 Everyone is invited! -- Many thanks, Rob Snelders </pre> Rob Snelders 2013-05-13T15:32:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8158 <pre>Hello everyone, I'd like to share with you an early report on our Facebook ad campaign. My first surprize was that a Facebook ad has to be validated by Facebook and it does take time (several days). Consequently, the ad campaign effectively started on the 7th of May. From the 7th till today (6 days) the ad was seen by 74,298 unique people, over a general scope of over 135 Million people (people selected in English-speaking geographies with specific interests, from small business owner to education-interested audiences and tech early adopters). I can provide a specific audience segmentation if needed. Needless to say, I configured the ad to run for people who are not related to LibreOffice. The goal of this ad was to get more "Likes", and thus the report follows that logic. The ad was seen by 74,298 people, that's the effective outreach of the ad until now. On these people, 718 people actually clicked on the ad, went to the LibreOffice Facebook page and on these 718 people, 560 liked it (clicked on the li</pre> Charles-H. Schulz 2013-05-13T10:46:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8157 <pre>Hello, I have good news to all of you, finally - the videos from last year's LibreOffice Conference have been cut and put online by the company in charge of the recordings. Unfortunately, due to unforeseen technical difficulties, it took much longer than anticipated, and in the end, they had to hand-cut and lipsync videos and slides, which took an incredible amount of time, explaining the huge delay. I am currently evaluating the technical options of hosting those videos together with their special player on our own infrastructure, and expect to finally have the files online on our servers soon, available to the general public. You are probably aware that all the slides have already been available since last November or so at http://conference.libreoffice.org/talks/ Again, sorry for this massive delay. As to pictures, we have provided technical facilities for uploading them, and many people made us of these. However, as sometimes it was a weird mixture of publishable and unpublishable, public</pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-05-13T09:59:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8154 <pre>Hi. Occur in the next weekend, in the city of Joinville, SC, Brazil, II LibreOffice HackDay, along the II Encounter Catarinense of LibreOffice. Details in the banner. Good week. </pre> Klaibson Ribeiro 2013-05-13T02:52:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8130 <pre> Hi :) A quick google search gave me https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=marketing+brochures&amp;client=ubuntu&amp;hs=fnb&amp;channel=fs&amp;gl=uk&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=22iNUffaHomX0AXx8IC4CA&amp;ved=0CGYQsAQ&amp;biw=1861&amp;bih=933&amp;sei=7WiNUe3QHue90QXYwIHgBw another gave http://www.google.com/search?q=marketing+brochure+sample&amp;sa=X&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;ei=CHONUcLFNsbL0AW69YHADw&amp;ved=0CDYQsAQ&amp;biw=1861&amp;bih=933&amp;sei=lnONUe2mAaGc0wX9lIGQAw Something that stands out is that everyone else is doing it wrong.  They put lots of "white space" and images.  Not so much text.  They seem to avoid directly describing detail of their product in words and use emotive wistful yearnings for vague nebulous desires.  All completely the opposite of our brochures.  There are a lot of guides on how to create brochures, for example; http://www.businesscomputingworld.co.uk/how-to-create-a-marketing-brochure-in-house/ that say crazy stuff like, this 3rd point "Compile your artwork: Pictures and illustrations are almost always the fir</pre> Tom Davies 2013-05-10T22:42:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8124 <pre>This brochure type is our next priority brochure. Jean is going to OSCON in July and will need a Community brochure with the following in mind: Jean: "I need a brochure aimed at developers. This would definitely emphasize the community and why one might want to join and contribute. Or perhaps a slightly broader audience? Including QA, user support, docs? Again, emphasising participation rather than "what's in it for me as a user" or "what's in it for my organization?" which are the approaches I would use in, say, conferences for educators or non-profits." So, a community brochure that speaks of our different teams and of their participation in our community. This will be more of an informative brochure. The object of the brochure is all about informing the different types of people attracted to our community; we should list the different aspects of our community that would make it attractive for them to join with us. The types of people we are trying to speak to are people from the developer w</pre> Marc Paré 2013-05-10T20:31:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8092 <pre>Our next priority brochure will be the "Community" brochure. Jean is going to OSCON in July and asks if we could get it ready for the conference. It is always better to get it done earlier for others to use. Our nl teams will want to work the brochure once it is done. The community brochure's target audience will be people interested in the following areas: developers, QA, support, documentation, design (both Visual Identification and UX), translation etc. (yeh, I know there are more). So the list is long and we have only a brochure to fill from the point of view of [*community*]. Add your points that you think we should be writing of in the brochure. Don't worry if there are too many items, we will prioritize the list at the point of writing the text. We are looking for content items. Just add to this thread and I (or someone else) will take care of adding them to the workspace wiki page that has been set up. We are doing the writing of the brochure in steps.[1] Cheers, Marc [1] https://wi</pre> Marc Paré 2013-05-10T01:58:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8087 <pre>I just realized that when I was filling in the "brochure-type: Education" wiki page that it would just make sense to do the brochure-type Academia at the same time. So, what points would you like included in the Academia brochure. NOTE: that by Academia we are talking of using LibreOffice in a "higher learning" environment such as College or University etc. Feel free to develop this thread and I will fill up the wiki workspace page with the details[1] that you suggest here. Don't worry about the number of points that you suggest, we can prioritize the list later when we talk about putting the content into text for the brochure. Cheers, Marc [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/brochuretypes/Academia </pre> Marc Paré 2013-05-09T21:05:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8066 <pre> I saw this article but one thing they did not tell you - are they going to use LO instead of MSO now they will have Linux laptops? Since "NASA is relying on The Linux Foundation for training", I hope they will introduce LO to NASA as the office suite to be used on their Linux systems. -------------------------------------------------- http://www.zdnet.com/to-the-space-station-and-beyond-with-linux-7000014958/ "To the space station and beyond with Linux" Summary: The International Space Station's laptops are moving from Windows to Linux, and R2, the first Linux-powered humanoid robot in space, is now under-going in-flight testing. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for Linux and Open Source | May 6, 2013 -- 21:25 GMT (14:25 PDT) Unlike my recent spoof story about a Linux-powered Iron Man suit that you could build at home, this story isn't science fiction. NASA really has decided to drop Windows from the laptops on the International Space Station (ISS) in favor of Linux, an</pre> Kracked_P_P---webmaster 2013-05-07T14:47:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8058 <pre>I've not been keeping up well, so this may have been covered already by Marc. With OSCON coming up in July, I need a brochure aimed at developers. This would definitely emphasize the community and why one might want to join and contribute. Or perhaps a slightly broader audience? Including QA, user support, docs? Again, emphasising participation rather than "what's in it for me as a user" or "what's in it for my organization?" which are the approaches I would use in, say, conferences for educators or non-profits. --Jean </pre> Jean Weber 2013-05-06T20:57:37 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8048 <pre>I would like to work on the Education brochure. As we do not, as yet, have any text/content for this brochure, I think the following approach would be the best way to work: [*First:*] identify the different points that we think should be included in the brochure. [*Second:*] write up the text on this list; proof the text and get approval of the text by the marketing team and Italo/Charles. [*Third:*] put the text on the official template and work on adding icons/graphics (may need some help from design team). Some of the text may need trimming or may need addition. Not to forget that white space in the brochure is not a bad thing. It gives the eyes a rest. [*Fourth:*] complete the official version, get final approval from the marketing/design teams (because it may have some design elements), Italo/Charles. If all OK, complete the Official A4/USLtr and Community A4/USLtr versions. [*Fifth:*] Announce on the Projects list that this brochure version is ready. How does this sound? Cheers, Marc</pre> Marc Paré 2013-05-06T17:24:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8047 <pre>Hi everyone, I have created a "TDF/LibreOffice Brochure Workspace" wiki page[1]. We can use it to track the work done on the content and text of the different brochure types as we complete them. Feel free to add any more types should you think we are missing any. I have also added the NL (native language) navigation bar. Feel free to get you own teams working on any of the text and you can help us out by submitting your version of text on the Marketing list for translation/localization in EN OR discuss any of the brochure-types with your nl marketing teams and have someone from your nl marketing team relay back any suggestions in EN to this list. Also note that Italo and Charles will have a LARGE say as to what will appear in some (if not all) of the brochures. For those of you who are not familiar with our Marketing Team structure, Italo and Charles are our lead marketing team members -- they share responsibilities for all that is marketing of the project. Cheers, Marc [1] https://wiki.doc</pre> Marc Paré 2013-05-06T16:37:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8036 <pre>Hello, sorry for spamming all the lists, but in the light of recent events and discussions, I'd like to make all of you aware of an important mailing list, that so far has not been used as extensively as it should be, which led to some frustration and communication issues. As part of our mission to foster the project internal communication, I'd like to tell you about our so called projects mailing list, which Sophie initiated quite a while ago, and which should be used for communication amongst the various projects - e.g. design and marketing, development and marketing, UX and development, and the like. The list's intention is not to be a gossip list where everything should be thrown at, but to make all affected projects aware of important changes. Philosophy: Low traffic, but important topics. Some examples are: Change of version numbers, a new slogan, design changes, new products. In other words: Everything that has an impact on other areas of working than the one where the change originally</pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-05-04T13:24:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8035 <pre>Hello, at the moment, we are looking for volunteers who could help moderate this mailing list. If you are interested, the only requirement is that you are subscribed to the list yourself and read its mails in a somehow timely manner, but that's about it. Moderation means dealing with e-mails that do not automatically make it to the list, which you then manually forward, or reject. This happens either when an e-mail comes from an unknown sender, e.g. when a project member uses a different address for posting. It also occurs when someone unexperienced writes to the list, thinking it's a private account, but in fact it's a public list. You'll receive the message to be moderated via e-mail, which you then can either "moderate through", or reject. Is someone interested in joining our efforts? It'd be much appreciated - just drop me an email (please also copy me directly, and not only the list), then I'm happy to add you to the list of moderators. Thanks! Florian </pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-05-04T11:30:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8034 <pre>This is the thread to develop the brochure-type "General Information" brochure. I have uploaded a sample brochure with the content. We should first re-read the content, and once we have agreed on the content, proofed the content and formatted the content, we can move on to completing the rest of the remaining 3 versions of this brochure. The reason I started with the USLtr is that Tim says that he has a pressing need for this particular type of community brochure for an upcoming meeting/event. Please have a look at the content and make any suggestions to improve the text on this thread. You may find the file here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOfficeV.4.0.x-CommunityBrochure-GeneralInformation-USLtr.odt </pre> Marc Paré 2013-05-04T09:54:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/8033 <pre>We have completed the template design of the official and community brochures. Thanks to all of the people who participated in creating these on the design list. We can now start working on content for these brochures. There is a list of "brochure-types" on one of our discussions. If you feel like you are able to help out with content for any brochure-type, feel free to start a thread to develop the content. We should be able to compose content for most of the brochure-types and then offer these to our native language teams for them to work on. We will need to prepare 4 brochures for each brochure-types (1-official A4 version; 1-official USLtr version; 1-community A4 version; 1-community USLtr version). Have fun participating on the content creation. ==================== OFFICIAL BROCHURE ==================== The official version is really for off-set printers and the design notes on the centre panel should really be followed (the design font and colors are listed) The files can be found her</pre> Marc Paré 2013-05-04T09:44:07 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing