Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Magazine (Brazilian community)

Hi :)
It is tricky to find a good word.  In England "collaborators" has a hint of 
revolutionary/terrorist activity & shady dodgy characters working towards the 
downfall of the country as in the French Revolution.  "Workers" can hint at 
"comrades" which hints at communism and is seen as bad.  "Co-workers" is 
possibly fairly hippy which would make it far worse than any of the above.  
"Colleagues" is possibly best although it's fairly posh so although some  office 
workers might understand it many people wouldn't.  It also implies that you have 
no control over them as they are on the same level as you in the hierarchy of 
the organisation.  "Employees" is the one that might cause the least amount of 
confusion even though the people volunteered and didn't get paid.  At least with 
"Employees" it shows that you have some control so it's more accurate.  
"Volunteers" implies the work is such poor quality that it's worthless, an 
attitude that constantly annoys me a LOT given the amount of amazing amount of 
great work  i see every day from volunteers compared to the low quality of work 
i often see from paid workers.  Perhaps "Journalists that wrote the articles"?

I do like "Employees" & "Colleagues" because it hints at corporate 
professionalism.  I like "Collaborators"  but many would be suspicious of it.  
"Journalists that supplied the articles" might be better in this specific case.  


England is a very frustrating place sometimes.  
Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Paulo de Souza Lima <paulo.s.lima@varekai.org>
To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Wed, 13 July, 2011 23:31:20
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Magazine (Brazilian community)

Employees??? =D better collaborators huh?

Cheers.

2011/7/13 luizheli@gmail.com <luizheli@gmail.com>

> Hi all,
>
> For Information only!!!
>
> Today the Brazilian community was awarded a very special invitation. The
> person responsible for site http://www.recortes.cv/, from Cabo Verde (Cape
> Verde)asked us permission to publish the BrOffice Magazine (now,
> LibreOffice
> Magazine) on its website. Because the magazine is done collaborative I'm
> asking permission to all employees on our local list.
>
> Rgds,
>
> Luiz Oliveira
>
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