Re: [us-marketing] LibreOffice Pamphlet

On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 10:16 -0500, Marc Paré wrote:
> I have been cooperating with another member on a LibreOffice pamphlet 
> that could be used at conferences. Here is our latest iteration. I still 
> have a couple of things that need to be done/checked on it:
>
> 1. I wanted to verify if this statement is true as it is written on the 
> pamphlet:
>
> "LibreOffice is the first large office suite, which uses the new OASIS 
> OpenDocument Format 1.2 as the default storage format, the future 
> international standard for office software."

False. it is not the first.

> =====
>
> 2. In this paragraph:
>
> "The OASIS is supported by all major manufacturers in the information 
> technology, including Computer Associates, EDS, IBM, Oracle, Novell and 
> Microsoft. OpenDocument Format is supported by the European Commission 
> and is recommended as a document exchange format.  Through the 
> OpenDocument Format, files can be easily viewed or edited with the many 
> programs that support this format as well."

This paragraph and the one before it are not quite accurate. I can give
you a suggestion on a fix. (see below)

> I was wondering if I should add Google to this list as well and are 
> there any other major players that should be mentioned.

Google does support ODF.

> At the same time, should there be a note on trademark seeing as these 
> names are appearing on the pamphlet; if so can someone suggest a short 
> sentence?

It wouldn't hurt - you can put them all in a very tiny text box with
their TM notifications in the footer of the back panel, BE SURE to
include the TDF trademark for LbreOffice BTW, at least that is how I
would do it, and not mess with it in the body text.


> ============
>
> 3. Could someone proof the pamphlet? Check to see if the description of 
> the 6 applications are good enough (the descriptions were pulled from 
> the website to add consistency).

Just looked it over - there are a couple of changes that need to be made
(from above), and a few others I wold recommend.
> =============
>
> 4. The application icons. I left a message on the design mailing list. 
> But as of this writing there was still no answer. Are these the right 
> icons? If so, do they look OK? I could not find any link to the LibO 
> icon set on our Marketing wiki pages ... IMO ... they should show there 
> as they are a working part of our section.

These are the only official application icons, for the TDF version of
LibO. You could use the new mime-type icons however. The application
icons are changing, but I'm almost certain they are not in any locked
down state yet. 

> =============
>
> I have left a copy on the wiki pages[1]. Feel free to comment. As you 
> can see there is very little space left to add any more content.

Going forward someone I would recommend working with  ODFAuthors this
way you could put these type of artifacts under a full version document
control system. That would be only a recommendation not a requirement
IMO - but you guys will need to work that out for yourselves.

So for now if you like I can make the suggested edits (with change
control turned on in the document) in a copy and send it back to you -
if that is ok with you?

Thanks for this work, to both you and the anonymous contributor :-/

Drew



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