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A Note

Please add all your ideas to this wiki page. Having ideas in the mailing list archives is good, but it's much better to have a compilation in the wiki for easy reference.

Personalized Stamps

• producing personalized stamps with OOo logo
• Hungarian post: Kami
• German post: Florian(?)
• Netherlands: cornouws

Hosting a Worldwide Event

• Set up a venue in each country, or even several venues per country
• Link all of those with video conferencing
• If it's multinational, talk about something multinational, e.g. localisations

Do a Countdown

• Count down the days to our anniversary (October 13th) from OOoCon on
• Issue something every week, e.g.
  • Monday: business case
  • Friday: community insight
• use videos

Countdown Timeline

• Week 36 - launch - (Tuesday, August 31, 2010 – Friday, September 3, 2010) - OOoCon
• Week 37 -
• Week 38 - highlight - (Saturday, September 18) Software Freedom Day
• Week 39 -
• Week 40 -
• Week 41 -
• Week 42 - finale (Wednesday, October 13) - OOo Turns Ten!

Freedom Flying Discs & Photo Album

• Print Flying Discs with OOo logo and www.openoffice.org hostname and distribute them at OOoCon
• Community members make photos of frisbee in their countries/regions and give the frisbee to other community members (or users) in the spirit of free and open source software.
• For the 10th anniversary we have a photo album where everyone can see how far OOo has come and how many different people it helps.
• frisbee slogan proposals:
  • Turn Free! OpenOffice.org
  • ... add your slogan proposal here ...

Stickers

• Print stickers with the OOo logo and www.openoffice.org and distribute them at OOoCon
• What size and shape?

Press

• Encourage magazines to have a special 10-year-anniversary isuse
  • BrOffice magazine
  • Ubuntu FullCircle
  • Free Software Magazine
• Make interviews with the community (Charles Schulz currently does some)

Questions to ask

• What do you expect from OOo?
• What did OOo give you?
• How do you feel about it?
• How they use OOo in regular activities?
• What has been the biggest advantage from using it?
• How they got started using OOo and why?
• What they expect from an office suite ten years from now?
• Where did you first see OOo and when?
• When did you first install a copy of OOo and on what?
• How many upgrades have you been through and where did you source them?
• One item of advice for the marketers, developers and new users!