RE: [odf-adoption] Article for new OpenOffice Magazine

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

Thanks for the offer, Rob. I believe Louis and Charles are looking into this,
to ensure this new publication is something we want to support. As soon as they
give me the green light, I'll get back to you and Peter.

Carol 

-----Original Message-----
From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com [mailto:robert_weir@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 3:43 PM
To: odf-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [odf-adoption] Article for new OpenOffice Magazine


I'm willing to help as well.   

Carol, do you have info on deadlines, etc.?   

-Rob 


peter.vandenabeele.be@gmail.com wrote on 10/15/2007 04:51:20 PM:

> On 10/15/07, Carol Geyer <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org> wrote:
> > The editor of a new hardcopy publication, OpenOffice Magazine, has
> requested a
> > 2,000-word article on OpenDocument from the ODF Adoption 
> Committee. The article
> > should be aimed at every day users and cover what ODF means to them and
what
> > benefits they get from using an open document format as opposed to other
> > formats.
> >
> > Is the Committee interested in providing this?
> 
> I think we should do this, but maybe ask if we can retain the right to also
> publish it online (e.g. with a 30 days delay after the publication of the
> hardcopy magazine), so we can re-use it for general promotion of the ODF
> advantage.
> 
> I would be willing to co-author (particularly if it can be freely reused,
e.g.
> after a 30 day lock-up).
> 
> Peter