Hi, On 30-Nov-2013, at 16:06, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Hagar Delest <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Le 27/11/2013 20:23, Rob Weir a écrit : >> >>> Yesterday we reached 80,072,389 downloads. >> >> >> Well, I also saw this: >> https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=62425 (South >> Tyrol government to standardise on LibreOffice) and especially the quote >> from last post: "We opted for LibreOffice over OpenOffice because we think >> this gives us more guarantees. It has a more consistent and constantly >> growing community of developers and by statute has to be independent from >> corporations," Pfeifer said. >> > > 7000 desktops? Really? We get more than that many downloads every > *hour*, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year (on average). Just because > our users are anonymous does not make them any less relevant. Quite. > >> LibO is getting more and more momentum (French referential uses LibO too, >> something that will be implemented in more and more institutions). I wonder >> why AOO doesn't report similar successes. >> > > South Tyrol has been migration to OpenOffice for nearly a decade now. > I remember seeing them give a presentation on this at the Orvietto > OpenOffice.org conference, for example. Hopefully one of these years > they will complete this task. But this is hardly news. > Indeed. In fact, their effort has gone in cycles, and those cycles seem to me related to the job tenacity of a few. Of more interest, as it relates to actualities, would be Munich's migration but also other cities' in Italy. >> Are we lacking marketing power? Or key people? >> > > It depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Any one migrating to > a free office suite as part of a migration to Linux will either take > LibreOffice or Calligra. If we want to give them the easy choice of > AOO as well then we need to get AOO packages for the distros. > Personally I don't think the Linux desktop is worth the effort. That > is my personal view, and I don't force it on anyone else, but that's > my honest opinion. I agree with Rob. I also tend to think that even for something like AOO, mobile is on the horizon and needs to be embraced. Not all modules of the suite will do well in mobile—I don't relish the idea of doing spreadsheets, for instance, on a tablet. But I also don't relish the idea of doing spreadsheets on anything. I also don't cotton to the idea of porting AOO straight to Android or iOS. I prefer the idea of developing native ODT editors. But mobile is an inescapable object in our present's future. > > Regards, > > -Rob -louis > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
