On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
And let's not forget that Emilia-Romagna recently announced a migration to OpenOffice: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/openoffice-italian-emilia-romagna-save-2-million -Rob > >>> 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
