On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > On 30-Nov-2013, at 16:06, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Hagar Delest <hagar.del...@laposte.net> > 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. but...as a Linux person, this is somewhat sad for me -- although I personally have NO problems with installation. This said, the ease of installation on Linux seems to depend a lot on how easy your distro makes installing non-repo packages. My major concern at this point in the continuation of Linux packaging for AOO in some form. > 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. > Agreed. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > -Rob > > -louis > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect." -- James Mason
