Like I mentioned on another mailing list in OOo, Mozilla is very very good at marketing. They put a lot of effort in extensions and addons because they want to keep the firefox code trim and agile. So most of the community developers are focused on performance at core and on creativity at extensions.
Just as I was in FISL at the BrOffice boot next to the mozilla boot. I notice that mozilla had activities all day long while we were just merely hanging out wtih outselves. I think that the economic factor is true, yes, big flat screen TVs showing video commercial of firefox would be very expensive to replciate. However they had contest that they exchange for swag, the contest on creating the best extension. This is something we could have done, same as doing in-boot tutorails of OOo for developers. Putting this feeling on the website, I wonder if we can have bounties such as putting 1000 dls prize to fixing the SVG imports in OOo issue, or creating better SQL sentence UI for Base. And the key will be promoting this contest all across the website. Which would be the most important part from markeitng and webdev and that is what Mozilla do so well. Sorry for the rant but I guess this is an emphatic yes, and look what else we could promote within the extension realm. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Per Eriksson<[email protected]> wrote: > John McCreesh skrev: >> >> Is that the 'add-ons' link? >> > > Yes that's right. I think that is one of the reasons that the Mozilla > community has been able to get the addons into their marketing message quite > strongly. > > From a marketing perspective I think it's a good idea if we really want > extensions to be in focus. > > Per > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
