Hi :) Bsd tends (or was in the past) far to techie for most people so leaving it off our marketing materials would probably make no difference to most people. Lets face it, mostly people will only notice the "Windows" part and ignore the rest.
It's even possible that seeing mention of the other operating systems, such as Mac, might scare them off. Many computer shops only claim to be able to help Windows users but will often be happy to fix linux problems at a discount. They avoid mentioning that in their literature and advertising because it has been found to scare off Windows users. Windows has a serious malware problems so people get scared easily. People that use Bsd will mostly be used to the idea that if something works in linux then the source code can probably be acquired easily and probably compiled in Bsd fairly easily. So, i am quite happy with the idea of leaving Bsd off the marketing materials but one day it would be nice if we could be open and proud of what our devs & people such as Baptiste Daroussin have achieved. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmas...@krackedpress.com> To: marketing@libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 12 May, 2011 15:35:20 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Simple general LibreOffice flyer (WAS Re: Document Freedom Day Artwork) On 05/12/2011 10:14 AM, C. Olofson wrote: > Hi Marc, Tom; > > I don't mean to muddy the waters unnecessarily but, in the case of *BSD, >"support" would be more likely coming from their end and not TDF's. Also: > > * there are a lot of unrelated *BSD's (e.g. Free-, Open- and netBSD) > * *BSD apps aren't (normally) distributed as pre-compiled packages > but as source to compile > * once an app is "in the ports," it (normally) has a maintainer > (IOW, is supported) > * checking w/those projects will show whether LibO is supported > > So, for example, to see whether an app is supported by FreeBSD, I > > * go to their central applications site: http://www.freshports.org > * search on LibreOffice > * find that 3.2.2 is the current ver and the "maintainer" is > Baptiste Daroussin > > I'm not as familiar with the other *BSD's but, if you want, I'll poke around > to >establish whether they are maintaining LibO and at what version. > > hth, > -Craig > So what would you add to this sample document that would reflect BSD, or should it be kept the same? http://libreoffice-na.us/dvd-insert-mine-sample.pdf This is a sample of some of the text needed for an insert for the inside of the DVD case for our distribution DVD of LibreOffice. We have a case cover, a label, and now we are working on an inserted document for that case. I/we want to keep it simple to use and read. It is going to be read by home and office users, tech people and general computer users. So it must be easy to read and understand by the user that has the least computer skills, who at least knows how to install their own software and use a web browser. We could make another document that is more tech oriented, and include that as well, but it will need some "warning label" stating that this is for those who need more technical information. BSD installation may be something that would be in such a technical document, if someone knows how to do such an install. > On 05/12/2011 04:05 AM, Marc Paré wrote: >> Le 2011-05-12 06:45, Tom Davies a écrit : >>> Hi :) >>> >>> Hah, i can't find it in the downloads drop-down any-more. I'm sure it was >>>there >>> quite recently. There was documentation on how to install LibreOffice in Bsd >>> somewhere in documentation. Hopefully i might get time later to try to find >>> it. Note that no other Office Suite works on Bsd afaik so it would be quite >>> sweet to acknowledge it. >>> Regards from >>> Tom :) >>> >> You may want to check on the dev list. If Bsd is officially supported, then >> we >>will make adjustments to our marketing materials. It would be nice if it were >>supported. AFAIK, there was talk of it on the dev list and some people got it >>to >>work, but then the threads just died out. Maybe there were problems with >>getting >>committed devs for BSD. >> >> Cheers >> >> Marc >> >> > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
