Dear Mike, On 4/15/19 10:26 AM, Mike Saunders wrote: > Glad to hear it! Also, that video is three years old now, which is an > age in the software world of course, so I plan to make a new version at > some point. If you (or indeed anyone else) have any feedback or > suggestions for a newer version, just let me know!
great, my suggestions for a new version: 1. The current version is well to use in a presentation but too long for any kind of airtime. So there should a "spot version" as well (something like 20 seconds?). 2. The part starting to explain software freedom (1:05-1:12 [1]) should show more "convincing" picture material. Compare the FSF video "user liberation" [2] watching 0:10-0:54: Here the speaker tells about "freedom respecting tools" and what I *see* is a hammer that I can copy and share with others (so what I hear fits to what I see). The corresponding part in "This is LibreOffice" [1] shows the Download page of libreoffice.org - showing the Download page would fit more in the part "so try it today ... download the latest version" at 1:59 (no need to end up with showing the download page but maybe cross-fading from the LO logo to the download page and back to the logo). 3. Maybe some people of the FLOSS community would be very happy to see the FSF logo next to the OSI logo in 1:15 and even more happy to hear "it's free/libre/open source software" instead of "it's open source". ;) 4. The most essential part of a video promoting FLOSS should be about the question "why I should I use FLOSS like LO?". "This is LibreOffice" has the following answers: 4.1. it is a professional office suit -> okay, but MS Office is as well 4.2. "built around Open Document Format" -> okay, but doc(x) is an open format as well; I know this was not MS' choice but decision makers unfortunately argue with this fact *against* LO 4.3. "I can open many types of file from other office software" -> interesting because most of the people don't know the fact that they don't need Adobe Acrobat for editing PDFs, so I would emphasize the fact that LO Draw can edit PDFs ("you can even edit PDF using LO Draw") 4.4. LO is "free to use, share and modify": 4.4.4. "free": for most of the people this means "without paying money" so this is not a very convincing argument. At my university they sell Office365 for 5€ to the students and a lot of them are very willing to pay this small amount of money not considerung that they just payed 5€ for a "gateway drug". An LO trailer should emphasize that paying for proprietary software ends up in paying for an "ankle monitor" (in terms of "get them while they are young" and data privacy). Maybe a better message would be "with LO you will always be free to donate but never be forced to pay a license (and your personal data)". 4.4.5. "share": This is the most important fact about using FLOSS in my opinion and should be the most important part of a LO promo trailer. The message should be: It is *social* to use LO and *unsocial* to use proprietary office suits. Prorpeitary office suites create vendor lock-ins, LO not. Using LO you use and promote software that everyone in the world can use, especially those who even can not spend 5€. So if you use LO instead of MS Office you don't contribute to "*excluding* digital (learning) spaces". 4.4.6 "modify": Not interesting for the majority of people because they can not code. The interesting fact here should be that you can *let* someone modify the software anytime. Maybe the trailer could point on the history of LO: Most of the people *know* OpenOffice but *don't* know LibreOffice so the video could tell something like "LO for exmaple was developed by modifying an existing FLOSS: Do you remember OpenOffice? LibreOffice started as a modification of OpenOffice to satisfy the demands of users like you. LO will always allow you to (let someone) modify it." 4.5 Emphasizing that LO is a stand-alone software would be an interesting fact as well in times any software company tries to push users to their cloud services, something like "using LO you will never need an internet connection, it works fully offline." I know that it is very hard to communicate all these facts in a trailer of 2min. I think the whole part about the particular LO parts from 0:09 to 0:49 can be told in 10-20 seconds: "Use Writer for your text documents, Calc for your tables, Impress for your presentations etc". There is no need in my opinion to explain the users what they already know using MS Office (the reaction I've experienced introducing people to LO: "Ah okay, so "Writer" is "Word", "Calc" is "Excel" and "Impress" is "PowerPoint", got it!"). Anyway: Thanks for all your work promoting LO. I hope my comments will help making the existing nice promotion trailer even better! :) Best regards Roland [1] https://invidio.us/watch?v=3KC0ZdcA6s8 [2] https://u.fsf.org/user-liberation/ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy