On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > >>> > On 05/24/2012 11:46 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Just checking the numbers: we appear to be at 1.8 million for AOO 3.4 >>> >> install downloads. >>> >> >>> >> It might make sense to put out another story when we hit 2 million. >>> > >>> > >>> > why not! :) >>> > >>> >>> OK. I'll work with Don on this. But after this I suggest we only >>> note the downloads at 5 million intervals. Otherwise we will spend >>> too much time writing news articles and too little time improving >>> OpenOffice. >>> >> >> this definitely makes sense... >> >> We might note that June 1 is the first anniversary OpenOffice with Apache. >> Maybe the new DL stats announcement, if the timeline is right, might make >> note of this and include a mention of how successful this new >> environment/arrangement has been for OpenOffice. Just a thought. >> > > It looks like we'll hit 2 million sometime tomorrow (Saturday). If > we wait until June 1st (Friday) we'll be around 2.5. But announcing > on Friday is not good for getting press attention. And if we wait > until the next week, June 4th, then we'll almost be at 3 million. >
Just checked and we're at 1.98 million. So we'll hit 2 million later this evening. I'll start the write-up. -Rob > So.... maybe we just make a smaller announcement, via > ooo-dev/ooo-users and social media for the 2 million mark, when we > actually hit it. Then for the larger Symphony announcement we also > note the 1 year achievement as well as give an updated download count, > 2.5 or 3.0 million, depending on when that is ready for release. > >> >> >>> A good problem to have ;-) >>> >>> -Rob >>> >>> > >>> >> Maybe this can be combined with the piece on Symphony that Don was >>> >> working on? >>> > >>> > >>> > yes...good idea! >>> > >>> >> >>> >> -Rob >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> > MzK >>> > >>> > "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." >>> > -- Mark Twain >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> MzK >> >> "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." >> -- Mark Twain