On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > I'm at Oscon for most of the week Oscon is the open source convention of note > and where the term, "open source" was in fact coined. It draws those from all > sectors. Apache has a room tomorrow, where I can present a brief (or boringly > long) summary of work being done. I expect critiques as well as queries > regarding process and product. > > I've kept in touch with what is going on. But my interest is in learning what > you have to say and would have me say. It's not an official representation > that I'll give; it's more a subjective zeitgeist presentation. > > So here are some areas: > > * status of the product: where are we? > > * status of the product: where are we going, what is the next release and > when? >
AOO 3.4 released on May 8th. Now working on AOO 3.4.1, with target release at end of July. > * status of the product: how popular is it? We've just breached 7M downloads > since inception of AOO (i) but where do we stand regarding locations of > downloads, etc? What kinds of platforms? What languages? > We just exceeded 8 million downloads. Platform distribution is: Windows: 87% Mac: 11% Linux: 2% Language distribution is: 38%: en-US 16%: fr 12%: de 11%: it 7%: es 7%: ja 4%: ru 2%: nl 2%: zh-TW 1%: cs <1%: zn-CN, ar, gl, hu > * Status of project: how are the NLCs doing? > Recently created L10n mailing list. # of translations increasing, though we're still short of where OOo 3.3 was. > * Status of community: what can be done in the community to improve? > > - communication efforts? > - regional outreach? > - other? > I'm sure you have thoughts here. > These are all fairly obvious and even whimsical questions and points; feel > free to add more. The presentation, too, will be brief— > > Thanks > Louis
