Re: [board-discuss] LibreOffice in app stores free, paid or both?
Hi Laszlo, On 11/07/2022 17:38, laszlo.nem...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi Paolo, Hi All, On 2022-07-11 15:52, Paolo Vecchi wrote: Hi all, I just wanted to ask the community how they think LibreOffice should be published in the various app stores. Should it be: a. available at a cost b. free More precisely, free of charge. LibreOffice could remain free with the first option, too. See also https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html (It starts with "Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU Project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible—just enough to cover the cost. This is a misunderstanding.") Naturally we all know that and that's why "free" in this context I didn't think it needed explaining. c. both As this is one of the items that will be discussed during tonight's board meeting, it would be great to have comments in writing and also having you in the meeting to share your point of view. Today topic of the board meeting is only the initial publication, according to the agenda sent last week: "2. Status Report, Discuss: Status: LibreOffice in the app stores (Florian Effenberger, Paolo Vecchi, Thorsten Behrens, 15 mins) Status report and various ongoing discussions: * current status & timeline * publishing 'LibreOffice' free of charge initially? * publish 'LibreOffice Supporter' stating that users should buy that to support TDF"? * withdraw the free version if donation flow impacted? * update cycle, and how to move people to new versions? * should previous buyers (from licensed offers) get vouchers on request?" The issue is that an agenda has been sent out after the vote about the things we should have discussed started. The questions you see there are a good part of the objections I made for which no answer or debate has been made. The wisest thing, IMHO, would have been to debate those, come to an agreement on how to handle those issues and then run a vote for something that had at least the resemblance of a plan. It's worth speaking about the possible future options later (which could be more). Moreover, as you well know, the board is going to do that after a few months, based on the experience with the initial publication. Well... I mentioned the strategic benefits of starting with the free version and that we could have published it much earlier but we are still stuck with paperwork for the paid version. Now the only urgent task was to decide about the initial publication, so your question was misleading a little bit. Sorry but there was no "urgent task to decide about the initial publication", we would have done that if there was an actual debate with various options and strategies on the table. Would have made a difference to ask for feedback from the community last week, talk about it during the week and today and then go for a more structured vote where we could all have taken a more informed decision? Now we are still stuck as we should decide if we want to use only "LibreOffice" or use "LibreOffice %something", decide on the eventual duration of upgrades and decide on potential use of vouchers to start with so I guess that it doesn't make sense to publish until we decided what to offer and that pushes the decision to next week or the one after. If objections were being listened to maybe today we could have announced an actual strategy and that this week LibreOffice would have been published with a clear message. Best regards, László Ciao Paolo -- Paolo Vecchi - Member of the Board of Directors The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Open letter for revive LOOL, add your +1 if you agree
+1 It is so necessary in terms of competitively. I do not have a say technical wise.
[board-discuss] RE: [tdf-internal] Open letter for revive LOOL, add your +1 if you agree
Dreaming is free, but not for TDF, the great effort needed for this matter, without establishing a plausible plan, will lead us to invest resources, material and personal, perhaps for nothing, detracting them from other areas, also important, too much risk. OTOH, sorry but having Andreas (hope not misleading the person) as reference does not have my support, I have always seen in him a bit of a bitter attitude. I also don't like the confrontation with the companies that support us, instead of finding ways to work together, seems to me the reason to be here. While I think there is no other solution, especially on this matter. Hope we can get some bridges back. I can give +1 if a credible plan is established. Regards. Miguel Ángel Ríos From: tdf-internal On Behalf Of Daniel A. Rodriguez Sent: domingo, 10 de julio de 2022 22:42 To: board-discuss@documentfoundation.org Cc: tdf-inter...@lists.documentfoundation.org Subject: [tdf-internal] Open letter for revive LOOL, add your +1 if you agree We, the undersigned, would like to express our great concern regarding the definitive closure of the repository of what was LibreOffice Online. Considering the mission of facilitating access to information and communication technologies as a fundamental and strategic achievement of inclusion and exercise of digital sovereignty. As a foundation committed to eliminating the digital divide in society by giving everyone free access to office productivity tools, the most important thing is to demonstrate that we are committed to offering alternatives to all those individuals and organizations that lack the resources to hire corporate services. We intend with this message, an absolute rethinking of the vote that established the current condition of the repository, which belongs to the community and should welcome improvements from all over the community, as we consider it goes against the objectives outlined by The Document Foundation. To avoid the process of atticization, as the clock is already ticking, and, at the same time, emphasize the global nature of the foundation we urge full consideration of the two proposals that have been made so far. Support Andreas Mantke's effort to revive the LOOL project. Who has already succeeded in upgrading the pre-fork code base to current libraries and dependencies versions. (https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/2022/msg00684.html) Implement the OxOffice On Line Community Version fork that already has several improvements before the LOOL version has been frozen, including those implemented in the commercial versions, and bugs fixed by them as they see fit. (https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/2022/msg00694.html) In any case, since this is a community version TDF must show its commitment to its core values and do everything in their power to grow LOOL community in order to continue development. Sincerely yours, LibreOffice Community Members and Activists around the world. -- Uso LibreOffice, por privacidad, seguridad y control de mis datos. Da un vistazo a la mejor suite de oficina: https://es.libreoffice.org O únete a la Comunidad Hispana: https://matrix.to/#/#hispanos:documentfoundation.org
Re: [board-discuss] LibreOffice in app stores free, paid or both?
Hi Paolo, Hi All, On 2022-07-11 15:52, Paolo Vecchi wrote: Hi all, I just wanted to ask the community how they think LibreOffice should be published in the various app stores. Should it be: a. available at a cost b. free More precisely, free of charge. LibreOffice could remain free with the first option, too. See also https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html (It starts with "Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU Project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible—just enough to cover the cost. This is a misunderstanding.") c. both As this is one of the items that will be discussed during tonight's board meeting, it would be great to have comments in writing and also having you in the meeting to share your point of view. Today topic of the board meeting is only the initial publication, according to the agenda sent last week: "2. Status Report, Discuss: Status: LibreOffice in the app stores (Florian Effenberger, Paolo Vecchi, Thorsten Behrens, 15 mins) Status report and various ongoing discussions: * current status & timeline * publishing 'LibreOffice' free of charge initially? * publish 'LibreOffice Supporter' stating that users should buy that to support TDF"? * withdraw the free version if donation flow impacted? * update cycle, and how to move people to new versions? * should previous buyers (from licensed offers) get vouchers on request?" It's worth speaking about the possible future options later (which could be more). Moreover, as you well know, the board is going to do that after a few months, based on the experience with the initial publication. Now the only urgent task was to decide about the initial publication, so your question was misleading a little bit. Best regards, László Ciao Paolo -- László Németh, Member of the Board of Directors The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.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.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[board-discuss] Re: [tdf-internal] Open letter for revive LOOL, add your +1 if you agree
Hi all, I think it is justified to spent some more words on this open letter. And do so already now. Daniel A. Rodriguez wrote on 10/07/2022 22:42: We, the undersigned, would like to express our great concern regarding the definitive closure of the repository of what was LibreOffice Online. ... This statement, on which people have been encouraged to vote on, is false. There is no decision nor proposal for the "definitive closure of the repository of what was LibreOffice Online". And people that worked on this statement/open letter should know that (1). It has been explained more than once, also on this list, that no one is blocking anyone on working on the code and project. More in detail: there are clear conditions for atticization for projects and also for de-atticization of projects. These normally applies to this the repository as well. All has been agreed upon by the active LibreOffice contributors in the ESC. And the reason is to prevent ghost-repositories to hang actively on TDF's infra. The reason is not to stop anyone to work on the code he/she loves. How beautiful and simple it that. [ For reference: 1) (lazy looking at my own mail, but there are more around with even better info I guess) see e.g.: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/2022/msg00746.html https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/2022/msg00771.html ] As a foundation committed to eliminating the digital divide in society by giving everyone free access to office productivity tools, the most important thing is to demonstrate that we are committed to offering alternatives to all those individuals and organizations that lack the resources to hire corporate services. No doubt about foundations objectives, I refer to a workshop/discussion that will be held at the LibOCOn in Milan. Something that - as far as I've noticed - has only been receiving support (2). 2) https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/2022/msg00748.html and replies to that! ... To avoid the process of atticization, as the clock is already ticking, and, at the same time, emphasize the global nature of the foundation we urge full consideration of the two proposals that have been made so far. ... And finally wrt these proposals: no one is blocking anyone to work on these. Greetings, Cor -- Cor Nouws, member Board of Directors The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint GPD key ID: 0xB13480A6 - 591A 30A7 36A0 CE3C 3D28 A038 E49D 7365 B134 80A6 mobile : +31 (0)6 25 20 7001 skype : cornouws blog: cor4office-nl.blogspot.com jabber : cor4off...@jabber.org -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.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.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[board-discuss] Re: LibreOffice in app stores free, paid or both?
Hi Am 11.07.22 um 15:52 schrieb Paolo Vecchi: I just wanted to ask the community how they think LibreOffice should be published in the various app stores. Should it be: a. available at a cost b. free c. both "Various app stores" invites me to open the next playground :-) Free in F-Droid, but a (small) fee in Google Play scnr: Meant just for those who prefer to work on solutions instead pledging "censorship" by putting a mailing list under moderation where thy are afaik included in the list of moderators. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Uwe Altmann -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.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.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[board-discuss] Re: LibreOffice in app stores free, paid or both?
Hi, Given that the vast majority of TDF's income is from donations, specifically donations at the time of downloading LibreOffice from TDF's website, I believe we should change a small fee for app store versions. Otherwise, as more and more users get LibreOffice from app stores (and therefore don't see our donate page), our income will decrease. Mike -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.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.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[board-discuss] Re: LibreOffice in app stores free, paid or both?
Free of charge, IMO. We discuss whether TDF should provide a zero-cost LOOL, so how to justify a fee on app stores? And I don't buy the additional effort argument. The initial effort has been done anyway. On 11.07.22 15:52, Paolo Vecchi wrote: Hi all, I just wanted to ask the community how they think LibreOffice should be published in the various app stores. Should it be: a. available at a cost b. free c. both As this is one of the items that will be discussed during tonight's board meeting, it would be great to have comments in writing and also having you in the meeting to share your point of view. Ciao Paolo -- Dr. Heiko Tietze, UX-Designer and UX-Mentor Tel: +49 30 5557992-63 | Mail: heiko.tie...@documentfoundation.org The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[board-discuss] Re: LibreOffice in app stores free, paid or both?
We provide a free version to all users on our website, which can be installed with a negligible effort on Windows (to disable the block) and macOS (to allow software from third parties), so the version available from app stores should have a cost (not only to cover the additional effort and expenses, but also to educate users to make the small effort requested to install the free version, which is often THE excuse for not switching to free software). On 7/11/22 15:52, Paolo Vecchi wrote: Hi all, I just wanted to ask the community how they think LibreOffice should be published in the various app stores. Should it be: a. available at a cost b. free c. both As this is one of the items that will be discussed during tonight's board meeting, it would be great to have comments in writing and also having you in the meeting to share your point of view. Ciao Paolo -- Italo Vignoli - LibreOffice Marketing & PR mobile/signal +39.348.5653829 - emailit...@libreoffice.org GPG Key ID - 0xAAB8D5C0 DB75 1534 3FD0 EA5F 56B5 FDA6 DE82 934C AAB8 D5C0
[board-discuss] LibreOffice in app stores free, paid or both?
Hi all, I just wanted to ask the community how they think LibreOffice should be published in the various app stores. Should it be: a. available at a cost b. free c. both As this is one of the items that will be discussed during tonight's board meeting, it would be great to have comments in writing and also having you in the meeting to share your point of view. Ciao Paolo -- Paolo Vecchi - Member of the Board of Directors The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [board-discuss] Open letter for revive LOOL, add your +1 if you agree
+1. I also wholeheartedly agree. Thank you. Sincerely yours, Ade -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.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.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[board-discuss] Re: [tdf-internal] Open letter for revive LOOL, add your +1 if you agree
+1 Pada tanggal Sen, 11 Jul 2022 pukul 03.42 Daniel A. Rodriguez < drodrig...@libreoffice.org> menulis: > We, the undersigned, would like to express our great concern regarding the > definitive closure of the repository of what was LibreOffice Online. > Considering the mission of facilitating access to information and > communication technologies as a fundamental and strategic achievement of > inclusion and exercise of digital sovereignty. > > As a foundation committed to eliminating the digital divide in society by > giving everyone free access to office productivity tools, the most > important thing is to demonstrate that we are committed to offering > alternatives to all those individuals and organizations that lack the > resources to hire corporate services. > > We intend with this message, an absolute rethinking of the vote that > established the current condition of the repository, which belongs to the > community and should welcome improvements from all over the community, as > we consider it goes against the objectives outlined by The Document > Foundation. > > To avoid the process of atticization, as the clock is already ticking, > and, at the same time, emphasize the global nature of the foundation we > urge full consideration of the two proposals that have been made so far. > > Support Andreas Mantke's effort to revive the LOOL project. Who has > already succeeded in upgrading the pre-fork code base to current libraries > and dependencies versions. ( > https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/2022/msg00684.html > ) > Implement the OxOffice On Line Community Version fork that already has > several improvements before the LOOL version has been frozen, including > those implemented in the commercial versions, and bugs fixed by them as > they see fit. ( > https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/2022/msg00694.html > ) > > In any case, since this is a community version TDF must show its > commitment to its core values and do everything in their power to grow LOOL > community in order to continue development. > > Sincerely yours, LibreOffice Community Members and Activists around the > world. > > > > -- > Uso LibreOffice, por privacidad, seguridad y control de mis datos. > Da un vistazo a la mejor suite de oficina: https://es.libreoffice.org > O únete a la Comunidad Hispana: > https://matrix.to/#/#hispanos:documentfoundation.org > > -- > Postings on this list are considered private communication among TDF > members. Please do NOT share outside this circle! >
Re: [board-discuss] Open letter for revive LOOL, add your +1 if you agree
Hi all, Thanks for sharing your opinions, but the statement here is factual incorrect: Daniel A. Rodriguez wrote on 10/07/2022 22:42: We, the undersigned, would like to express our great concern regarding the definitive closure of the repository of what was LibreOffice Online. ... People interested can find lots of discussion in the archives as well as information on what they and others can do to create the software they like, also under TDF. Cheers, Cor -- Cor Nouws, member Board of Directors The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint GPD key ID: 0xB13480A6 - 591A 30A7 36A0 CE3C 3D28 A038 E49D 7365 B134 80A6 mobile : +31 (0)6 25 20 7001 skype : cornouws blog: cor4office-nl.blogspot.com jabber : cor4off...@jabber.org -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.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.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [board-discuss] Open letter for revive LOOL, add your +1 if you agree
My ha'penneth below. Surely, the point of TDF is/was to foster community driven contributions by all ? If a languishing codebase was already there, and people are now prepared to update it and have a go at making something of it, shouldn't TDF be seen to be supporting such an initiative ? Reversing the decision to atticize LOOL would not be contrary to that aim, or am I missing something ? Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.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.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [board-discuss] Open letter for revive LOOL, add your +1 if you agree
-1 LOOL is just a UI flavor to me. It's nothing without the core and provides just one way to interact with the application (admittedly some special handling which might be important for many). I understand COOL (and any other implementations) as a win-win situation for TDF. If LibreOffice was even more focused on the core application, with for example a generic filter for MS Office and the opportunity to replace it with some always 100%-compatible alternative, the majority of users is still provided with a great office suite and the best document format - free of charge, open source, localized in all tongues... By making an application easy to extend we allow the ecosystem to grow, attract professional developers to work on the application, and (hopefully) make the application more stable (in fact, the expandability comes on some costs first). Collabora offers a free (yet unsupported) version for those who rely on browser interaction. From my experience it requires some expertise to set-up the environment and it is not suited for individuals anyway. Small and mid size companies should afford the IT administration and the subscription which includes support. Keep also in mind that LOOL has not received any major code contribution and is now way behind COOL. PS: I wonder who is addressed by the open letter and the request to vote. Please don't undermine the responsibility of the board. On the other hand, I appreciate to ask the community for opinions and take it as such. On 10.07.22 22:42, Daniel A. Rodriguez wrote: We, the undersigned, would like to express our great concern regarding the definitive closure of the repository of what was LibreOffice Online. Considering the mission of facilitating access to information and communication technologies as a fundamental and strategic achievement of inclusion and exercise of digital sovereignty. As a foundation committed to eliminating the digital divide in society by giving everyone free access to office productivity tools, the most important thing is to demonstrate that we are committed to offering alternatives to all those individuals and organizations that lack the resources to hire corporate services. We intend with this message, an absolute rethinking of the vote that established the current condition of the repository, which belongs to the community and should welcome improvements from all over the community, as we consider it goes against the objectives outlined by The Document Foundation. To avoid the process of atticization, as the clock is already ticking, and, at the same time, emphasize the global nature of the foundation we urge full consideration of the two proposals that have been made so far. Support Andreas Mantke's effort to revive the LOOL project. Who has already succeeded in upgrading the pre-fork code base to current libraries and dependencies versions. (https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/2022/msg00684.html) Implement the OxOffice On Line Community Version fork that already has several improvements before the LOOL version has been frozen, including those implemented in the commercial versions, and bugs fixed by them as they see fit. (https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/2022/msg00694.html) In any case, since this is a community version TDF must show its commitment to its core values and do everything in their power to grow LOOL community in order to continue development. Sincerely yours, LibreOffice Community Members and Activists around the world. -- Uso LibreOffice, por privacidad, seguridad y control de mis datos. Da un vistazo a la mejor suite de oficina: https://es.libreoffice.org O únete a la Comunidad Hispana: https://matrix.to/#/#hispanos:documentfoundation.org -- Dr. Heiko Tietze, UX-Designer and UX-Mentor Tel: +49 30 5557992-63 | Mail: heiko.tie...@documentfoundation.org The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature