Re: [tdf-discuss] [DOC] User docs: planning ahead
On 4 October 2010 16:19, James Wilde wrote: > > On Oct 3, 2010, at 01:19 , Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > > I want to start developing a "wish list" for documentation for > ordinary > > users (things like user guides, howtos, FAQs, tutorials, training > > materials, and others). We won't have enough people to do everything > on > > the list, but it might encourage new people to contribute in areas > that > > most interest them. > > > > Some issues to consider are: > > * What audiences do we want to reach? What are their needs? Lots of > > overlap with training here. > > If I may be allowed to suggest, there are three main markets to target. > > 1. The very young. Since LibO is free, they can get a first class > product at a price they can afford, and once they're hooked, they'll > stay with it. People do. And the very young are used to free things > from the Internet, but they are also more willing than older people to > actually send a donation for something that they use. Young people do > that. Old people buy licences and there is no LibO licence to buy. > > 2. The very old. Often they've inherited a computer from someone else > in the family who has bought a new one, and they don't have the money to > buy pay-for products. > > 3. Corporations. Who knows, if they get the equivalent of Microsoft's > product for nothing, maybe they'll donate something to the pool. > > But I put my faith in 1 and 2. > > //James > > > In the immortal words of Jon Stewart: "I Disagree With You, But I'm Pretty Sure You're Not Hitler" . What is Microsoft's definition of its market for MS Office? That's the market we should be going for. Going for less is an admission of failure before we even start. Where would Apple be with that attitude? -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please do *not* reply to my personal e-mail address -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] [DOC] User docs: planning ahead
On 10/04/2010 03:19 PM, James Wilde wrote: > 1. The very young. Since LibO is free, they can get a first class pro duct at a price they can afford, Documentation that focuses on OOo4Kids would be the most useful for that market segment. > 2. The very old. I suspect that documentation that focuses on OOoLight would be most useful for that market segment. Both of which come back to do we: * Write that documentation from scratch; * Modify existing OOo documentation for each of those specific programs; jonathon -- No human will see non-list, non-bulk, non-junk email sent to this address. It all gets forwarded to /dev/null -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] [DOC] User docs: planning ahead
On Oct 3, 2010, at 01:19 , Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > I want to start developing a "wish list" for documentation for ordinary > users (things like user guides, howtos, FAQs, tutorials, training > materials, and others). We won't have enough people to do everything on > the list, but it might encourage new people to contribute in areas that > most interest them. > > Some issues to consider are: > * What audiences do we want to reach? What are their needs? Lots of > overlap with training here. If I may be allowed to suggest, there are three main markets to target. 1. The very young. Since LibO is free, they can get a first class product at a price they can afford, and once they're hooked, they'll stay with it. People do. And the very young are used to free things from the Internet, but they are also more willing than older people to actually send a donation for something that they use. Young people do that. Old people buy licences and there is no LibO licence to buy. 2. The very old. Often they've inherited a computer from someone else in the family who has bought a new one, and they don't have the money to buy pay-for products. 3. Corporations. Who knows, if they get the equivalent of Microsoft's product for nothing, maybe they'll donate something to the pool. But I put my faith in 1 and 2. //James -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
[tdf-discuss] [DOC] User docs: planning ahead
I want to start developing a "wish list" for documentation for ordinary users (things like user guides, howtos, FAQs, tutorials, training materials, and others). We won't have enough people to do everything on the list, but it might encourage new people to contribute in areas that most interest them. Some issues to consider are: * What audiences do we want to reach? What are their needs? Lots of overlap with training here. * What type and format of materials are most suitable for each of those audiences? Books (PDF, ODT), wiki, videos, other? * How much can we adapt from existing materials such as the OOo user guides? (so we can move on to developing new materials to fill in the gaps) * What do the available contributors want to work on? There's no use in saying "our first priority is X" if no one is willing, available and knowledgable enough to actually do the work. When we have a wiki, I'll be happy to start a page where we can collect ideas and get feedback. And I'll try to do a better job than the rather scattered collection of pages at OOo. Meanwhile, here are two pages I started for tutorials on OOo: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Tutorials/Targeted http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Tutorials/Styles_and_Templates --Jean -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
