Re: [board-discuss] Re: Some problems.

2020-07-17 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi there, I thought I'd pull together a thread that runs through a subset of the comments here: Here is Mark S writing in bugzilla: > Let LibreOffice stay LibreOffice, and let any commercial derivatives > deal with naming issues of their products on their own time. Several other

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Some problems.

2020-07-14 Thread toki
On 2020/07/14 10:41, Michael Meeks wrote: > On 12/07/2020 20:32, toki wrote: >> On 2020/07/08 12:40, Michael Meeks wrote: >>> I think Thorsten stated more cleanly as: >>> >>> "The market for desktop libreoffice is tough; >>> sales cycles frequently count in multiple years" >> >> I'd b

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Some problems.

2020-07-14 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Jonathon, On 12/07/2020 20:32, toki wrote: > On 2020/07/08 12:40, Michael Meeks wrote: >> I think Thorsten stated more cleanly as: >> >> "The market for desktop libreoffice is tough; >> sales cycles frequently count in multiple years" > > I'd blame the lack of sales on Collabor

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Some problems.

2020-07-12 Thread toki
On 2020/07/08 12:40, Michael Meeks wrote: > One clarification since it caused some private questions: > > On 07/07/2020 21:13, Michael Meeks wrote: >> Collabora - despite C'bra still putting a lot of work into >> LibreOffice Desktop, having an outstanding support capability, doing >> lots of

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Some problems.

2020-07-10 Thread Uwe Altmann
Am 08.07.20 um 16:44 schrieb Kev M: > I also think someone earlier referenced that this could be > interpreted as being against the TDF bylaws, so those might need to > be changed anyway. This is a big part of the problem because this is exactly an option that cannot be done - at least not in a w

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Some problems.

2020-07-08 Thread kainz.a
What I would like to have is something like an >>I love your work button<< when you add somewhere on forum, ask, bz, release notes, (everywhere) a name of a community member you can click on the name come to his webpage where you can click a like button or maybe an donate button. It's not like

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Some problems.

2020-07-08 Thread Kev M
What if as part of the $5 (or $2, something accessible) annual co-op membership with Libreoffice you got access to the support forums? Those who wanted to spend the time to help support the project to provide free tech support to others would feel good knowing that the people they were helping w

[board-discuss] Re: Some problems.

2020-07-08 Thread Kev M
Hopes this works as I've never used a mailing list before.. 1) I'm making the assumption, not having this information, that Collabora Office is cheaper than Microsoft Office and other Office Suite software. How much cheaper is it? If it's just as functional as competitors but it is less expensi

[board-discuss] Re: Some problems.

2020-07-08 Thread Michael Meeks
One clarification since it caused some private questions: On 07/07/2020 21:13, Michael Meeks wrote: > Collabora - despite C'bra still putting a lot of work into > LibreOffice Desktop, having an outstanding support capability, doing > lots of marketing, being the largest code contributor to L

[board-discuss] Re: Some problems..

2020-07-07 Thread Peter Dolding
https://people.gnome.org/~michael/data/vendor-neutral-marketing.html Yes I agree there are some problems. Michael Meeks. But attempting to fix those problems is not a valid reason to make an individual version as this creates more problems. Collabora really is forking the brand making their own

[board-discuss] Re: Some problems.

2020-07-07 Thread kainz.a
Hi This is my feedback from a community member point of view. * LibreOffice is at serious risk If I need help as a community contributor I get a lot of feedback from Heiko which is fine and very welcome. If I need coding support it's not that easy cause there is no person from TDF who will suppo