Re: [marketing] Bundling of extensions in OpenOffice.org

2009-04-19 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Alexandro, My point is that the 'extension' shouldn't give a sense that it was included with OOo download. I agree that PDF importa was an example of what extensions can do for OOo. But a link to the extension repository and a note of examples like this one would be enough. I agree with y

Re: [marketing] Bundling of extensions in OpenOffice.org

2009-04-18 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:09:24 -0500, Florian Effenberger wrote: Marketing should also not bundle extension marketing with OOo like what happened on 3.0 when we decide to push the PDF import extension as a core part of the new version of OOo. Hm, I'm undetermined here. I think the marketing f

Re: [marketing] Bundling of extensions in OpenOffice.org

2009-04-18 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, No but my thought is that we should make a GUI package manager smarter and able to browse and get the extensions through OOo. I agree. For sure, we did lots of good things to extensions the last months. Our extensions repository website has lots of users and installing extensions in Open

Re: [marketing] Bundling of extensions in OpenOffice.org

2009-04-16 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Martin, Based on the proposal http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ESC/Criteria_for_bundling_extensions we got the following requirements from technical point of view: thanks for bringing this to our

Re: [marketing] Bundling of extensions in OpenOffice.org

2009-04-16 Thread Benjamin Horst
Alexandro is completely right about the importance of making this process effortless for OOo users. The Dashboard concept we have been working on may be a good foundation for the seamless browsing and installation of extensions he has described--indeed, it is inspired by the ease of downloadin

Re: [marketing] Bundling of extensions in OpenOffice.org

2009-04-16 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi Martin, > >> Based on the proposal >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ESC/Criteria_for_bundling_extensions >> we got the following requirements from technical point of view: > > thanks for bringing this to our attention (and

Re: [marketing] Bundling of extensions in OpenOffice.org

2009-04-16 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Martin, Based on the proposal http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ESC/Criteria_for_bundling_extensions we got the following requirements from technical point of view: thanks for bringing this to our attention (and sorry for my late reply). The most important question to me is: Shall

Re: [marketing] Bundling of extensions in OpenOffice.org

2009-04-06 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
One of the points of concern, which you had noted in your mail, was the availability of source code. Since extensions are 3rd party (and, I may be wrong here), how can it be made binding that the source code be available ? On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Martin Hollmichel wrote: > Extensions sho

[marketing] Bundling of extensions in OpenOffice.org

2009-04-06 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, in last ESC meeting (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ESC_meeting_minutes_20090309) there was the item "Define Criteria when to bundle extensions" on the agenda. Based on the proposal http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ESC/Criteria_for_bundling_extensions we got the follo