Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Promoting RCs on Facebook

Do we really want to advertise RCs on Facebook or Twitter?

I know that advertising the regular releases vis social networks would 
be a good idea, but having people comment about issues with RCs on the 
social networks might confuse people.

I rarely use the social networks.  I signed up and I get "friend" 
requests from people wanting to sell me things or people that I have 
nothing in common with, including the language we speak.  Then there are 
people who want me to be with their fan-club type of groups.  Sorry, I 
do not have time for these people.

To be honest, having good word-of-mouth about LibreOffice is always 
good, but I really do not know how many people out there on these social 
networks would know the difference between a RC version and a 
"finalized" version.

Then there is the potential issue of 3.5.1 being recommended over 3.4.5 
on the web page download system.  I personally would not recommend 
3.5.0, and now 3.5.1 for business and enterprise users.  I do not think 
with all the problems with this new line, we want to recommend 3.5.0/1 
for ALL users.

That is another thing that confused a business man who was going to 
download a new version of LO.  He had 3.4.4 and hear that there was a 
new version out and downloaded 3.5.0.  He should have download 3.4.5 for 
his business computers.  He really was turned off by the problems with 
3.5.0.

That same type of negative user response could happen with people seeing 
problems and issues with RC version of the package on the social networks.

IF you have it there, you must make it clear that LO RC-1-3.5.2 or  
RC-1-3.4.6 is a release candidate being tested for errors/issues and not 
the normal release.

Well that is my opinion.

On 03/16/2012 11:06 AM, drew jensen wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 15:34 +0100, Volker Merschmann wrote:
> > Hi Cor,
> >
> > 2012/3/16 Cor Nouws<oolst@nouenoff.nl>:
> > > Volker Merschmann wrote (07-03-12 13:59)
> > > > In the meantime I have found the names of the maintainers: Gerard
> > > > Jensen, Don Crowley, Nikola Yanev
> > > > I do not know any of them and they are not linked from the FB-page.
> > > >
> > > > Can anybody help?
> > >
> > > Don't know them either. But am willing to post a polite message, if in the
> > > mean time (we're only 9 days later ;-) ) not someone else took action on
> > > this.
> > As there is no possiblity to write to the page owners I commented on
> > https://www.facebook.com/libreoffice.org/posts/364685130219760 with
> > some hints, but nobody of them replied.
> >
> > I think we have to wait for the next pre-release and see how they will act.
> Well, at least the general public can post to their page - more then can
> be said for some.
>
>
> > Volker
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Volker Merschmann
> > Member of The Document Foundation
> > http://www.documentfoundation.org


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