Re: [libreoffice-design] Does LibreOffice need more promotion?

Axel,

This is not the best list for posting this kind of comments (discuss@ would be better) and other 
than that, Libreoffice is an office suite, not printing software...

Best,

Charles.


Axel <axelist@lavabit.com> a écrit :
> Pablo,
>
> There is another area where LibreOffice need more promotion and work to
>
> help the spread and this is related to the companies that are
> developing 
> solutions for various industries, IMHO. For example, almost any big 
> company needs a lot of papers printed automatically from various 
> software solutions (reports, administrative documents, medical results 
> etc.). And those software applications need a reliable and, preferable,
>
> free printing distribution software server to work with. In order to 
> respond quickly using customizable offerings, there are used usually 
> Word templates that are populated dynamically with info from databases 
> by custom developed server applications. But Word is not optimized at 
> all for concurrent access and is not reliable. And here LibreOffice 
> could get an opportunity.
>
> If anyone from LibreOffice could "build a ready to use" automatic 
> printing solution to be integrated easy with other apps that may use it
>
> (this meaning: selected and exhaustive documentation for this task 
> completed with code samples to speed up the integration, short 
> presentations how to use it this way and the benefits etc.) this could 
> be promoted to software companies to use it together with their 
> applications. Just imagine that their customers are buying an 
> application that needs to solve a part of their activity workflow and 
> they don't care if the document editing and distribution solution is MS
>
> Office or LibreOffice as time as it is doing well the job. But the 
> vendor cares about it because its offering is few thousand dollars less
>
> if they don't need Word licenses to be present on customer's 
> workstations and server(s). And this way, LibreOffice may spread in 
> companies where it wouldn't enter other way.
>
> Axel
>
>
>
>
> On 25.05.2013 14:40, Pablo López Soriano wrote:
> > Hi there! I met Mirek in LibreGraphicsMeeting 2013 and talked about
> how few
> > committed UX designers LibreOffice has, that shocked me. I'm not
> interface
> > designer but I could make a promotional video with motion graphics
> (like
> > Jakub Steiner did on Gnome3 promos), in order to gather developers
> and
> > users.
> >
> > But first, there are some questions.
> >
> > Does LibreOffice need a radical change at all to *differenciate*
> itself
> > from Microsoft's Office, being not only the free alternative, but the
> > standard office suite?
> >
> > If so, does LibreOffice need promotion in order to grow the developer
> team
> > and make this change?
> > A promotional video would say something like "Libre Office is The
> Standard,
> > used by many millions of users, and yet it has a small developer team
> wich
> > need you involved".
> >
> > Otherwise, if this radical change is going to happen without need of
> a
> > promotion, the video could be launched afterwards, announcing the
> brand-new
> > LibreOffice and its will to become The Standard.
> >
> > I've beek lurking the mailing lists and you can smell the will to
> change,
> > at least in UX/UI matters. I'm just trying to help this to happen.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Pablo.
>
>
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