Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-design] New templates contest

Hi,
Le 22/12/2014 14:31, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On 22 décembre 2014 14:15:37 CET, Jean-Francois Nifenecker <jean-francois.nifenecker@laposte.net> 
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Le 22/12/2014 10:40, Sophie a écrit :
> > > > We often worry about lack of community involvement, but, when there
> > is a
> > > > wonderful occasion where community involvement with such a contest
> > where
> > > > there is a low-entry level of understanding of LibreOffice and where
> > > > template usage is directed towards our users, we do not even provide
> > > > users the chance to vote on a template contest ... surely a users
> > idea
> > > > of what a good and purposeful template would be different from a
> > > > designer's perspective.
> >
> > I'm *very* reluctant to such a community project: templates very often 
> > show their cultural origin. This means that an american template won't 
> > fit a French user at all, and vice versa. >There are some such templates
>
> True and it is dangerous since it could show some spontaneity and community involvement. We 
> surely do not want that ;-)
Yes and if you read the announcement or the discussions on the lists,
you have noticed that it's a contest for en_US templates only.

> > on the extensions website already. I had written about that problem to 
> > the authors, hoping to find a way to make better tools, to no avail
> > yet.

well they are under a open source license, so anybody is invited to do
the work or enhance what already exists.
> > > I'm not sure users are aware of all the needed things to have a
> > reliable
> > > template and one that could be localized too, so the best way would
> > be
> > > that the design team does a pre selection and let the users vote only
> > on
> > > the templates that complies.
> >
> > Could the Design team devise a" template template" that international 
> > users could use as a starting point?
>
> What would be the standard for such a template? We all come from different origins so we will all 
> face the same issues and these can be adapted by users or by native lang projects to match their 
> own standard. Let us not create difficulties. Let this be a joyful moment for community 
> participation!
+1
Kind regards
Sophie

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