[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Moving to LibreOffice 8?

Culturally, 8 in Asia is a lucky number, signifying prosperity and 
blessing. It might hit a soft spot in the region, which is the world's 
largest market. I like the concept. It fits with the idea of Libre.

By the way, I'm new to the team -- just joined the other day 
electronically.

Kelv

On 2023-03-28 02:20, Nigel Verity wrote:

> The ability to run LibreOffice on just about every mainstream processor 
> and OS strikes me as a major achievement which ought to be shouted from 
> the hilltops. Debian does the same and is known as "The universal 
> operating system". Perhaps LO should become known as "The universal 
> office suite".
>
> No other office suite comes close in that context. It surely warrants 
> something better than a point release.
>
> I like the concept of turning the number 8 on its side, though there 
> would inevitably be comments about the concept of "infinity point one" 
> when the subsequent release hits the streets..........
>
> Nige
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> Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Moving to LibreOffice 8?
>
> Moving to LibreOffice 8 (instead of 7.6) makes sense for marketing
> purposes, as media is looking at LibreOffice as the real innovator in
> the open source office suite market, and the feeling of journalists is
> that we are forever stuck at 7.x.
>
> We all know that the next version will not include any significant
> innovation which can justify the change of version, apart from the new
> build system for Windows and the availability of LibreOffice for Arm
> processors on Windows (which has not been announced).
>
> Playing with the number 8, which can be rotated 90° to become the
> "infinite" symbol, we can frame the next version as LibreOffice for an
> infinite number of users, as we cover all hardware platforms and all
> operating systems for personal productivity.
>
> This is my opinion. If the community wants to stick with 7.6, I won't
> insist. I have received enough insults both public and private for the
> marketing plan, and I am still receiving them from a few people, that I
> am not willing to enter into that process again (even if the decision 
> on
> the "community" tag has not been mine, but it looks like people have a
> very short memory).
>
> Looking forward to your thoughts.
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