Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Re: [Libreoffice] Mac builds / lang-packs ...

2011.02.09 01:13, Martin Srebotnjak rašė:
> Hello,
>
> just for the sake of this discussion, how big is the MSO installation for OS
> X? Maybe someone can check, I am not using it.
>
> If LO dmg will grow to 350Mb or 400Mb (with help in all languages) probably
> that is still not so bad compared to the full dmg of MSO.
>
> I understand not everyone has fast internet access and some people voice
> their concern about it but is there really a difference between 150Mb and
> 250Mb dmg? Do/can people in countries with very slow internet access really
> buy MacPros, MacBook Pros, iMacs etc.?
>
> I mean, probably even 150Mb is too much for those using very slow internet
> access, they would need an app in the range of 10-50Mb and not 200Mb.
>
> In that case LO should do something about the hard-copy distribution of LO -
> DVD's with LO should be available from local shops in those countries with
> lower-band internet, I guess. This project could lead the way:
> http://web.libreofficebox.org/
>
> I just hope other languages don't get forgotten (as they got with the
> Portable LibreOffice which TDF members now claim TDF has nothing to do with
> it although it is hosting its files).

LibreOfficeBox is similar, by the way – AFAIK, it's gonna be a 
German-only DVD mirrored worldwide... The reasoning is simple though – 
being a volunteered product, it features what its creators want it to, 
and since they all speak German, they chose to add a few other products 
to the DVD instead of other languages.

Re hardcopy distribution: I think it could be even easier:
a) we could contact local magazines about shipping LibO CD's/DVD's with 
a few of them
b) we could take the Ubuntu approach and ship bigger amounts of those 
disks to local volunteers who could then give/mail them out locally.

Re downloading big files: I suggested some time ago to implement the 
ability in the installer to fetch needed files from the Internet. 
However, nobody volunteered to invest their time into this (that 
includes myself), so we have what we have now.

Rimas


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