Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Monfort Florian
<florian.monfort@gmail.com>wrote:

> I think this is a great idea, and I was also wondering if the Scribus
> project couldn't be added to it.
>
> After all LibreOffice doesn't provide a REAL and COMPLETE publication
> solution face to INDesign, QuarkXpress etc ... Scribus is a good one,
> and is free.
>
>
> Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 09:29 -0400, James Walker a écrit :
> > Maybe something that we should think about is creating a Document
> Foundation
> > family of products.
> >
> > I would not really put more products into the main LibreOffice software,
> but
> > find and/or create additional products that enhance the usability of LO.
> > One thing we really need to think about is an email/calender product. and
> > some kind of project management product that easily intergrates with LO,
> > even if those products are ones that are out there already they need to
> be
> > easily intergrated into LO.  Are there any that have kind of staled that
> we
> > could approach the community to help them out and bring them under the
> > foundation to help them grow.
> >
> > Of course the easy thing to do would be a partnership with Mozilla,  and
> use
> > Thunderbird, and Lightening.
> >
> > I have always felt that the project has been missing email, calender and
> > contact management software.
> >
> > James

These great idea. I would also add because I think the market is still wide
open is the cloud office suite (think google docs). We could develop a
server based online office suite that is fully compatible with ODF. this
would be great for education and "virtual offices."

Another path would be mobile phones, this are is wide open for FOSS.
Android, iPhone and blackberry ports of LO.

And lastly, we could add (since we are dreaming of a family of products) a
PDF editor (like acrobat pro). This functionality is basically in Scribus.


-frank

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