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

Le samedi 30 octobre 2010 à 06:28 -0400, Marc Paré a écrit :
> Le 2010-10-30 05:27, Monfort Florian a écrit :
>
> > I don't think I have expressed well my idea. My idea is not to integrate
> > Scribus, Thunderbird or other softwares to LO, but to the Document
> > Foundation.
> >
> > The idea is that the Document Foundation provides the LO suite, but also
> > PROMOTES other softwares to make more complete this suite. It would be a
> > kind of "sponsor", so that if teachers in education for example do only
> > need the LO suite, they download it. But if we're talking about a
> > company with more specifical needs, The Document Foundation would
> > provide them LO, plus the links, the ad or any other form of linking to
> > other softwares like Scribus, Thunderbird etc ...
> >
> > The objectiv could be clear : at long terms, replace the whole Windows
> > working environnement ( with MS Office, Outlook, InDesign etc ... ) by
> > an open-source based suite from different project. All of that would
> > make the offer flexible in fonction of the needs of everyone. LO would
> > be like the basic offer.
>
> I see, more like advocating different software packages that would 
> compliment the LibO Suite. I don't have any problems with this. In fact 
> we should be advocating for sure any software packages that have somehow 
> managed to show some kind of attempt at integrating themselves into LibO.
>
> It would be neat (I know that this is not possible for now) if these 
> extras could hook into LibO itself and by doing so, they would 
> automatically adopt the LibO colours and icons. Almost as if the LibO 
> suite was modular itself in design BUT modular in the sense that the 
> whole [Writer+Impress+Calc+Base] were the basis from where the modular 
> design came from. The other pieces of software would "hook" themselves 
> onto the [Writer+Impress+Calc+Base] and NOT to  a component of the LibO.
>
> For example, if you wanted to have a mail/scheduling package, then 
> something like the Thunderbird+Lightning combo could attach themselves 
> to LibO through some hooks. It would then look like this:
>
> [Writer+Impress+Calc+Base] + [Thunderbird+lightning]
>
> By hooking themselves to [Writer+Impress+Calc+Base], the 
> [Thunderbird+lightning] hook would have enabled its adoption of the 
> [Writer+Impress+Calc+Base] set of colours and icons.
>
> The same for example with Inkscape that some are advocating for 
> inclusion. Instead Inkscape could "hook" itself onto the 
> [Writer+Impress+Calc+Base] and adopt the set of colours and icons and 
> act as if it were part of the suite. It would look like this:
>
> [Writer+Impress+Calc+Base] + Inscape
>
> Marc


Yes that's exactly what I meant ! And you're idea Marc could be some
kind of " next step". Going further in the cooperation ?


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