[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Ubuntu 11.04 & Libre Office

Le 2010-10-30 09:16, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit :
> Hello alll,
>
> I think we have to be a bit careful here. First of all, we're very
> grateful for ubuntu to ship LibO and it is obvious that we will have
> the stable 3.3 ready for the next Ubuntu release. So it's not so much
> about what we could do to align ourselves with Ubuntu than the proper
> timeframe for integration. What's more, however, is that as you may
> have noticed, we are / will be shipped on many others, if not all Linux
> distributions, if not in 2010, then in 2011. Our developers' community
> is also made of OpenSuse, RedHat/Fedora, and Debian developers, to
> mention the most famous (I hear Gentoo folks are also around). We thus
> have to think about whether a distro-specific marketing would be
> welcome. After all, OpenSuse, Fedora, Debian, only to mention these
> three, are quite popular as well, and in terms of userbase, OpenSuse +
> Fedora is probably comparable if not superior to Ubuntu.
>
> Best,
> Charles.

Hi Charles

I chalk it up to the fact that the Ubuntu culture is such that the 
members of the Ubuntu family users/devs seem to always be so exuberant 
of their distro. If there is one thing that we can say of the Ubuntu 
family, it's that they are all as hyped up about Ubuntu and this all the 
time. It's often a quality that we find lacking in our linux distro 
groups. I don't think that they intended to speak as if LibO would align 
itself with Ubuntu but more that Ubuntu is having LibO show up as an 
Office Suite on their list either as the primary suite of choice or an 
equal to OOo. That's the way I read it. Just innocent chatter.

We are all grateful for the help from devs from different distros and 
hope that more devs from more distros join in to help. This in my mind 
goes a long way to show that the LibO suite is a universally accepted 
package.

I am on the Mageia distro marketing team and would like to say that we 
would carry the LibO suite as well. Just like the devs, we are helping 
out as well.

Marc


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