Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [DESIGN] Do we need a separate mailing list for artwork/usability/branding...?

Hi, :-)

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:19, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:
> Le 2010-11-12 22:04, Michael Wheatland a écrit :
> > >  Why re-invent the wheel?
> > >  - David
> >
> > Because google has announced it will be removing the wheel before the
> > end of next year.
> > Google has also open sourced the blueprints for the wheel and made it
> > very easy to construct your own wheel.
> >
> > http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2009/03/Missing_Wheel.jpg
> > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html
>
> Many people found Wave too confusing and the learning curve was still to
> steep for regular users. I belong to groups who tried and it was abandoned.
> I think Wave was trying to be too much of a cooperative "Swiss army knife"
> and forgot that people want simplicity.

Google Wave was just a possibility mentioned; I'm not even sure if it
would be a popular choice. It's a great tool, but involves a bit of a
learning curve for many people. The public Wave service was
discontinued earlier this year, IIRC. But it is still offered as a
Labs product in Google Apps (I'm talking about Google Apps for domains
and organizations).

However, whether or not Wave lives on, I feel that Google Apps has a
number of other extremely useful tools that TDF/LibO could use, and it
was more those wheels I was suggesting that we don't re-invent. :-)

David Nelson

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