Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO Mission Statement ? [was: Briefing]

Hello Everyone,

This thread has a-lot of good information but - isn't the task at hand to
encourage folks to post "logo" submissions for this product?

If not, this may be a good reason to split the list as IMO some folks will
be interested and others not.  I anticipate we will have participation from
a broad spectrum of individuals which include "professionals" and "others"
who just want to contribute.

Just my thoughts. :-)

Respectfully,

John

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 00:18 +0100, Bernhard Dippold wrote:
>
> > > Develop an office productivity solution and make it and the project
> > > itself available to and accessible by a majority of humans.
> >
> > Create and maintain a community of individuals and groups working
> > collaboratively on different aspects of this development.
>
> Or:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Maximize the availability and the quality of the user experience of an
> office productivity solution for a majority of humans.
>
> Maximize the enjoyment and productivity within the project.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Notes:
> - The solutions in our hands isn't the goal, the solution in the user's
> hands is.
> - There's no actual solution, but just potential, until the user does
> use it, which makes it necessary that he needs or wants to and knows
> how.
> - Maximizing productivity may encompass winning over as many
> contributors as possible and making the most of their time and effort.
> - Happy people may be more productive and increasing enjoyment could be
> treated as measure to increase productivity. But who would want to be
> productive without feeling good?
>
>
>
> > > It follows:
> > > - Given our modern needs, there needs to be software
> > > - Internationalization
> > > - Free Software
> > > - All major platforms
> > > - Interoperability
> > >    - Open, documented interfaces
> > >    - Open, documented file formats
> > >    - Compatibility with other solutions
> > > - Collaboration
> > >    - Meritocracy (there needs to be some hurdle for contributing and
> > > based on ability*effort is best, if you care about the result)
> >
> > Free Software and open file format (ODF should be mentioned here) are
> > main topics IMHO - the other describe details of the main goals.
>
> I see both as aspects of the solution. Free Software as imperatively so,
> but ODF could see replacement, at least in theory.
>
>
> > > But what is an "office productivity solution" or an "office (software)
> > > suite", actually? How do you define the scope here? How do you include
> > > enough, but not too much?
> >
> > That mainly depends on our goals:
> >
> > If we want to broaden the focus of applications / features / files
> > (calender, music, video, flash etc), the focus shouldn't be too narrow.
> >
> > On the other hand this would lead to expectations and development effort
> > that might be better focused on improving the existing specialized
> > applications inside and outside of LibO - while integration via gateways
> > and interfaces definitively makes sense.
>
> Trying to define the scope of an "office productivity solution" from
> typical office tasks would lead the the inclusion of communication and
> scheduling, among other things.
>
> But limited resources have to be spend well. I doubt the project could
> or should afford to write another Outlook/Evolution, for example. This
> asks for cooperation/interoperability/integration.
>
> I still wonder what would be common to a
> - word processor
> - spreadsheet
> - presentation app
> - drawing app
> - database app
> ?
>
> All but the database seem to be somewhat paper-oriented, at least in the
> sense that there are pages (or slides). You deal with documents.
>
>
> --
> Thorsten Wilms
>
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>
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