Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Extension website - broader publicity wanted

Hi,

FYI, I plan for an announcement on Monday, if there are no last-minute 
showstoppers. Any text change (thus the fullquote below) please before 
Monday. :)

Thanks,
Florian


Florian Effenberger wrote on 2011-08-27 15:23:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for all your feedback! I tried to incorporate all changes, and
> here is the new draft:
>
> ==
> LibreOffice launches extension and templates repository for public beta
> test
>
> Developers invited to contribute their add-ons
> Community-based review process ensures quality and reliability
>
> LibreOffice, the free office productivity suite, can be enhanced with
> hundreds of extensions and templates. Users can download these smart
> extras to improve the suite's functionality to fit their job or hobby,
> and developers can easily write their own add-ons and share it with
> millions of users worldwide.
>
> Since, at the moment, there is no reliable and stable source for
> downloading these handy add-ons, the LibreOffice community has put great
> efforts into launching a public repository. It does not only provide
> extensions and templates for LibreOffice, but also for OpenOffice.org
> and other compatible office suites. Users of these can benefit from the
> work and the commitment of our community, and are invited to have a look
> at recent versions of our product, which already has included has the
> most popular extensions, and comes with many new features.
>
> The new site is now in public beta testing at
> http://extensions-test.libreoffice.org and has been created in
> cooperation with the Plone community, on whose technology it is based.
> To ensure the quality and reliability of the offered extensions, a
> community-based review process is currently set in place: Community
> volunteers test and review available extensions, and those meeting
> criteria of quality will be tagged accordingly.
>
> We warmly invite all developers to submit their extensions and fill the
> repository, where millions of users worldwide will be able to download
> and benefit from their work. All extensions submitted during the public
> beta test will remain in the repository after the beta test, so this is
> your chance to join the efforts right from the beginning!
>
> LibreOffice remains committed to providing users with quality software
> authored under free software licenses, and, as such, our catalogue of
> extensions and templates are published under free software licenses.
> ==
>
> The plan would be to send this out to announce@ and to the blog at the
> same time.
>
> Florian

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