Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-design] New templates contest

Hello Jay, Adolfo, all,

Indeed, I need to clarify a bit what I wrote yesterday: when I wrote 
that embedding templates inside LibreOffice or uploading them on the 
templates site did not make a difference, I meant that to me the 
workload or a strong opinion about what path is the best is not 
important *to me*. From a marketing/PR perspective, once you know what 
path you take for this you just communicate accordingly. There's no real 
good or bad option. However from the perspective of the design team it 
does change things a lot.

I've read Jay's document, and I suggest we put up a real PR + spread the 
word on social networks, alongside a dedicated page on our website. You 
do not need to worry about all this :-)

What we must decide is the process itself.
1) how do people register and upload their templates
2) what categories do we define
3) who decides/votes
4) deadline and scheduling.

my suggestions:

1) we need to check with the infra team for the registrations. We could 
have them upload their templates through our Owncloud server or using 
our wiki(is it a bad idea?) then list the list of submission on the wiki 
or on our LimeSurvey instance.
2) writer: document templates, forms Calc: calendars, ... Impress: 
presentation templates.... anything else
3) I suggest to keep this very simple and informal: anyone can vote but 
there's an IP check on this. Which means that anyone can vote, you can't 
vote twice in theory, but the polls are really public and open.
4) we should have this ready for FOSDEM (end of January)

What do you think?

best,

Charles.

Le 10.12.2014 18:57, Jay Philips a écrit :
> Hi Charles and All,
>
> Yes we had discussed this same issue at last week's design meeting and
> decided to go with having the contest and bundling the chosen templates
> in 4.4 as unfortunately the template website won't fill the newly added
> template section in the start center.
>
> I have begun a write up of what the TDF announcement of the contest
> would be at the following link, so please do provide comments as well 
> as
> suggest template categories users should focus on.
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WLh_SdpyGVb4n-lzsPJ4XTNNDa0SGwUwo3Onm1HjoK8/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Jay
>
> On 12/10/2014 03:10 PM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is a topic that did come and go, but now that we are lucky to 
> > have
> > a revamped design/ux team we should probably put that back on track 
> > :-)
> >
> > LibreOffice needs both new and fresh document templates . Whether they
> > are directly embedded and are shipped with LibreOffice or are 
> > available
> > on our templates website is not really a topic, but interestingly 
> > enough
> > the work done on the Templates website prompts us to get new document
> > templates.
> >
> > Jay suggested a month ago that we launch a contest and we certainly 
> > can
> > do that over our social networks. But we need to be sure materials can
> > be uploaded and work on the selection process (I would go for a 
> > popular
> > vote). What do others think?
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Charles.

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