It's both interesting and reassuring to note that there is considerably greater resistance to using
open document formats than there is to using LibreOffice. I'm not sure what there is that anyone
can do about that. The fact that MS Office formats are proprietary and ODF is not doesn't have any
impact on most people. Whenever I've tried to push the adoption of ODF, the usual response is
"There already is a universal standard - MS Office". Obviously it's not "universal" but you can
see what they mean.
In my experience most documents sent to me - regardless of format - are to read, not to update.
That is a strong case for using PDFs instead of MSO formats but, again, try getting organisations
to adopt that approach. Generating a PDF is another procedural step, and it can present a version
control problem relative to its source document.
I may be imagining this, but didn't OpenOffice.org at one time ask you select your default document
format on first use? While I think ODF should always be the standard for LibreOffice there perhaps
needs to be a level or realism in order make it clear to new or potential users that they can
continue to use MSO formats if that suits their workflows best.
Regards
Nige
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From: Mike Saunders <mike.saunders@documentfoundation.org>
Sent: 29 May 2020 14:22
To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org <marketing@global.libreoffice.org>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Polish community poll results
Thanks for sharing, Marcin! When you have some documentation ready, let
me know and I can share on our blog...
On 29/05/2020 14:36, Marcin Popko wrote:
Hello!
I've prepared poll for Polish LibreOffice users - I got 30 answers, not a lot, but it’s new
fanbase and it shows us a little about comunnity in Poland.
Most interesting results:
1. 93,3% use LibreOffice at home, 53,3% at work!
2. Over 80% rates LibreOffice more than 8 (in scale 1-10; 1=bad, 10=best)
3. 90% use LibreOffice for more than 5 years and love it's free software.
4. 40% of people avoid open document formats because:
- Others have trouble reading them.
- Because of other people who have to open such a document
- At work, I need the greatest possible compatibility with MS Office
- If I'm supposed to share this somewhere, people look at it and they don't know what it is.
- At work, I can't always. Someone's asking me for a different format.
- to be compatible with other office packages
- Because I need them to be compatible with other offices
- I use Libre to open files created on other programs
- because sometimes I send documents "outside" and I'm afraid other users will have a problem
with them
- Due to the requirements of the manager
- Sometimes I have to send a file to people using only MS Office
4. Most of people wants to hear more tips and support in Polish language. There is lack of
localized documentation and basic tutorials for modern versions of LibreOffice. I work a little
with translating documentation, I'm going to prepare site which can be accessed directly from
LibreOffice -> Help -> User Guide. In LO with polish langpack it used to lead to page not found
error, now blank site is ready to be filled, will add some stuff there:
https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocumentation.libreoffice.org%2Fpl%2Fpolska-dokumentacja%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C380e6d6471b4416a8db708d803d37bb1%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637263554128970906&sdata=UetwS801mGF2stu%2BaEdbLuqAhsHGSdNwGN9iAqV8rNg%3D&reserved=0
I attach link to anwers and results (note: in polish), I have no idea how to translate whole site
for you to English.
https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2F1KgiK4MumTa11LyaIoisZoMBNInZm3LFQXYpYBg4jrW4%2Fviewanalytics&data=02%7C01%7C%7C380e6d6471b4416a8db708d803d37bb1%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637263554128980896&sdata=5gBGOefvGIF1HcBDZ4AeUBiO9iul%2B0cxGR0%2FxPb9TsE%3D&reserved=0
Pozdrawiam / Regards
Marcin Popko
tel. +48661505678
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