Hi Mike Although I cannot think of a suitable alternative I have slight reservations about the use of the term "community". It may be just a British thing but in the UK the term is slightly nuanced to mean "good but not the very best", e.g The community hall is often the venue for amateur entertainment, run by a panel of well-intentioned but usually inexperienced untrained volunteers. With that background I feel that to many ears the "community edition" of LibreOffice may be judged to be a slightly inferior version - a bit like the difference between MS Office Home Edition and MS Office Professional. Regards Nige LibreOffice - Free and open source office suite: LibreOffice Website<https://www.libreoffice.org> Respects your privacy, and gives you back control over your data ________________________________ From: Italo Vignoli <italo@libreoffice.org> Sent: 13 October 2020 16:56 To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org <marketing@global.libreoffice.org> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] The Edition Matter The commercial label is Enterprise, while "powered by..." can be part of the product name. We should remember that we are discussing a label and not a product name, which does not change and is LibreOffice. The label is an attribute, with the objective of adding information to the product name. On 10/13/20 3:17 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
I suggest we try to keep it as honest as possible. The membership should speak out on this item re: "edition". IMO, "Community Edition" is fine, and agree that this could be modified at a future date when the membership would review the edition labels; perhaps reviewed every 4-5 years or something of the like. We profess how we are a community and collective of many different language groups working on the project, whether it be coders, designers, translation, docs, etc. So, in my mind "community" is the exact description. It does not bring up the idea of setting any commercial ties, etc. If members outside of the community, users, decide to adopt LibreOffice, then they do so and enjoy the fruits of the wonderful software solution that LibreOffice brings to them. As for any commercial versions of LibreOffice, they (the people behind "commercializing" LibreOffice) should also be made to abide by a membership-decided label. I like the idea of "Powered by ..." label, not sure if this would infringe on any trademarks. But, by and large, should any organization wish to use the LibreOffice suite as we know, coming from the community, then no problem. Just that, at this point, no commercial support is built into the community project for such a beast, Having a robust list of commercial businesses, advertised on the LibreOffice website, that can help install LibreOffice for commercial usage, IMO, is pretty well an accepted solution to most who run businesses and search for commercial application solutions. In this day of age, most businesses are used to seeing a community opensource version of software with an alternate commercial version of the same for a price. So, for me, "Community Edition" is fine. We would also need to decide on the commercial label at the same time, of which, I prefer "Powered by ...". Cheers, Marc
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