Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 'deployment'

Hi :)
You are not alone in that opinion but i can see it from other angles too.

1.  The way i see it is that LO and AOO are produced by 1 large
community.  There are quite a few people who work in both or move from
1 to the other and sometimes back again.  The mainstream press seems
to think we fight and argue constantly and that seems to have boosted
coverage for both projects.  AOO aims at a slightly different niche
from LO although both have a lot of ground in common.  It's NOT a case
of us against them.  It's both of us and others (Caligra/KOffice,
Google-docs, AbiWord&Gnumeric etc) acting in "co-operative
competition" with/against each other against a dominant market-leader.

2.  I copy&pasted one page from OOo's documentation into our own wiki
and the original author proof-read it for us.  He was more than happy
to share the knowledge and help distribute it widely.  Since then
others have made a better page and Hagar has updated his one in AOO so
'mine' has fallen quite far behind and rarely gets visited now.  I'll
set it as a redirect to the updated one someday.

3.  I agree that business people are probably unfamiliar with the
concept of co-operative competition and that it might even scare them
off from using either of LO and AOO!!  Corporate-types are often timid
when in unfamiliar terrain so it's better for us to appear to be easy
for them to understand (imo)

Regards from
Tom :)




On 3 February 2014 16:47, Kracked_P_P---webmaster
<webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:
> On 02/03/2014 08:48 AM, Marcello Romani wrote:
> > Il 03/02/2014 13:21, IOmazic ha scritto:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > is it possible that you share this tools for windows? I will need to
> > > install
> > > it to around 450 pc, so it will be cool to have some tool to do all
> > > modification needed.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Ivan Omazic
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > > View this message in context:
> > > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-deployment-tp4077035p4095225.html
> > > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> >
> > This might prove a useful starting point:
> >
> > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=28765&start=0
>
> Why are people still sending others to the OpenOffice.org web site for
> information about LibreOffice?
>
> For this posted need, I remember hearing about "deployment" of LO on a LO
> web page.  Although LO was a fork of OOo from several years ago, it is
> "grown" past those roots now.  If we do not have the needed documentation
> now, we should really make it a priority to set up a web site/page to talk
> about IT management deployment of LO, including network based.
>
> The current AOO/OOo web site should not be the place where people go to get
> information about LO.  From a marketing aspect, this could lead business
> users to think we are not the package to use, but AOO is.  That is wrong way
> of doing "business".
>
> SO, just from the marketing aspect to businesses, this needs to be resolved.
> From the typical user, this could be an issue as well.
>
> I stopped using OOo when LO came out.  I do not want to have to explain to
> users that LO's documentation site[s] is not the place to find the needed
> information to migrate/deploy LO to their systems.
>
> Would you tell the UK tech advisors to not consider LO for the open source
> option to using the mandated ODF file format requirements, but to go with
> AOO/OOo since we do not have the needed documentation?  We would be saying
> this if we tell them to go to the OOo web site for the deployment
> information.
>
> I see too many of these postings telling users to go to the OOo site[s] for
> the needed information or extension/template download.  Yes, there may be
> something there that LO currently does not have, but it should not be the
> first option.  LO needs to rely on LO's sites to give the user the help and
> support they need.
>
> I do not use Nabble, but I would think that there must be a forum there
> about business migration and deployment.  IF not, then there should be.
>
> Am I alone in this opinion?
>
>
>
>
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