Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Modified website design proposal

Christian,

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Christian Lohmaier
<lohmaier+ooofuture@googlemail.com> wrote:
> One of the bigger questionmarks comes with the "app-store" item -
> similar with the themes - so this is kind of wishful thinking, as such
> stuff doesn't exist yet, neither for OOo nor for LO

Most linux distributions have what is commonly known now as an 'app
store', you might know it as a deb or rpm repository.
MS is developing one for windows and Apple has announced the Mac app
store. I would expect that LibreOffice will feature on all of these
Also, themes do exist, in their current form they are
Tools->Options->Appearance and Tools->Options->View:Icon size and
style. But yes I hope they develop rapidly in the future.

> But another thing that kind of irritates me is "Twitter support" - is
> anyone doing this right now? Is it worth mentioning it? twitter is
> kind of contrary to community-support (one asks a question, but all
> benefit from the answer), with twitter my doubs are that it remains at
> a personal level, only a small group of people have a benefit. similar
> for facebook - I don't see how that would fit to support.

Twitter messages are a matter of public record. Think of twitter as a
message to everyone, replies to that message can also be tracked.
I have heard some people refer to it as IRC Next Gen, because you can
search for chat history very easily.
On facebook you can make a group public and everyone logged in can see
it, ie. http://www.facebook.com/libreoffice.org

> And I'm also sceptical about the news - espl. "Community news editors
> should be used to search for articles at least one per week." - I
> don't think this is a good thing for a news-feed section. There should
> be genuine news, not news harvested from other sources. A "press
> coverage" section or similar would be more appropirate for this kind
> of stuff, but then again I don't quite see the need for such a high
> frequency.

One key aspect of a community website is frequently updating the site
See: http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Importance-of-Updating-Your-Website-Frequently&id=3760486
Major announcements such as new releases will feature prominently on
the landing page (/)
I like the idea of breaking up news into categories though.

> The difference legal/licence is not really clear to me

Licence is the LGPL open source code licence that the LibreOffice
product is distributed under
Legal would cover things like trademark use, privacy policy and disclaimers.

> wording "why not OOo"  is suboptima, but of course I'm aware that is
> just a concept, but talking bad about others should be prevented if
> you can say the same thing in a more positive way, just did want to
> mention it)

I think we need to publicly address why we created LibreOffice as an
alternative to the massively popular and successful OOo.


> A forum is never a robust form for discussion. Forums should be
> avaoided at all cost. The medium for discussion are the mailinglists,
> the place where results of those discussion, the outcome is preserved
> is either the wiki or the real website (once it is available)
>
> I don't want to user forums for discussion, they are just not
> comfortable enough for this. (and if you say: You can setup
> email-reminders/notfication and reply via mail, then I say: Then you
> can use a mailinglist from the very beginning)

I guess we will have to agree to disagree. For infrequent conversation
participants a mailing list can be overwhelming and contain a lot of
info they do not care about, therefore information can be missed
easily.
Obviously a discussion that will have to be hashed out prior to any
kind of launch.

Thanks for all of your well considered feedback on the proposal.
I hope this has addressed some of your concerns about the proposal and
I would love to examine some specifications for other approaches.

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