Re: RE : [libreoffice-website] Re: On forums for LibreOffice

On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 02:29 +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> On 31/01/2011 drew wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 07:56 +0100, Stefan Weigel wrote:
> > > For me, there is absolutely nothing against presenting support for
> > > LibreOffice at sites that use OpenOffice.org branding.
>
> I'd say I agree with Stefan's opinion here; but in general my point
> would be that the rebranding will mean a significantly reduced
> visibility in search engines (since all links will point to the old
> site), with the effect of hiding the work of volunteers over years; so
> while a rebranding could make sense in theory, I see some practical
> problems with it (problems that did not apply for instance to
> OOoAuthors: there the rebranding is welcome and does not damage users).
>
> > I can tell you with absolute certainty that some of the people
> > responsible for the decision to support Libo on OO.o project specific
> > sties are doing so out of the same feeling of inclusiveness they applied
> > when supporting Go-OO and NeoOffice. Further that during the discussion
> > to do so there was at no time an agreement in any way that Libo = OO.o
>
> Yes Drew, and this is the cooperation spirit I see on the Italian forum
> now; everyone gives support to everyone for the common parts, and
> specificities are covered correctly and peacefully.
>
> > but there was and is the acceptance that the time will come when the two
> > products are not close enough to be supported on a single site.
>
> This seems a rather forward-looking statement. When the time comes that
> the shared codebase is really tiny I'll agree on this, but I don't see
> it happening reasonably early (say, in 2011). Splitting a community that
> is not split (i.e., making two sites out of one) would likely need to be
> justified by a real difference in code.
>
> Regards,

Hola  Andrea

Well, I was not speaking of re-branding anything my desire was for this
project to embrace the idea that it is something new and separate. I
will acknowledge that this seems not to be the view of the majority
within the current contributors and speak of it no more.

Best wishes,

Drew


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