Re: [us-marketing] Download stats (was LibreOffice North American Community meeting - April 2011 )

On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 08:56 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press
Productions wrote: 

> On 04/16/2011 10:17 AM, drew wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 10:02 -0400, drew wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 12:27 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press
> > > Productions wrote:
> > > > Do you know any figures on how many people now use LibreOffice?
> > > >
> > > > OOo use to keep track of this based on the number of downloads from
> > > > their site, and the same for Mozilla's browser.  It would be nice to
> > > > be
> > > > able to state that 100 thousand, or 1 million, etc., people are now
> > > > using LibreOffice.
> > > Hi Tim,
> > >
> > > The stats exist, as far as I know. I asked about this, a month ago, and
> > > was told that at this time they will not be released.
> > Sorry double post - but if I'm not mistaken there where some stats
> > released recently - I think it was 1.5 million total downloads, I'd
> > forgotten about that in the last email.
> >
> > //drew
> If we could state that Since January 2011, there has been 1 million 
> downloads from the LibreOffice web site, and many more are downloading 
> it from the Linux Repositories, then we have a good start with telling 
> people how "popular" it is becoming.  The fact that most Linux distros 
> have dumped Oracle's version in favor of LibreOffice as the their 
> default office suite package, is a good thing for "us".  The fact that 
> more and more businesses, governments [local, regional, national] have 
> dumped MSO in favor of open-source office suites [no mention of OOo] 
> will work fine as well for marketing LibreOffice.  The USA Federal 
> government is pushing open-source solutions is a big thing for "us".  We 
> can say that since our government is pushing for open-source software to 
> be used, "why not try it for yourself?.  If there was some list made [I 
> asked about this a few years back] made up of all the big businesses, 
> governments, schools/colleges, and any other large organization, who 
> have switch from MSO to OOo over the years, we could us those "names" 
> for reasons for switching to open-source office suite[s].  Since we came 
> from OOo, we could still use those facts for promoting switching to 
> LibreOffice [open-source] from MSO [not open-source].
>
> Businesses love stats and knowing such-and-such big business decided to 
> switch, so if those companies switched to open-source, then maybe this 
> is something that their business should look into.  It does not matter 
> if they switched to OOo, since that was before Oracle's "mess" and 
> LibreOffice being "born" out of that mess.  We can add that LibreOffice 
> has been "proclaimed" by the press that it is a better product that OOo, 
> so why not try LibreOffice instead of OOo, since it is the better free 
> and open-source office suite package on the market today.

I agree showing who has adopted our parent helps us. If they adopted OOo
before we had a release I think that is fair to use.
-- 
Jay Lozier
Jslozier@gmail.com

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