Re: [us-marketing] LinuxFest NorthWest Report

Hi Dona,

I can't speak to many of the points you brought up bit I can address
the collaboration one. That has *always* been one of the most brought
up "wants" with my Oo customers and continues to be a big one with my
LibO ones now. Collaboration is a *huge* thing - especially since
users are getting spoiled by Google Docs and Microsoft Office Online
or whatever they're calling it.

As I see it, the *technical* aspect of doing this is simple. But the
marketing job will be much harder. We'd need to develop relationships
with hosting providers, make sure users understood how collaboration
and sharing worked, and soothe over those that experienced rough
transitions. It's all marketing for the most part.

Anyway, just wanted to throw my voice in. Collaboration is *essential*
 and is an excellent opportunity for LibO to lead.

Anthony



On 5/3/11, cocofan <cocofan@mailbolt.com> wrote:
>  Just got back from LinuxFest NortWest (LFNW).  Most people had very
> positive responses to LibreOffice.  A few didn't know what it was or how
> it differs from OpenOffice; Most of these were mainly Windows users;
> strange to see them at a Linux conference.
>   Here are some problems mentioned by some people:
>   Updating/installing on Windows painful for people with low-bandwidth
> connections such as dialup because of the size of the file (~200M).
> Several people mentioned wanting to have incremental updates instead of
> having to download and install the full installation file (one mentioned
> this was done in OpenOffice from the help menu).  They're not able to
> post to the mailing lists as they have little or no internet access so
> I'm reporting this for them (should I cross post this to the user
> mailing list?).
>   Several people mentioned having problems opening .docx or .pptx files
> that they downloaded off the internet (I guess there's quite a few of
> them out there now :-( ).  I was wondering (since I didn't see this on
> the website) if there was a place to email documents that don't open in
> LibreOffice so developers can look at them?  I just told them to post
> them to the mailing list but I notice that attachments usually get
> stripped on the mailing lists I'm on (development, discussion).
>   On the enhancement side, several people mentioned being able to do
> 'collaboration' over the internet (or a network) where a group of people
> can actively edit a document in real time (something I believe Google
> apps can do?).  Actually one person mentioned being "more like Google
> apps" but it sounded like all he wanted was some sort of file sharing
> whereby people would be notified of changes to certain documents (not
> sure if this is something we need to address).  One person wanted better
> database connectivity (felt it was "too complex" to connect to an
> external database).
>   One person kept going on about the progress bar on the splash screen
> in Linux 'not being in the center of the splash screen'.  It interesting
> what will tick people off but I thought I mentioned it.
>
>    I had a good time doing this and wouldn't mind doing this in the
> future (it's rather nice to get out and meet people; I don't often get a
> chance being way too busy).  Next time, I'll remember to bring
> CD's/DVD's and more brochures (we ran out of these half way through the
> convention).
>   I should point out that O'Reilly's OSCON is in Portland in July 25-29.
> If you need me to do a table for that, I'm willing to do it (on the
> other hand it may be too late to get a table).
>
>                           Dona Hertel - cocofan@mailbolt.com
>
>
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