Re: [us-marketing] LinuxFest NorthWest Report

On 05/03/2011 06:37 PM, cocofan 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
We at the North American DVD project are nearly ready for our DVD to be 
"published".  All we now need is a few printed documents to go with the 
DVD and then it should be done.  Drew is working on that right now.

So if you would like to see if the NA project DVD would be something you 
would like to use for the next meeting you go to, I would like to know.  
Then someone, maybe me, will get a DVD to you [snail mail] so you could 
have it as the template.  I do not know if Drew has the latest one in 
ISO form though.  The Windows Only DVD is in the final stages for its 
HTML edits, but needs some rework on the install page since it was 
mostly the 3 platform version without the other two.  But having a 
Windows-Only DVD might be nice for some people.  The ISO for the 3 
platform is about 3.3 GB and the Windows-only is about 1.6 GB.

We are working on the Spanish translation of our DVD[s] and hope to have 
it done this summer, or at least I hope.  The problem is the lack of 
Spanish documentation, but I have seen some movement on that.

I would like to ask, Is there a market for a CD or a CD set instead of 
DVD?  I have been looking at what is needed if the NA style DVD is 
broken down to CDs for business systems that do not have DVDs, and still 
have all the included material of the DVD[s].  Most of the businesses 
that do not have budgets to buy newer computer will not have a DVD 
installed in their business machines. So having only DVD style media 
will not work for them.




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