[us-marketing] Re: LinuxFest NorthWest Report

Hi Dona

Thank you for doing this. It is very much appreciated. Did you take any 
photos? If so, could we post them on our pages? Did you take any booth 
photos or SWAG photos?

How about adding this to a blog or writing your experiences on a blog?

Le 2011-05-03 18:37, cocofan a écrit :
>   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?).

I would post this on the "discuss list". It needs to be discussed again. 
Some devs are on that 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).

These problems should go to the "users list" where we (members) lurk and 
try to troubleshoot for users. There are devs on the list and if not, we 
(members) usually report it back to bugzilla if there is no resolution 
to the problem.

>    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).

This should go to the "discuss list". There was already some talk of 
this on that list. You could add it as a new thread to rejuvenate the topic.

>    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.

This sound more like an issue. Maybe list it on the "users list" and 
people could either confirm it or not. If it is a problem, then it 
should be reported on bugzilla. Someone will report 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


Nice to hear that you had a good time. Maybe for the O'Reilly OSCON, you 
could start a new thread and you will get more responses to your offer 
of help for the conference. It will be better seen on a new thread of 
its own rather than buried in this thread.


Cheers

Marc


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