Hi everyone,
After reading all the messages in this topic, and learning how experienced marketing experts are in the team, I have the following humble
thoughts.
1.
I am a techie person who is far from being a marketing expert. Therefore, take
my opinion with a grain of salt.
2.
For most
Hello,
On 06.04.23 22:12, Eyal Rozenberg wrote:
Great, what's the problem? Why should we be in a rush to get existing
users to upgrade from 7.5 to 7.6?
Well, one argument is that we have very limited resources to support two
branches. LibreOffice 7.5 won't be around forever, so at some
avo Buzzatti Pacheco
*Sent:* 05 April 2023 22:05
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market...@global.libreoffice.org>; TDF Design <
design@global.libreoffice.org>
*Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-design] Moving
to LibreOffice 8?
Hi Eyal, all!
I also respec
No one has used the term "animals".
They are users mis-informed and mis-educated by Microsoft, and partially
by Google. And contrary of what you think we have many clues about what
they care for, but when we suggest a strategy this is not accepted by
community members (who, as you say, don't
To put last thing first: I'm not staunchly opposed to bumping the
version number to 8. So think of this as a theoretical discussion.
Anyway...
Noting Italo's explanation that:
> 80% (and probably more) of what we communicate is targeted to
"normal" software users, and not to community members
I think it is not helpful to see people we want to reach as "uninformed"
or even "animals".
Sure, they are not as skilled/informed as we are about the topics that
we care for. Unsurprisingly, we will have no clue about topics they
deeply care for.
Jan
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you might reason that since humans behave like herd animals, so that
when some run, all run. The stimulus evoking action must be the most
convincing, hence
the facts can be distorted.
For Libre office number eight it might suffice to claim the usual "the
changes will assure your improved
On 06/04/23 10:08, Eyal Rozenberg wrote:
That is exactly what I'm opposing. Let's assume that the real situation
is "boring" (I'm not sure that's the case, but still) and that, indeed,
the changes since 7 are not fundamental enough to merit a version bump
on their own (and I realize this is
Gustavo, it seems that what you're saying is that the _reality_ is a bit
"boring" - a long sequence of minor releases without a
fundamental/breakthrough change; and there is a desire to make it more
interesting/exciting using a major version bump.
That is exactly what I'm opposing. Let's
