[libreoffice-marketing] Moving to LibreOffice 8?

2023-03-27 Thread Italo Vignoli
Moving to LibreOffice 8 (instead of 7.6) makes sense for marketing purposes, as media is looking at LibreOffice as the real innovator in the open source office suite market, and the feeling of journalists is that we are forever stuck at 7.x. We all know that the next version will not include

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Moving to LibreOffice 8?

2023-03-27 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
For little that I am involved with LibreOffice itself, I feel like this would be nice move - You can take this as a non-formal feedback of the casual user public: +1 for 8.0, even without a lot of remarkable changes. On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:11 PM Italo Vignoli wrote: > Moving to LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Moving to LibreOffice 8?

2023-03-27 Thread Nigel Verity
The ability to run LibreOffice on just about every mainstream processor and OS strikes me as a major achievement which ought to be shouted from the hilltops. Debian does the same and is known as "The universal operating system". Perhaps LO should become known as "The universal office suite".

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Moving to LibreOffice 8?

2023-03-27 Thread Kelvene Requiroso
Culturally, 8 in Asia is a lucky number, signifying prosperity and blessing. It might hit a soft spot in the region, which is the world's largest market. I like the concept. It fits with the idea of Libre. By the way, I'm new to the team -- just joined the other day electronically. Kelv

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Moving to LibreOffice 8?

2023-03-27 Thread Mike Saunders
Hi Kelvene, On 28.03.23 00:27, Kelvene Requiroso wrote: Culturally, 8 in Asia is a lucky number, signifying prosperity and blessing. It might hit a soft spot in the region, which is the world's largest market. I like the concept. It fits with the idea of Libre. By the way, I'm new to the