Hi Bernhard, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Bernhard Dippold <[email protected]> wrote: > Based on your comments in this thread I want to start a new thread for a > vote on this topic.
Well, I'm not too sure who this vote is supposed to include, nor on whom and how it is supposed to be binding. In any case, I hope that the contributors to the English docs team will be left to steer and manage their own work, without anyone trying to impose ideas on them "from the outside" (meaning from people who are not actively involved in the actual work). I remember that, very recently in a thread, you basically wrote me that LibreOffice documentation and web content needs to be more "professional-looking". You didn't define "professional-looking", but I'm guessing that you equated the term to a measure of quality, among other concepts. Speaking for myself, I value the "hacker culture" aspect of the LibreOffice project. Linux developed from "hacker culture" but I think many people would attribute it as being of high quality. So I think that "hacker culture" is capable of generating produce of high quality. My own personal reactions to this initiative for a "standardized theme for screenshots in marketing colors" is that I don't especially want to see LibreOffice evolving towards a "corporate culture", and that we can pursue excellence in the software, the documentation and the website content while accepting the variety and difference of appearance that stands witness to our "crowd-sourcing culture". Anyway, as I have repeated multiple times in my various posts on this subject, these are my own personal viewpoints. Thanks for your dedication to the LibreOffice project. Please don't read any of my posts as being meant in an unfriendly way. -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
