Hello Pablo, Le samedi 25 mai 2013 à 13:40 +0200, Pablo López Soriano a écrit : > Hi there! I met Mirek in LibreGraphicsMeeting 2013 and talked about how few > committed UX designers LibreOffice has, that shocked me. I'm not interface > designer but I could make a promotional video with motion graphics (like > Jakub Steiner did on Gnome3 promos), in order to gather developers and > users. > > But first, there are some questions. > > Does LibreOffice need a radical change at all to *differenciate* itself > from Microsoft's Office, being not only the free alternative, but the > standard office suite? > > If so, does LibreOffice need promotion in order to grow the developer team > and make this change? > A promotional video would say something like "Libre Office is The Standard, > used by many millions of users, and yet it has a small developer team wich > need you involved". > > Otherwise, if this radical change is going to happen without need of a > promotion, the video could be launched afterwards, announcing the brand-new > LibreOffice and its will to become The Standard. > > I've beek lurking the mailing lists and you can smell the will to change, > at least in UX/UI matters. I'm just trying to help this to happen. Sure, thanks for being around :-) A radical change is not going to happen, at least not "overnight" . We are aiming at changing things bits by bits.
But your skills can be very useful to the LibreOffice project starting even today: doing a set of promotional videos of some simple use cases "how do I do this or that" is a great thing to have. Would you be interested? Thanks, Charles. > > Sincerely, > Pablo. > -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-Founder & Director, The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
