Axel, This is not the best list for posting this kind of comments (discuss@ would be better) and other than that, Libreoffice is an office suite, not printing software...
Best, Charles. Axel <[email protected]> a écrit : >Pablo, > >There is another area where LibreOffice need more promotion and work to > >help the spread and this is related to the companies that are >developing >solutions for various industries, IMHO. For example, almost any big >company needs a lot of papers printed automatically from various >software solutions (reports, administrative documents, medical results >etc.). And those software applications need a reliable and, preferable, > >free printing distribution software server to work with. In order to >respond quickly using customizable offerings, there are used usually >Word templates that are populated dynamically with info from databases >by custom developed server applications. But Word is not optimized at >all for concurrent access and is not reliable. And here LibreOffice >could get an opportunity. > >If anyone from LibreOffice could "build a ready to use" automatic >printing solution to be integrated easy with other apps that may use it > >(this meaning: selected and exhaustive documentation for this task >completed with code samples to speed up the integration, short >presentations how to use it this way and the benefits etc.) this could >be promoted to software companies to use it together with their >applications. Just imagine that their customers are buying an >application that needs to solve a part of their activity workflow and >they don't care if the document editing and distribution solution is MS > >Office or LibreOffice as time as it is doing well the job. But the >vendor cares about it because its offering is few thousand dollars less > >if they don't need Word licenses to be present on customer's >workstations and server(s). And this way, LibreOffice may spread in >companies where it wouldn't enter other way. > >Axel > > > > >On 25.05.2013 14:40, Pablo López Soriano wrote: >> 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. >> >> Sincerely, >> Pablo. >> > > >-- >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 -- Envoyé de mon téléphone avec Kaiten Mail. Excusez la brièveté. -- 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
