Hi Raphael, this is really sad to hear. The gap between so many users and a vanishing community developers wise is really strange. So the question comes to mind what the reasons are for this situation:
* are there problems in the community - especially among the developers? * is OpenOffice not competitive anymore compared to Microsoft Office? * is OpenOffice not competitive anymore compared to Google Docs and similar tools? * are the download numbers correct? * do you have an idea about the acceptance of OpenOffice in the wide world (marketing. press and so on)? I am quite sure you already asked and discussed these questions. But maybe they trigger some in depth discussions to better understand the “why” I wish you all the best with the project and hope, that it will move on. Andy -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! GPG public key: http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x45D3565377F93D29 > On 19. Apr 2017, at 22:19, Raphael Bircher <rbircherapa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi people > > I want to raise a question here. I know, we have to solve our problems our > self, but maybe here are people with ideas. OpenOffice has a big community > problem. The community was simply melted away in the last year. We have at > the moment no Company who offer devs. And the rest of the community fights > the absolutely urgent issues. There was already a discussion about > retirement, it was refused. But this doesn't mean we are out of the danger > zone. > > The sweet part of this story is our user base. We have 100'000 Downloads > EVERY single DAY. I mean, this is crazy. We have really loyal users. We get > also frequently messages from user who just want to say "thank you". > > The sad thing about this is, they have actually no chance to do something for > the program. They are looked out. Remember, they are normal users, they are > no developers. They are typically private users or small companies. But > imagine what happened if only a small part of our users pay 20$. > > We really need devs and we need skilled one, because OpenOffice is > challenging for programmers. Companies with a load of money has a easy way to > influence an Apache project. Simply pay a developer, that's it. But people > without big pocket are simply looked out. (if they have no programmer skills) > That's not fair! > > How to solve this problem? Thanks a load. > > Regards Raphael > > -- > My introduction https://youtu.be/Ln4vly5sxYU > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
