Chad Smith schreef:
On 2/1/06, Steven Pauwels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
read my post again and find out why I posted it and the comment again...
I did, and I still disagree with your stance on Otto. I don't find him
immature, or Ian's statements about him immature. Should the Ed Project
have its own website? Sure. I think that OpenOffice.org should have a
Spread OOo site, like Spreadfirefox.com that is made for the sole purpose of
promoting OpenOffice.org - and another site for prospects to learn about OOo
like getopenoffice.org or something. I despise having the Project site and
Program site and the Promotion site all in one monolithic site, and I have
said such in the past. So on that point, I guess, we agree.
But your overall reaction to Otto I disagree with, as well as your
statement,
"To do that we have to work their interests and culture..." Yes
indeed... to everyones interests and culture...
That's impossible. There's no way to do one thing to statisfy everyone's
interests and cultures. It's better to try to reach *EACH* culture on its
own terms (very different from every - this allows for multiple means to the
same end, instead of one means to one end with all people).
And, again, I feel that your attack on Otto and on Ian's statements as being
very anti-marketing are uncalled for and wrong. First of all, that page is
not meant as a marketing tool - your example of it being like a window
display is faulty - it's more like it's a tool in the back office - not
something for the window display. I mean, I would never eat at a restaurant
if their window showed their dish washing room. Even though the dish room
is important, and I want a restaraunt to have one, it's not meant for public
viewing, and isn't appealing to look at. Now, I don't think Otto or that
page is a dish room, but hopefully, you get the idea.
The OOo website IS a 'shop-window' for OOo. It is on the website and as
you correctly point out: it's lore like it's a tool in the back office'
and thus saying exactly what I am syaing: that is where it should be.
But it isn't...
So you don't mind that you have to walk trough the dish room when you
want to eat in that restaurant? ;-) I get your point.
If the whole point of your email was to illustrate the need for multiple
website, then I agree with your goal. But I do not agree with many of the
things you said in getting to that point.
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- Chad Smith
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