Lars D. Noodén wrote:
One unwritten issue tied into the egg problem is recognition and
appreciation of the skill and effort the developers have put into
making OOo as good as it has become. Eggs are a way of making one's
mark on the product. If we solve that and find a surrogate that
enough developers are pleased with, then opposition to fixing the
problem might diminish or go away all together.
The only obvious problems I see are with the interactive eggs,
especially in a classroom environment where I'd call them almost
showstoppers, though the others may well be benign.
It's not that the games can compete with what's currently available on
the PlayStation, Gamecube or wannabees. It's that the disruption or
distraction caused by anything *not* part of the curriculum is
exciting. Those kids will tire of it, but then next week you get a new
patch of kids who 'discover' the disruption, etc.
-Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Steven Pauwels wrote:
Some of the pro's:
- why bother, they don't hurt anyone
- they are fun
- developpers are only humans
- the contra-people need to lighten up :)
- maybe we should, but not if its about OOo marketing! :)
- ...
Some of the contras:
- why have things that are not needed or wanted by anyone else then
developpers
- they have nothng to do with an office product
- they take the trust out of OOo
- distractive to school children
- leverage the power of NOT having them is a very good marketing item
- having them is a bad marketing item
- MS stopped having them in 2001 (so it seems, if anyone knows of the
opposite, let us know)
- ...
Now I know my English isn't that good sometimes and maybe I
misinterprete some things said sometimes... but IMHO it seems like
developpers like Easter eggs and others don't.
This is an issue IMHO the CC should decide on, taking in account the
above I took from the threads. Or does the CC have no authority here?
I do not know.
Steven P.
I would vote no on the Easter Eggs, however I do not consider the
pictures of the developers to be a problem, the games however are.
So maybe the games should be removed and the pictures and lists of
developers can stay.
James
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