One of the benefits of Launchpad is that it's a central place for all
projects to work together. Thus, installing a separate Launchpad
instance for certain projects could serve to fracture it and make it
less useful globally, right?
The part of this that I'm focusing my thoughts on is the marketing and
promotion side, since I think we are at the "chasm" where we need to
get the word about OOo out to non-technical, normal computer users.
Firefox crossed that chasm but many great foss projects have not, so I
have looked to methods they used, like Spread Firefox, as an example
for OOo. Just like politicians are building for themselves, we want a
set of online tools that people in the real world use to coordinate
actions and interpersonal communication. Real-world, actual human
contact and communication is essential when crossing the chasm!
Lightweight project management and discussion tools could be
sufficient, but social networking would add a new layer of interest to
casual users and promoters, and help them plug in more quickly to the
nerve center of the marketing and PR efforts. Hence, Elgg or a Drupal
site like Spread Firefox seem to be the tools to consider from this
side.
-Ben
On Sep 1, 2008, at 5:49 AM, andylockran wrote:
According to a recent post on the ubuntu-uk.org planet by Alan Pope,
Launchpad is aiming for an Open Source release within 12 months. I'm
not sure if that's something worth waiting for, as 12 months is a
long time.
http://popey.com/Launchpad_to_go_Open_Source_by_next_OSCon
From the social networking side of things, elgg looks like a good
product to use. But how it would integrate I'm not sure.
As regards Launchpad. I run a couple of coding projects on it, but
there are also things like the Ubuntu-UK marketing team which have a
project on it. It's not really geared up for this though.
The design of what OOo appear to need would require this
functionality,
and Launchpad would benefit from the addition too. At the moment I
guess its a coding social network, uses OpenID too :) To integrate
discussion/project management tools into it would suit a marketing
effort much more - and would fulfil the functional requirements that
the
guys on this list have set (I think) ?
Andy
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