Hi,
Le 5 sept. 08 à 15:15, andylockran a écrit :
Benjamin Horst wrote:
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?
I don't think so, as Launchpad uses an OpenID system for
authentication.. and I'd hazard a guess that any Open Source system
that they pump out should be able to integrate with the mothership -
in that Launchpad.net OpenIDs could work (once registered) on the
OOo site, therefore making it a satellite, rather than a parallel
entity.
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!
Yeah, the chasm is about getting to that critical tipping point.
Students go back to University in the UK over the next couple of
weeks. Pushing OOo as a valuable resource for them requires human
contact (at some level). Posters such as "Spent all your student
loan on booze during freshers week, and can't afford to buy your
Computer Software? Don't download illegally, download OpenOffice.org
for FREE!" could be quite catching.. however, the scale on which
they'd need to be produced in order to be succesful is prohibitive
(I'd suggest).
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.
Are you suggesting that the social network site be a quasi-internal
method of communicating, or something you'd expect end-users to join?
I don't think that would be something to do right now, but at least
for certain portion of the web site it could be a great idea.
Some thought of secundary importance just crossed my mind: if we
implement this network right, using sets of tools such as DiSo (mostly
microformats et al) we could get some really good buzz about OOo.
Cheers,
Charles.
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