On 5/23/13 1:02 PM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > >> From: Jürgen Schmidt [mailto:jogischm...@gmail.com] > >> we can start promote this feature already, we can create screencasts, >> can blog about it, can make clear where it comes from ... >> >> If LO copy the sidebar (and I am sure they will) it's a good >> signal and >> users will learn over time where the real value comes from. > > *If we do not take care of it, users will _not_ understand these > relationships.*
nobody says that we should not take care of that > > Please ask Oliver for example, how cleverly advertises Thorsten for > LibreOffice, and which false image of AOO appears with it. I have it on the > Congress in Berlin, experienced. I know that and yes we don't have the people who are doing the appropriate marketing for AOO yet. > >> We are here >> and open for collaboration. Let people ask why they keep this >> fork alive >> and why they don't join us. TDF can continue what they are doing today >> but we would work on one common code base. Everything else is wasted >> time and wasted resources. >> >> If you want to start to do more and better marketing for AOO >> please do that. >> >> At the moment is important that we focus on a good AOO 4.0, work on >> translation, QA and bug fixes and bring the beast out. > > A good AOO is not only good code (QA, translation, ...). > > Sorry, but I'm disappointed because my suggestion was only to reflect > together about a better name for "sidebar", maybe we can find a better name. > > Everything You answer me, that's my suggestion is apparently uncomfortable. > > It is very important to the AOO has good technical quality, but if we believe > it is sufficient for success, we are wrong. > Good marketing is not an optional extra but a necessity that we should all > understand. I understand it quite well but in the end the work have to done. The term sidebar is not new and the work is ongoing since month and we have many other things to do. I feel it very mistimed to start such a discussion now. > > But it is not so, I because I am aware of these relationships, it also can > convert well ourselves. Good marketing is a task for experts, and I think > Apache has these experts, but it is our task to initiate the work of these > experts, first by recognizing the importance of this work. > maybe, if such experts are somewhere they should be speak up and should let us know that they are here ;-) Juergen > Specifically, a sound name for our bar would be good for our marketing, we > need only the name before then, and not just on the edge. > However, this may not work if we do not want it because we think it is not > important. > > > Greetings, > Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
