On 16/10/10 20:07, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2010-10-16 12:18, j.martin.pedersen a écrit : >> >> Hi, >> >> LibreOffice is an exciting development! >> >> As a Free Software user and advocate who spends time in academia this is >> a crucial aspect of getting anyone to use LO: >> >>> As Writer developer I would be really interested in improving that... >>> though I have no idea of the requirements behing bibliographic works. >>> Would you be able to get some people helping to describe what needs to >>> be done? If you can find some other developers interested in hacking >>> that part, I'm ready to help them getting started! >> >> Whenever you suggest OOo or now LO to academics and students, they ask: >> "What about my Endnotes?" >> >> Until there is an integrated GUI that somewhat looks and feels like - >> and of course is 100% compatible with - Endnotes, social science and >> humanities academics will never migrate. They are locked in. With a >> great bibliographic component in LO, they could be unlocked. >> >> Looking forward to seeing what will happen, >> >> -martin >> > > Hi Martin: > > We will be looking for some input just like this in the marketing > section. Would you be interested in joining the marketing mailist and > joining in on the conversations there? Personally, I am very interested > in marketing LibO to the academia group. At what level in Academia are > you involved?
I am potentially interested. Currently I am on the fringe of academia, doing bits of precarious work, having finished a PhD in February titled "Property, Commoning and the Politics of Free Software". > You can join and develop this thread on the marketing discussion list if > you wish. I will subscribe and attempt to find time to contribute. -martin -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
