On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:34 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderand...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Benjamin Horst <bho...@mac.com> wrote: >> >From a broad view of future success, tablets merit a great deal of >> attention on our part. As I mentioned elsewhere, a "LibreOffice Touch" for >> tablets would be huge. We'd "outflank" our main opponent, capture vast new >> markets and develop great momentum, and then with that increased strength, >> address the initial marketplace (of PC desktops and laptops) with a much >> larger arsenal at our disposal. >> > That sounds great. I think it could be a strong growth market, and help push > not only OSS, LibreOffice, etc. but also the ODF format. However I think the > key to that strategy is jumping out in front quickly. GoogleDocs can already > by accessed via the web on tablets, and Microsoft has their online office > offerings. > > LibreOffice would need a slim build with a tablet UI, and it would need one > quickly. Is there developer bandwidth for such a project? I think this would > be a good Google Summer of Code project that could get some funding and a > new developer that way, but I'm not sure the work could be handled by a > single developer over a summer.
Nokia is already developing a mobile/tablet version of Koffice for Meamo/Meego. -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***
