I'd exactly agree with these statements libreoffice needs to have a end user understanding not a developer understanding.
Laurence Jeloudev [email protected] On 19/05/2011, at 14:47, Xing Li <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I'm the administrator for FanFiction.Net and FictionPress.com and > we have always pushed openoffice and now > libreoffice to our users. However, we would like to give you guys some > feedbacks from our users regarding the > perception of libreoffice. > > 1) Our members are mostly non-techy and heavy users of word processing > features. > 2A) Some members falsely believe we are profiting off somehow from > this LibreOffice download. > 2B) Some members have false perception of LibreOffice somehow paying > us to put a link to your site. > 3) (2) shows that LibreOffice is a new name with not a widely accepted > recognition in the non-tech world. > 4) Overall, it's leading to lower adoption that I would like and a > general false perception that I did not see with OpenOffice. > > Recommendations: > > Please retool the Libreoffice site just a little with more emphasis on > the following: > > 1) "Abouse US" should not be last item in the menu. LibreOffice has a > branding problem and it should be first or second in > terms of prioity on the menu. > 2) Make the site and especially the download page, which most of us > link to, more consumer and not project centric. > Right now, the whole site looks very business/corporate like. > 3) Emphasis "Non-Profit" much more. So that new users can > differentiate "free" vs "non-profit". There are > lots of free software out there that have commerical tie-ins and > LibreOffice needs to give more thoughts to this. > > For example the first sentence of About US page is: > > "LibreOffice is community-driven and developed software which is a > project of the not-for-profit organization, The Document Foundation." > > Why is "not-for-profit" the last thought of the sentence? Also no > mention of free either. This sentence is written for developers and > not end-users > which is a oversight. Target the end-users first. Developers are smart > enough to know who you guys are already. > > Maybe I'm being too detailed here but overall, I would like > LibreOffice to do a better job of presenting itself via the website as > a free end-user, consumer friendly software from an non-profit entity. > > It's more about presentations of LibreOffice to the end-user to give > them a comfortable feeling when they visit the site for the first > time. The download page is needlessly too complicated for end-users. > Don't list sdk or source code builds. End-users have no idea what they > are. Perhaps have a "end-user/consumer"-centric main site and a > separate dev.libreoffice.org site. > > I would recommend a similar approach as taken by sites such as > www.getfirefox.com or www.google.com/chrome. Just give them one > download link, one logo, one line intro to what it is and that is > free, plus a friendly graphics and then a link to find out more if > they want to. > > Just some suggestions. I love the software and would like to help it > spread like summer weed. =) > > Regards, > > Xing > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
