I agree here too. I can manage to find and install what I need and my friends/family need of LO so I have no problems. I think target the non-technical masses, like firefox. LO 3.3.2 is pretty much up to speed and it seems 3.4 will be suitable for prime time. May be now is the time to step into the limelight. steve
On 19/05/11 16:46, Xing Li 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
