Re to myself: actually the mailing list you use is the right one but not its label (it's not board-discuss)...
best, Charles. Le lundi 22 avril 2013 à 16:28 +0200, Jonathan Aquilina a écrit : > Italo are you planning on taking advantage of other means besides social > networks such as google plus facebook twitter etc are you planning an > advertisement campaing through google adwords? > > That would be a great way to get the notion out there that there are > alternatives and that LO exists. especially since the links come up when > doing a search. > > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Italo Vignoli <italo.vign...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > This mailing list is not dead, but we are all volunteers and we all have > > a family and a work to pay our bills. Sometimes, to reply to messages it > > takes some time. > > > > On 4/22/13 10:06 AM, Pedro wrote: > > > > > Regarding your subject, I think that LibreOffice could target those users > > > but there are two obstacles: the file conversion is not perfect AND (most > > > important) those users are already too used to MS Office. It is easier to > > > convince new users to work with a different product than to teach new > > tricks > > > to "old dogs". > > > > This does not reflect the reality, where most LibreOffice (and > > OpenOffice) users are coming from the Microsoft field, because they are > > fed up with license costs or simply looking for an alternative (this is > > the most frequent approach). > > > > The end of life for MS Office 2003 is a significant problem for > > companies, but not for individuals. Targeting companies is definitely > > more difficult than targeting individuals, but as far as I know most of > > them are already trying to manage the problem - at least in Europe - and > > many of them are looking at migrating to free software. > > > > TDF has published a white paper about migrating from Microsoft Office to > > LibreOffice, which is being translated in several languages. We can use > > such a document to educate companies and we can even make a version > > targeted to MS Office 2003 users. > > > > The fact that the file conversion is not perfect is not going to change. > > It will never be perfect, because Microsoft is deliberatedly creating > > formats which are impossible to emulate in order to reduce the > > interoperability (interoperability is the death of lock in, and lock in > > is the cornerstone of Microsoft business model). > > > > On the other hand, placing a counter on our website would not reach the > > potential target of MS Office 2003 users, unless they already know free > > software and LibreOffice (which would put them in a different group). > > > > We should make some hard noise in the Windows environment, using social > > media and traditional media. Let's brainstorm about a specific message > > for this target group. > > > > -- > > Italo Vignoli - italo.vign...@gmail.com > > mob +39.348.5653829 - VoIP 5316...@messagenet.it > > skype italovignoli - gtalk italo.vign...@gmail.com > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > > Problems? > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Jonathan Aquilina > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > 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 > -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-Founder & Director, The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
