Andrea et al., I love your enthusiasm towards templating. As a professional end user of the software I find that more often than not I am either using or creating document and presentation templates that I use over and over in the course of a year or so. I believe that templates are an essential part of the branding and marketing of LibreOffice as a professional level product. Personally I would love to see some more graphically intensive presentation templates and highly professional document layouts being presented within the LibreOffice Brand within a few weeks of the official template website/repository launch.
As a part of my Drupal website structure development this was envisaged as Marc has mentioned, sitting side by side with LibreOffice extensions and Themes (icons and interface colours at the moment). The importance of a unified community within LibreOffice will become more important over time as the requirements of extensions, themes and templating/layout design pushes the boundaries of what the product is currently able to achieve. In integrating the community in such a way it becomes very familiar to approach a different section of YOUR community rather than having to introduce yourself into another community or a functionally separated branch of the community. https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Ad3nEslnhQO_ZGZzZjUzYmpfNzZjd3pycDc1eg&hl=en&authkey=CJ7D4fkE As you can see from the Drupal website design brief the structure will allow for the complex categorisation and searching of templates as is the case with the OOo repository. I would be interested to see if anyone has strong views for or against the website structure that I have proposed from a marketing or templating point of view and as you can see from the vibrance of the Drupal development wiki there is endless possibilities when it comes to implementing the Drupal website infrastructure. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Website/Drupal http://www.libreofficeaustralia.org The Drupal development site before it launches as libreoffice.org in around 4-6 months. - it is not themed yet, but some of the structure is there. I will be working on the extension and templates section over the coming week Any feedback on the proposal that we are currently designing from is greatly appreciated. -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
