Hello Everyone, This thread has a-lot of good information but - isn't the task at hand to encourage folks to post "logo" submissions for this product?
If not, this may be a good reason to split the list as IMO some folks will be interested and others not. I anticipate we will have participation from a broad spectrum of individuals which include "professionals" and "others" who just want to contribute. Just my thoughts. :-) Respectfully, John On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Thorsten Wilms <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 00:18 +0100, Bernhard Dippold wrote: > > > > Develop an office productivity solution and make it and the project > > > itself available to and accessible by a majority of humans. > > > > Create and maintain a community of individuals and groups working > > collaboratively on different aspects of this development. > > Or: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Maximize the availability and the quality of the user experience of an > office productivity solution for a majority of humans. > > Maximize the enjoyment and productivity within the project. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Notes: > - The solutions in our hands isn't the goal, the solution in the user's > hands is. > - There's no actual solution, but just potential, until the user does > use it, which makes it necessary that he needs or wants to and knows > how. > - Maximizing productivity may encompass winning over as many > contributors as possible and making the most of their time and effort. > - Happy people may be more productive and increasing enjoyment could be > treated as measure to increase productivity. But who would want to be > productive without feeling good? > > > > > > It follows: > > > - Given our modern needs, there needs to be software > > > - Internationalization > > > - Free Software > > > - All major platforms > > > - Interoperability > > > - Open, documented interfaces > > > - Open, documented file formats > > > - Compatibility with other solutions > > > - Collaboration > > > - Meritocracy (there needs to be some hurdle for contributing and > > > based on ability*effort is best, if you care about the result) > > > > Free Software and open file format (ODF should be mentioned here) are > > main topics IMHO - the other describe details of the main goals. > > I see both as aspects of the solution. Free Software as imperatively so, > but ODF could see replacement, at least in theory. > > > > > But what is an "office productivity solution" or an "office (software) > > > suite", actually? How do you define the scope here? How do you include > > > enough, but not too much? > > > > That mainly depends on our goals: > > > > If we want to broaden the focus of applications / features / files > > (calender, music, video, flash etc), the focus shouldn't be too narrow. > > > > On the other hand this would lead to expectations and development effort > > that might be better focused on improving the existing specialized > > applications inside and outside of LibO - while integration via gateways > > and interfaces definitively makes sense. > > Trying to define the scope of an "office productivity solution" from > typical office tasks would lead the the inclusion of communication and > scheduling, among other things. > > But limited resources have to be spend well. I doubt the project could > or should afford to write another Outlook/Evolution, for example. This > asks for cooperation/interoperability/integration. > > I still wonder what would be common to a > - word processor > - spreadsheet > - presentation app > - drawing app > - database app > ? > > All but the database seem to be somewhat paper-oriented, at least in the > sense that there are pages (or slides). You deal with documents. > > > -- > Thorsten Wilms > > thorwil's design for free software: > http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ > > > -- > E-mail to [email protected]<marketing%[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 > > -- 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
