I think the foundation can use another instrument (similarly as the ubuntu
developers and barak obama) to involve people in the project. I saw (and
posted) suggestions which should be collected and may be useful ti the
developers. I also remember that the health administration of my region stated
once: "yes, we will use free software, but we still need proprietary
software"; like to say that free software doesn't have some features we need.
The idea is that the document foundation should have somewhere (in the internet
site, internet blog, wiki or social network) a public page to allow people
posting their suggestions (or issues) or voting for the ones posted by other
people. Not the bugs, but new features that people would insert LibreOffice.
I think it should be like a pool working about like this. a page with a list
of issues or subjects where you can vote for one (which you think is
important) with a few limitations (like just one vote for each issue from each
ip address to avoid cheating). otherwise you can send a message or email
message with the proposal of a new issue or suggestion (a first filter to avoid
duplicates and to insert simply voices like eg 'automatic names for text
documents instead of noname' or 'dwg data import filer' instead of 'hi, my
name is... i would like to have...').
At the end developers would find a list like: 'most voted suggestions: a)
cappuccino - 200 votes; b) coffee - 180 votes; c) black coffee - 160
votes' and so on. It means a concise and unique list of suggestions to
consider and work on.
Maybe adding the author of a suggestion could be useful, being that LO is
officially used in important institutions (e.g. the french government and
important universities), which could require special features, but is not
necessary.
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