Howdy,
Jonathon's really hit the mark, IMO, with how much of his last email is
phrased.
Roland has a valid and important view also.
I think the best way to address both, with a 'promo' video, is for TDF to
work towards three categories of promo videos:
Work Product focused videos;
ie. LibreOffice.
1 Encompassing both differentiating features/benefits (longer)
2 Branding (short)
TDF Community focused videos;
Longer format and cover the what is FOSS & OpenStandards and who is the
community called The Document Foundation
So I think current video covers work product features and is long.
I bet there is one that covers the community focus also and it is long.
I'm figuring anything longer than 30 seconds is long here.
There isn't a short branding video however. Would that be accurate?
Best wishes,
Drew
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 8:47 PM jonathon <toki.kant...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/17/19 9:11 PM, Roland Hummel wrote:
>
> > "Yes, LO is nice but it won't beat MS Office because in MSO we will have
> artificial intelligence".
>
> If the battlefield is functionality, and AI is important,in 2018, the
> five most important AI programming languages were:
> * Python;
> * LISP;
> * C++;
> * Java;
> * Prolog;
>
> Two (Three? I'm not sure about C++) are built-in macro languages. LISP
> and Prolog are easy enough to add.
>
> There is documentation on installing and using R as a macro language.
>
> Which underscores that the big issue in the functionality war, is not
> what is available, but rather, the knowledge that the features are
> available, and how to use them.
>
> _TL;DR: Documentation, not implementation._
>
> I'm not sure why being able to grab LinkedIn resumes from within Excel
> is a good thing, but that is the type of functionality that Microsoft is
> adding. IMNSHO, this type of functionality is best provided by extension
> developers.
>
> End users can more easily customize LibO, than MSO, etc.
>
> > base of any argumentation because it is the only superior starting
> position LO has.
>
> For most organizations, ethics is nothing more than a feel-good talking
> point. Something that is neither implemented, nor observed.
> As such, appeals based on ethical principles fall upon deaf ears.
>
> > Starting from software freedom any further argumentation will convince
> (at least in societies claiming freedom as fundamental part of a society):
> > -because LO is freedom respecting it is secure
> > -because LO is freedom respecting it is privacy respecting
> > -because LO is freedom respecting it serves the user
> > -because LO is freedom respecting it is sustainable
>
> Neither people nor organizations are concerned about those things, until
> they discover that their data has been passed on to nefarious third
> parties, by their software vendor.
>
> A white paper showing how LibO meets requirements for various privacy
> related legislation might be useful here.
>
> Whilst such a paper might make LibreOffice Cloud Edition look bad, the
> quasi-redeeming feature is that the user can control the cloud that it
> is installed on.
>
> > In this way LO will convince governments, companies, the educational
> sector and NGOs,
>
> The question to be addressed here, is "Who can be sued, if things go
> wrong?"
>
> Whilst Microsoft's _Terms and Conditions_ claim no liability, that
> doesn't prevent support companies from being sued, when things go wrong.
>
> This is where a lawyer is needed, to explain either who could
> sucessfully be sued, if LibO goes wrong, or why such a lawsuit would not
> be filable in the first place.
>
> >not by trying to convince users in a perspective that is already totally
> lost to the proprietary sector ("functionality"
>
> The functionality issue will be over, when you can pick up _LibreOffice
> For Managing you Futures Portfolio: Shorts, Straddles, Puts, and
> Candlesticks_ at your local Office Depot, or _Asteroid Hunting using
> LibreOffice_ at your local _Books a Million_.
>
> (I've only slightly changed the titles of books about Excel, that I've
> seen in bookstores.)
>
> >aka "but MS Office is so easy to use").
>
> Familiarity, not ease of use.
>
> jonathon
>
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