On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 08:56 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
> On 04/16/2011 10:17 AM, drew wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 10:02 -0400, drew wrote: > >> On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 12:27 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press > >> Productions wrote: > >>> Do you know any figures on how many people now use LibreOffice? > >>> > >>> OOo use to keep track of this based on the number of downloads from > >>> their site, and the same for Mozilla's browser. It would be nice to > >>> be > >>> able to state that 100 thousand, or 1 million, etc., people are now > >>> using LibreOffice. > >> Hi Tim, > >> > >> The stats exist, as far as I know. I asked about this, a month ago, and > >> was told that at this time they will not be released. > >> > > Sorry double post - but if I'm not mistaken there where some stats > > released recently - I think it was 1.5 million total downloads, I'd > > forgotten about that in the last email. > > > > //drew > If we could state that Since January 2011, there has been 1 million > downloads from the LibreOffice web site, and many more are downloading > it from the Linux Repositories, then we have a good start with telling > people how "popular" it is becoming. The fact that most Linux distros > have dumped Oracle's version in favor of LibreOffice as the their > default office suite package, is a good thing for "us". The fact that > more and more businesses, governments [local, regional, national] have > dumped MSO in favor of open-source office suites [no mention of OOo] > will work fine as well for marketing LibreOffice. The USA Federal > government is pushing open-source solutions is a big thing for "us". We > can say that since our government is pushing for open-source software to > be used, "why not try it for yourself?. If there was some list made [I > asked about this a few years back] made up of all the big businesses, > governments, schools/colleges, and any other large organization, who > have switch from MSO to OOo over the years, we could us those "names" > for reasons for switching to open-source office suite[s]. Since we came > from OOo, we could still use those facts for promoting switching to > LibreOffice [open-source] from MSO [not open-source]. > > Businesses love stats and knowing such-and-such big business decided to > switch, so if those companies switched to open-source, then maybe this > is something that their business should look into. It does not matter > if they switched to OOo, since that was before Oracle's "mess" and > LibreOffice being "born" out of that mess. We can add that LibreOffice > has been "proclaimed" by the press that it is a better product that OOo, > so why not try LibreOffice instead of OOo, since it is the better free > and open-source office suite package on the market today. > > > I agree showing who has adopted our parent helps us. If they adopted OOo before we had a release I think that is fair to use. -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
