On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Kay Schenk <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Kay Schenk <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > On 05/24/2012 11:46 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Just checking the numbers: we appear to be at 1.8 million for AOO > 3.4 > >> >> install downloads. > >> >> > >> >> It might make sense to put out another story when we hit 2 million. > >> > > >> > > >> > why not! :) > >> > > >> > >> OK. I'll work with Don on this. But after this I suggest we only > >> note the downloads at 5 million intervals. Otherwise we will spend > >> too much time writing news articles and too little time improving > >> OpenOffice. > >> > > > > this definitely makes sense... > > > > We might note that June 1 is the first anniversary OpenOffice with > Apache. > > Maybe the new DL stats announcement, if the timeline is right, might make > > note of this and include a mention of how successful this new > > environment/arrangement has been for OpenOffice. Just a thought. > > > > It looks like we'll hit 2 million sometime tomorrow (Saturday). If > we wait until June 1st (Friday) we'll be around 2.5. But announcing > on Friday is not good for getting press attention. And if we wait > until the next week, June 4th, then we'll almost be at 3 million. > > So.... maybe we just make a smaller announcement, via > ooo-dev/ooo-users and social media for the 2 million mark, when we > actually hit it. Then for the larger Symphony announcement we also > note the 1 year achievement as well as give an updated download count, > 2.5 or 3.0 million, depending on when that is ready for release. > +1 on this. I think this approach would certainly steer us in the "future development" direction and a bit away from tooting our own horn. Not that I think the latter is a bad thing, but, it would be better to prevent the "flash in the pan" business mentioned by Louis. As for the new climbing numbers -- well maybe some folks have been reading reviews and wondering what AOO is all about. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the latest downloads were from "new" customers. > > > > > >> A good problem to have ;-) > >> > >> -Rob > >> > >> > > >> >> Maybe this can be combined with the piece on Symphony that Don was > >> >> working on? > >> > > >> > > >> > yes...good idea! > >> > > >> >> > >> >> -Rob > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > MzK > >> > > >> > "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." > >> > -- Mark Twain > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > MzK > > > > "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." > > -- Mark Twain > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." -- Mark Twain
