2012/9/25 Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> > On 9/25/12 3:27 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > >>> As we perform the final preparations to release Apache OpenOffice > >>> 3.4.1 it is a good time to look ahead to the future. A big > >>> opportunity is OpenOffice 4.0. That once seemed so very far away, but > >>> 2013 is getting closer every day. Will it be a large collection of > >>> small ideas? Will it have a major overarching theme? Or will it just > >>> be whatever random stuff we happen to have on a given date when we > >>> release 4.0? The answer, of course, depends on what we, as project > >>> members/volunteers decide to do. It is a good time now, as a > >>> background activity, to poll the community and wider ecosystem on > >>> ideas for Apache OpenOffice 4.0. > >>> > >>> To participate, go to this page on Google Moderator, where you can > >>> help us gather and rate ideas: > >>> https://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=2011d5 > >>> > >>> A few project members have already "seeded" this with some initial > >>> ideas. Of course, you are encouraged to add your own ideas, as well as > >>> rate the ideas of others. Try not to censor yourself from thinking > >>> outside-of-the-box. We need big ideas as well as incremental ones. > >>> > >>> We don't have a close date on this brainstorming activity, but it is > >>> good to get your ideas in early, so there is an opportunity for others > >>> to rate and comment on it. > >>> > >> > >> This brainstorming has been ongoing for 3 weeks now. So far, so good. > >> The latest stats are: > >> > >> 533 people have submitted 456 ideas and cast 6,491 votes > >> > > > > Today, a week later: 633 users - 527 ideas - 7,607 votes > > > > So we are still getting a good amount of feedback. I added a mention > > of this brainstorming on the www.openoffice.org website header. That > > should give this even more visibility. > > > > I've heard from some that it would be good to get to a point where we > > can take a "snapshot" of the feedback received, and process that, to > > help set priorities for AOO 4.0. > > > > Would it make sense to do that in another week, say on October 1st? > > > > At that point we can: > > > > 1) Put a "thank you" note on the Google Moderator page and stop > > accepting new suggestions. Point the users to the ooo-users or > > ooo-dev mailing list instead, > > > > 2) Export the ideas and scores received so far to a CSV file and > > archive that someplace. > > > > 3) Discuss the results received > > > > 4) Maybe a blog post to highlight the brainstorming activity and the > > results received? > > > > Any other ideas? > > not directly. We should analyze it first and should create some overall > story out of it for our next release. I think this can help to prepare > some marketing material in time for this release as well. It's time that > we sell our work a little bit better ;-) > > I agree with all 4 points and I am willing to help them where I can. I > expect point 3) will be a bigger item where hopefully many will > participate and I am looking forward to this. I saw many interesting > stuff already. >
I'm also willing to help. I think we can break down the work and each people take different topics to categorize the ideas and count the vote. - Simon > > Juergen > > > > > I don't need to own any of this, but since I started it I'm willing to > > finish it. But if anyone else wants to take a lead on this, please > > volunteer. > > > > Regards, > > > > -Rob > > > >> If you have not reviewed the new ideas recently, it would be worth > >> taking another look. It is good that all ideas are rated, not just > >> the ones that came in early. > >> > >> Maybe let it run to the end of September and then we can snapshot it > >> and start analyzing the results? Or mid October? It would be good to > >> wrap this up in advance of ApacheCon, so we can discuss further there. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> -Rob > >> > >> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> -Rob > >
