Hi Italo, all, On 07/11/2012 11:29, Italo Vignoli wrote: > Il 06/11/2012 17:14, Marc Paré ha scritto: > >> It seems to me that we are now going to abandon the recognized brand >> name of "LibO" (well-known internally, and somewhat externally >> recognized by the communities) and try to establish a more generic brand >> "Libre" which is usually associated with a movement, and, we have >> already established that there is a pronunciation problem with some of >> our communities with the word "Libre". > > I do not want to abandon LibO, but I want to strengthen Libre, because > the name of the software is LibreOffice and there is a huge number of > people who use LO and call it OOo based on 10 years habits. > > In addition, strengthening "libre" will reinforce the association > between our software and Liberty, as the two words share the same root > (and Liberty is a very well know word in English, which seems to be the > native pronunciation with the highest number of problems). > > I am also using "libre" as a distinctive word for our project, by adding > the tagline *because "libre" is better than "open"* to every > presentation I make around the world. Of course, I am playing on both > words here, and I am sure that there will be people unhappy about this > tagline (but none of us is supposed to make all people happy).
But Italo, it's not about the brand here, I agree with you that we should stress LibreOffice instead of any other name for our suite or the international community. We are talking here about the name of the language communities we represent and we need a unique name that show the world who we are and the work we are doing for this product and the overall community. We need a name that is easy to use, easy to remember, with no ambiguity about the languages vs countries. Even if we keep the name LibreOffice Native-Language Project - in short LONLP ;-), there is no issue at all, what I would like is that everybody behind this name feel happy with it and feel part of it wherever we speak about it. I think that this is what Charles was asking to them. Kind regards Sophie -- Sophie Gautier <sophie.gaut...@documentfoundation.org> Tel:+33683901545 Membership & Certification Committee Member - Co-founder The Document Foundation -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to projects+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/projects/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
