Re: [board-discuss] Discussion about options available with marketing plan draft and timetable

2020-07-10 Thread Gustavo Buzzatti Pacheco
Hi Andreas, @! On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 11:18 AM kainz.a wrote: > .. > As I wrote, community edition is fine for me. Fun Project, Fantastic > People will be something like a backup which describes the LibreOffice > community and can be from my point of view a bit more motivated to donate > or

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [tdf-members] Personal: and software freedom.

2020-07-10 Thread Olivier Hallot
Hi Em 10/07/2020 09:59, Kev M escreveu: > Also to add, > > Why not call it LibreOffice Vanilla? Please don't. FWIW, vanilla out of the nerd or English-centric bubble is a flavor for ice cream or sweet dessert. Such name diminish the software, and everything else that is around LibreOffice out

Re: [board-discuss] Discussion about options available with marketing plan draft and timetable

2020-07-10 Thread Daniel Armando Rodriguez
Many people from the hispanic Community is in favor of Community tag, myself included. This term identifies pretty well a group of people who are passionate, in this case about a free and open tool. However, the adoption of such an appellation must be communicated in an appropriate manner and

Re: [board-discuss] Discussion about options available with marketing plan draft and timetable

2020-07-10 Thread kainz.a
Thank Thorston I think the discussion was well and we have now something we can work with. LibreOffice Community Edition If we wait for another 6 months nothing will happen. Only the spirit will go away and the community need a clear message how future will be. Design proposals can be done

Re: [board-discuss] Discussion about options available with marketing plan draft and timetable

2020-07-10 Thread Michael Meeks
On 10/07/2020 11:12, Florian Effenberger wrote: > With all the feedback received, I strongly propose to leave 7.0 without > tagging and finalize the plan for a later release. I share Thorsten's view. While I've generally been a big proponent of getting everything nailed down in one

Re: [board-discuss] Discussion about options available with marketing plan draft and timetable

2020-07-10 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Flo, *, Florian Effenberger wrote: > first and foremost, thanks a lot to everyone for taking on the challenging > task to work on a marketing plan. I am sure this was not easy, so thanks to > all of you for your work on this - and thanks to the board for the > transparent communication in

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [tdf-members] Personal: and software freedom.

2020-07-10 Thread Kev M
Also to add, Why not call it LibreOffice Vanilla? There's no inferences as Community or Personal have that suggest a lesser product. It's not called Plain, which sounds boring. Partners can sell Libreoffice support with the Libreoffice "powered by" or "engine" (personally engine sounds like it

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [tdf-members] Personal: and software freedom.

2020-07-10 Thread Kev M
Hey Michael, That's fair, I think then what Lionel is saying makes sense. There should be a automated/listed price version for small enterprises and individual users that want support or just to support. Maybe a different vendor would handle this segment of the market with a partnership with

Re: [board-discuss] Discussion about options available with marketing plan draft and timetable

2020-07-10 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Florian, I fully support what you wrote. That's it. Ciao Paolo On 10/07/2020 12:12, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hello, > > first and foremost, thanks a lot to everyone for taking on the > challenging task to work on a marketing plan. I am sure this was not > easy, so thanks to all of you for

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Some problems.

2020-07-10 Thread Uwe Altmann
Am 08.07.20 um 16:44 schrieb Kev M: > I also think someone earlier referenced that this could be > interpreted as being against the TDF bylaws, so those might need to > be changed anyway. This is a big part of the problem because this is exactly an option that cannot be done - at least not in a

Re: [board-discuss] Discussion about options available with marketing plan draft and timetable

2020-07-10 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, first and foremost, thanks a lot to everyone for taking on the challenging task to work on a marketing plan. I am sure this was not easy, so thanks to all of you for your work on this - and thanks to the board for the transparent communication in public! With all the feedback

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [tdf-members] Personal: and software freedom.

2020-07-10 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Kev, I havn't had a chance to get back to your rather detailed and interesting feedback en-mass; but let me respond to just this one (nearly totally off-topic) nugget =) On 10/07/2020 05:15, Kev M wrote: > Personally, in the IT world, I usually ignore the "contact us for > pricing"

[board-discuss] Re: [tdf-members] Personal: and software freedom.

2020-07-10 Thread Kev M
Nice, hadn't seen this. Thanks for pointing it out Lionel. I purchased a license to support it. I like how they've framed it as LibreOffice Vanilla vs LibreOffice powered by CIB. I agree with your other points too Lionel and you've communicated it in a way I was looking to in an earlier post.