Re: [dev-biblio] Bibliographic Issues should be added to the marketing strategy

2006-06-14 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On Jun 14, 2006, at 2:49 AM, David Wilson wrote: y University's IT department distributes OpenOffce for free, but the Academic departments recommend students use Endnotes for bibliographic management. Minor correction: Endnote, not Endnotes. Until recently OpenOffice could claim to at least

Re: [dev-biblio] Bibliographic Issues should be added to the marketing strategy

2006-06-14 Thread matt . price
Quoting Bruce D'Arcus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jun 14, 2006, at 2:49 AM, David Wilson wrote: Given this situation I propose that a fifth dot point be added to this list- [...] In terms of the higher Education market bibliographic support is not 'feature', it is a strategic

Re: [dev-biblio] Bibliographic Issues should be added to the marketing strategy

2006-06-14 Thread Matthew Yates
Wow, this series of e-mails is depressing. I am a professor at the University of Rochester and use Openoffice daily, so along with Matt Price and Bruce D'Arcus, there are at least a few people interested in using Openoffice in academia. I've been following this issue for some time (I'm the one

Re: [dev-biblio] Bibliographic Issues should be added to the marketing strategy

2006-06-14 Thread matt . price
Quoting Matthew Yates [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was really hopeful a year or so ago that better bibliographic support would be built in by now. As was I, and I should say that one of the reasons the current situation really bums me out is that there are a number of python-based teaching projects I

Re: [dev-biblio] Bibliographic Issues should be added to the marketing strategy

2006-06-14 Thread Matthew Yates
David, I like the pledge idea. Codeweavers set up something similar where users can pledge money for a favorite windows application. The Codeweavers developers can then prioritize development to get new applications functioning based on the pledges for it. When they get it working, they