Re: R: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ideas wanted for "How we're different" part of new LibreOffice website

Precisely this, by supporting 'partner' applications you not only improve
the viability of LibreOffice as a valid Microsoft Office alternative, but
also that of other related projects and some cross promotion and
recommendation makes the whole of the FLOSS office ecosystem more viable. I
think a goal for marketing in 2022 should be some sort of 'outreach' to
partner projects with the aim of creating a collaboration or working group
for the benefit of all. I'm sure that other projects would be happy to
collaborate. Unfortunately in the FLOSS world there are too many silos,
hopefully 2022 will see this change somewhat.

Kind regards

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 3:11 PM Nigel Verity <nigelverity@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> James makes a very good point. If you have a problem with MS Office you go
> down a single route to a single POC to try and get it resolved. If you had
> different support organisations for each of Outlook, Teams, OneNote etc,
> then MS Office would be very unattractive - especially in the enterprise
> space.
>
> A replacement solution based on LO and other open source applications
> would be greatly enhanced if such a single POC existed. It doesn't mean
> other projects need to be subsumed into TDF. Some collaboration and a
> common support portal would allow each to continue independently, but with
> shared benefits and incentives for co-operation.
>
> Nige
>
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> *From:* James Harking <james.harking@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 30 December 2021 14:36
> *To:* sophi <sophi@libreoffice.org>
> *Cc:* TDF Marketing <marketing@global.libreoffice.org>
> *Subject:* Re: R: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ideas wanted for "How we're
> different" part of new LibreOffice website
>
> Hi Sophie,
>
> What I'm trying to 'tease' out is that LibreOffice in its current form can
> not be a replacement for Microsoft Office, but clearly it is central to
> this. As an example I have never heard of Blue Mind. What would go a long
> way in my opinion is some guidance from the Document Foundation on
> solutions that can replace missing functionality that an
> enterprise/institution would have if migrating to FLOSS 'office' software
> to form strategic partnerships with partner projects to grow the FLOSS
> alternatives in this space. This will undoubtedly increase the viability of
> LibreOffice as well as help projects that could support goals to the
> Document Foundation such as Project Libre, Betterbird and Joplin.This is
> why I suggested previously that a working group with associated projects
> would be beneficial for the whole of the ecosystem.
>
> Currently to replace the totality of Microsoft Office 365 takes around 5 or
> 6 applications I suspect which is a difficult ask given that you can go to
> one provider for a solution but if there is a recommended migration path
> using a number of 'partner' projects then it is an easier sell.
>
> Kind regards
>
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 2:11 PM sophi <sophi@libreoffice.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Le 30/12/2021 à 14:39, James Harking a écrit :
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Here's hypothetical for you, I don't have direct contact with our
> desktop
> > > team but I do have some sway in decision making.
> > >
> > > Let's say we are a company with around 1000 Windows desktops, we
> > currently
> > > use Microsoft Office 365 and generally are happy with it, however
> license
> > > costs are relatively expensive and we have a concern over our data
> > > portability and so we are looking at alternatives. We would not migrate
> > > away from Windows as this would cause excessive work for little
> benefit.
> > > We use Outlook for mail, calendaring and contacts which are essential
> for
> > > us, we could for the most part substitute Word for Writer, Excel for
> Calc
> > > and Impress for Powerpoint. However we also use Teams internally for
> > > communication, meetings and document storage. Also One Note is used for
> > > quick individual note keeping. Microsoft Project is used by a small
> > subset
> > > of colleagues.
> >
> > You have dedicated open source tools for that, this is not LibreOffice
> > job to do video conference or mail. See one of them for example
> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bluemind.net%2Fen%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C4e38d3cfa0b846033be908d9cba1e30d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637764718476922396%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=Lj%2F98WuBdG1zwwbLDBdBSCv7smzi%2FXoxzWb%2BCX2Kh4A%3D&amp;reserved=0
> > Cheers
> > Sophie
> >
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