Re: [libreoffice-design] Does LibreOffice need more promotion?

Pablo,

There is another area where LibreOffice need more promotion and work to 
help the spread and this is related to the companies that are developing 
solutions for various industries, IMHO. For example, almost any big 
company needs a lot of papers printed automatically from various 
software solutions (reports, administrative documents, medical results 
etc.). And those software applications need a reliable and, preferable, 
free printing distribution software server to work with. In order to 
respond quickly using customizable offerings, there are used usually 
Word templates that are populated dynamically with info from databases 
by custom developed server applications. But Word is not optimized at 
all for concurrent access and is not reliable. And here LibreOffice 
could get an opportunity.

If anyone from LibreOffice could "build a ready to use" automatic 
printing solution to be integrated easy with other apps that may use it 
(this meaning: selected and exhaustive documentation for this task 
completed with code samples to speed up the integration, short 
presentations how to use it this way and the benefits etc.) this could 
be promoted to software companies to use it together with their 
applications. Just imagine that their customers are buying an 
application that needs to solve a part of their activity workflow and 
they don't care if the document editing and distribution solution is MS 
Office or LibreOffice as time as it is doing well the job. But the 
vendor cares about it because its offering is few thousand dollars less 
if they don't need Word licenses to be present on customer's 
workstations and server(s). And this way, LibreOffice may spread in 
companies where it wouldn't enter other way.

Axel




On 25.05.2013 14:40, Pablo López Soriano wrote:
> Hi there! I met Mirek in LibreGraphicsMeeting 2013 and talked about how few
> committed UX designers LibreOffice has, that shocked me. I'm not interface
> designer but I could make a promotional video with motion graphics (like
> Jakub Steiner did on Gnome3 promos), in order to gather developers and
> users.
>
> But first, there are some questions.
>
> Does LibreOffice need a radical change at all to *differenciate* itself
> from Microsoft's Office, being not only the free alternative, but the
> standard office suite?
>
> If so, does LibreOffice need promotion in order to grow the developer team
> and make this change?
> A promotional video would say something like "Libre Office is The Standard,
> used by many millions of users, and yet it has a small developer team wich
> need you involved".
>
> Otherwise, if this radical change is going to happen without need of a
> promotion, the video could be launched afterwards, announcing the brand-new
> LibreOffice and its will to become The Standard.
>
> I've beek lurking the mailing lists and you can smell the will to change,
> at least in UX/UI matters. I'm just trying to help this to happen.
>
> Sincerely,
> Pablo.


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