Re: Community outreach conclusions?

From: Alan Horkan <horkana_at_maths.tcd.ie>
Date: Wed Jul 26 2006 - 18:59:52 CEST

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Robert Staudinger wrote:

> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:03:12 +0200
> From: Robert Staudinger <robert.staudinger@gmail.com>
> To: abiryan@ryand.net
> Cc: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Community outreach conclusions?
>
>
> Hi Ryan,
>
> thanks for running the community outreach project, it's very
> interesting to see what's going on outside the ant-hill.
>
> What I'm wondering is, can any conclusions about the most wanted
> features be drawn from the collected info? It seems the most mentioned
> features are that it's
> + similar to Microsoft Word
> + but available for free.
>
> So, should I get the message out to all GNOME devs that trying to
> invent something completely new they are barking up the wrong tree
> because all users want is a version of windows+msoffice for free?

If only this new concept had a catchy name, maybe then GNOME developers
would embrace it.

"Embrace and extend" perhaps?

-- 
Alan H.
Received on Wed Jul 26 19:05:18 2006

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