>5. Something extra, something unique. We need to be more than just >gratis and libre. There needs to be a reason to use OpenOffice even >if you already had Microsoft Office.
>Any ideas? I am not an programmer, but I am an old user who using OOo (and now AOO) a lot. >From that perspective, users want to see that that AOO is stable, fast application, and user want to see good maintains (improvements, patches). So, if you want to make success with AOO for long period, let make AOOreally fast and stable app. 1. What about 3000 patches in LO? How many patches we applied in AOO, even small? What about small improvements? 2. For business: AOO must have solution that user can easily create XML flat file, and zipped (as option), without any other files in that zipped file (from Calc and Basic), with UTF8 option. To do this now, for non-programmers, it is nightmare. 3. Speed up AOO. 4. Base. Instead existed data base, can we have MariaDB as default, for example? That will be so powerful! 5. Python. It would be great to fully integrate this language, to have IDEfor that language, because, as I can see, Basic macro language has problem about maintains. Basic is past, Python is a future. 6. Writer. We must have solution for easy creating templates. 7. We have old site. I think that people can not see how many progress are done for about two years. Also, marketing is a big thing in any project. 8. There is a big space for improving organisation for developers. For example: it would be nice to see some experienced programer how lead and organize new developers for easy tasks, small patches in one group, Regards, wlada 2014/1/7 Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> > So we reached the 85 million download mark. Yea! 100 million will be > here soon. Even if we never have another release we will reach 100 > million sometime in the next few months. It doesn't require much > effort. Inertia will do it. We have a solid application, translated > into many languages, available on all major operating systems. We > have a popular brand name and user satisfaction as well. 100 million > will not require much effort at all. > > So let's set a bigger target for ourselves. How about 250 million, a > nice round number? To get there will require more than just the > status quo. It will require more than just repeating ourselves. > > What kinds of things would we need to do to reach that kind of goal? > > 1. Additional translations, especially for large language communities > like Hindi, Malay, Telugu and Persian. > > 2. A leap forward in product quality and performance > > 3. Nailing Microsoft interoperability, across binary and XML formats > > 4. Working well out-of-the-box on all platforms, meaning code signing > on Windows and Mac and repository installs on Linux. > > 5. Something extra, something unique. We need to be more than just > gratis and libre. There needs to be a reason to use OpenOffice even > if you already had Microsoft Office. > > Any ideas? > > -Rob > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
