On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> Details are here:
>
> https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/call_for_comments_apache_openoffice
>

It has been over a month since we put out this call for comments.  You
can see some of them in this thread, as well as with the blog post:

https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/call_for_comments_apache_openoffice#comments

The response was generally positive.  However, the volume of responses
was rather low.  So I do wonder whether there is a large unmet need
for this.  For example, we have not (to my knowledge) received
requests for a CD on the mailing list in months now.

Another data point:  the webpage that is #1 in Google search results
for the query "openoffice cd" is:

http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/cdrom/

It receives around 7 visits per day.  Any proposal we came up with
would be findable to user mainly through that same mechanism --
searching Google.   Is it worth setting something up for 7 users per
day?

Note:  if we removed our web pages that discuss OpenOffice CD's, the
top link would be a vendor on Amazon.com selling an OpenOffice CD.  So
in a sense, if we just "get out of the way", it would tend to work.
The risk would be if we see vendors starting to scam users.

Next steps?  If anyone really wants to have a CD distributor listing,
I can help.  But it is not sufficiently high on my priority list to
carry this by myself.  Someone else would need to take the lead.

Regards,

-Rob


> Regards,
>
> -Rob

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