On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 15:34 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi, > > ads, independent to what they advertise for, are basically a no go for me. > Howdy Florian
<snip> right, well I have no doubt of the sincerity behind that comment, but it does get a bit dicey in practice IMO. For instance very few had a problem with pointing directly to the official Document Foundation and LibreOffice pages on Facebook - ads. Document Foundation and LibreOffice twitter accounts - ads. TDF/Libo G+ pages - no ads, yet. Alright, so a simple aversion to on-line ads is not the only determining factor, exceptions are made all the time. This is not a way to argue in favor of treating LibreOfficeForum.org or lo-portal.de/forum as 'official' sites, but I would like to again suggest that it, alone, is not a reason to in effect shun them either. IIRC Micheal Meeks, in one of his presentations, suggested a goal of 200 Million users for the LibreOffice suite - I think that is a laudable goal, and also believe that it will not be attained without this wealth of extended, external, activity. Which of course if not exactly on-topic and I will get directly back to topic in reply to an earlier email but for this point - I hope we can find some useful way to incorporate all the energy coming from these auxiliary effots - it's not easy I know but I think it will be well worth the effort. Now - off to write the on-topic email, //drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
