Hi, Le 22/12/2014 14:31, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : > Hi, > > On 22 décembre 2014 14:15:37 CET, Jean-Francois Nifenecker > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Le 22/12/2014 10:40, Sophie a écrit : >>>> >>>> We often worry about lack of community involvement, but, when there >> is a >>>> wonderful occasion where community involvement with such a contest >> where >>>> there is a low-entry level of understanding of LibreOffice and where >>>> template usage is directed towards our users, we do not even provide >>>> users the chance to vote on a template contest ... surely a users >> idea >>>> of what a good and purposeful template would be different from a >>>> designer's perspective. >> >> I'm *very* reluctant to such a community project: templates very often >> show their cultural origin. This means that an american template won't >> fit a French user at all, and vice versa. >There are some such templates > > True and it is dangerous since it could show some spontaneity and community > involvement. We surely do not want that ;-) > Yes and if you read the announcement or the discussions on the lists, you have noticed that it's a contest for en_US templates only.
>> on the extensions website already. I had written about that problem to >> the authors, hoping to find a way to make better tools, to no avail >> yet. well they are under a open source license, so anybody is invited to do the work or enhance what already exists. >> >>> >>> I'm not sure users are aware of all the needed things to have a >> reliable >>> template and one that could be localized too, so the best way would >> be >>> that the design team does a pre selection and let the users vote only >> on >>> the templates that complies. >> >> Could the Design team devise a" template template" that international >> users could use as a starting point? > > What would be the standard for such a template? We all come from different > origins so we will all face the same issues and these can be adapted by users > or by native lang projects to match their own standard. Let us not create > difficulties. Let this be a joyful moment for community participation! > +1 Kind regards Sophie -- Sophie Gautier [email protected] Tel:+33683901545 Co-founder - Release coordinator The Document Foundation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
