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

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