Re: Looking forward to 250 million users

2014-01-12 Thread Vladislav Stevanovic
> How do we triple the number of users of AOO? Promoting AOO is job for people from marketing area. It is simple. We just need some money for that. Regards, Wlada 2014/1/12 Guy Waterval > Hi Nancy, > > 2014/1/12 Nancy K > > > I want to throw out an idea that might bring in new users. The ope

Re: Looking forward to 250 million users

2014-01-12 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Nancy, 2014/1/12 Nancy K > I want to throw out an idea that might bring in new users. The open source > android market and dependence on mobile technology are quickly increasing > in the number of users. Why not have a mobile version Open Office suite > ready for all android devices? Great

Re: Looking forward to 250 million users

2014-01-11 Thread Rob Weir
e rental kiosks in the US. They could distribute software CD's as well. Regards, -Rob > > Nancy > > > > > Nancy Web Design > Free 24 hour pass to lynda.com. > Video courses on SEO, CMS, > Design and Software Courses > > > > > ___

Re: Looking forward to 250 million users

2014-01-11 Thread Nancy K
Rob Weir To: "dev@openoffice.apache.org" Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 11:33 AM Subject: Re: Looking forward to 250 million users On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Hagar Delest wrote: > Le 11/01/2014 15:37, Guy Waterval a écrit : > >> The downloads do not necessarily correspond to rea

Re: Looking forward to 250 million users

2014-01-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Hagar Delest wrote: Making the portable version a part of the whole project would be indeed a good idea, easing the promotion of AOO. The portable version by Winpenpack is linked from http://www.openoffice.org/porting/ always up-to-date, available in many languages and mentioned on the downloa

Re: Looking forward to 250 million users

2014-01-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Hagar Delest wrote: > Le 11/01/2014 15:37, Guy Waterval a écrit : > >> The downloads do not necessarily correspond to real users, as you said >> before if I good remember, but it's a good indicator. >> We should penetrate deeper into the Windows world, I have alwa

Re: Looking forward to 250 million users

2014-01-11 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 11/01/2014 15:37, Guy Waterval a écrit : The downloads do not necessarily correspond to real users, as you said before if I good remember, but it's a good indicator. We should penetrate deeper into the Windows world, I have always the impression that we are too much in the pool of former users

Re: Looking forward to 250 million users

2014-01-11 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Rob 2014/1/7 Rob Weir > 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,

Re: Looking forward to 250 million users

2014-01-07 Thread Vladislav Stevanovic
>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, use