Nino Novak wrote: > Am 05.12.2014 um 18:42 schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: > > At zero. Seriously.... very little value. And this is also why > > LibreOffice just like most other FOSS is available free of charge. > > Ok, I see your attitude. > > For me, every single user of LibreOffice is an appreciated contributor. He > contributes a lot of his time, he takes the risk of using "something > different" from the well-known, he invests a lot of nerves to get his tasks > done as many things work differently. > Hi Nino, all,
sorry for being late to this discussion, but the above dichotomy appears much larger than it is in reality. So I feel tempted to set things right a little bit. ;) I think we all agree that every LibreOffice user is valued, and we very much appreciate them using our software -- at the end of the day, we're producing software _for_ our end users. As such, we're crucially relying on feedback from our users (and Charles pointed out the many ways to collect it) -- but just in the aggregate. Collectively, our user base provides tremendous value to us, by marketing to peers, reporting bugs, voting with their feet, donating money etc. The individual user though -- on average -- contributes just tiny amounts. So the big picture looks pretty much like Charles' tongue-in-cheek 'almost zero'. Turning users into TDF contributors is the constant challenge that we face, and we're very open to novel ideas here. But one of TDF's founding principles is meritocracy - so unless someone actively engages with the community, there cannot be representation. Which is not a problem IMO, since the User Experience project (which is, as everywhere, always happy to get new volunteers!) is precisely there to look after user needs. So if there's the impression that we don't care enough for our users, that's where future efforts (and contribution) needs to go! > But I accept that our views differ significantly, and as far as I > can see, there's no room for convergence left. So we can stop our > discussion at this point. > I'm sorry you got this impression. I hope I could clarify a bit. Cheers, -- Thorsten -- 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.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
