[Libreoffice] Comments on RC1

[Sophie Gautier]

Hi Marc,
On 08/12/2010 21:20, Marc Paré wrote:
> Le 2010-12-08 04:20, Michael Meeks a écrit :
>> Hi Alexander,
>>
>> On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 10:04 +0100, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
>>> In countries where power supplies are intermittent, or irregular, it
>>> matters a great deal. If your phone or electricity lines crap out part
>>> way through the download, and you were on a pay-per-minute connection,
>>> what would you do ? Risk downloading it, or go and obtain a pirated copy
>>> of some other more freely available software suite ?
>> Would you download a copy of that proprietary suite instead ? or would
>> you get it on CD ? Ultimately, I'd love to see some Ubuntu style ship-it
>> service to provide CDs to serve the 3rd world cheaply. As/when we have a
>> foundation and funding in place that seems like an obvious use of funds.
>
> I am also on the Mageia marketing team and we have just discussed the
> same issue and we are going to promote local Mageia communities to issue
> copies on DVD's. This seems like the most logical and most inexpensive
> way of promoting the distro where there is a need for it on disc. We
> could certainly promote this for our groups as well. This would also
> promote the creation of LibreOffice communities where they do not exist.

If you would like, I can introduce Pierre-Yves to you, he is from 
Framasoft and taking care currently to package the FramaKey described here:
http://framakey.org/Pack/Framakey-Ubuntu (FR)
http://framakey.org/En/Details (EN).

Kind regards
Sophie