on Words

[C. Boemann]

On Friday 14 October 2011 16:49:48 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> On 14 October 2011 16:26, Markus Slopianka <markus.s at kdemail.net> wrote:
> >> I suggest that we will target the university student. Meaning we should
> >> be able to view MS Word documents and be able to create from scratch
> >> reports and dissertations.
> > 
> > Now that you mentioned university students…
> 
> Showing use cases/actors like students or researchers is good. But I
> propose to demonstrate given requirements the we want to meet.
> What means, as you said, supporting large documents of any purpose.
Well most people think that persona driven design is better than feature 
driven. That said I don't disagree we need to be more specific when we actually 
make the decisions. And we are not limiting functionality to students, just 
targeting features for them initially. In a bid to make the developers and and 
other contributers among them to see the value in joining Calligra.

> 
> Why?
> 
> For students I think we have to be MUCH better and give the PREMIUM
> features they NEED to have them even consider Calligra Words.
> Price does not matter. That is because so many of them have MS Office
> for free using the Academic License agreements in _many_ counties.
> Of course I know already we offer the PREMIUM thing but it is relevant
> only if the users value openness or standards (frankly - based on what
> I observe in my country, they _mostly_ don't, come on).
True, but I'm not even considering competing wit MS Office yet. The students I 
intend to win over for now are those already working on linux where MS Office is 
not available (unless you count wine). And we don't even ship for Windows yet 
(although that will soon change).


> So again, whoever wants efficiency and stability on large documents
> could be the target. A lot of work however in terms of optimization
> and UI. But thanks to Casper's work it's possible.
Thanks, and yes I've worked a hard, but it's not just my work. All the other 
devs have done a huge effort too. Especially Sebastian comes to mind.