Subject: Ideas for "Marketing" Abiword
From: Jared Davis (aiken@clan11.com)
Date: Sat Aug 04 2001 - 13:34:12 CDT
Hey all,
A couple of nights ago, I had a very interesting discussion with a student
from Northwest Missouri State university about Abiword. She is an
accounting major, and I talked to her for a good hour or two asking how she
would go about marketing Abiword if she had to do so.
She brought up a lot of good ideas that I never would have thought of on my
own, and our discussion ranged from trying to figure out wha the problems
would be and good solutions for overcoming them. None of the suggested
routes may be *the* solution, but they might be worth your time to read, or
they might not.
As we eventually move towards our 1.0 release, we might be interested in
working towards getting some of these into place. At the risk of sounding
like an idiot, I've gone ahead and posted my limited understanding of the
things she suggested.
This should be thought of as, if anything, a starting point for discussion.
It may be premature to begin talking about this, but maybe we'll get more
ideas this way in the long run.
The document's just over four pages, so it should be a quick read.
http://aiken.clan11.com/abiword/marketing.zabw
Thanks,
Jared
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