From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 02:51:36 EDT
--- Martin Sevior
<msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: >
>
> On Wed, 8 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar
> wrote:
>
> > --- Martin Sevior
> > <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 8 May 2002, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Dunbar
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > We aim at robust inter-operability with
> existing
> > > > products, such as Microsoft Word®, Corel's
> > > > WordPerfect®, and others. Our goal is to
> > > incorporate
> > > > the most useful features of these competing
> > > > applications without the fluff, bloat, or
> slowness
> > > > that accompany them. The result is a lean and
> mean
> > > > word processor, the download size being less
> than
> > > 4
> > > > megabytes.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -- I don't like the word 'slowness'. Maybe
> > > > 'inefficiency'. 'fluff' also sounds a bit
> > > > derogatory and we're probably not fluff-free
> in
> > > the
> > > > eyes of many users either. And some fluff is
> > > > good fluff (:
> > > >
> > >
> > > I left in fluff and changed slowness to
> > > inefficiency.
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > >
> > > > The worldwide team of AbiWord volunteers is
> > > already
> > > > hard at work developing the next release of
> > > AbiWord,
> > > > which will include advanced features such as
> > > tables
> > > > and support for more complex languages.
> Users,
> > > > writers, translators, testers, and developers
> are
> > > all
> > > > encouraged to try out AbiWord and see what
> they'd
> > > like
> > > > to add next.
> > > >
> > > > -- This is the perfect place to advertise for
> > > > international developers. I can't emphasize
> > > enough
> > > > how badly we are going to need especially
> Indian
> > > > and/or Southeast Asian developers. The same
> goes
> > > for
> > > > translators.
> > >
> > > I put a request for Korean, Arabic and South
> Asian
> > > developers and
> > > Translators.
> >
> > I'm a bit concerned about "Arabic developers".
> The
> > "Arabic script" is also used by tens of millions
> of
> > non Arabs, especially in Iran and Pakistan and
> > their versions of the script actually require a
> bit
> > more expertise than plain old Arabic so their
> input
> > would be more valuable.
> > That said, I'm not quite sure what an accurate and
> > politically correct wording would be without
> sounding
> > overly jargonistic - any ideas?
>
> That class would be covered in "South Asian" right?
Urdu would be covered, Farsi would not. Maybe if we
say "Middle Eastern" instead of Arabic. That way we
cover Hebrew too and even though we have some Hebrew
people we could always do with more testers.
> > > > -- I would also personally make the fact that
> > > tables
> > > > aren't here yet more prominent. Closer to the
> > > top.
> > > > We should defuse this expectation before
> people
> > > get
> > > > their hopes up. We probably should say
> something
> > > to
> > > > the effect of 'it does almost everything
> except
> > > > tables,
> > > > which is the #1 priority for the next
> version'.
> > > > But we also don't want to make it sound like
> that
> > > > version is a couple of weeks away...
> > > >
> > >
> > > I decided to leave it as is. Introducing that
> > > earlier negates some of the
> > > positive vibes we engenger.
> >
> > Well that's what we do now. We give them positive
> > vibes - and then we negate them. I'd prefer not
> to
> > make them expect too much early on is all.
> > Since many people feel the lack of tables make
> AbiWord
> > unusable or a toy I think we should do this. for
> > almost any other missing feature I'd do just as
> you've
> > done now.
> >
>
> Sorry, unless you can some up with a specific
> wording that I like, I'll go
> with the current phrasing.
I'm not much of a writer. Just trying to keep the
"keep the release a secret" crowd happy too (:
Andrew.
> Martin
>
>
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