Re: Changing the AbiWord slogan and top level text on the website.

I agree that the comparison to Word has outlasted whatever usefulness
it once had. But I'd avoid linking the essence of Abiword too
exclusively to its latest feature (regardless of how extraordinary
that feature is!). I suggest not being in a hurry about this but to
spend a little more time formulating an expression for what the essence
of Abiword has become for its users.

To me, "Share your writing" works best when it's used to indicate the
total picture of what Abiword lets users at all levels
accomplish--because it's cross-platform, it combines a small footprint
with almost total functionality, it sports an array of file filters,
and also...it now enables collaboration. All these features together
make Abiword the way to share your writing--despite what is offered
by more "powerful" tools like Open Office, Word, or KWord.

So in the website blurb I'd elaborate on "Share your writing" to include
more than just the collaboration feature. The capper could draw this all
together with something like:

"Abiword--so that anybody to share with everybody."

On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:49:27 +1100
Martin Sevior <msevior@gmail.com> wrote:

> >> I propose that we change our slogan to "Share your writing". (This
> >> text was suggested by Marc Maurer)
> >> and that the first few sentences of our website say:
> >> "AbiWord is a free Word Processor similar to MicroSoft Word.
> >> However AbiWord also enables many people to work on the same
> >> document at exactly the same time with the free abicollab.net
> >> website."
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Received on Sun Nov 8 06:51:03 2009