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From: Raffi R <raffir@gmail.com>
To: User <spamfilteraccount@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Results of the SourceForge Community Award
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:43:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b49618890907241043n2884fc0eib70e1607165b6c0e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090724T165606-767@post.gmane.org>

That's an interesting point. I started using org-mode randomly,
because I was writing an outline and didn't care for outline-mode and
figured org-mode should be compatible. After I'd used it for a couple
outlines, I found it could export to HTML. And LaTeX. And worked as a
day planner...

In terms of marketing within the Emacs community, it might be worth
advertising it as an outline-mode replacement. Has anyone written a
simple tutorial explaining how to use org-mode just in this way, and
then providing a link to, say, the manual/Worg at the end? Most of the
tutorials I've seen have been focused on org's time-management
capabilities. But the ability to type up an outline, manage that
outline, expand it into a document, and export it separately as a
Beamer presentation with notes, a PDF, and a webpage are "killer app"
functionality in their own right!

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:19 PM, User<spamfilteraccount@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bastien <bastienguerry <at> googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>> Org-mode didn't win but it was really great to participate and to have
>> all these nice contributions from so many people!
>
> No wonder it didn't win. Non-emacs users have few incentive to
> try it, since they think emacs is bad looking and primitve in
> general, so they are looking for something more flashy instead
> and do not even try it.
>
> On the other hand org-mode needs some marketing in the emacs
> community as well. I'm a longtime emacs user and heard about org
> mode before, but I thought it was something overly complex and
> looked for simpler solutions. Then I tried it one day and was
> blown away by how mature it was and how well written the
> documentation was.
>
> So it's a natural fit for an emacs user, but obviously alien for
> people how don't use emacs and don't know the Emacs Way of doing
> things.
>
>
>
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-24 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-24 10:56 Results of the SourceForge Community Award Bastien
2009-07-24 10:59 ` Greg Newman
2009-07-24 11:03 ` jemarch
2009-07-24 11:37 ` Manish
2009-07-24 14:57   ` Russell Adams
2009-07-24 15:07     ` Chris Willard
2009-07-24 15:32       ` Matthew Lundin
2009-07-24 15:54         ` Raffi R
2009-07-24 17:19 ` User
2009-07-24 17:43   ` Raffi R [this message]
2009-07-24 18:22     ` Matthew Lundin
2009-07-24 22:24       ` Bastien
2009-07-24 19:13     ` Eric S Fraga
2009-07-24 22:21     ` Bastien
2009-07-24 22:25       ` Greg Newman
2009-07-24 22:40         ` Bastien
2009-07-24 22:51           ` Bastien
2009-07-24 22:54           ` Eric S Fraga
2009-07-24 18:03   ` Gabi Danon
2009-07-24 21:20     ` Cian OConnor
2009-07-27 12:28 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-07-27 14:04   ` Nick Dokos
2009-07-27 15:57     ` Bastien
2009-07-27 23:20       ` Richard Riley
2009-07-29 14:48         ` Ian Barton
2009-07-28 15:34       ` Raffi R
2009-08-04  6:07 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-08-05  0:25   ` srandby
2009-08-05  1:56     ` Torsten Wagner

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