Advertisement: We should include the "libdivecomputer" aspect

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Tue Feb 5 21:48:42 PST 2013


Lutz Vieweg <lvml at 5t9.de> writes:

> One additional thought on advertising subsurface to the "non-IT-affine"
> majority: I think that the ability of subsurface to directly import log
> data from a multitude of different DC models, including older ones, is
> one of the outstanding features that make subsurface much different from
> the "many other" dive log applications, including online-services, that
> cannot do this.
>
> Yes, this ability may technically be a feature of "libdivecomputer"
> rather than of subsurface, but the broad public will be unable to
> understand that distinction, and it would completely confuse people
> to speak of both pieces of software not as a whole.
>
> Thus I propose (assuming the authors all agree) to make
> both the subsurface web page texts and any advertising material
> cover both subsurface and libdivecomputer together.
>
> What do you think?

I wouldn't expect Jef to be against that, but we certainly should ask
:-)

/D


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