I am a first user of OpenOffice and am hoping that it will be tremendously 
successful!!
I am concerned about referring neighbors and coworkers to the DOWNLOAD web 
page because it is not designed for the common or slightly more savvy user.  
Please take this as a constructive criticism.  I am very interested in seeing 
this project being even more successful than Linux.  Open Source Rules!
But please listen to my concerns because from a user standpoint, I know very 
well what I am talking about:
It is easy to send power users and project collaborators to a "power user" 
style web page, but it is VERY discouraging to have common users to browse 
through a "power user" type web page structure, which is exactly what 
www.openoffice.org has at this point.
My suggestion is:
Make this site for the common users, please.  They will make the bulk of your 
users in the near future, I sincerely hope.  Start catering to them and have a 
link that caters to the power users who feel more at home with a more complex 
web page.  Please do this quick, so I can start asking family and friends to 
visit www.openoffice.org.  If I send them here now, they WILL BE TURNED OFF.  
I just know it.  I have a very good feel for it and am writing from a user 
standpoint.
My background: I work for Honeywell International, which has spent thousands 
and thousands of $ training me to be sensitive to what prospective customers 
are looking for.
Please let me know how I can help.  I don't have much time available, but I 
would hate to see a project of such potential being delayed in its acceptance 
by the user community just because users feel intimidated by the two most 
important web pages:  www.openoffice.org and 
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.0.1/index.html

Thank you for putting out such a great product that will BRAND the open source 
concept as a QUALITY and VALUE item.
Best regards, and best of luck.  Mark                mark@villela.com