Hi Nigel, Welcome to the community, and thanks for providing some background on what you've been involved with! I'm Mike, originally from Cumbria but now living in Munich, and have been working at The Document Foundation for a few years. I work with Italo Vignoli and other community members on marketing materials, videos, events, social media, community outreach and so forth.
Yes, you're right that LibreOffice is an easier "sell" than Linux as it doesn't require changing a whole underlying system. Still, I find that some people are sceptical about free things. On social media, we often get questions like "How does LibreOffice compare to X?" or "How well will LibreOffice work with my files?" -- To which I always respond, why not just try it and see... You have nothing to lose :-) If you're especially interested in marketing Linux in written form, we in the community have often talked about creating articles about LibreOffice features, that websites and magazines can then use as a quick source of content. It could be a good way to spread the word, and highlight some of the many things that LibreOffice does better than the competition. What do you think? Feel free to join our next marketing call, or indeed we could have a chat on the phone at some point if you like. Cheers! Mike On 28/10/2018 16:04, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > I have just registered with the marketing group, so I thought I'd introduce > myself. > > I am Nigel Verity from Shropshire, England but called "Nige" by everybody. > I've done a few HPR episodes under the alias of "Beeza". > > I've worked in a variety of fields including diplomacy, commerce, software > development, tech writing and running art shows. Of these my longest spell > was over 20 years in the defence industry developing and troubleshooting > logistics tools. Right now I am self-employed, doing ad hoc tech writing, > website development and IT consultancy - the latter specialising in > simplifying business processes and reducing costs. Promoting the use of FLOSS > plays a big part of that, though the "Free Libre" part is sometimes harder to > push than the free (cost) and open source aspects. > > Making the case for LibreOffice is usually the easiest "sell" as it does not > require users to adopt a different operating system. To be honest, though, I > am never entirely happy saying that LibreOffice is "just like" MS Office > because that gives the impression it is an MS Office clone, which we all know > it clearly isn't. > > I would like to get involved with marketing LibreOffice because I would like > to be able to develop a different angle showing not just the areas of > functional overlap with MS Office but also differentiators to make the case > for LibreOffice in its own right. > > Cheers > > Nige > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
