[libreoffice-marketing] Promoting LibreOffice in India

2012-12-25 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
a large number of free SELF workshops using these tutorials. We have trained tens of thousands of people in the last one year alone on how to use LibreOffice. We expect to do a lot more this year. Merry Christmas and Happy New year. Regards, Kannan Moudgalya IIT Bombay India -- Bridging

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice on Aakash

2013-01-03 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
I have now put this at this link: http://www.che.iitb.ac.in/faculty/km/libreoffice.jpg Kannan Moudgalya wrote: Dear All, The attached picture shows LibreOffice starting up in the Ubuntu 12.0 native installation on the low cost tablet, Aakash. Kannan -- Bridging digital divide through

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice on Aakash

2013-01-04 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
:) *From:* Kannan Moudgalya kan...@iitb.ac.in *To:* marketing@global.libreoffice.org *Sent:* Friday, 4 January 2013, 3:36 *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice on Aakash I have now put this at this link: http://www.che.iitb.ac.in/faculty/km

[libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice news in an Indian Newspaper

2013-01-11 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
A newspaper story on our work gives good publicity to LibreOffice: http://www.mid-day.com/lifestyle/2013/jan/100113-found-blueprint-for-a-computer-literate-india.htm Kannan -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice vs. MS Office

2013-01-12 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
Dear All, I would like to re-open the discussion on this topic, which was discussed a couple of weeks back. I already mentioned in a previous mail that we offer LibreOffice workshops for clerical and support staff of many organisations, such as government offices and universities, free of

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice vs. MS Office

2013-01-12 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
Dear Charles, The main argument of my post is that LibreOffice can be used a lot more effectively compared to MS Office, as excellent and free training programmes are available for the former. Sorry that I did not make this point stand out in my post. I posted this as an input to the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Funding Wishlist

2013-01-12 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
As I don't know in what form additions or modifications are expected on this wiki page, I am writing to the list. As at present we have an Indian Government supported project to promote FOSS, we can contribute to the ongoing marketing effort in the following two ways: 1. Our artists can

[libreoffice-marketing] A documentation project for Scilab and other FOSS

2013-01-19 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
Dear All, I am not sure whether the documentation project that we have implemented for Scilab, Python and a few other FOSS systems will be applicable, or even relevant, to LibreOffice. Let me explain the Scilab Textbook Companion (http://scilab.in/Textbook_Companion_Project) below: 1.

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] need idea for a DVD offering page.

2013-01-25 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
Hi, We can try out the creation and the mailing of the LibreOffice DVDs in India. It will be difficult to do this as a commercial exercise, however. It will be easier to justify the expenses to our funding agency by saying that we are promoting FOSS. In view of this, I propose the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice's role in a MS Office world

2013-02-02 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
The situation is somewhat similar in India too, although, we have an official policy that mandates open document standards: http://egovstandards.gov.in/notification/Notification_Policy_on_Open_Standards_-_12Nov10.pdf/at_download/file - this is powerful weapon in the hands of the activists.

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice's role in a MS Office world

2013-02-02 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
Because of the free workshops we give on LibreOffice (see the free instructional videos available at http://www.spoken-tutorial.org/list_videos/%3Ffoss%3DLibreOffice-Suite-Writer%2526language%3DEnglish, for writer, for example), LO gets used 5 to 10 times more effectively, as compared to MSO.

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] [ACTION ITEM] LibreOffice Video links

2013-03-09 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
Dear All, Our project Spoken Tutorial has made a total of 60+ tutorials on LibreOffice, available through the following links: Writer: http://www.spoken-tutorial.org/list_videos/%3Fview%3D1%2526foss%3DLibreOffice-Suite-Writer%2526language%3DEnglish Calc:

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [ACTION ITEM] LibreOffice Video links

2013-03-09 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
Dear Marc, please see my answers below. Marc Paré wrote: Le 09/03/13 08:42 PM, Kannan Moudgalya a écrit : Thank you Kannan for the videos and the support. Always nice to see your contributions on the list. BTW ... do you follow a certain protocol for the creation of videos. For example

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] quick AdWords update

2013-03-28 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
Not clear - why do the British not like free things? Do they think that those of poor quality? Kannan On 28/03/13 4:08 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Does the English one mention the word Free perchance? Doing so would significantly reduce any clicks in my country. Avoid it and watch the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] quick AdWords update

2013-03-28 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
:) *From:* Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk *To:* Kannan Moudgalya kan...@iitb.ac.in; marketing@global.libreoffice.org marketing@global.libreoffice.org *Sent:* Thursday, 28 March 2013, 14:49 *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice

[libreoffice-marketing] Indian academic institutions forced to use MS Office

2013-04-23 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
Dear All, I have changed the subject head to focus on the topic of discussion. Do we already have a similar product using open source software components only? If not, what will it take to put together such a product? We are in the process of formulating a strategy to counter this diktat.

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Indian academic institutions forced to use MS Office

2013-04-24 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
MS is giving this solution to India free of cost! Kannan On 24/04/13 7:35 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 24/04/13 08:34 AM, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Dear Kannan, I think your question is: do we have an online version of Libreoffice ? Full answer, we will, there's a prototype anyone can run

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Libre Office Marketing activities in India

2014-05-02 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
Dear Chandrakant, I am delighted to see your mail. Our team has been conducting Spoken Tutorial based SELF workshops on LibreOffice, mainly in academia, training tens of thousands of people. Lately, I have been trying to come up with a print edition of LibreOffice Manuals (500 copies) to

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Libre Office Marketing activities in India

2014-05-04 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
also help us out to do organized marketing activity related to libreoffice in India. thanks! Regards, Rajesh Ranjan www.rajeshranjan.in twitter: @kajha facebook: rajeshkajha On Friday, May 2, 2014 6:40 PM, Kannan Moudgalya kan...@iitb.ac.in mailto:kan

[libreoffice-marketing] Dubbed an LO Spoken Tutorial into Spanish

2015-01-06 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
Please see https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8JkkLeMCBFTUGFmMkRsSGVmSXc/view -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

[libreoffice-marketing] Pilot workshop for a local government body

2016-11-29 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
We are about to conduct a LibreOffice workshop to a local government body. Depending on its success, LibreOffice may be adopted in a big way in the local government. If there are recommended ways to conduct such workshops, I would like to know. Thanks, Kannan -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Pilot workshop for a local government body

2016-11-29 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
for the success of the workshop. Best, Italo On 29/11/2016 12:36, Kannan Moudgalya wrote: We are about to conduct a LibreOffice workshop to a local government body. Depending on its success, LibreOffice may be adopted in a big way in the local government. If there are recommended ways

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ideas wanted for "How we're different" part of new LibreOffice website

2021-12-06 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
Hi All, We have been conducting training on the use of LibreOffice in India.  The training involves downloading LibreOffice and practising.  We could not have done this with MS Office - how could we afford so many licenses?  The number of people we trained are: Writer - 440,000 Calc -

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ideas wanted for "How we're different" part of new LibreOffice website

2021-12-06 Thread Kannan Moudgalya
in round. Who should be targeted audiences ? (And what do we want to make them to do?) Regards S-) On Mon, 6 Dec 2021, 15:08 Kannan Moudgalya, wrote: Hi All, We have been conducting training on the use of LibreOffice in India. The training involves downloading LibreOffice and practising. We