On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 18:17, Graham Lauder wrote: [snip] > From where I stand, just from a geographical POV, having Ian on board > would be great. He's in the middle of the South Island and I'm in the > middle of the north. > It would also be nice to have someone who is au fait with the code. > That is an area that I flounder with when discussing OOo with people. > To say that I am au fait with the code is pushing it - but I am working on it. :)
Well I opened my mouth (figuratively as it was really my fingers that betrayed me) with suggestions on marketing and looks like I'll end-up trying to practise what I preach. :-) > -> Ian > > In terms of projects in hand at the moment: > The Moodle Conf generated some good contacts and we'll be setting up > online lessons in OOo on Moodle.school.nz and possibly on linux.school.nz. I am an ex secondary teacher, been in charge of computing at Southland & Wanganui Polytechnics and have relief lectured at Lincoln Uni - so have some experience with putting together lessons. Do we have syllabuses / course prescriptions so that our work is directly targeted to meet these? I would be delighted to help with this work! > I'm in the process of getting a Maori Native Language Project off the > ground through Wananga o Aotearoa Great idea! > I've been pushing local Technical Institutes to give OpenOffice classes > and providing INGOTs assessment and Assessor training. What has the success been like? Can you give me the relevant training so that I can do the same down here? > The govt's Project Probe is using OpenOffice in it's regional > programmes, but this isn't getting pushed because the local people in > charge of the CTC's are unfamiliar and MS is handing out free licences > of MSO to them as NPO's with gay abandon. I'm keeping the locals honest > but the OOo faith is not strong in these ones so we have to enthuse > them. I'll be downloading the 2.0 beta burning it to discs and getting > them out there as fast as I can > Do you think if I volunteered to write training material (possible overlap with work above) and run workshops for them that this would help? Do you have a contact person so that I can offer my services? > For obvious reasons my focus is Education, but I'll pitch to businesses > as well. My strength is in pitching to a crowd. I would like to hit as > many Non Geek conferences that I possibly can. If you have some that > OOo might be a good fit in the South gimme yell and I'll head across the > ditch. > I confess that I haven't been keeping a weather eye on conferences but will try to do so now. > During the Moodle conf I met up with a guy who is E-project Manger for > a group based in ChCh called "Tertiary Accord of New Zealand". It's a > group that handles IT for Manakau Polytech, UCOL, CPIT, Open Polytech > and Otago Polytech. It would be worth a call just to talk to him just > to maintain the connection. > Do you have the contact details? (Being basically lazy and making sure that I talk to the same person). > Lots of stuff going on. Mostly small right now, but it's all Oak trees > and acorns and I have to do it on a student allowance and a bit of part > time teaching! :) > Jacqueline has advised that 5 of my abstracts have been accepted for the Canberra conference. One of which is about the integration of OpenOffice.org with R. Have you any contacts at Auckland Uni? Would I be stepping on toes to make contact about R? Thanks, Ian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
