On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: > Your story is highly interesting, it's made of both victories and > successes. But in short, it seems, as Lars pointed out, to be a problem > of lobbying and communication. > How could this be overcome in Finland? What can the OOo finnish-speaking > community do about this?
We don't have any easy solutions. We simply don't have people who could invest enough time in marketing and lobbying the public organisations, so the initiatives to adopt OOo always come from inside the organisations. Luckily, there appears to be interest in many public organisations. Recently, a Finnish OSS organiser (Center of Open Source Software) hired a person to coordinate the funding of localisation efforts. This is a big step forward, because he could find funding to develop translations and tools such as spellchecking. I hope that he can also help our marketing needs. Awareness about OOo is spreading, and the Ministry of Justice will hopefully provide a great reference for us, probably the best we could get. Their migration is somewhat certain by now, but we haven't heard any news yet. Also, two members (one from greens and another from liberal conservatives) of (national) parliament have proposed that the parliament would migrate to Linux and OOo in 2011, when the next term of parliament begins. Well, that proposal is very uncertain, and resistance against change could pose a problem. Hey, if the representatives are forced to use OOo and they hate it, they could even outlaw it. ;-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
