Hello Marko, Marko Gronroos wrote:
> >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. > > OK. Public organizations do not only require lobbyists. Most of all, they require a trust relationship between their project managers and somebody in your community who can be technically focused but who shows himself/herself available enough for their questions and issues. >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. > > Cool! >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. ;-) > > > LOL... This may sound silly, but isn't your Parliament aware that Finnland is the country of Linus Torvalds? :-) Good luck, Charles. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
