John McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 10:49 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote: > >> NPR and other media networks are covering back to school notebooks and >> associated paraphenalia. Coverage like that often mentions tips about >> getting the most bang for the buck. >> >> MSO components are getting mentioned, OOo should too. >> >> Drafting a back-to-school press release might not be a bad idea. >> > > I like the idea, although in our corner of Mother Earth the school run > started blocking the streets several weeks ago. > > PRs work better if there's something behind them, such as: > > "OpenOffice.org launches free back-to-school kit" > "OpenOffice.org launches OpenOffice.org Schools Edition" > > For example, the "back-to-school kit" could be a set of marketing > materials aimed at schools, pupils, and carers. The "Schools edition" - > well, I've been watching the conversations triggered by Kami and > "Premium Office", and also the way Ubuntu has spawned Kubuntu, Edubuntu, > Xubuntu, and even the Ubuntu God-fearing edition. Being able to tailor > an OpenOffice.org 'edition' to a target market is really cool. > > Let's say we modified the standard OpenOffice.org installation CD to > prompt the user for an optional extensions CD, and if the user had one, > it would load it. Similarly the web installer could ask for an > extensions URL, and load whatever was there. > > This would make it easy to launch a "Schools Edition", or a "Mega clip > art" edition, or an anything else edition. It could allow for different > release cycles for OpenOffice.org and the extension pack, and for > different licencing arrangements for the extensions. > > Any thoughts? Kami, you've an expert on this, any comments? > > John > > > ------------ >
This would be brilliant. I've been working with a company to do custom builds for a Corporate client. We've had a few gotcha's with the Windows build but once we've solved that and we have a process in place, I'll write it up for the wiki. We could use the art project to gather impress templates and custom splash screens and so on then the Target Demographic could contribute to their own version/edition. I've been working on a local campaign to launch (If I can get sponsorship :) ) through three University Cities in NZ at the beginning of Semester one '07 (Feb). To have a custom version of 2.1 for Uni students with say AMA style templates in them would be very cool indeed. Cheers GL -- "GET LEGAL - GET OPENOFFICE.ORG" http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
