I think that licencing is not the problem, as it says you can use it for any
purpose, but its convincing them that it is better than Microsoft Office. I
have given burned disks of OpenOffice to people, and they always ask "is
this better than the Office that came on my computer". I always tell them
that it's a simple application, can read and write .doc .xls. and .ppt
files, and that unlike volume licences of Office XP, 2003 and 2007, you
don't have to activate, and there is no licence check. I also mention the
PDF export, and that to my knowledge, Office XP/2003/2007 don't have that,
and you are saving hundreds of dollars in not having to buy Acrobat Pro.
(many librarys have Acrobat to make PDFs for websites).
On 7/19/07, Lars Noodén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I work with libraries often. After the summer holidays, I'd be willing
to participate in such a project a little more.
Seeing as the one library has gotten as far as planning to use OOo, I'd
say they've already gotten around the primary obstacle of the
Cult-O-Gates siting in the basement who, though using the library's
money, block all they can:
http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp?EditorialsID=741
As far as marketing goes, it would be great to send a team to some major
conferences, say IFLA, and set up some demos and workshops.
There are some journals worth writing to, where we could describe a case
study or have non-technical overview. One such journal is
http://www.splq.info/
There are many others if we look.
-Lars
NoOp wrote:
> http://marketing.openoffice.org/pa/
>
> Is this project dead? It seems as if there has been no update to the
> page in a very long time, and the newest post in the mailing list
> archive is 2005.
> <
http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=libraries>
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