Hi Anastasia

Here is an article which has some information on marketing FOSS to
libraries: http://www.linux.com/articles/33251

Another article which might be of interest:
http://infomotions.com/musings/ossnlibraries-workshop/ossnlibraries-workshop.html

http://webjunction.org/do/Home is one site you should check out, they are
active promoting FOSS to libraries and have a large network especially in
rural areas.

There is also http://litablog.org/2008/01/18/open-source-systems-ig-meeting/
Lita
is a division of America Library Ass. Lita has a division dedicated to FOSS.

I have done extensive work on marketing a LiveCD to libraries and would be
happy to help you.

Regards
Russell




On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Anastasia Diamond-Ortiz <
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> That is awesome.  I'll work on it and report back.
>
> Anastasia
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 10:59 -0400, Anastasia Diamond-Ortiz wrote:
> > > Thank you for the quick responses. Am I free to create CDs for
> > distribution
> > > to be public?  Are there any existing marketing materials I should know
> > > about?
> >
> > Look on the marketing pages of the OpenOffice.org web site. Please do
> > make CDs for distribution from the library. That would help the project
> > a lot. Also take a look at www.portableapps.com. Here you can make
> > portable versions of OOo to go an a USB pen drive. You could have it so
> > visitors to the library could bring in a USB stick and set up Open
> > Office to run from it on any computer without having to install it.
> >
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