On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:24:24 -0500, Yuhan Fang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hello everyone,
I would like to help in the promotion of OpenOffice.org, particularly to
college students. I'm currently an undergraduate student at Yale, and I
find
that OpenOffice.org is well suited to most college papers and
presentations.
Price is not a big factor for most students here because the university
heavily subsidizes Microsoft products. Nevertheless, I am able to win
converts via the included PDF export functionality alone. My immediate
goal
is to include OpenOffice.org in the IT introduction that is given to all
students by students at the beginning of the year; ultimately (and this
is
in the very far future), I hope to convince the school to install
OpenOffice.org network-wide and promote it as recommended software for
university computing.
I'm interested in contributing, distributing, or helping out in any way I
can. So far, I've been trying to convert my immediate circle of friends
and
frantically emailing various IT staff; any pointers to work that needs
to be
done are welcome. Thanks!
Sincerely,
Yuhan Fang
Excelente Yuhan,
This is something we would all apreciate to have people promoting OOo in
their orgaaniztion/school. I would also want to aply the same
recomendations we give to Campus reps in Mozilla.
- Get or join a group of friends (SIG)
- Organize lightning talks at your campus
- Advocate and recruit people to the OpenOffice.org community
- Explain how we work and how they can be a part too
- Address the importance of open standards like OpenDocument and benefit
of usng free/open source software.
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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