Yuhan,
I'm located in New York City and have long been interested in
promoting OOo at schools and universities. I'm happy to provide
advice, support and information to share around campus...
I think you should look for an existing organization to link up with,
like Linux user groups or Free Culture groups, to find others who will
help you--it's easy to get burned out when fighting the natural
inertia of a big institution all on your own.
Can you sign up to be a technology columnist for the school newspaper?
Then you can talk about open source and OpenOffice frequently to a
wide audience.
Please drop me an email and we can talk about specific tactics you can
employ on campus, and as you go forward, can share them with the wider
world to replicate at other universities. And I think Alexandro is
right that Firefox has provided a good example of things to do with
its Campus Reps program. If Yale has some, you should contact them and
see if you can work together (get them to promote OOo in addition to
Firefox).
Thanks for joining the list, and I wish you great success!
-Ben
On Jul 28, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Yuhan Fang 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
Benjamin Horst
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