Hi Leif,
We all see the problems. People don't like change. Only one thing we need to
do is to give them brainwashing convincing advice, why they should use the
OOo rather than the MS Office? I believe they have nothing to do with the
Open Source stuff.
However, this is a really good practice to ask the problems from pupils.
Let's wait and see what the problems are.
Maybe, we should let them know we are working hard to contribute, to improve
and we do have the bright future.
Cheers
Chao from Redflag
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From: "leif" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 2:41 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [marketing] OpenOffice complaints from Danish "Students"
Hi all,
I had a meeting with the CIO at the municipality this morning.
Yesterday he had a meeting with representatives for the children and
teachers.
There has been some problems, but it all came down to one thing: They are
still using MS Office at home. They agreed that if they can lean to use a
new mobile phone in hald an hour, they can also learn to use a new
computer program. They agreed to be 'ambassadors' for the project.
We agreed that I will help the CIO to find some training material that can
be distributed.
The pupils will make a follow up soon, to point out what the problems are.
I will get that list and pass it on to the developers.
best regards,
Leif Lodahl
Per Eriksson skrev:
Hi Leif,
Thank you for the clearifications. When the meeting is done, could you
please summarize what that community can do to help in this matter?
Best Regards
Per Eriksson
leif skrev 2010-01-09 13:00:
The case is, that the CIO (Jens Kjellerup) decided to implement
OpenOffice in primary schools from last summer. This decision was from
the beginning backed up by the local politicians.
At that time, Microsoft technical manager Jasper Bojsen sendt an open
letter to the mayer, claiming that the decision would put students from
Lyngby-Taarbæk in a very poor situation, because OpenOffice.org is not
as 'feature rich' as his own product. That letter went right back on him
and the local politicians made a clear statement, that they where
backing up the decision.
The students from _one_ school have made complaints about compatibility
and lack of training and information. Some rumors says that the
complaint was actually written by a Microsoft employee, but that can't
be proven. The fact is, that the letter was by an adult and not by a
child.
It turns out that the case has nothing to do with either OpenOffice.org
or the children. It's about information and instructions. The
information given from the city hall was never passed on to the children
on that particular school. The students didn't know, that they should
use OpenOffice.org for their homework. They where never told that they
could get help from the city hall etc. This is, what I would call a
school example of what happens if you implement OpenOffice.org
I have spoken to the CIO this week and I know him well. He is a well
known supporter of FOSS and OpenOffice.org in Denmark. I have told him
that the community would be happy to help and I expect to meet with him
on Tuesday morning
to make the arrangements.
Best regards,
Leif Lodahl
Lead of DA.OpenOffice.org
John McCreesh skrev:
"Can it be true that a school union complained to the Danish
Lyngby-Taarbaek Municipality council and mayor after they put the
schools
on to FOSS productivity software?"
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014804o-2000673651b,00.htm
John
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