On 2/3/14 8:38 PM, Guy Waterval wrote: > Hi all, > > I knew this first journey into the world of MS users would be difficult, > particularly in my area, but I wouldn't expect a so bad result. The > presentation is canceled for a lack of participants. I was informed of the > situation very late, a few days before the deadline for registration. I > tried myself to recruit people in emergency, but in four days, it was too > short to inverse the tendance. > Note that this situation is not representative and has not to be > generalized. > I will now try another method, without going through "official channels" > but contact directly users myself and organize private and free information > meetups to attempt to create a small users basis, because I've observed > that most MS users are not against OpenOffice in itself, but seem to be > more afraid about questions as changes, lack of support, to be isolated, > etc. So, in my area, it seems there is a need to have first an intermediate > layer of "experienced" users, perhaps organized in an association, between > the project and a potential basis of users. > So, I will try this way.
advocating OpenOffice against Ms Office is indeed no easy job and yes the change of a comfortable work environment to a new one is not easy for many users who simply want to do their job without bigger preferences to one or the other program. Good luck. Juergen > > A+ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
