Italo are you planning on taking advantage of other means besides social networks such as google plus facebook twitter etc are you planning an advertisement campaing through google adwords?
That would be a great way to get the notion out there that there are alternatives and that LO exists. especially since the links come up when doing a search. On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Italo Vignoli <italo.vign...@gmail.com>wrote: > This mailing list is not dead, but we are all volunteers and we all have > a family and a work to pay our bills. Sometimes, to reply to messages it > takes some time. > > On 4/22/13 10:06 AM, Pedro wrote: > > > Regarding your subject, I think that LibreOffice could target those users > > but there are two obstacles: the file conversion is not perfect AND (most > > important) those users are already too used to MS Office. It is easier to > > convince new users to work with a different product than to teach new > tricks > > to "old dogs". > > This does not reflect the reality, where most LibreOffice (and > OpenOffice) users are coming from the Microsoft field, because they are > fed up with license costs or simply looking for an alternative (this is > the most frequent approach). > > The end of life for MS Office 2003 is a significant problem for > companies, but not for individuals. Targeting companies is definitely > more difficult than targeting individuals, but as far as I know most of > them are already trying to manage the problem - at least in Europe - and > many of them are looking at migrating to free software. > > TDF has published a white paper about migrating from Microsoft Office to > LibreOffice, which is being translated in several languages. We can use > such a document to educate companies and we can even make a version > targeted to MS Office 2003 users. > > The fact that the file conversion is not perfect is not going to change. > It will never be perfect, because Microsoft is deliberatedly creating > formats which are impossible to emulate in order to reduce the > interoperability (interoperability is the death of lock in, and lock in > is the cornerstone of Microsoft business model). > > On the other hand, placing a counter on our website would not reach the > potential target of MS Office 2003 users, unless they already know free > software and LibreOffice (which would put them in a different group). > > We should make some hard noise in the Windows environment, using social > media and traditional media. Let's brainstorm about a specific message > for this target group. > > -- > Italo Vignoli - italo.vign...@gmail.com > mob +39.348.5653829 - VoIP 5316...@messagenet.it > skype italovignoli - gtalk italo.vign...@gmail.com > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Jonathan Aquilina -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
