I think that it is a great idea. But I also feel that it must be updated regularly. As new organizations switch to LibreOffice it has to be updated.
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 8:05 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions < [email protected]> wrote: > > Could there be a page or two that would have announcements like this > displayed? > > Having articles is fine, but having a list of paragraphs that have > statements of governments, agencies, corporations, educational facilities, > etc., etc., that have decided to use LibreOffice [or at least Open Source > software or the ODF file format] would be great for marketing or "sales" of > LibreOffice to local groups, companies, government agencies, schools, etc., > etc.. If we have a list of these organizations that have gone over to > LibreOffice, then it would be an easier sell for our local organizations, or > such, to switch over to LibreOffice from MSO. > > Showing them that these governments, large educational facilities, large > corporations, have switched may make it seem a better option to switch. > > With the corporate partners, using these names will help. If we can say > Google is on the Advisory Board or another company is a sponsor of > LibreOffice, it will be good. They use Google and if Google thinks > LibreOffice is a good enough, or great enough, package that Google would be > on the "board" for LibreOffice, then it might make sense for them to try our > package. > > All these press releases about who is now using LibreOffice, who is > switching to it, or who is on a board or committee that is a company name > that is big enough for them to know, COULD help will our marketing "press". > > I see not easy link on the LibreOffice Home Page to take a person to a "In > the Press Page". I know there is a page with a listing of articles about > LibreOffice, but it should have a link from the home page. Then there also > should be a page containing these announcements like Corporate Advisors or > French Government agencies switching to LibreOffice. We need to make it > easy for potential users to find this information, by linking it from the > home page. This is something I have seen with other software web sites. > > SO do anyone on this list thinks having these announcements and such easily > listed/linked off from the home page is a good idea? > > > > On 06/15/2011 09:41 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: > >> Hi Lyle, *, >> >> Lyle Cochran schrieb: >> >>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Florian Effenberger >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2011-06-14 10.32: >>>> >>>>> So you have to read French to understand it. This is not a PR (they >>>>> don't write PR), and it's a small, magical sentence at the bottom >>>>> of the page: basically the french ministerial coordination group >>>>> for "Open productivity suites" now recommends to switch away from >>>>> MS Office and OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice: >>>>> >>>> >> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualisation_interministérielle_pour_une_bureautique_ouverte >> >> excellent news! I've just tweeted it :) >>>> Florian >>>> >>> If the page translated correctly, it appears that the ministerial >>> group is waiting for CD/DVDs in .iso format for downloading. This may >>> indicate an easy to find and download CD/DVD .iso may also be an >>> important tool for distribution among other governmental entities and >>> businesses. >>> >> The infrastructure for this is already in place: >> http://fr.libreofficebox.org/ >> >> it definitly needs some care! ;o)) >> >> More Great news for LibO! >>> >> indeed :o) >> >> >> Gruß/regards >> > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Rajesh Sankar.R -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
