Dear All,
I would like to re-open the discussion on this topic, which was
discussed a couple of weeks back.
I already mentioned in a previous mail that we offer LibreOffice
workshops for clerical and support staff of many organisations, such as
government offices and universities, free of cost. What is interesting
is that the participants learn advanced features of the software, for
example, track changes and the like. Most of them, however, are not
aware of such advanced techniques in MS Office. The reason is that no
one teaches these things on MS Office - the training programme is
possibly expensive or only limited seats are available in a training
programme.
Thus, even if LibreOffice is less powerful (for argument sake), it is
used effectively - even the advanced features are known to the users.
In comparsion, the MS Office is used less effectively, even if it is
more powerful, once again, for argument sake. Thus, the LibreOffice
users end up being better users of the software, compared to the MS
Office users.
The above observation got corroborated in a blender workshop that we
organised. Here is a feedback from an official of the organisation,
where we conducted this workshop.
/"The workshop as informed to you earlier over phone was really
successful. By the end of four days the participants were very happy and
confident in developing 3D animation. Earlier they were using licensed
products which did not actually fulfill our requirements of 3 D
animation. Added to that they were also introduced to interactive game
development using Blender. In the four days they were introduced to
modeling, lighting, 3D Animation and interactive games. The best part
was the spoken tutorials helped them get ready with the installation,
interface and utilities of Blender before the physical workshop in the
IGNOU campus. Spoken tutorials were really useful as the participants
could use them time and again as reference material even when the
physical workshop was on. We are very happy with the workshop and
looking forward to an advanced level workshop."
/Kannan
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Bridging digital divide through FOSS and helping migration to Scilab from Matlab
http://spoken-tutorial.org/CSI.pdf
http://spoken-tutorial.org/What-is-a-Spoken-Tutorial-2-Minute-Video-English
http://spoken-tutorial.org/What_is_a_Spoken_Tutorial_English
http://scilab.in/Textbook_Companion_Project
http://scilab.in/Lab_Migration_Project
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