On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > With the looming release of LibreOffice v.4.0, I would like to start a > project coordinating members of the TDF/LibreOffice membership marketing > team to approach through email or personal visit to local Libraries and see > if they would consider buying copies of the LibreOffice documentation books > for their shelves. > > We would coordinate form letters here as a team (everyone involved in this > process) and then use these "as is" or "modified" in their native language. > > We would also track the Libraries that were contacted on an online > spreadsheet and later follow-up with letters informing them regularly of any > updated documentation from our docs team. > > The book purchases would be done from Lulu who have a good distribution > channel all over the world and their copies are of good quality. (Yes, I > have already bought a LibreOffice book from them.) > > We would also see if any members/users would like to participate in offering > a donation to purchase a copy of the "Getting Started with LibreOffice" > Guide if a local Library would agree to such an arrangement. > > This project would then be listed on the "Easy Task" list for any new > marketing team newcomer. She/He could see if any of the local libraries had > copies of the "Getting Started with LibreOffice" Guide and then report back > to our team so that we could contact them about this. > > The idea is to get our documentation into as many libraries as possible and > to keep in contact with these libraries in order to inform them of any new > docs by our teams. > > I will take care of posting a spreadsheet that will keep track of the > libraries by geographic location worldwide as well as the LibreOffice Guides > on their shelves. > > Note: Libraries usually have a "wishlist" of book requests that they put out > for their users. We can make sure that our docs show on these lists. Once > they order/receive these guides, it is up to us to promote them locally to > friends etc. and to even borrow these books from time to time so that their > library usage show that they are indeed being used. > > How does this sound? > > Marc
This is a great idea. If people want to buy sample copies of LO user guides to donate to a library, they can contact [email protected] to request them at the wholesale price, saving a few dollars. Please provide info on which libraries you intend to give them to. We can't promise to honour every request, but it's worth asking. Note: the wholesale price is only for sample copies, not purchases by libraries or their customers. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
