Hello Marc, Le Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:28:16 -0500, Marc Paré <m...@marcpare.com> a écrit :
> I would like to propose that we organize a yearly, and, official > "Inform your local library of LibreOffice Documentation 'Month'" > where we would enlist the help of our members/users into > visiting/contacting their local libraries to make sure that there are > copies of the latest LibreOffice docs on their shelves. > > If you think this to be a good idea, we could make sure that this > monthly "event" would be scheduled yearly, posted on our events > calendar as a "repeated event" so that it not be forgotten. > > I am just wondering if there are any foreseeable problems that we > could avoid/fix if we were to initiate such a project? > > The calendar month would have to be strategically picked in order to > maximize the probability of a library having the funds to purchase a > set of docs for their shelves. For example in N.America, academic > library budgets (public schools, colleges, universities) will run > from June-May and most departments will get a notice that book > acquisitions should be placed by end of the month of February-end of > March; however most local public libraries budgets are based on the > calendar year, and acquisitions are generally made throughout the > year. IMO, in these cases, I would suggest the month of February or > March would be good picks for this type of appeal. > > We would then use the month to collectively call on Libraries to > purchase at least one copy of the set of LibreOffice docs for their > shelves ... and hopefully a few more copies of the more popular > modules such as Writer. > > Any ideas/comments? We would have enough time to prepare to pick the > month to promote the push. > I'll be honest : I really have no idea about this field so I'll trust you on that one. I had a comment though: do I get it right that the purpose of such an event/campaign would be to spread guides about LibreOffice? Or is it about spreading the word to librarians... or to library users? Thank you for this! -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder, The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint Mobile Number: +33 (0)6 98 65 54 24. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
