Sincerely folks, how can you post on so many lists? Stick to one please otherwise people will flag you down as spam.
Thanks, Charles. PS : I am fine if this takes place on the marketing one. timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com a écrit : >On Thursday, March 20, 2014 02:54:40 PM you wrote: >> 2014-03-15 6:56 GMT+02:00 <timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com>: >> > Is anyone interested in creating a LibreOffice for Education Text >Book >> > project? >> > >> > This can and probably should be setup as its own working group. >> > >> > The California Open Source Textbook Project >http://www.opensourcetext.org/ >> > Is currently seeking Open Source Text Books for The California >Public >> > Schools K-12. They require the material to be presented in a Text >Book >> > style. This would be a good way to get LibreOffice into Word >Processing >> > Classes in California High Schools as well as schools around the >world. >> > >> > College Open Text Book http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/ Is also >> > seeking >> > Text Books for use in Colleges, This would be a good opportunity to >get >> > LibreOffice into College's across the US! >> > >> > Open Text Book Library is another College Initiative >> > http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ as well. >> > >> > There are quite a few more of these organizations that partnerships >could >> > be established with as well. >> > >> > I have been seeing a number for these popping up and I have seen >some that >> > will pay $20,000 USD for Creative Commons Text Book Donations late >last >> > year which could be used to help fund the this working group. >Community >> > developed software with educational community developed Course-ware >would >> > work out pretty well. >> > >> > These initiatives would require producing a full text book with >exercises >> > etc. >> > >> > As The LibreOffice Software already has an unbeatable low cost all >we are >> > missing to take over the education sector is unbeatable low cost >> > course-ware to go with it. >> > >> > Establishing a full LibreOffice For Education program with the >goals of >> > not only producing the text books but also full courses and >possibly >> > Moodle course ware, Produced courses could even potentially be made >> > available at edX https://www.edx.org/ (Which has a Free Into To >Linux >> > Course this year for those who have not registered for it yet.) It >is a >> > $2,400 course normally taught by The Linux Foundation. >> >> The subject is indeed very important and TDF should pay serious >> attention toward this. >> Situation in many countries are heavely influenced by MS lobbyists. >> Fortunately the K-12 curriculum in Lithuania's state education system >> is open to software alternatives. I know personally few teachers >> (including myself) which has choosen LibreOffice as an office >> applications teaching base. >> 10 years ago even a paper text book was published in Lithuania >> containing explanations and examples with MS Office and OpenOffice in >> parallel. Now sadly it is in significant part outdated and currently >> we have no full range replacement. >> The situation could be comparable in other European countries and >> maybe wider in the world. >> >> Such thoughts so far. >> >> >> Antanas Budriūnas > >I have only found one commercial publication that is mostly directly >geared to >LibreOffice in the USA It is a getting started guide for migrating to >OpenOffice >but also includes LibreOffice content. > >Currently many US State ran school systems are moving to open text >books >published as Creative Commons so their is a great opportunity. Some US >schools >have ousted Microsoft due to cost constraints, some have been migrating >to >Google for Education services and Chromebooks. > >I have a cousin that teaches Business Finance Accounting, Computer >Classes and >Math for a PA state high school. I sent him and email to find out what >they are >using. Some schools in the US I know are still using old versions of >Word >Perfect for Word processing classes. > >Even if the schools are using Chromebooks they can easily use >LibreOffice >through VNC. > >I know their is one commercial provider of a web based LibreOffice on >the >internet that works with Google Chromebooks but it is an older version >and is >a paid service after a small try for free period. Has their been any >official >push of a Document Foundation LibreOffice Web project? It would also be >a good >time to start this as well as Microsoft , Google etc have web based >office >offerings on the market already. > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: website+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/website/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >deleted -- Envoyé de mon téléphone avec Kaiten Mail. Excusez la brièveté. -- 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
