You know, my biggest thought is that if we want to get LibO into a more widespread acceptance then we have to get into the Schools.
You tend to stick with what you learn first and that should be our number 1 goal. James On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 2010-10-20 08:43, James Walker a écrit : > > Ben, >> >> I would be very interested in your ideas, I hope that you will share them >> soon, I would love to get started sooner, rather than later. >> >> James >> > Hi Ben: > > I have started 2 threads on the marketing list > > [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post > grad. university/college) > [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Academia > > I am really interested in improving the LibO suite pagackaging so that it > better suits these 2 areas of education. IMHO, I hope to work with > interested dev. (once they identify themselves as interested) so that > plugins could be either moded or developed to accomplish this. > > After this, we could devise a more concentrated marketing strategy to gain > a larger foothold in the educational field. I have had 18 years of > experience in this field in Ontario, Canada and have worked on committees at > the provincial and local board levels as well as administrative levels as a > school board specialist. I may be able to help with market strategies as > well as expected results from approaching federal, provincial and local > board levels, both at the public, catholic (we have this division in > Canada), private levels. I also have contacts and could probably arrange for > group testing at the teacher as well as student levels. > > As for Academia, I have had over 30 years of ties both at the academic (I > have taught at some summer workshops approx. 15-20 years ago at University > level) and technical level (I am also a piano tuner by trade and period > keyboard restoring specialist). I can probably convince an extremely small > group for testing purposes, but I think we may have already enough academics > on the list who are prepared to help in this way. > > Marc > > -- > Marc Paré > http://www.parEntreprise.com <http://www.parentreprise.com/> > > > > -- > E-mail to > [email protected]<marketing%[email protected]>for > instructions on how to unsubscribe > List archives are available at http://us.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ > All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://us.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
