On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 12:05 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: Hi Marc,
Just going to drop in a few links to build on the good start you have here.. > > Education (NOT ACADEMIA) campaign: > > ============ > Initial work: > ============ > * make sure the support forums/mailist/nntp are established and > strategically located on the TDF/LibO site Excellent, I suppose the work on a forum(s) will be kicking into gear here soon and I am looking forward to working with you on it > * see if there is the possibility of IT "type" help desk for networking > concerns with LibO (may include dev support) -- could also involve a > "pay per call" service. *bit item* > * make sure that network installation is possible and easily done on > different platforms (could arrange for "test" locations at some school > board sites, with LibO dev involvement) Florian is your guy here - a number of good articles out on installing OO. in large environments. I think a number of them are in German only, someone may want to touch base with him and see if that is true, if so find out how he would feel about someone here translating them in to English for publication, somehow, somewhere.... > * make sure that there are many educational specific templates for > downloading (match these with governmental educational agencies and the > student expectation lists etc.) Here are a few links to current templates: http://drewjensen.typepad.com/blog/2010/07/openofficeorg-templates-for-primiary-school-faculty-and-staff.html http://drewjensen.typepad.com/blog/2010/07/openofficeorg-templates-for-seconday-school-faculty.html http://drewjensen.typepad.com/blog/2010/07/openofficeorg-college-freshman-templates.html I'd like to see the basic content, idea, moved to wiki pages - long term plans for a LibreOffice template repository should be kicking up before long, I would guess. > * make sure that there are enough clip arts/sounds in the LibO suite > * collect data re: use of MSO templates presently in use for Kami is the name you want to look for in the mailing lists - he has been the driving force in putting the collection together for OxygenOfice.org. He is now actively developing extensions as part of the TDF team. http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ooop/ .... > * collect data: contacts and addresses of various Educational > organisations responsible for the testing/recommendation/acquisition of > educational software yes - do you want to just start on that, for this group? > * collect names of individuals who are ready to help support and demo > LibO at individual schools I thought this was it, here - which is to say, this is the starting list - but I understand your point and yes that would good to have. to followup on the last question, if you have an idea of how you want to keep that list and make it available great, if not I can offer a few ideas and help you get things setup. > * lobby various organisations to accept the OASIS document ISO formats. > Advocacy. Sounds good to me - as long as I get a LibreOffice Golf Shirt out of it...3x please. > * prepare support on-line materials (pamphlets; videos; weblinks to > important sites (OASIS, ISO, ...) related to the educational field and > LibO advocacy etc.) Andy Brown - has been doing this for OO.o projects here and there for a while - good guy to get to know. //drew --snip off rest for another email later --- -- 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
