Marc and all, On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Marc Paré wrote: > 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.
I strongly agree that education is a highly strategic target for LibO. Your connections and experiences will be really helpful for us to devise a tactical plan. I would like to work with the NYC school system to promote LibO myself, though I don't have any connections there. Perhaps a well-designed plan could help me get started... > 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. I see a tangible reason to bring additional people onboard as testers--it may help them develop a sense of "ownership" in some small way, that could gradually draw them in to becoming community members within the project, and our group would grow as a result. :) -Ben Benjamin Horst [email protected] 646-464-2314 (Eastern) www.solidoffice.com -- 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
