Hi Georges Greet email...
Before responding to same - welcome, and we try as a group to get together once each month, currently on an IRC channel...turns out that this month's gettogether is in approx 60 minutes.. It's using IRC, the url for the channel is: irc://freenode/documentfoundation Maybe you can drop in..a few of us are there now actually. best wishes, //drew On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 13:34 -0700, Georges Rodier wrote: > My apologies if this is not the correct list for this posting. I am new > to marketing for LibreOffice and so welcome any direction or > clarification. > > Earlier this year I participated in LinuxFest Northwest down in > Bellingham, WA, where I had time for a brief chat with the folk at the > LibreOffice table. I was at the fest representing the Vancouver Linux > Users Group (VanLUG) www.vanlug.bc.ca . > > This August VanLUG will have a table at LinuxCon NA 2011 here in > Vancouver, BC, so I am, naturally, wondering if there will be a > LibreOffice representation there? If so, how might I help? If not, how > might I help? > > For more than ten years prior to my retirement in late 2004 I worked in > the IT department of a large international not-for-profit organization > where I managed an internal help desk serving an office of 200 plus > around twenty remote Unix servers across Canada. Later as manager of > special projects I assisted in the implementation of Lotus Notes across > hundreds of local offices. My last project involved the porting of an > internal statistics gathering database from hundreds of stand-alone > instances to the Internet. My work in IT started in 1982. > > Over the years I had seen enough of the development of office suites to > be over-joyed when OpenOffice.org came upon the scene. This was > especially true after my personal move to using Linux (Ubuntu in my > case). Although saddened by the need for the LibreOffice fork I soon > realized that as an Ubuntu user I had already been using an enhanced > version of OOo. Like many, many folk I have been very impressed with > what has happened under the auspices of The Document Foundation hence > this rather lengthy self-introduction. > > Now returning to my original questions, how may I help ensure those > attending LinuxCon NA 2001 will get to know LibreOffice and The Document > Foundation? > > Sincerely, > > Georges Rodier > Richmond, BC > Canada > > PS Yes, I function in both of Canada's official languages. GR > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
