Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-29 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-17 08:40, Marc Paré a écrit : Here is an interesting thread that was posted recently. It would be nice to hear of your comments. = Quoting Anthony Papillion : > > My local school district is looking at doing a fairly large upgrade from > MS Office 2007 to MS Office

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-21 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-21 14:10, Sophie Gautier a écrit : BTW ... Do you know if OOo4Kids is supporting the LibO project? I would say no, but it's very difficult to know in fact (it mays depend of the blowing wind ;). As you're able to read French, I'll send you tomorrow some updated comments from Eric B

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-21 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Marc, On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2010-10-21 00:51, Jean-Baptiste Faure a écrit : > >> Hi Marc, >> >> You should have a look at OOo Education Project and OOo4Kids fork. >> Whatever I think about forks ( ;-) ), OOo4Kids has several good ideas to >> adapt OOo to childr

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marc Paré wrote: > BTW ... Do you know if OOo4Kids is supporting the LibO project? I merely had a look at what Eric Bachard, ideator of OOo4Kids, wrote. Of course, I cannot speak for OOo4Kids and I am not an active member of the OOo Education project. On 28 September he posted a short "No LibreOf

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-21 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-21 00:51, Jean-Baptiste Faure a écrit : Hi Marc, You should have a look at OOo Education Project and OOo4Kids fork. Whatever I think about forks ( ;-) ), OOo4Kids has several good ideas to adapt OOo to children. The main idea is not to add functions but to remove/hide the functions t

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-20 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Le 17/10/2010 14:40, Marc Paré a écrit : > > I am interested in the marketing of LibO as an effective tool in > education. In particular JK (kindergarten) to the end of High School > (or comparable to this internationally as well). > > Is LibO, in your opinion, a good and effective tool for educati

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-20 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-20 12:40, James Walker a écrit : > 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 I agree totally.

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-19 Thread Dave Johnson
Drew, I need help with getting a local Church based school (K-12) to switch to LobO. Any suggestions? On Oct 19, 2010, at 6:06 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2010-10-19 17:26, Drew Campbell a écrit : >> >> Our company (The Top Floor) serves 45% of the school districts in Vermont. >> Over the past fe

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-19 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-19 19:18, Benjamin Horst a écrit : Promoting LibreOffice as a symbiotic tool to use along with Google Docs would probably be a successful approach. It provides value-add in terms of a larger featureset and support for much more complex documents, while also eliminating the risk of

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-19 Thread Benjamin Horst
On Oct 19, 2010, at 7:06 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2010-10-19 17:26, Drew Campbell a écrit : >> >> Our company (The Top Floor) serves 45% of the school districts in Vermont. >> Over the past few years we've found a very large number of these schools >> moving to OpenOffice with great success..

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-19 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-19 17:26, Drew Campbell a écrit : Our company (The Top Floor) serves 45% of the school districts in Vermont. Over the past few years we've found a very large number of these schools moving to OpenOffice with great success... However the trend is turning...Schools in Vermont are now

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-19 Thread Graham Lauder
___ > > PO Box 524, Middlebury, VT 05753 > Phone: 802.388.1600 x252 > Toll-Free: 800.290.4979 x252 > Fax: 800.290.4765 > > -Original Message- > From: Marc Paré [mailto:m...@marcpare.com] > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 11:08 AM > To: marketing@libreoff

RE: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-19 Thread Drew Campbell
x252 Fax: 800.290.4765 -Original Message- From: Marc Paré [mailto:m...@marcpare.com] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 11:08 AM To: marketing@libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college) Merci Michel for your

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-18 Thread Marc Paré
Merci Michel for your note: Le 2010-10-18 10:43, Michel Gagnon a écrit : I am neither student nor teacher, but I have to offer support to my daughter and her friends. I find that OpenOffice (and most likely LibreOffice has a few problems to solve before it penetrates the market. What are the ma

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-18 Thread Michel Gagnon
Le 2010-10-17 08:40, Marc Paré a écrit : I am interested in the marketing of LibO as an effective tool in education. In particular JK (kindergarten) to the end of High School (or comparable to this internationally as well). Is LibO, in your opinion, a good and effective tool for educational purp

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-17 23:03, Sadiq Saif a écrit : Yes, indeed I'm a Canadian living in Toronto and a student in the TDSB. Sadiq S mailto: sadiq.9...@gmail.com Blog: www.staticsafe.me Twitter - www.twitter.com/staticsafe Facebook- www.facebook.com/static.safe On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Marc Par

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-17 Thread Sadiq Saif
Yes, indeed I'm a Canadian living in Toronto and a student in the TDSB. Sadiq S mailto: sadiq.9...@gmail.com Blog: www.staticsafe.me Twitter - www.twitter.com/staticsafe Facebook- www.facebook.com/static.safe On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2010-10-17 19:27, Sadiq Saif

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-17 19:27, Sadiq Saif a écrit : Price may be one marketing point, though this may be offset by training and support costs. But we must keep in mind the huge amount of mind share that MS Office has build up over the years. People are too used to Office and how it works. In fact even if L

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-17 Thread Sadiq Saif
Price may be one marketing point, though this may be offset by training and support costs. But we must keep in mind the huge amount of mind share that MS Office has build up over the years. People are too used to Office and how it works. In fact even if LibreOffice is better (we hope) than MS Offic

[libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
I am interested in the marketing of LibO as an effective tool in education. In particular JK (kindergarten) to the end of High School (or comparable to this internationally as well). Is LibO, in your opinion, a good and effective tool for educational purposes? If we were to "project" target th