Hi
I have just registered with the marketing group, so I thought I'd introduce
myself.
I am Nigel Verity from Shropshire, England but called "Nige" by everybody. I've
done a few HPR episodes under the alias of "Beeza".
I've worked in a variety of fields including diplomacy, commerce, software
development, tech writing and running art shows. Of these my longest spell was
over 20 years in the defence industry developing and troubleshooting logistics
tools. Right now I am self-employed, doing ad hoc tech writing, website
development and IT consultancy - the latter specialising in simplifying
business processes and reducing costs. Promoting the use of FLOSS plays a big
part of that, though the "Free Libre" part is sometimes harder to push than the
free (cost) and open source aspects.
Making the case for LibreOffice is usually the easiest "sell" as it does not
require users to adopt a different operating system. To be honest, though, I am
never entirely happy saying that LibreOffice is "just like" MS Office because
that gives the impression it is an MS Office clone, which we all know it
clearly isn't.
I would like to get involved with marketing LibreOffice because I would like to
be able to develop a different angle showing not just the areas of functional
overlap with MS Office but also differentiators to make the case for
LibreOffice in its own right.
Cheers
Nige
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