[libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice download link on Important Govt of India website

[chandrakant dhutadmal]

I am not sure if anyone has noticed this yet, but LibreOffice suite download 
link is made available on one of the important sites of Govt. of India. Have a 
look below
https://eprocure.gov.in/eprocure/app?page=StandardBiddingDocuments=page

Regards,
Chandrakant Dhutadmal
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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] About me

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Hi Vignesan,
Good to see some one from India asking about LibreOffice promotion. You are 
welcome to do that.
If you have any specific thing to ask or discuss, we can talk to each other. 
You can send me your details like your city, contact number, etc on 
cpdhutad...@yahoo.com (Do not send your personal information on mailing list as 
these are public, unless you dont mind making it public)
That way, we will get to know each other and then we can plan further 
activities in regards to promotion. 
We also have India specific mailing list. You can subscribe to the list by 
sending email to india+subscr...@global.libreoffice.org.
Thanks sophie for CC'ing me on this email.
Regards,Chandrakant Dhutadmal.On Wednesday, July 5, 2017, 4:01:23 PM GMT+5:30, 
Sophie  wrote:

Hi Vignesan,
Le 04/07/2017 à 19:30, Vignesan Selvam a écrit :
> Hi,
> I'm Vignesan Selvam,
> I love open source, i want to create awareness in india about the
> opensource and libreoffice.
> Nearly 95% of the people unaware of the free source and libreoffice.
> I need a permission to conduct seminar and workshop on libreoffice.

Welcome to the project! I've added Chandrakant in copy of this mail,
together with the Indian team he just conducted a survey about
LibreOffice usage in India which will be soon published. I'm sure he
will be able to help you and point you to existing resources.

Kind regards
Sophie

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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] IMPORTANT Marketing Conference Call

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Dear Italo,
Please add cpdhutad...@gmail.com for today's meeting using google hangout.
Regards,Chandrakant Dhutadmal. 

On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 2:06 AM, Italo Vignoli <it...@libreoffice.org> 
wrote:
 

 Marketing Conference Call for May is scheduled for Tuesday, May 17, at
10AM UTC (noon CEST), based on the different people who have filled in
the Doodle.

The agenda for the call is the following:

1. Announcement of LibreOffice 5.2: team brainstorming

2. Preparation of announcement materials: discussion of needs

3. Organization of pre-announcements for journalists

4. Creation of specific badges/barnstars for LibreOffice 5.2

5. Launch of "Week/Month of LibreOffice 5.2" in August?

6. LibreOffice events around the world (e.g. FUEL/GILT in India)

7. Other topics suggested by participants

I will connect people who have filled in the Doodle using Google
Hangout, as we are missing phone numbers for Taiwan and India. Other
people interested in joining the call should provide their Google
Hangout ID.

Looking forward to hearing you!

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[libreoffice-marketing] Press Coverage of Open Source event at Bijapur, India

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Hi All.
On Behalf of my office (C-DAC, Pune), I had conducted an event in Darbar 
College, Bijapur, India on 01st Feb 2016 titled "Localization, Testing and 
other areas of contribution to FOSS" projects, wherein special emphasis was 
given to two important and distinct softwares. 1) Libre Office and 2) Mozilla 
Firefox. It was a good event and is covered by two of the prominent newspapers 
in the area “Vijaya Karnataka” and “Sanyukta Karnataka”. Both of these 
newspapers are quite old and cover almost 80% of the three districts (Bijapur, 
Hubli and Bangalore) in Karnataka. Few more newspapers are expected to cover 
the news. You may not be able to read Kannada text, but I am also attaching 
English version of Press Release with this email. 

RegardsChandrakant DhutadmalLibre Office India Community member,Pune, India.

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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice merchandising store

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I agree. Spreading the store link through various mechanism is essential. I 
could not find the link on www.libreoffice.org website. Is it good to keep 
store link before "Donation" link so that people easily can find it ?
Regards,Chandrakant Dhutadmal.
 

On Friday, January 29, 2016 1:32 AM, Charles-H. Schulz 
<charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
 

 Sounds good to me. I suggest a button on the homepage and a menu somewhere on 
About us or something.

Best,

Charles. 

Le 28 janvier 2016 18:13:25 GMT+01:00, Florian Effenberger 
<flo...@documentfoundation.org> a écrit :
>Hello,
>
>looking at our website it looks like the LibreOffice merchandising
>store 
>isn't heavily promoted.
>
>During FOSDEM we maybe should not overly promote it, as we have 
>merchandise at the booth, but afterwards, how about making 
>http://shop.spreadshirt.net/documentfoundation/ a bit more prominent?
>
>Florian
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[libreoffice-marketing] Presentation on Libre Office latest features

[chandrakant dhutadmal]

Hi All.
Can anybody point me towards a presentation with latest Libre Office features 
added into it ?
I am gonna talk about Libre Office in a school in Mumbai tomorrow. 

Regards,Chandrakant Dhutadmal.


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Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Localized LibreOffice to be used in Govt of Maharashtra, India

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Yes. Thanks Danishka for the link. :)
RegardsChandrakant Dhutadmal 

 On Saturday, March 7, 2015 12:30 AM, Danishka Navin danis...@gmail.com 
wrote:
   

 I found something from a document upload released on last November. ;-)

Hon’ble CM appreciated the work done by CDAC Pune for developing Sakal
Marathi Font and many plug-ins like Marathi SpellChecker and Marathi
Shaskiya ShabadKosh plug-in for Opensource Libre-Office, and instructed
that all Government offices across the state should be encouraged to use
these for creating any new documents.

https://www.maharashtra.gov.in/site/upload/WhatsNew/DigitalIndiaMeetingDIT-CMO-Verified-27-11-2014.pdf


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charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote:

 Excellent!

 Do you happen to have a link that we can share?

 Best,
 Charles.

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 wrote:
 Hello All.
 Though late, it gives me immense pleasure to inform you all that Govt.
 of Maharashta, India has decided to encourage use of Libre Office in
 all its offices. C-DAC has been instrumental in this decision from
 govt. C-DAC will provide necessary help to the departments to start use
 of this free and open source software.
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[libreoffice-marketing] Localized LibreOffice to be used in Govt of Maharashtra, India

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Hello All.
Though late, it gives me immense pleasure to inform you all that Govt. of 
Maharashta, India has decided to encourage use of Libre Office in all its 
offices. C-DAC has been instrumental in this decision from govt. C-DAC will 
provide necessary help to the departments to start use of this free and open 
source software.
RegardsChandrakant DhutadmalPune, India.
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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] FixMyDocuments

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Indeed a great Initiative. Would love to get a document on how these 
Initiatives convince those public administrations not supporting ODF to support 
ODF.

Regards,
Chandrakant Dhutadmal.



On Monday, September 22, 2014 7:30 PM, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote:
 


Hi all,

A great initiative here
  http://fixmydocuments.eu/

You can report sites of public admins that offer documents but not in ODF.
Would be nice if one could also report on administration that cannot
handle ODF files sent to them..

Hmm.


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[libreoffice-marketing] Fw: Call for Papers - FUEL GILT Conference 2014

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FUEL GILT Conference 2014



November 14-15, 2014
Pune, India

http://fuelproject.org/gilt2014/index#paper

Welcome to the 2nd FUEL GILT Conference - the largest event of FOSS
language technology - its challenges, solutions, best practices and its
conventions. FUEL GILT Conference is all about language technology world,
all about GILT industry - G11N, I18N, L10N, and Translation world. The
event is showcase of the efforts of volunteer communities and different
organizations in the field of language technology. This event also tells us
the pain and conflicts of different cultures and languages. All things are
revolved around the language - related to words! We Worship Words!

The organizers of FUEL GILT Conference are Red Hat and C-DAC GIST. Thanks a
lot to both the organizations for their continuous support and helping hand.

FUEL is growing only because of the support of volunteer communities
world-wide and several well known organizations! The power of the event is
the power of collaboration, the power of sharing, the power of
volunteerism! Currently, almost 60 language communities are working with
the FUEL Project across various domain including desktop, mobile, cloud,
web, agriculture, health etc.

Since 2008, FUEL Project is consistently working with the different
language communities to provide standard linguistic resources eg.
terminologies, style guides, assessment methods etc to the world. Like last
year, please collaborate and cooperate to make the event a huge success!

Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce the Call For Papers for FUEL GILT Conference
2014. Abstracts are invited for presentation/workshop on substantial,
original and unique research on all aspects of GILT Industry
(Globalization, Internationalization, Localization and Translations) with
special focus on linguistic resources, standardization, e-governance and
language technology.

The areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Language Technology; Corpus Linguistics; Machine Translation; Natural
Language Processing; Globalization; Language and Translations; Technical
Terminology; Dictionary; Style Guide; Unicode/CLDR; Script Grammar;
Translation Editor; Rendering Systems; Quality Assessment; Fonts; Input
methods; FOSS and Localization; Computational Linguistics; Language 
Culture; Endangered Language;
Internationalization

Please visit the page for detailed information:
http://fuelproject.org/gilt2014/index

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[libreoffice-marketing] Libre Office- India Marketing mailing list

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Hi All.

Its a pleasure in inviting you to join Libre Office India marketing list. 

You can now subscribe to Libre Office India marketing mailing list by sending 
an email to india+subscr...@global.libreoffice.org 

Subject and Message of the email can be anything.

You will then receive confirmation or further instructions.

Regards,
Chandrakant Dhutadmal
C-DAC, Pune, India
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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] A report on LibreOffice India community Ideation meet up - Marketing event

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Hi Charles.

* set up of an Indian mailing list for marketing and advocacy (do you 
want it? Do you need one?)

- Yes. It would be better to have a India specific marketing mailing list. 
Kindly arrange to add Rajesh Ranjan, Chandrakant Dhutadmal and Prof. Kannan as 
the administrator of the mailing list. 


* I need to get more familiar about the Ambassadors Programme from Fedora, and 
it needs to be adapted for LibreOffice (also, we need a bit of input from the 
board of directors): Action Item for Charles.


- You may update us when you discuss this matter with the board of directors. 
Having Ambassador kind of program will entrust more responsibility on the part 
of community members and will also give them the sense of pride being 
Ambassador of the product.  :)


* Question: do you foresee the need at some point to set up a dedicated NGO for 
these operations or is one of your agencies carrying the administrative 
workload?


- We will discuss this point within community members to come to a consensus. 
Give us some time to respond on this point.

Regards,
Chandrakant Dhutadmal
C-DAC, Pune , India.


On Monday, May 19, 2014 3:44 PM, Charles-H. Schulz 
charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote:
 


Chandrakant,

Waow, impressive news and events. May I suggest a follow-up from my side 
and a couple of ideas.

* set up of an Indian mailing list for marketing and advocacy (do you 
want it? Do you need one?)
* I need to get more familiar about the Ambassadors Programme from 
Fedora, and it needs to be adapted for LibreOffice (also, we need a bit 
of input from the board of directors): Action Item for Charles.
* Question: do you foresee the need at some point to set up a dedicated 
NGO for these operations or is one of your agencies carrying the 
administrative workload?

Please let me know, and thank you so much for this brilliant meeting. 
And thanks be given to Red Hat!

Best,

Charles.



Le 19.05.2014 11:18, chandrakant dhutadmal a écrit :
 A report on LibreOffice India Community Ideation Meet-Up
 
  Date of the meet: 16-MAY-2014
    
 Time:
 03.00 P.M.-05.00 P.M. IST.
 
 Venue: Red
 Hat Office, Tower 10, Magarpatta City, Pune, India.
 
   
   irc@freenode:
 libreoffice
 
    event
 hashtag: #libreofficeindia
 
 
 
 Background
 
 LibreOffice is one of the flagship products of a movement called
 'FOSS'. It is one of the best office application suite which is
 available free of cost for most of the platforms and in many languages
 across the world. The application is useful for everyone from a
 student to a researcher and across various domains. Rajesh Ranjan and
 Chandrakant Dhutadmal were in a discussion for quite some time about
 the promotion and proliferation of this beautiful product and were not
 quite sure about the reach of this product in India. Hence, we had
 started a thread on marketing list of LibreOffice. After discussions
 with Charles-H. Schulz and Prof. Kannan from IIT Mumbai, we thought of
 having an Ideation meet up in India to discuss the current state of
 penetration of LibreOffice in India and how to increase the reach with
 the help of the Community.
 
 Agenda of the meetup
 
 1. Get to know each other
 2. Introduction about LibreOffice marketing movement in India
 3. Raise brand awareness on LibreOffice in India
 4. How to attract volunteers to contribute to LibreOffice
 5. Plan of Action
 
 
 1. Get to know each other
 
 Initially we thought the response to this event would be poor as it
 was planned on a short notice and also with small budget, but there
 were around 14 people face-to-face and one online who participated in
 the event. Thanks to Red Hat for hosting this event. We all got to
 know each other as well as the areas of interest where the
 participants could contribute. The members were from literally all
 aspects of LibreOffice community Viz. Development, Localization,
 Marketing, Testing and Documentation. Hence we can expect good
 contribution from these members in future. Participants of the events
 : Rajesh Ranjan, Chandrakant Dhutadmal, Keral Patel Anish Patil,
 Krishna Babu, Ankit Patel, Shankar Prasad, Shantha Kumar, Saibal,
 Shubhra Joshi, Sangeeta Kumari, Vishakha Dhutadmal, Ani Peter, and
 Manoj Giri. We discussed the agenda and background of the event
 through one small presetation [1].  
 
 2. Introduction about LibreOffice marketing movement in India
 
 By the time we met for the discussion, we knew that though LibreOffice
 is being used by many in India, the penetration level is too low.
 There are efforts done by individual organizations like C-DAC [2],
 RedHat [3] and IIT Mumbai [4] on individual basis, but there is no
 collaborative effort in this direction. C-DAC has been

[libreoffice-marketing] A report on LibreOffice India community Ideation meet up - Marketing event

[chandrakant dhutadmal]

A report on LibreOffice India Community Ideation Meet-Up

 Date of the meet: 16-MAY-2014
   
Time: 03.00 P.M.-05.00 P.M. IST.

Venue: Red Hat 
Office, Tower 10, Magarpatta City, Pune, India.


irc@freenode: libreoffice

   event 
hashtag: #libreofficeindia



Background

LibreOffice is one of the flagship products of a movement called 'FOSS'. It is 
one of the best office application suite which is available free of cost for 
most of the platforms and in many languages across the world. The application 
is useful for everyone from a student to a researcher and across various 
domains. Rajesh Ranjan and Chandrakant Dhutadmal were in a discussion for quite 
some time about the promotion and proliferation of this beautiful product and 
were not quite sure about the reach of this product in India. Hence, we had 
started a thread on marketing list of LibreOffice. After discussions with 
Charles-H. Schulz and Prof. Kannan from IIT Mumbai, we thought of having an 
Ideation meet up in India to discuss the current state of penetration of 
LibreOffice in India and how to increase the reach with the help of the 
Community.

Agenda of the meetup

1. Get to know each other
2. Introduction about LibreOffice marketing movement in India
3. Raise brand awareness on LibreOffice in India
4. How to attract volunteers to contribute to LibreOffice
5. Plan of Action


1. Get to know each other

Initially we thought the response to this event would be poor as it was planned 
on a short notice and also with small budget, but there were around 14 people 
face-to-face and one online who participated in the event. Thanks to Red Hat 
for hosting this event. We all got to know each other as well as the areas of 
interest where the participants could contribute. The members were from 
literally all aspects of LibreOffice community Viz. Development, Localization, 
Marketing, Testing and Documentation. Hence we can expect good contribution 
from these members in future. Participants of the events : Rajesh Ranjan, 
Chandrakant Dhutadmal, Keral Patel Anish Patil, Krishna Babu, Ankit Patel, 
Shankar Prasad, Shantha Kumar, Saibal, Shubhra Joshi, Sangeeta Kumari, Vishakha 
Dhutadmal, Ani Peter, and Manoj Giri. We discussed the agenda and background of 
the event through one small presetation [1].  

2. Introduction about LibreOffice marketing movement in India

By the time we met for the discussion, we knew that though LibreOffice is being 
used by many in India, the penetration level is too low. There are efforts done 
by individual organizations like C-DAC [2], RedHat [3] and IIT Mumbai [4] on 
individual basis, but there is no collaborative effort in this direction. C-DAC 
has been involved in training (face-to-face) various Govt. offices and 
educational institutions on how to use LibreOffice since quite some time now. 
Prof. Kannan and his team has also put good efforts in terms of creating large 
number of self-instructional audio video tutorials on LibreOffice, in English 
(about 60), and with audio dubbed into many Indian languages (a total of about 
500) [5], SELF workshops on LibreOffice and to a lesser extent on Linux, Tamil 
Nadu Govt switching over to BOSS[6] and  some more offices are switching to 
Fedora and other distributions which is good for LibreOffice. Prof. Kannan’s 
team is also trying to come up
 with print edition of LibreOffice Manuals (500 copies) to promote LibreOffice 
in colleges, who need a printed book for the software to be included in their 
curriculum. 

Having localized version of LibreOffice is important from promotion point of 
view. Currently, there are as many as 16 Indian languages where Localization 
teams exist[7].  Chandrakant Dhutadmal has already requested to create new 
teams for all those Indian languages that are currently not present.


3. Raise brand awareness on LibreOffice in India

Discussion amongst the members present on how to raise the brand awareness in 
India took place. Following are the point in nutshell which participants 
thought would be helpful.

*Introduction of Swags, T-Shirt, Sticker, Badges is very important.
*Conduct demo sessions in various colleges/ schools.
*Conduct LibreOffice development oriented Workshops.
*Using the social media extensively.
*Contacting SMEs/ Start-ups/ System Administrators 
*Try to add LibreOffice in school/college curriculum 
*Conducting various small events across the country.
*Help community members in participating in International events to interact 
with other contributors and learn more from them to replicate the model in 
India.
*Create Success stories and highlight them 
*Organizations like C-DAC are already using LibreOffice. Can we target more 
such large

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Libre Office Marketing activities in India

[chandrakant dhutadmal]

Hi.

So, to be specific, here are few things which we can do immediately for Libre 
Office product marketing and localization.

1. Chalk out a plan for finding at least 500-1000 such people who do not know 
about Libre Office and Train them in a classroom or through Self learning 
modules which Prof. Kannan is working on. The best crowd would be youngster's 
in schools and colleges. Apart from these, we can also target small to medium 
level enterpreuners (SME's) and Govt. offices across the country.

2. Organize more number of conferences at local levels to market the product.

I am ready to undertake these two activities on immediate basis with one or 
more local volunteer.

@ Charles - Agreed that Localization of Libre office into all 22 
constituitonally recognized languages and marketing are two different big 
activities in themselves but at the same time, marketing of Localized Libre 
office is important too. Hence, as Rajesh has suggested, community members who 
are into localization can be pitched in to get the ideas of how to push this 
product to masses. 


Best Regards,
Chandrakant Dhutadmal
On , chandrakant dhutadmal cpdhutad...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
Dear Kannan Sir,

Thanks for your encouraging mail. Last time we met at IIT Mumbai, you gave me 
brief idea of what activities you and your team are doing at IIT Mumbai.

In this email also you have explained nice enough about your efforts. Since our 
goals are on similar lines, we can do lot of things together as a community. I 
will definitely visit you at IIT when i am in Mumbai and discuss abt how we can 
take this ahead.

Regards,
Chandrakant Dhutadmal.
On Saturday, May 3, 2014 1:20 AM, Rajesh Ranjan rajeshka...@yahoo.com wrote:
 


 On Friday, May 2, 2014 11:30 PM, Charles-H. Schulz 
 charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote:
  Rajesh, Kannan, Chandrakant,
 
 This is getting interesting :-)
 
 May I suggest we work this in two streams?
 - check who is currently working on Indic langages localizations, what 
 localization of constitutionally recognized language is currently missing and 
 who may work on it
 

Here is the list who is who of Indian libreoffice l10n as per the language team 
list 
:-)

Assamese - Nilamdyuti Goswami 
Bengali (India) - Sankarshan/Runa 
Bodo - Sanjib Narzary 
English -
 Stuart Swales 
Gujarati - Ankit Patel 
Hindi - Rajesh Ranjan 
Kannada - Vikram Vincent/Shankar Prasad 
Maithili - Sangeeta Kumari 
Malayalam - Manu Unni V G 
Marathi - Sandeep Shedmake 
Nepali - Saaz Rai 
Oriya - Manoj Kumar Giri 
Punjabi - A S Alam 
Tamil - Ve. Elanjelian 
Telugu - Arjuna Rao Chavala/Krishnababu Krothapalli
Urdu - Khunshan Shabbir

On status page, all languages' translation are present though language teams 
are for only for the ^^ mentioned names. Teams need to be created for the 
following: Dogri, Kashmiri, Konkani, Manipuri, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi. 
Chandrakant is eager to push the translation for these languages. Probably the 
previous translations done for openoffice (possibly by c-dac) are here with
 libreoffice.

Through English is not in official 22, but I have added en-GB as well as this 
is one official language and its important in India is not less. So for overall 
promotion purpose we can count this language also.

 - on this mailing list, discuss and define a few concrete actions to raise 
 LibreOffice awareness in India and improve its distribution. 
 

Sure...I have not any problem start discussing here right now but would like to 
come here with inputs from other languages' team maintainers and possibly after 
a face-to-face cum irc meeting with the people mentioned from lo team. This 
will be a inclusive view and would be more helpful to work for the plan decided 
here on the on the mailing list later. 

 What do you think?


Hope this is okay?

regards,

Rajesh

 
 Best,
 
 Charles. 
 
 On 2 mai 2014 19:08:15 CEST, Rajesh Ranjan rajeshka...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Charles, Chandrakant and Kannan,
 
 It is good to see the activity related to Libreoffice for India.
 libreoffice is one of the most important flagship product of foss but
 in India the activity of promoting the lo is almost negligible. Its sad
 and we should certainly do some concrete effort regarding the same.
 
 I would also like to be part of it actively and would like to work a
 lot for libreoffice in India.  I am working for Hindi language since
 ten years in FOSS localization world. Earlier, I was associated with
 openoffice as well. I know lot of localization
 contributors/coordinators of different Indian language. I think they
 can also help us out to do organized marketing activity related to
 libreoffice in India.
 
 thanks!
 
  
 Regards, 
 Rajesh Ranjan 
 
 www.rajeshranjan.in
 twitter: @kajha 
 facebook:
 rajeshkajha 
 
 
  
 
  On Friday, May 2, 2014 6:40 PM, Kannan Moudgalya 
 kan...@iitb.ac.in
 wrote:
   Dear Chandrakant,
 
  I am delighted to see your mail.
 
  Our team has been conducting Spoken Tutorial based

[libreoffice-marketing] Libre Office Marketing activities in India

[chandrakant dhutadmal]

Hello All.

My name is Chandrakant Dhutadmal. I am from Pune, India. Currently i am working 
as senior technical officer, at Centre for Development of advanced computing 
(C-DAC), Pune.

I have been working in Localization domain since about last 8 years. I had 
earlier used Open Office and conducted training and spread awareness about open 
office among lot of people from various sectors like Academics, Govt, NGO's, 
and SME's. I have also been attending various meeting and conferences to spread 
the word.

I have also been using Libre Office since quite some time now. I think i can be 
a good contributor as a Member of Marketing team and take this product to newer 
heights of success.

I would also like to know if there is any marketing group active in India who 
promotes Libre Office in India and let me know how can i participate.


Cheers,
Chandrakant Dhutadmal
Senior Technical Officer
C-DAC, Pune, India.
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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Libre Office Marketing activities in India

[chandrakant dhutadmal]

Hi Charles.

Thanks for welcoming me in the community.

Yes. C-DAC is one of the organization which has been into Localization and its 
marketing since quite some time now.

I have personally  been active in some other open source communities and i have 
noticed that there are no Libre Office promotional activities being carried out 
as a community. 

I personally would like to contribute in this community driven promotional 
activity in a better way. 

Regards,
Chandrakant Dhutadmal
Pune, India.
 






On Friday, May 2, 2014 5:44 PM, Charles-H. Schulz 
charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote:
 
Dear Chandrakant,

Welcome to the LibreOffice project! I have seen your earlier posts on 
the L10N mailing list and it's great to see that more localizations can 
be created. On top of that C-DAC has been a long standing contributor to 
the old Openoffice.org project :-)

It is a bit unclear to me whether there are active teams promoting 
LibreOffice around India though. We have various contacts with public 
institutions there however. Given the scope of your involvement, I guess 
you have a team working with you on LibreOffice localizations and 
marketing?

Best,

Charles.



Le 2014-05-02 12:56, chandrakant dhutadmal a écrit :
 Hello All.
 
 My name is Chandrakant Dhutadmal. I am from Pune, India. Currently i
 am working as senior technical officer, at Centre for Development of
 advanced computing (C-DAC), Pune.
 
 I have been working in Localization domain since about last 8 years. I
 had earlier used Open Office and conducted training and spread
 awareness about open office among lot of people from various sectors
 like Academics, Govt, NGO's, and SME's. I have also been attending
 various meeting and conferences to spread the word.
 
 I have also been using Libre Office since quite some time now. I think
 i can be a good contributor as a Member of Marketing team and take
 this product to newer heights of success.
 
 I would also like to know if there is any marketing group active in
 India who promotes Libre Office in India and let me know how can i
 participate.
 
 
 Cheers,
 Chandrakant Dhutadmal
 Senior Technical Officer
 C-DAC, Pune, India.

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[libreoffice-marketing] Hello..

[Chandrakant Dhutadmal]

Hello All.

My name is Chandrakant Dhutadmal. I am from Pune, India. Currently i am
working as senior technical officer, at Centre for Development of advanced
computing (C-DAC), Pune.

I have been working in Localization domain since about last 8 years. I had
 earlier used Open Office and conducted training and spread word among lot
of people from various sectors like Academics, Govt, NGO's, and SME's. I
have also been attending various meeting and conferences to spread the word.

I have also been using Libre Office since quite some time now.  I think i
can be a good contributor as a Member  of Marketing team and take this
product to newer heights.

Let me know how can i participate.

Cheers,
Chandrakant Dhutadmal

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