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

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 m...@marcpare.com 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

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

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. I am

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

[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 the

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

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 m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2010-10-17