Ismael, > We are looking for some people who would like to help to set up a PowerPoint > presentation for visitors at future dipro's. Improvements to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=ubuntu_dipro.odp are always welcome. Maybe even a complete rewrite could be useful.
> Our plan is to show them with a nice presentation that a PowerPoint slideshow > works fine in OpenOffice.org Presentation. A good answer on compatibility, standards and black boxes is a really good idea. Just don't force feed it to potential new Ubuntu users. Keep it for those who explicitly start asking about it. We do the same thing for people asking about Kubuntu and Xubuntu. A good idea might be to find some public Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint documents, grab some screenshots of them rendered in different MS Office versions and in a recent OpenOffice.org. This would be a really nice illustration of the problematic interoperability between Microsoft Office versions, _and_ a nice illustration of OpenOffice.org's import/export capabilities. More in general, we need to be careful to keep the message simple and consistent. One attracts potential users with familiar sounding words: Firefox for surfing, OpenOffice.org for docs & presentations, Linux under the hood talking to the hardware. One deflects potential users with unnecessary complexity. Mark -- Mark Van den Borre Noormannenstraat 113 3000 Leuven, België +32 486 961726 -- ubuntu-be mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
