Hi :) In Italy you have an excellent resource to call on. Italo Vignoli. http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/ He is excellent at promoting LibreOffice and is great at doing talks or lectures about LibreOffice. Unlike some FOSS people he is excellent at creating a good impression and at working with people who are very high in authority in global organisations or governments. He is roughly the equivalent (or one of the equivalents) of Head of Marketing, or Marketing CEO, or something around that level or higher.
If you could contact him off-list then he might be quite keen to handle the school's governing body, probably using a top-down approach to contrast with your "grass-roots"-up approach. He can probably give a some good advice on how to handle the whole thing and maybe develop an "action plan" with you, using your "local knowledge". It might even be possible for TDF to fund a trip or 2 to your school or at least pay for travel and overnight costs. Apparently LibreOffice/OpenOffice is around 20% of the market segment in Europe. MS Office only has around 80% or less. It's largely down to Italo, Sophie, and many others and local users groups. Regards from Tom :) On 29 November 2013 21:57, Paolo Debortoli <[email protected]> wrote: > hi. I work in a state school, using ms windows and ms office... i think I > know the policy of microsoft. I think they use a sort of (apparent) > programmed obsolescence for the software. I mean: periodically they add a > new version with some changes in interface, macro programming, functions and > file structure, which is installed on new computers. the new version is > voluntarily incompatible with the previous ones. It's a matter of marketing, > not innovation. where I work, people are always complaining that what works > on a computer (files, macro etc..) doesn't work on another. the school, on > the other way, doesn't want to spend money on new software licenses (very > expensive in italy). so, why don't they change ? they don't know enough > about LibreOffice; they would need demonstrations or some training (some > training is done, but always on ms office, I don't know which version... are > they trained every new version?), I guess... I > think microsoft did the same politics with charities and schools: > discounted prices (but they are still stealing money somehow...). other > software producers (autodesk) are doing similar things... schools are good > marketing targets... ideas? > > > > > On Friday, November 29, 2013 8:31 PM, John Meyer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I didn't know we considered trialware "cunning". > > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:04 AM, James Knott <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Tom Davies wrote: >> > Also on newer machines MS have started running a cunning scheme >> > whereby people get to use a trial version of MS Office which then >> > stops working after a month or so. In order to keep on using it >> > people have to pay an extra bit. >> >> That happened to a friend of mine about 3 years ago. She's now running >> OpenOffice. >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >> Problems? >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted > >> >> > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
