Hello Chandrakant, On 21 mai 2014 10:34:23 CEST, chandrakant dhutadmal <cpdhutad...@yahoo.com> wrote: >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 will file a task on RedMine asap. > > >* 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. :) Yes indeed.. > > >* 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. Thank you again for all this work and let's keep the ball rolling! Charles. > >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 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 organizations >> *All FOSS based OS and related orgs use LibreOffice. We can also >> target other OS’s popular in market. >> *Shipment of Physical CDs is necessary as downloading of softwares >> becomes difficult in India because of various problems which >> individuals face >> *Support related to installations and other technical aspects needs >to >> be provided to the end users. So, can we create virtual support >> groups. >> *Pre-installation of LibreOffice on Laptops and Computer systems >could >> also boost the penetration of LibreOffice. >> >> 4. How to attract volunteers to contribute to LibreOffice >> >> *Start “LibreOffice Ambassador” type of Program >> *Workshops/events/BOF/Webinars >> *Screen casting of applications use and how to contribute for >> libreoffice. >> *Language specific events can be done for localization. C-DAC is >> already willing to contribute translation for languages - already >> mails are there on list. >> *Software Testing and Quality Management is important – Projects and >> Groups like FUEL Project [8], FLTG[9], SSCG[10] can help in this >> regards. >> *More Dictionaries can be integrated in LibreOffice. >> *India Specific artworks can be created. >> >> 5. Plan of Action >> >> This is just to start. We need to discuss more on plan of action. >> These are just few task we are going to do in another 1-2 months: >> >> *Create success story in an educational institution: Chandrakant >> Dhutadmal volunteered to conduct one event in educational institute >> within a period of one month. Currently schools are having vacations. >> >> *Conduct “Bhasha Computer Mela”- Shubhra Joshi and Sangeeta Kumari >> volunteered to coordinate and arrange the event in a school. >> >> Pix of the events can be browsed here: >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ksangeeta/sets/72157644715122521 >> >> Thank you all for attending and supporting the event! >> >> >> 1. http://slides.com/rajeshkajha/libreoffice-india >> 2. http://www.cdac.in/gist >> 3. http://www.redhat.com >> 4. www.iitb.ac.in >> 5. >> >http://www.spoken-tutorial.org/list_videos?view=1&foss=LibreOffice-Suite-Writer&language=all > >> 6. http://bosslinux.in/ >> 7. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language_Teams >> 8. http://fuelproject.org >> 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FLTG >> 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SSCG >> >> >> Regards, >> Chandrakant Dhutadmal and Rajesh Ranjan >> Pune, India. > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >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/marketing/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >deleted >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >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/marketing/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >deleted -- Envoyé de mon téléphone avec Kaiten Mail. 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