Re: [Marketing] Turku abandons plans for Linux and OOo
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 17:20:44 -, Charles-H.Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Marko, Marko Gronroos wrote: We don't have any easy solutions. We simply don't have people who could invest enough time in marketing and lobbying the public organisations, so the initiatives to adopt OOo always come from inside the organisations. Luckily, there appears to be interest in many public organisations. You might build a test-case with what the Catalunyan goverment did with softcatala. Catalunya is a region in spain (Barcelona might sound familiar) which the native language is NOT spanish but Catalan. The government there fund the efforts of softcatala and was able to provide a catalan version of OOo (currently working on 2.0), Linux, and other free software. http://www.softcatala.org/quisom.htm Usually governments might need to see other governments being succesful sponsoring funding in-house development. The problem is that usually politicians might not see this effects on society. -- Alexandro Colorado CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES http://es.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Marketing] Turku abandons plans for Linux and OOo
Hello Marko, Marko Gronroos wrote: > >We don't have any easy solutions. We simply don't have people who could invest >enough time in marketing and lobbying the public organisations, so the >initiatives to adopt OOo always come from inside the organisations. Luckily, >there appears to be interest in many public organisations. > > OK. Public organizations do not only require lobbyists. Most of all, they require a trust relationship between their project managers and somebody in your community who can be technically focused but who shows himself/herself available enough for their questions and issues. >Recently, a Finnish OSS organiser (Center of Open Source Software) hired a >person to coordinate the funding of localisation efforts. This is a big step >forward, because he could find funding to develop translations and tools such >as spellchecking. I hope that he can also help our marketing needs. > > Cool! >Awareness about OOo is spreading, and the Ministry of Justice will hopefully >provide a great reference for us, probably the best we could get. Their >migration is somewhat certain by now, but we haven't heard any news yet. Also, >two members (one from greens and another from liberal conservatives) of >(national) parliament have proposed that the parliament would migrate to Linux >and OOo in 2011, when the next term of parliament begins. Well, that proposal >is very uncertain, and resistance against change could pose a problem. Hey, if >the representatives are forced to use OOo and they hate it, they could even >outlaw it. ;-) > > > LOL... This may sound silly, but isn't your Parliament aware that Finnland is the country of Linus Torvalds? :-) Good luck, Charles. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Marketing] UK Education win for OOo
I had a meeting with Senior Managers at Capita a couple of weeks ago and they seem to be becoming much more enlightened with regard to FLOSS. Capita has a majority position in the supply of Management Information systems to UK schools, around 80% market share. Their MIS system is called SIMS.net and heavily MS dependent. They have announced they will be removing their dependence on MS Office formats and will be providing support for OpenOffice.org in future so another cut in the death by a thousand cuts for the MSO monopoly :-) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Marketing] Templates
On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 04:39 -0500, Rodney wrote: > When you open MS Office, you are presented with a wide range of templates and > wizzards that make the building of useful pages easy. In OO we could use a > resume page in writer, financial calculations in calc, presentation designs > in impress and asset control in Base. The more prebuilt templates the easier > to use this is and this will increase your install base by work of mouth > advertising. > > Rodney Wise Wizards are there but templates and such can be found at http://documentation.openoffice.org/ -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
