Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-03 Thread andré
Michael Scherer a écrit : Le jeudi 30 septembre 2010 à 22:05 +0800, Kira a écrit : A distribution for Newbie is good, but I think what Graham said is better. Well, saying a distribution for newbies is not as good as it sound. If you market the distribution so people think if you

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-03 Thread Marc Paré
Targeting the school boards makes a lot of sense. Note that Openoffice targeted various gov't organisations in France, some of which ended up migrating to Mandriva as well. Maybe that could work with school boards as well. I'm tempted to try something like that with mine, in banlieue of Montréal.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2010/10/3 andré and...@laposte.net: Targeting the school boards makes a lot of sense. Again this is something you can not generalize, different countries have different structures. In Germany it is not a school board who decides what software will be bought for a certain region or school. This

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-03 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-03 02:34, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : 2010/10/3 andréand...@laposte.net: Targeting the school boards makes a lot of sense. Again this is something you can not generalize, different countries have different structures. In Germany it is not a school board who decides what software

Re: [Mageia-dev] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

2010-10-03 Thread Dimitrios Glentadakis
An old but interresting about interview for Mandriva's tools in perl: http://www.perl.com/pub/2005/02/24/mandrakelinux.html -- Dimitrios Glentadakis

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-03 Thread Graham Lauder
On Sunday 03 Oct 2010 21:06:22 Marc Paré wrote: Le 2010-10-03 02:34, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : 2010/10/3 andréand...@laposte.net: Targeting the school boards makes a lot of sense. Again this is something you can not generalize, different countries have different structures. In

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2010/10/3 Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com: I can't speak for André (he sounds like he is Canadian), but I am not a US citizen, I am Canadian. Our school system and software purchase models are the same as you describe. However, we do consult with school boards and interested partners before

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-03 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-03 04:34, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit : 2010/10/3 Marc Parém...@marcpare.com: I can't speak for André (he sounds like he is Canadian), but I am not a US citizen, I am Canadian. Our school system and software purchase models are the same as you describe. However, we do consult with

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-03 Thread Tux99
Quote: marc wrote on Sun, 03 October 2010 10:57 There must be a consultative process otherwise your educational system would have complained for sure. Germans are used to not question authorities, so this is not strange. Different country, different mentality, that's why talking abut

Re: [Mageia-dev] Identifying Target Markets

2010-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2010/10/3 Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com: It is strange that parents, teachers and even students would not have a say. How can there be an acquisition and amortization period for your software programmes if you do not consult with your partners? Schools and parents and students are not partners

[Mageia-dev] News about the forum

2010-10-03 Thread Maât
Hi all, After many opinions and suggestions exchanges, mails and thought we have started to work on forum thing. Considering our hope to grow we started to analyse the board engines with a few axis of needs : Work input data :

Re: [Mageia-dev] News about the forum

2010-10-03 Thread rom1dep
2010/10/4 Maât maat...@vilarem.net: Hi all, After many opinions and suggestions exchanges, mails and thought we have started to work on forum thing. Considering our hope to grow we started to analyse the board engines with a few axis of needs : Work input data :