white paper

[qubit]

[I'm cc'ing Marketing]

You have a marketing team?

Hi David,

LibreOffice Marketing has a wiki page here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing
...and a mailing list here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing#Communication

TDF released a whitepaper about migrations in March:
http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2013/03/27/tdf-releases-white-paper-to-help-migrations-to-libreoffice/

More information about migrations sounds great to me. I'm interested
in giving some presentations for local nonprofits, and having more
papers and feedback about migration experiences would help me showcase
LibreOffice

Cheers,
--R

[dbclinton]

Hi Robinson,
Jean also pointed me to the migration white paper and I went to take a look. He did a great job documenting the process of transition, which was a little bit of what I was thinking of doing. I think my idea - to make the business case for transition - is a good complement to that paper.
Are there any resources lying around that could be useful...like something that documents the time/labor costs of closed platform systems or handling malware?
Regards,
David

[qubit]

Hi Robinson,
Jean also pointed me to the migration white paper and I went to take a look.
He did a great job documenting the process of transition, which was a little
bit of what I was thinking of doing. I think my idea - to make the business
case for transition - is a good complement to that paper.

Are there any resources lying around that could be useful...like something
that documents the time/labor costs of closed platform systems or handling
malware?

Specifically for LibreOffice, or for a FOSS system in general? Here's
a recent migration that included both:
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/french-gendarmerie-open-source-desktop-lowers-tco-40

--R

[italovignoli]

Unfortunately not. Microsoft has managed to avoid the publication of all
the reports on these subjects, and has plenty of documents about the
opposite statement (i.e. how expensive are open platforms).

Analysts do have these data, but will never release them unless you
cover them in gold. Googling about PDF documents on the subject will
find a number of analyst documents, where you can find some hints but no
data.

[Tom_Davies]

Hi
The marketing list has already had this post from Charles. It's not
completely relevant to the topic but does show a new place that has an
increasing number of the marketing tools laid out much more sensibly and
easier to access.
"
Hello everyone,

This is a reminder that we have an owncloud repository for marketing
files and content, as requested in Milano:
https://owncloud.documentfoundation.org/index.php/apps/files?dir=//Marketing

You can download files without any registration. It's public. In order
to upload you need to register by sending your desidered username to
hostmaster AT documentfoundation DOT org .

Thanks!
"
Regards from
Tom

[dbclinton]

Are there any resources lying around that could be useful...like
something that documents the time/labor costs of closed platform systems
or handling malware?

Unfortunately not. Microsoft has managed to avoid the publication of all
the reports on these subjects, and has plenty of documents about the
opposite statement (i.e. how expensive are open platforms).

I've seen some of those MS-sponsored documents.
The head of software development for a very large European IT firm told me recently that MS "owes" them a huge amount of money for all the countless hours of lost productivity caused by Win8's Metro desktop.
I guess I would have to focus on the published site licensing fees.

Analysts do have these data, but will never release them unless you
cover them in gold. Googling about PDF documents on the subject will
find a number of analyst documents, where you can find some hints but no
data.

I'll take a look. Thanks.
David