Re: [libreoffice-marketing] list name for the US group

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:

> Le 2010-10-15 14:55, James Walker a écrit :
>
> Thanks all,  The US has been a difficult market to makes inroads into,
> > Indiana has done some good things with Open Source in the classroom to the
> > point that my children had to turn there assignments in in ODF format to
> > school.  Recently I have been getting inquiries into materials for other
> > schools around the midwest.  Thanks to the EDU project I have been able to
> > come up with some decient items.
> >
> > I am ready and willing to help out the US Marketing Team in whatever
> > capacity the Community would like.
> >
> > James Walker
> > Central US MarCon
> > OpenOffice.org
> Hi James ... sorry, first off, could we keep to bottom posting? It seems to
> be the way to work on these lists.
>
> Great new re: your children! I am pushing this a lot with our local school
> board and they are at the point where the IT department is using OpenOffice
> at home and at least now, they are listening. Like they say "Once the fuse
> is lit, there is not stopping it."
>
> I would be interested in comparing notes with you at some point when things
> are a little more organised.
>
> Marc
> Canada
>
>
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I am all for that.  last I had heard Indiana has plans to install 300,000
computers using a combination of Ubuntu, and Novell for operating systems.
I am not too sure on how many of those they have in the field at this time.


Check out this link for the Indiana Department of Education they have some
good information there.

http://www.doe.in.gov/olt/InACCESS/index.html

James Walker

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