Re: [libreoffice-marketing] How to approach education

Le 2010-10-29 03:33, Anthony Papillion a écrit :
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> My local school district is looking at doing a fairly large upgrade from
> MS Office 2007 to MS Office 2010 (no real reason, just the Microsoft rep
> said it's time) and I'm really wanting to sell LibreOffice HARD as an
> affordable alternative.
>
> Has anyone approached education (specifically in the USA) and how did
> you do it? What are the initial forays that you used and what were the
> results?
>
> Thanks,
> Anthony

Hi Anthony:

Here is an exchange that was done previously on this mailist. You may 
find it interesting:

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Le 2010-10-15 15:51, Casey Adams a écrit :
> Ping Mike Huffman on LinkedIn.  He managed the Indiana open desktop 
project and has since left and is doing consulting.  The project is 
probably about 5 years old and I know over 100,000 desktops have been 
deployed.
>
> Casey Adams
> OS4Ed Founder
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Marc Paré<marc@marcpare.com>
> To: marketing@libreoffice.org<marketing@libreoffice.org>
> Sent: Fri Oct 15 15:43:27 2010
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] list name for the US group
>
> Le 2010-10-15 15:24, James Walker a écrit :
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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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Cheers

Marc


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