Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOffice with Windows on new computers: why not?

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Monfort Florian
<florian.monfort@gmail.com>wrote:

> Le lundi 01 novembre 2010 à 11:44 -0400, Benjamin Horst a écrit :
>  > On Oct 31, 2010, at 5:35 AM, Monfort Florian wrote:
> > > Le dimanche 31 octobre 2010 à 00:39 -0400, Marc Paré a écrit :
> > > > Le 2010-10-30 23:05, Graham Lauder a écrit :
> > > > > On Sunday 31 Oct 2010 14:24:08 Anthony Papillion wrote:
> > > > > > On 10/30/2010 7:54 PM, Michel Gagnon wrote:
> > > I have another idea. I see on all French distributors in the "magazine"
> > > section magazines specialised with a specific distribution ( Fedora or
> > > OpenSuse or ubuntu etc ... ). These provide one CD or DVD with the
> > > distro, some additional packages. The content of the magazine is always
> > > a basic explanation of the installation, use etc ...
> > >
> > > Why couldn't we do the same for LibO ? These magazines costs only about
> > > 9€ ... Which I don't know what's the equivalent in dollars sorry !
> > > But if they can do it with distros, maybe we can do it with a CD
> > > containing the libO suite, and some softwares from our future partners
> ?
> > > This is a way to show some visibility without the "formal" and "usually
> > > expensive" Microsoft way to sell his own suite. I think people could
> > > really be interested about it.
> >
> > Several of us have written for OpenOffice.org magazine special issues
> that are put out about once per year by Linux Identity:
> http://www.linuxidentity.com/us/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5041
> > They are a French company (with some offices in Poland), but offer the
> magazines in English. I have seen them on the shelves of major retailers
> including Barnes and Noble. The magazine includes a DVD with the OOo
> installer and other bonus materials.
> > This may be what you've seen on store shelves, too. Look around in that
> same section and let us know if you see the OOo special edition there. (The
> latest one even has my picture in it. :)
> > -Ben
> >
> > Benjamin Horst
> > bhorst@mac.com
> > 646-464-2314 (Eastern)
> > www.solidoffice.com
>
> Yes I'll be checking. And in deed I think it's Linux Identity who
> provides these magazines. But actually they are a lot of distros :
> Ubuntu, OpenSuSe, Fedora etc ... And the magazines offered are not
> always the sames ( depends if people buy or not, or if the distributor
> receives or not ).
>
> I'll check if I see any of these magazines with OOo.
>
>
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They are getting ready to do an issue for OOo 3.3 release.



James Walker

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