Re: [libreoffice-marketing] French Ministries will migrate to LibreOffice

Could there be a page or two that would have announcements like this 
displayed?

Having articles is fine, but having a list of paragraphs that have 
statements of governments, agencies, corporations, educational 
facilities, etc., etc., that have decided to use LibreOffice [or at 
least Open Source software or the ODF file format] would be great for 
marketing or "sales" of LibreOffice to local groups, companies, 
government agencies, schools, etc., etc..  If we have a list of these 
organizations that have gone over to LibreOffice, then it would be an 
easier sell for our local organizations, or such, to switch over to 
LibreOffice from MSO.

Showing them that these governments, large educational facilities, large 
corporations, have switched may make it seem a better option to switch.

With the corporate partners, using these names will help.  If we can say 
Google is on the Advisory Board or another company is a sponsor of 
LibreOffice, it will be good.  They use Google and if Google thinks 
LibreOffice is a good enough, or great enough, package that Google would 
be on the "board" for LibreOffice, then it might make sense for them to 
try our package.

All these press releases about who is now using LibreOffice, who is 
switching to it, or who is on a board or committee that is a company 
name that is big enough for them to know, COULD help will our marketing 
"press".

I see not easy link on the LibreOffice Home Page to take a person to a 
"In the Press Page".  I know there is a page with a listing of articles 
about LibreOffice, but it should have a link from the home page.  Then 
there also should be a page containing these announcements like 
Corporate Advisors or French Government agencies switching to 
LibreOffice.  We need to make it easy  for potential users to find this 
information, by linking it from the home page.  This is something I have 
seen with other software web sites.

SO do anyone on this list thinks having these announcements and such 
easily listed/linked off from the home page is a good idea?


On 06/15/2011 09:41 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
> Hi Lyle, *,
>
> Lyle Cochran schrieb:
> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Florian Effenberger
> > <floeff@documentfoundation.org>  wrote:
> > > Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 2011-06-14 10.32:
> > > > So you have to read French to understand it. This is not a PR (they
> > > > don't write PR), and it's a small, magical sentence at the bottom
> > > > of the page: basically the french ministerial coordination group
> > > > for "Open productivity suites" now recommends to switch away from
> > > > MS Office and OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice:
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualisation_interministérielle_pour_une_bureautique_ouverte
>
> > > excellent news! I've just tweeted it :)
> > > Florian
> > If the page translated correctly, it appears that the ministerial
> > group is waiting for CD/DVDs in .iso format for downloading. This may
> > indicate an easy to find and download CD/DVD .iso may also be an
> > important tool for distribution among other governmental entities and
> > businesses.
> The infrastructure for this is already in place:
> http://fr.libreofficebox.org/
>
> it definitly needs some care!  ;o))
>
> > More Great news for LibO!
> indeed :o)
>
>
> Gruß/regards


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