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

Hi all,

If I may add some information here as I'm working with MiMOOo and the 
people behind since it's creation.
As you can imagine, it's an important move for this group. If you can 
read the page, you will see that there is 8 ministries, but also the 
National Assembly, the official publication (journal officiel, etc), ENA 
which is one of the most graduate school in France, and all the national 
office for family allocations (123 centers in France/10 millions 
beneficiaries).
So it's not only a technical move but a deep engagement in front open 
source and us. We need them, our credibility has a lot to gain with 
their support, they need us because they have a lot of pressure to 
endorse also.

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On 16/06/2011 10:12, Marc Paré wrote:
> Actually, I think what the article says is that the group was originally
> called MiMOOo but with the arrival of LibreOffice on the scene, it has
> now renamed itself to MIMO which is now a name that does not identifies
> itself to any opensource office suite.
politically more comfortable ;)

 The MIMO is recommending that the
> different French Ministries participating in the MIMO group adopt
> LibreOffice. The MIMO group will produce its own installation DVD for
> LibreOffice. The disk will allow a personalized installation and will
> contain elements for silent installation. There will also be a USB
> version. The DVD and USB will be offered for Windows only and not for
> Linux. There will be added components such as dictionaries, image
> galleries, models, fonts as well as documentation for Writer, Calc,
> Impress and Draw. The documentation will be completely authored by the
> MIMO group. The new LibreOffice MIMO suite will be available in Autumn
> 2011 as a downloadable DVD.

This DVD is largely used as it is really customized for administrations 
use, freely available and the installer is really user friendly.
> So, they will be producing their own DVD and their own documentation and
> for Windows boxes only.

Linux versions exists, as the National Gendarmery and the National 
Assembly are running Linux systems. Also some ministries are currently 
evaluating an open source desktop, but it doesn't answer the majority of 
the participants yet and the primary goal is to share the resources.

Don't hesitate if you have any question, and don't hesitate also to 
share the news :)

Kind regards
Sophie
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