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

I think that it is a great idea. But I also feel that it must be updated
regularly. As new organizations switch to LibreOffice it has to be updated.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 8:05 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <
webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:

> 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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