Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Sorry for the break

On 08/12/2011 10:52 AM, Rajesh Sankar R wrote:
> Hello Friends,
>       I am really sorry for the brake that I had. Met with an accident and
> just now recovering. I wanted to start a DVD project for India release just
> before I last disappeared, and now I want to continue it. Can you please
> tell me how to start and go about it?

Feel free to contact me for information.

I am the host for the North American Community DVD project
at http://libreoffice-na.us/

We are also working on a version being hosted by the LibreOfficeBox 
people in Germany on a CMS system
at http://dvd.north-america.libreofficebox.org/

If you would like, we can figure out a way for you to get all the files 
from the LibreOffice-NA.US site that you might want for your DVD project.

One person questioned why a DVD instead of a CD.  I assume that you want 
to have the Windows, Linux, and Mac, version of LibreOffice on your 
media, plus documentation, dictionaries, localized language packs, and 
anything else that your user base would want or need while using 
LibreOffice.  That is what the NA DVD was based upon, what we though 
would be wanted/needed by our community of users.

Since you are in India, you will want to decide the languages you want 
to write your instructions in.  For our DVD we started with English, but 
we are working towards Spanish and French version in the future, since 
those are the three major languages in our region of the world.  Yours 
languages will be a different group, but I would think there are a 
percentage of people who may want to have English as one of the 
secondary languages, while one or more of India's languages would be the 
primary ones used.

Documentation for LibreOffice is currently in English, and it looks like 
in a few months that all parts of LibreOffice will have documentation 
online.  So if you have people who would need non-English documentation, 
you might talk to the documentation writers about how someone goes about 
translating the current English documents to your needed local language[s].

If I remember you, from earlier questions, LibreOffice has language 
packs and dictionaries that would work for many of your users.  That is 
always a great place to start.

To be honest, I started creating DVDs to hand out to friends and family 
with all the software and documentation they would need for their 
computer use.  That would be and Office Package, Browser and Email 
clients, and any other open source and free software I could find that 
they would use.  Then, people in Germany created the first "beta" 
version of their distribution DVD, so I got involved in taking what that 
did and making something like it for the English speaking people.  
Theirs was in German.  After that, it went and became a full fledged 
Community DVD project.

To be honest, you should have people helping you edit your work and help 
to make it the best work that you can do.  More eyes on the work find 
more of the potential errors and issues that may develop while you 
create you DVD project.

So if you would like more info, or other resources, let me know on or 
off the list.
Tim L.
Elmira, New York, USA.


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