Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Approaching Labor Unions/Social Movement orgs

On 17 August 2011 18:01, Warren Camilleri <warren@ossmalta.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
>
> if i may be rude to ask your talking about unions in the uk?
>
> from my experience in my country (malta) you usually need to know someone,
> or really kick their doors real hard to be heard, until i discovered that
> the EU wants every member state to be at least 50% OSS by 2020 if i am not
> mistaken, that's why now i use it as an excuse...
>
> i have several Roman Cathlic schools interested, and possibly i am
> targeting the government and its handlers (the people that just stay in
> front of the camera and smile for PR).
>
> and from my experience you need to know what level of technology talk the
> contact you have the meeting with understands, i usually keep it simple, as
> most are still new to computers or just know the basics...

Malta has a national qualifications framework referenced to the European
Qualifications Framework as has the UK. I'm using this to get FOSS-friendly
qualifications referenced to the EQF into schools and colleges. We now have
qualifications across the full range of user applications, special needs and
the UK National Curriculum in multiple EU languages.  We have scope to apply
for EU grants to support education development so a partner in Malta would
be cool.  I used to work with a Joe Camilleri at a school in Stevenage in
the 1980s, don't suppose you are related?


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> -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Mahood
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 3:20 PM
> To: marketing@global.libreoffice.**org <marketing@global.libreoffice.org>
> Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Approaching Labor Unions/Social Movement
> orgs
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am very new to list so I will start with an quick apology if this has
> been discussed. Brief intro I am an activist in the Labor movement and
> have come across numerous organizations who take the what is given to
> them road of windows and OSX with Word.  So I joined here to see what
> ideas there are on approaching these organizations with material and
> ease to switch to Libreoffice.
>
> My initial thought is to obviously start locally in the regions one is
> in and contacting local unions, however even as a member/activist I find
> the initiation of the conversation to be a challenge and seek some types
> of talking points or approaches people may suggest.
>
> Sincerely
> Stephen Mahood
>
>
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