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

Thank you for the quick reply, I am in the US which is where I would be
taking the initiative but yeah knowing someone in the union always
helps, just trying to see if any have had success. UK would be something
for my co-host but he has a deeper in than I, but even then planning
approaches would be helpful. Very interesting to see the push to support
free and opensource in Europe and elsewhere we lack that here in the
states.

On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 19:01 +0200, Warren Camilleri 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...
>
>
>
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>
> Warren Camilleri <warren@ossmalta.com>
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> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Stephen Mahood
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 3:20 PM
> To: 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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