From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Glyn Moody's article
To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Wednesday, 19 October, 2011, 1:11
There is only one person that I know/met/talked-with
locally, for sure that uses Linux and it is maybe 3 for
Mac. Everyone else is a Windows person. Every
one of them that I have a relationship with, I have done my
best to get them to try LO. Only one I did not push,
since he had several large personal Access databases built
with MSO 97. [Pentium II computer] When I gave him a
free P-III computer, I had to find a copy of MSO, since he
lost his copy I gave him all those years ago, since I went
to MSO 2003. He just could not deal with using LO for
his database files, for now. When I find him a free
P-4 machine with enough spare drive space, I will have both
MSO and LO on that system for him to use.
So, he is the only one of all the Windows users that told
me that they would not give LO [OOo before January] a
try. Many of these people have dumped MSO entirely,
while others use MSO when OOo/LO does not work "properly"
for them, and only a few are only using MSO at this time.
So I know if we can get the software in their hands,
install it for them if we must, they will give it a
try. I just wish I could get the local schools to
include LO, but they have these big budget MSO contracts
that they "cannot" get out of. Also since "everyone is
using MSO" then they have to teach on that package.
Well the parents, students, and anyone else who has to buy
MSO at their high prices [who do not need to deal with
Access] would be happy to find a package that does what they
need and saves the files in MSO file formats for the
teachers, that is free and is becoming better and better
every few months.
The problem is how to get the word out to the masses.
With my stroked-out brain, I am not a public speaker.
If I was, I would "hire" the lecture hall at the main branch
of the Library system to do a demonstration of LO and hand
out free copies. Then have an ad in every library
board and every free posting place [respectable ones] to
give the date, time, etc.. The problem is I am no
longer able to talk my talk anymore. I could barely do
it before my last stroke, and I did one on Web page creation
for personal use.
I sure could use some ideas to get the local users of MSO
to know about our free alternative.
On 10/18/2011 06:03 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote:
On 10/18/11 6:51 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press
Productions wrote:
For Windows users, we need to find some way to get
into shows and such
to convince these users to use LO. If we can
somehow get some of these
Tech magazines to include LO in one of their
included CD/DVD of software
that seems to come out every so often, we might
pick up a few [or many]
users.
We already reach covermount CDs in several countries,
and we should add
editors in all countries. People can help in building
a mailing list by
sending us email address of editorial staff of
magazines with a CD (the
address is usually printed somewhere on the editorial
staff page).
It would be nice if we somehow could get some
banner ad time on Google,
or other place that people go to often. I do
not deal with the social
networks, but there has to be some way we can get
the word out to the
Windows users.
Addressing Windows users take more time than Linux and
MacOS. Downloads
are slowly increasing, and this show the increasing
interest of users.
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