Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOffice training in local community colleges

On 11/23/2011 10:00 AM, Harri Pitkänen wrote:
> On Monday 21 November 2011, Marc Paré wrote:
> > I can't seem any problem listing these events on any calendar. The
> > people organizing such events should be thanked for taken on such tasks.
> >
> > If you list them, maybe leave a note that the courses do not lead to any
> > certification and that, as you say, are interest courses where
> > participants are taught introductory applications on the practical use
> > of LibreOffice.
> >
> > It's always nice to hear of groups taking on this job. This will help us
> > getting the word out and that we support communities at all levels.
> >
> > Our official calendar is on the wiki.[1]
> Thanks. The community college courses may be a bit too small scale events to
> be listed in the global event calendar with FOSDEM and Cebit :) But there
> seems to be already a discussion going on in an other thread with ideas on how
> to efficiently organize the calendar. I'll follow the discussion and try to
> find a suitable way to list these events.
>
> Harri
Could these college courses that teach LibreOffice be listed in some 
other place, like marketing, showing that these educational centers 
teach LibreOffice?

We should recognize the places that are teaching LibreOffice. free or 
paid courses, to let the public know that educational and teaching 
centers are now teaching our product.  If colleges and tech centers are 
teaching their students LO, then it should mean that LO is a office 
suite that is worth knowing as a MSO alternative.

We need to list as many placed that use LO or teaches LO to "prove" that 
LO is a viable package to use instead of MSO, or at least it is the best 
free office suite instead of buying a license and media copy of MSO.  
Also If you buy MSO's basic package, and you need the other option, you 
need to repurchase MSO.  LO is an all-in-one suite that never needs 
purchase when you download it from the LO site.  It does not have an 
Email package, but ones like Thunderbird's client are free as well.  So 
we need to show people who runs Windows, that the colleges an other 
learning centers think that LO is "good enough" or "popular enough" that 
teaching LO is worth a class or classes at their facility.

Anything to show Windows user that LO is becoming more and more popular 
on their OS.  Same with Mac OSX.  Linux users know LO is the best office 
suite.

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