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

Hi :)

Sitting on a couch watching television is "quite popular" but that doesn't make corporate 
organisations want to install television sets and couches into their offices.  

Showing training courses shows a profession attitude and deals with one or 2 of the main worries 
that corporate organisations have about moving away from MSO.  

Popularity is good for encouraging home users and hobbyists but does nothing to attract corporates
Regards from
Tom :)



--- On Wed, 23/11/11, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:

From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOffice training in local community colleges
To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Wednesday, 23 November, 2011, 17:18

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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