Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Libo push

On 01/17/2012 04:42 PM, Dave Johnson wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Dave Johnson"<davefilms.us@gmail.com>
> Date: Jan 17, 2012 3:40 PM
> Subject: Libo push
> To: "floeff@gmail.com"<floeff@gmail.com>
>
> Just wanted to pass on that I have been promoting libreoffice  on 5 campus
> in middle tennessee usa.
> I have contacted via email as many as 300 individual students.
> I will be passing out as many libreoffice dvd's as I can make.
> Please forward this message to the group so everybody can  know what I'm
> doing in tennessee

Well, I have printed about half that many from the various versions of 
the following DVD ISO file, since summer.  Most were given out to people 
within 50 miles of my location in "central" New York State.

It would be nice to get the DVDs into the hands of the students BEFORE 
they get the MS habit, i.e. while they are still at home in their local 
school districts.  Free DVDs to college students are great, except if it 
is after their parents forked out for MSO on their kid's college computers.

http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/box/3.4.4/libo3.4.4-NA-DVD-WLM-Dec-3-2011.iso

I tend to make both DVD case and thin-jewel case copies depending on who 
will be getting the media.  Except for the lower computer skilled person 
- think business suites - I tend to give out DVDs with Windows, Linux, 
and Mac installs.  For those who would have problems with that, or gets 
confused about their computer's specs, I have a Windows-only version of 
the DVD.

What extras are you offering besides the generic LO English install 
files?  Any extra language packs?  Any extra dictionaries?  Any 
extensions or templates?  If you have students where they read/write 
more than just English, or maybe Spanish as well, it is good to have a 
sampling of other language packs to show them that it is easy to add 
more languages to the package, or at least have more dictionaries than 
just the default ones.  There are over 180 dictionaries that work for LO 
out there.  I tried to include them all with my DVDs.  I now produced a 
set of English dictionaries [plus thesaurus and hyphenation] going from 
98,000 words to over 638,000 words in their spelling word lists.  I have 
a 1,000,000+ word list, but the last 200,000 words seem to be mostly 
obscure words and "weird but valid" spellings of included ones.  You get 
to decide on how far you want to go with the depth of the words, and 
word types, you want to spell.  There are dictionaries specifically for 
Medical and Chemical words and terms that are currently not in my 638K 
word lists [90K+/- of them].  Bet that would help for some college 
students.

So the extras do help.  So does templates for "standard" document types 
that they might need can help with their large paper assignments.

It is great that you have the ability to canvas 5 colleges with the 
software.  Now maybe we can get more "extras" that are geared for the 
"learning environments".  From 6th grade to post-graduate level, all 
could use more "stuff" than comes in the basic office package to help 
with their paperwork these days.  MSO does not do much, except student 
discount, so maybe we should.



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