Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Fwd: Libo push

Agreed. I plan on approaching some local highschools
Offering the DVD with extras. Can I have a link to your image... I don't
want to reinvent the wheel.
On Jan 17, 2012 9:18 PM, "webmaster for Kracked Press Productions" <
webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:

> On 01/17/2012 04:42 PM, Dave Johnson wrote:
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: "Dave Johnson"<davefilms.us@gmail.**com <davefilms.us@gmail.com>>
> > Date: Jan 17, 2012 3:40 PM
> > Subject: Libo push
> > To: "floeff@gmail.com"<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<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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