[libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOffice installed by default on recycled computers

Hi Fabian,

Thanks for sharing all of this. Actually, this made a good read! Really 
interesting.

Cheers,

Marc

Le 2012-08-30 08:05, Fabian Rodriguez a écrit :
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> On 08/30/2012 06:18 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
> > Hi Fabian,
> >
> > What wonderful news and great help to the school. Were you hired for
> the install etc.,
>
> Yes, I was hired under my (freelance) consulting company
> (http://www.legoutdulibre.com).
>
> The original job was to act as an onsite technician to connect the
> equipment and train staff with MS Windows/Office.
>
> I developped this into a full free/open source training + installation
> project over the course of the last 1.5 yr. or so.
>
> > was this for and aid group? Photos?
>
> This was financed by a third party, the contract was done by me for
> MicroRecycCoop (http://microrecyc.wordpress.com/ ). They send other
> people to Africa too for similar projects. The end-customer is the
> Clercs de St-Viateur who have several (many!) buildings and schools
> there. Anyone wanting more details can contact MRC directly.
>
> I am working with them to offer local workshops and to have the next
> shipment use LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) instead of stand-alone
> installs. A few ideas that have come up include giving away recycled
> servers for students, or perhaps RaspberryPis... Lots to do.
>
> > It's always nice to hear of someone helping out in areas where help is
> needed and where LibreOffice will make a difference.
>
> The interesting single fact is everyone I introduced free software to
> (and that mostly started with LibO which everyone needs/understands) had
> very little hesitation to wipe out completely their PCs and / or MS
> suite. Their mainly concern is why they didn't know about it before. I
> had to convince some of them to take a "safer' approach in some cases so
> LibO would be adopted gradually. In some cases I was lucky to witness
> "brutal adoption" :)
>
> Most students and teacher also have their own laptop (!) so that gave
> them a lot of control over their learning experience.
>
> > Big thanks for the groundbreaking work at MRC. This would look great as a blog article on
> our blog planet -- even in French!
>
> MRC already used Ubuntu, but the pressure from Microsoft to use only
> Windows is heavy. At $6 per OEM XP license, it's hard to compete, even
> being free. MRC is taking the "eco-friendly" approach in their recycling
> business and place high the same values free software brings, so it was
> an easy match. I just happened to show up in the right place at the
> right time.
>
> I'd encourage anyone with a nearby recycling/PC shop (particularly
> small, neighborhood businesses) to engage in this conversation: what
> software do they ship? Do they know about free, open source software?
> LibreOffice? Do they know it can be heavily customized/adapated to their
> local market? etc. Come back here if you have more questions :)
>
> > Maybe some of your students will jump in and help out with a Haitian Créole translation of 
> > LibreOffice.
>
> Very much so. I don't speak the language but I did bring some focus to
> my stay to this important subject. The spelling aid is the most
> important IMO right now, if that is well done many more people will use
> LibO there. Then there's other similar resources that will get anyone
> interested to translate and learn such workflows - Wikipedia in Creole
> and OPenStreetMap documentation in creole.
>
> I created the LibrePlanet Haiti group (LIbrePlanet are FSF communities /
> groups) to keep track / expose these projects more and have a discussion
> place, such projects are listed there:
> http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Haiti#Traductions
>
> One of the students there also translated my presentation on free open
> source software to Creole and he succesfully co-presented a few times to
> local staff/students.
>
> Translating LibO presentations to Creole (and other languages) would be
> an interesting first-step (in LibO marketing, specifically) to introduce
> LibO but also to recruit devs/translators in any country where there
> aren't any already.
>
> Do we have such a presentation? I lack the time to research this but if
> we have a standard "INtroducing Libo" presentation, I'd love to propose
> it for translation there.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - --
> Fabián Rodríguez
> http://libreoffice.magicfab.ca
>
>
>
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