We would coordinate form letters here as a team (everyone involved in this process) and then use these "as is" or "modified" in their native language.
We would also track the Libraries that were contacted on an online spreadsheet and later follow-up with letters informing them regularly of any updated documentation from our docs team.
The book purchases would be done from Lulu who have a good distribution channel all over the world and their copies are of good quality. (Yes, I have already bought a LibreOffice book from them.)
We would also see if any members/users would like to participate in offering a donation to purchase a copy of the "Getting Started with LibreOffice" Guide if a local Library would agree to such an arrangement.
This project would then be listed on the "Easy Task" list for any new marketing team newcomer. She/He could see if any of the local libraries had copies of the "Getting Started with LibreOffice" Guide and then report back to our team so that we could contact them about this.
The idea is to get our documentation into as many libraries as possible and to keep in contact with these libraries in order to inform them of any new docs by our teams.
I will take care of posting a spreadsheet that will keep track of the libraries by geographic location worldwide as well as the LibreOffice Guides on their shelves.
Note: Libraries usually have a "wishlist" of book requests that they put out for their users. We can make sure that our docs show on these lists. Once they order/receive these guides, it is up to us to promote them locally to friends etc. and to even borrow these books from time to time so that their library usage show that they are indeed being used.
How does this sound? Marc -- Marc Paré Marc@MarcPare.com http://www.parEntreprise.com parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted