[libreoffice-marketing] [EASY HACKS ITEM] Re: LibreOffice "Documentation in Local Libraries Project"

Thanks for the discussion on this. I am tagging and will get back to 
working out a process for it once things quiet down a bit in a week or so.

Cheers,

Marc

Le 2013-02-03 06:59, Marc Paré a écrit :
> With the looming release of LibreOffice v.4.0, I would like to start a
> project coordinating members of the TDF/LibreOffice membership marketing
> team to approach through email or personal visit to local Libraries and
> see if they would consider buying copies of the LibreOffice
> documentation books for their shelves.
>
> 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


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