Le 26/04/13 06:14 PM, Jean Weber a écrit :
I agree with Charles that it's mostly a political problem. I also agree
with Marc that education sector wants certain features or at least some
easy way to do certain things.
One item that has been on my documentation wish list for years is a book
(or series of tutorials) aimed specifically and teachers and/or academics,
explaining how to do things they frequently want or need to do. Kind of a
cookbook approach: here's the task you want to accomplish, and here's how
to do it. These days I think video tutorials would be the way to go. Of
course, such a project needs a team of people to produce the material: a
team that includes people who know the audience and their requirements
well. At this time we don't have such a team, and I can't see us being able
to put together such a team. If we had some money to pay a few
professionals whom I know, to do at least some of the work, then it could
happen.
Perhaps this is something I should develop into a costed proposal for
consideration in next year's budget.
--Jean
I don't necessarily see it as a political problem, but mostly a strategic
problem on our part. Our first objective should be to get the suite on the
list of contenders to the replacement of MSO. The list that I posted is not
that difficult to accomplish for our group ... except for an LTS version
which, for us, is a question of our group's ideology, and, for educational
institutions, it is a question of money. Getting competent accredited help
also fits in our largest failing.
Look at the list once again and you will find that except for the LTS
(event despite having very few accredited individuals) we would be well
placed.there would not be too much work at getting LibreOffice fit for mass
institutional consumption:
* Getting a clipart solution ... I am already working on an extremely
simple package version for schools and students. IT staff normally just
dump the collection on their servers and let students look these up from
MSO. We should package a large group of cliparts and have it ready for
download with easy configuration routine to link it to the LibreOffice
Gallery.
*templates ... teachers would definitely participate in this for free ...
they revel at working on such projects. We would only need to mentor groups
and teach them templating techniques.
* bibliographic tool Zotero ... means partnering up with the company or
just going it alone with our own plugin and Zotero server solution. This is
a must for academic users.
* cloud solutions ... we were running a series of blogs where someone was
showing solid possibilities, we just need to package and market the
information the right way.
We are really only 6 items short of being more of a credible contender and
of those 4 are already achievable.
As for video production, sure we now have the YouTube channel (Drew will
be passing admin on to us soon), we already have Kannan's group that we may
be able to use, and, teacher groups are also adept at working on some of
these. We could run some regional teacher video summer projects or even
apply for grants from different regional governmental agencies who would
most likely participate.
Institutions work at a glacial pace and change is extremely difficult.
Strategic plans are drawn up in 3 or 5 year and sometime 10 year time
frames. Yes, it is very politicized, but there are ways to cut through much
of the politics to get LibreOffice moving, but, the fact remains, that,
first of all, and, most of all, we need to serve up a LibreOffice version
that simply has a longer shelf-life. MSO does this well and capitalizes on
it, we need to re-think our strategy to make things work for these large
environments.
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