Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice For Schools

On Saturday, March 15, 2014 11:45:50 AM Jay Lozier wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> Is this primarily a US initiative? I am in the Atlanta area and I have
> not heard anything about this locally.
>
> I am interested.
>
> Jay
>
> On 03/15/2014 12:56 AM, timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com wrote:
> > Is anyone interested in creating a LibreOffice for Education Text Book
> > project?
> >
> > This can and probably should be setup as its own working group.
> >
> > The California Open Source Textbook Project http://www.opensourcetext.org/
> > Is currently seeking Open Source Text Books for The California Public
> > Schools K-12. They require the material to be presented in a Text Book
> > style. This would be a good way to get LibreOffice into Word Processing
> > Classes in California High Schools as well as schools around the world.
> >
> > College Open Text Book http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/ Is also
> > seeking
> > Text Books for use in Colleges, This would be a good opportunity to get
> > LibreOffice into College's across the US!
> >
> > Open Text Book Library is another College Initiative
> > http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ as well.
> >
> > There are quite a few more of these organizations that partnerships could
> > be established with as well.
> >
> > I have been seeing a number for these popping up and I have seen some that
> > will pay $20,000 USD for Creative Commons Text Book Donations late last
> > year which could be used to help fund the this working group. Community
> > developed software with educational community developed Course-ware would
> > work out pretty well.
> >
> > These initiatives would require producing a full text book with exercises
> > etc.
> >
> > As The LibreOffice Software already has an unbeatable low cost all we are
> > missing to take over the education sector is unbeatable low cost
> > course-ware to go with it.
> >
> > Establishing a full LibreOffice For Education program with the goals of
> > not only producing the text books but also full courses and possibly
> > Moodle course ware, Produced courses could even potentially be made
> > available at edX https://www.edx.org/ (Which has a Free Into To Linux
> > Course this year for those who have not registered for it yet.) It is a
> > $2,400 course normally taught by The Linux Foundation.
> >
> > Tim

Jay,

I am in The Texas area.

I only check into US based Open Text Book Projects.

Tim

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