[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-website] LibreOffice For Schools

Sincerely folks, how can you post on so many lists? Stick to one please otherwise people will flag 
you down as spam.

Thanks, 

Charles. 
PS : I am fine if this takes place on the marketing one.

timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com a écrit :
> On Thursday, March 20, 2014 02:54:40 PM you wrote:
> > 2014-03-15 6:56 GMT+02:00  <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com>:
> > > 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.
> >
> > The subject is indeed very important and TDF should pay serious
> > attention toward this.
> > Situation in many countries are heavely influenced by MS lobbyists.
> > Fortunately the K-12 curriculum in Lithuania's state education system
> > is open to software alternatives. I know personally few teachers
> > (including myself) which has choosen LibreOffice as an office
> > applications teaching base.
> > 10 years ago even a paper text book was published in Lithuania
> > containing explanations and examples with MS Office and OpenOffice in
> > parallel. Now sadly it is in significant part outdated and currently
> > we have no full range replacement.
> > The situation could be comparable in other European countries and
> > maybe wider in the world.
> >
> > Such thoughts so far.
> >
> >
> > Antanas Budriūnas
>
> I have only found one commercial publication that is mostly directly
> geared to 
> LibreOffice in the USA It is a getting started guide for migrating to
> OpenOffice 
> but also includes LibreOffice content.
>
> Currently many US State ran school systems are moving to open text
> books 
> published as Creative Commons so their is a great opportunity. Some US
> schools 
> have ousted Microsoft due to cost constraints, some have been migrating
> to 
> Google for Education services and Chromebooks.
>
> I have a cousin that teaches Business Finance Accounting, Computer
> Classes and 
> Math for a PA state high school. I sent him and email to find out what
> they are 
> using. Some schools in the US I know are still using old versions of
> Word 
> Perfect for Word processing classes.
>
> Even if the schools are using Chromebooks they can easily use
> LibreOffice 
> through VNC.
>
> I know their is one commercial provider of a web based LibreOffice on
> the 
> internet that works with Google Chromebooks but it is an older version
> and is 
> a paid service after a small try for free period. Has their been any
> official 
> push of a Document Foundation LibreOffice Web project? It would also be
> a good 
> time to start this as well as Microsoft , Google etc have web based
> office 
> offerings on the market already. 
>
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