Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Pilot workshop for a local government body

Hi Italo,

Yes, I live in Mumbai.  Thanks for the link.  I went through all the 
slides, which have very valuable information.  This will be useful to 
make a policy decision at the final stages.  Slides on the importance of 
training are very important.  I would go to the extent of saying that 
most people do not use more than 5% of commercial software (which are 
often very expensive), and hence, can easily be met by equivalent open 
source software.

I would like to know more about certification methods available to test 
the competency in LibreOffice - although not required for the current 
workshop, we can use it in our other training programmes.

For the immediate workshop, I guess that simple text and data entry for 
LO Writer and Calc are only required.  For this, we plan to use the 
Marathi dubbed tutorials given here: 
http://spoken-tutorial.org/tutorial-search/?search_foss=LibreOffice+Suite+Writer&search_language=Marathi. 
Although created for LibreOffice 3, these are good enough for 
beginners.  We have this series in about 20 languages.

Use of Marathi font is important in the current instance.  The workshop 
participants are likely to use the inscript keyboard.  We plan to do a 
(1) pre-workshop survey, a (2) post-workshop survey, and a (3) follow-up 
survey, after about two weeks to check the ease of shifting to 
LibreOffice.  To make the proposed transition simpler, we are exploring 
LibreOffice on Windows first.  If this works out, they will consider 
shifting to Linux.

Regards,
Kannan

On 29/11/16 8:58 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote:
> Hi Kannan, from your email address I suppose you are based in India, but
> to help you I think it would be nice to have more information about the
> local government body, the environment they are active in, how many
> employees they have, etcetera. In order to organize a workshop in order
> to convince them to migrate to LibreOffice, you need to present a large
> number of information not only about the project but also about the
> quality and the security of the software, the document format, and only
> at the end about the application. You can find a number of slide decks
> at the following address:
>
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Gallery_Presentations
>
> We can also organize a hangout to discuss the workshop face to face. It
> is not easy to provide all the necessary insights by email, and talking
> is probably the best solution for the success of the workshop.
>
> Best, Italo
>
> On 29/11/2016 12:36, Kannan Moudgalya wrote:
> > We are about to conduct a LibreOffice workshop to a local government
> > body.  Depending on its success, LibreOffice may be adopted in a big way
> > in the local government.
> > If there are recommended ways to conduct such workshops, I would like to
> > know.


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