Re: [us-marketing] Introductions

You know, my biggest thought is that if we want to get LibO into a more
widespread acceptance then we have to get into the Schools.

You tend to stick with what you learn first and that should be our number 1
goal.

James




On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:

>  Le 2010-10-20 08:43, James Walker a écrit :
>
> Ben,
> > I would be very interested in your ideas, I hope that you will share them
> > soon, I would love to get started sooner, rather than later.
> >
> > James
> Hi Ben:
>
> I have started 2 threads on the marketing list
>
> [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT    post
> grad. university/college)
> [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Academia
>
> I am really interested in improving the LibO suite pagackaging so that it
> better suits these 2 areas of education. IMHO, I hope to work with
> interested dev. (once they identify themselves as interested) so that
> plugins could be either moded or developed to accomplish this.
>
> After this, we could devise a more concentrated marketing strategy to gain
> a larger foothold in the educational field. I have had 18 years of
> experience in this field in Ontario, Canada and have worked on committees at
> the provincial and local board levels as well as administrative levels as a
> school board specialist. I may be able to help with market strategies as
> well as expected results from approaching federal, provincial and local
> board levels, both at the public, catholic (we have this division in
> Canada), private levels. I also have contacts and could probably arrange for
> group testing at the teacher as well as  student levels.
>
> As for Academia, I have had over 30 years of ties both at the academic (I
> have taught at some summer workshops approx. 15-20 years ago at University
> level) and technical level (I am also a piano tuner by trade and period
> keyboard restoring specialist). I can probably convince an extremely small
> group for testing purposes, but I think we may have already enough academics
> on the list who are prepared to help in this way.
>
> Marc
>
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