Re: [us-marketing] Introductions

Marc and all,

On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
> 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.

I strongly agree that education is a highly strategic target for LibO. Your connections and 
experiences will be really helpful for us to devise a tactical plan. I would like to work with the 
NYC school system to promote LibO myself, though I don't have any connections there. Perhaps a 
well-designed plan could help me get started...

> 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.

I see a tangible reason to bring additional people onboard as testers--it may help them develop a 
sense of "ownership" in some small way, that could gradually draw them in to becoming community 
members within the project, and our group would grow as a result. :)

-Ben

Benjamin Horst
bhorst@mac.com
646-464-2314 (Eastern)
www.solidoffice.com


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