Re: [us-marketing] LibreOffice Deployment Plan

On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 10:43 -0500, Erik Rasmussen wrote:
> Greetings!

And to you Erik,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on these questions.


> This is my first post to this list.  I am working to develop a deployment
> proposal plan for the Milwaukee Police Department to deploy LibreOffice on
> the mobile squad car computers and ruggedized laptops.  If successful, I
> personally think this deployment might expand to the general desktop and
> there are even some indications of possible openness to Linux on the
> desktop.  I have read of how the Gendarmerie
> Nationale<http://www.gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr/>(French Police)
> have
> deployed<http://www.wiredvc.com/french-gendarmerie-308switch-85000-pcs-to-ubuntu-and-save/>
> Ubuntu
> Linux<http://www.canonical.com/sites/default/files/active/Casestudy-GendarmerieNationale.pdf>&
> OpenOffice<http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/la-gendarmerie-nationale-passe-a-openoffice-39203431.htm>and
> I know there are many other similar success stories.
>
> I suspect there is probably a wealth of experience out there and key points
> to learn from those who have already forged this trail.  I wonder if you
> know of any resources out there that I might take advantage of as I develop
> a LibreOffice deployment plan?
>
> Some of the questions that quickly come to mind are things like...
>
>    1. Has anyone found and used any kind of deployment automation?  (Perhaps
>    deployed via Active Directory or some open source software deployment tool?)

>    2. Is there a way to globally specify settings, (like UNC path to
>    department forms, choice of SAVE AS file formats, other user preference
>    settings)?
>    3. How can I quickly and easily deploy updated versions of LibreOffice?
>     (Probably different for Windows versus Linux?)

There is a third party operation that offers a tool for this - not sure
where there guys are on the LibreOffice front, but might be worth a
contact:
http://openofficetechnology.com/products/OpenOffice-Enterprise

>    4. Any deployment and/or transition tips, tricks, advice, or
>    pitfalls-to-avoid?
>    5. Any user education & training documents/websites, tips or advice to
>    help them transition?
>    6. Any "Best Practice" documents or advice for deployment, configuration,
>    updates/upgrades, transition/training?
>
>
> If you have any advice, links, documents, plans, or contact information that
> you might share with me, I would be glad to hear from you either on or
> off-list.

Here there area couple of resources, again though mostly OpenOffice.org
specific. There are also a number of articles about network deployments.

To be honest I've been tied up on some other projects for a few days and
just didn't have time to try and pull these together - but this weekend
is looking a LibO weekend so hopefully something for you on this before
Monday morning - and hopefully others may pipe in also.

Otherwise - welcome.

//drew


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