[NBLUG/talk] Fwd: OOo education marketing strategy

Nat W calvin166 at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 17 15:33:00 PDT 2003


I am a student at mario carillo high in santa rosa id
be willing to help if you gave me a little more info
on how you plan on puttin open office in the school.
we have 3 pc labs and 2 mac labs

--- Lincoln Peters <lincoln_peters at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I just got this message from Ian.  He has partially
> formalized the strategy 
> for putting OpenOffice in schools, although he is
> certain that the exacy 
> procedure will vary by country.
> 
> I live in Rohnert Park, and I know that I can get
> CD's to Rancho Cotate High 
> School.  I can also try to get something to happen
> in Thomas Page School 
> (the K-8 school in Cotati) and Marguerite Hahn
> Elementary School.  If anyone 
> on this list has even one contact in any school
> (teacher OR student), I 
> would strongly recommend that you try to get the
> word into the school, even 
> if you cannot be there on October 13 and/or you
> cannot burn CD's.  We *will* 
> find a way to get those CD's into their hands.
> 
> Ian is also interested in the names of anyone who
> wants to participate (so 
> that he can say how big the effort really is when he
> writes the press 
> release).  If you want to get involved, send an
> e-mail either to me or to 
> Ian <ian.lynch2 at ntlworld.com>.  Use the subject line
> "OOoEduHelper" if you 
> e-mail Ian.
> 
> 
> For those who might fail to see the advantages of
> OpenOffice over Microsoft 
> Office: consider that Microsoft Office XP
> Professional costs $429.99 at 
> CompUSA.  At Tiger Direct
> (http://www.tigerdirect.com/), CD-R media costs as 
> little as $0.17 per disc.  That means that, for the
> price of one copy of 
> Microsoft Office XP Professional, one could burn
> 2,529 OpenOffice CD's!  
> Furthermore, there is no limit, theoretical or
> legal, to the number of 
> computers that you could install OpenOffice on with
> just one of those 2,529 
> CD's!
> 
> And if that's not enough, a complete list of new
> features in OpenOffice 1.1 
> (many of which are completely lacking in Microsoft
> Office) is available at 
>
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1rc3/features.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Lincoln
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >From: ian <ian.lynch2 at ntlworld.com>
> >Subject: OOo education marketing strategy
> >Date: 17 Aug 2003 13:41:16 +0100
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >You are being sent this message because you
> expressed interest in
> >helping with the launch of a marketing strategy for
> Education starting
> >on October 13th 2003, OOo's third birthday. If you
> no longer wish to
> >participate please E-mail me and let me know and
> I'll remove you from
> >the list.
> >
> >There will be differences in different countries
> and so we need a broad
> >strategy that can be "localised" to fit individual
> circumstances. Here
> >is the basic strategy
> >
> >Goal 1.
> >
> >Get as many activists as possible worldwide
> >
> >Effective strategies: Tap into your contacts and
> mailing list where
> >these are likely to be sympathetic. I have had a
> good response from
> >Schoolforge, AFFS, Linux User Groups. It only takes
> an E-mail to a
> >suitable list so potential large gain for small
> effort. I encourage
> >non-native speakers of English to do this because
> its less likely that
> >the messages set out in English will cross the
> language barrier without
> >this. Encourage anyone taking part to drop me a
> minimal E-mail with the
> >title OOoEduHelper so I can keep a list of all the
> helpers. It will help
> >if they say whether they want to be added to this
> list or not and if so
> >their location and briefly what they propose to do.
> >
> >Goal 2.
> >
> >Get as many schools as possible aware that OOo
> exists
> >
> >This simply requires contacting schools and
> providing factual
> >information.ie There is a free Office Suite they
> can download from
> >www.OpenOffice.org and there are sources of supply
> on CD-ROM for nominal
> >media costs. The software is designed for easy
> migration from MS Office
> >and has a high degree of file compatibility with
> it. The software has
> >functions of significant value to education the go
> beyond those found in
> >MS Office. eg Ability to save in pdf format and a
> powerful drawing and
> >design program. The method of contacting the
> schools will depend on
> >local organisation. In some cases it will be just a
> matter of talking to
> >a friend or relative who works in a particular
> school, in others it
> >might be possible to contact the administration
> responsible for a group
> >of schools. Remember one school contacted is better
> than no schools
> >contacted so don't assume that if you can't do a
> lot its not worthwhile.
> >Every little bit helps.
> >
> >Goal 3.
> >
> >Get OOo to as many students as possible
> >
> >This is the next step on from Goal 2. Again, it
> will to an extent depend
> >on local circumstances. If for example you just
> want to burn some CDs
> >for the project, we need to be able to transfer
> these to someone who can
> >distribute to them in schools. It would therefore
> be helpful if you
> >could E-mail me back with some idea of where you
> are located eg Country,
> >State/county/region and briefly the extent of your
> participation
> >
> >eg contact a school raise awareness, or burn 50
> CDs, but I need a
> >distributor or burn 100 CDs and distribute them
> myself.
> >
> >I can't be absolutely sure how this will work out
> but lets give it a go
> >and see.
> >
> >The final version of OOo 1.1 should be available
> before the end of
> >August and there should be an iso. On this
> assumption I propose where
> >possible to use the "official" ISO from the OOo
> Website as far as
> >possible. If this makes life difficult as you
> already have plans to
> >distribute OOo as part of a different package then
> Ok, but try and make
> >it vers 1.1 as it has some clear advantages that
> will help further the
> >marketing effort. The bottom line is that any OOo
> is better than no OOo
> >but 1.1 is what we should be aiming for.
> >
> >Goal 4 Publicity
> >
> >If we can make a press announcement that hundreds
> of volunteers around
> >the world are supporting schools in getting free
> Office Software it is
> >likely to be newsworthy which is why I need
> evidence of all the
> >helpers.We have no advertising budget but this sort
> of exposure is
> >better than "paid for" advertising. I'll prepare a
> press release nearer
> >the time and again if any of you can send it to as
> many journals in your
> >country/locality as possible it will be a big help
> >
> >Goal 5 Platform for future development.
> >
> 
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- Nat 

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