[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Templating Teams

Le 2010-11-02 15:25, Marc Paré a écrit :
> Le 2010-11-02 14:24, drew a écrit :
>
> > Hi Marc,
> >
> > Great idea - not sure we need a team, per se, but a place to collect
> > these would be of great help, IMO.
> >
> > I would be bold enough to turn this email around and challenge you to
> > help lead this by putting together a short presentation on LibreOffice /
> > ODF / FOSS as if you where to deliver this to a small group, say at a
> > lunch time presentation to the IT team of a small public school system
> > in CA, as this I believe is your personal perspective. To be clear I'm
> > not speaking of a template specifically, rather it is the content, write
> > a 15 minute presentation.
>
> Hi Drew:
>
> I have done such live presentations but not with a specifically designed
> presentations for IT groups. From the years of my committee work and
> advocating OOo and now LibO I can tell you one thing for sure, if there
> is no LibO IT support for Migration from MSO to LibO as well as LibO
> networking support you will not get IT interested. We can present all we
> want, we can convince teacher, staff all we want, but IT, who holds all
> of the connectivity cards, will not agree to a LibO installation until
> LibO has a solid LibO network support option as well a clear MSO
> migration support option for the Office/Admin.
>
> They feel even more at ease if this support is a paid support. I imagine
> that this is most likely the same for large business organisations.
> School boards are considered equal to larger organisations. My school
> board teaches approximately 100,000 students and has over 10,000
> cmputers. And we are not considered a large school board. We are pretty
> well considered a medium size school board.
>
> This is why I was so interested in the different support levels
> (1,2,3,4) when they were mentioned. If we are to have an impact in
> schools, then we have to address this need for support either at our OSS
> level, where we could develop an opensource support ticket system or
> until we find a "for-profit" support ticket system. This would
> definitely "clinch" the sale of LibO to school organisations.
>
> Selling the product to teachers and parents is, in my opinion, still
> important as we are going about it the grass roots way. Once the
> students clamour for ODF support from the MSO installations in schools,
> as well as parents, then scool board will have a close look at
> migrations. But, again, without support, IT will look at MSO import
> filters instead of migrating.
>
> Marc
Actually, Sophie's reference to this:

http://www.canonical.com/about-canonical/resources/case-studies/french-national-police-force-saves-%E2%82%AC2-million-year-ubuntu?sms_ss=twitter&at_xt=4ccea3acab49d9,067

 is exactly how the IT at school boards look at migrations. The support 
must be there before it is accepted. We should then be looking at the 
different distros adopting the LibO as their office suite of choice for 
large installations.

Marc


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