Hi Charles. * set up of an Indian mailing list for marketing and advocacy (do you want it? Do you need one?)
- Yes. It would be better to have a India specific marketing mailing list. Kindly arrange to add Rajesh Ranjan, Chandrakant Dhutadmal and Prof. Kannan as the administrator of the mailing list. * I need to get more familiar about the Ambassadors Programme from Fedora, and it needs to be adapted for LibreOffice (also, we need a bit of input from the board of directors): Action Item for Charles. - You may update us when you discuss this matter with the board of directors. Having Ambassador kind of program will entrust more responsibility on the part of community members and will also give them the sense of pride being Ambassador of the product. :) * Question: do you foresee the need at some point to set up a dedicated NGO for these operations or is one of your agencies carrying the administrative workload? - We will discuss this point within community members to come to a consensus. Give us some time to respond on this point. Regards, Chandrakant Dhutadmal C-DAC, Pune , India. On Monday, May 19, 2014 3:44 PM, Charles-H. Schulz <[email protected]> wrote: Chandrakant, Waow, impressive news and events. May I suggest a follow-up from my side and a couple of ideas. * set up of an Indian mailing list for marketing and advocacy (do you want it? Do you need one?) * I need to get more familiar about the Ambassadors Programme from Fedora, and it needs to be adapted for LibreOffice (also, we need a bit of input from the board of directors): Action Item for Charles. * Question: do you foresee the need at some point to set up a dedicated NGO for these operations or is one of your agencies carrying the administrative workload? Please let me know, and thank you so much for this brilliant meeting. And thanks be given to Red Hat! Best, Charles. Le 19.05.2014 11:18, chandrakant dhutadmal a écrit : > A report on LibreOffice India Community Ideation Meet-Up > > Date of the meet: 16-MAY-2014 > > Time: > 03.00 P.M.-05.00 P.M. IST. > > Venue: Red > Hat Office, Tower 10, Magarpatta City, Pune, India. > > > irc@freenode: > libreoffice > > event > hashtag: #libreofficeindia > > > > Background > > LibreOffice is one of the flagship products of a movement called > 'FOSS'. It is one of the best office application suite which is > available free of cost for most of the platforms and in many languages > across the world. The application is useful for everyone from a > student to a researcher and across various domains. Rajesh Ranjan and > Chandrakant Dhutadmal were in a discussion for quite some time about > the promotion and proliferation of this beautiful product and were not > quite sure about the reach of this product in India. Hence, we had > started a thread on marketing list of LibreOffice. After discussions > with Charles-H. Schulz and Prof. Kannan from IIT Mumbai, we thought of > having an Ideation meet up in India to discuss the current state of > penetration of LibreOffice in India and how to increase the reach with > the help of the Community. > > Agenda of the meetup > > 1. Get to know each other > 2. Introduction about LibreOffice marketing movement in India > 3. Raise brand awareness on LibreOffice in India > 4. How to attract volunteers to contribute to LibreOffice > 5. Plan of Action > > > 1. Get to know each other > > Initially we thought the response to this event would be poor as it > was planned on a short notice and also with small budget, but there > were around 14 people face-to-face and one online who participated in > the event. Thanks to Red Hat for hosting this event. We all got to > know each other as well as the areas of interest where the > participants could contribute. The members were from literally all > aspects of LibreOffice community Viz. Development, Localization, > Marketing, Testing and Documentation. Hence we can expect good > contribution from these members in future. Participants of the events > : Rajesh Ranjan, Chandrakant Dhutadmal, Keral Patel Anish Patil, > Krishna Babu, Ankit Patel, Shankar Prasad, Shantha Kumar, Saibal, > Shubhra Joshi, Sangeeta Kumari, Vishakha Dhutadmal, Ani Peter, and > Manoj Giri. We discussed the agenda and background of the event > through one small presetation [1]. > > 2. Introduction about LibreOffice marketing movement in India > > By the time we met for the discussion, we knew that though LibreOffice > is being used by many in India, the penetration level is too low. > There are efforts done by individual organizations like C-DAC [2], > RedHat [3] and IIT Mumbai [4] on individual basis, but there is no > collaborative effort in this direction. C-DAC has been involved in > training (face-to-face) various Govt. offices and educational > institutions on how to use LibreOffice since quite some time now. > Prof. Kannan and his team has also put good efforts in terms of > creating large number of self-instructional audio video tutorials on > LibreOffice, in English (about 60), and with audio dubbed into many > Indian languages (a total of about 500) [5], SELF workshops on > LibreOffice and to a lesser extent on Linux, Tamil Nadu Govt switching > over to BOSS[6] and some more offices are switching to Fedora and > other distributions which is good for LibreOffice. Prof. Kannan’s team > is also trying to come up > with print edition of LibreOffice Manuals (500 copies) to promote > LibreOffice in colleges, who need a "printed book" for the software to > be included in their curriculum. > > Having localized version of LibreOffice is important from promotion > point of view. Currently, there are as many as 16 Indian languages > where Localization teams exist[7]. Chandrakant Dhutadmal has already > requested to create new teams for all those Indian languages that are > currently not present. > > > 3. Raise brand awareness on LibreOffice in India > > Discussion amongst the members present on how to raise the brand > awareness in India took place. Following are the point in nutshell > which participants thought would be helpful. > > *Introduction of Swags, T-Shirt, Sticker, Badges is very important. > *Conduct demo sessions in various colleges/ schools. > *Conduct LibreOffice development oriented Workshops. > *Using the social media extensively. > *Contacting SMEs/ Start-ups/ System Administrators > *Try to add LibreOffice in school/college curriculum > *Conducting various small events across the country. > *Help community members in participating in International events to > interact with other contributors and learn more from them to replicate > the model in India. > *Create Success stories and highlight them > *Organizations like C-DAC are already using LibreOffice. Can we target > more such large organizations > *All FOSS based OS and related orgs use LibreOffice. We can also > target other OS’s popular in market. > *Shipment of Physical CDs is necessary as downloading of softwares > becomes difficult in India because of various problems which > individuals face > *Support related to installations and other technical aspects needs to > be provided to the end users. So, can we create virtual support > groups. > *Pre-installation of LibreOffice on Laptops and Computer systems could > also boost the penetration of LibreOffice. > > 4. How to attract volunteers to contribute to LibreOffice > > *Start “LibreOffice Ambassador” type of Program > *Workshops/events/BOF/Webinars > *Screen casting of applications use and how to contribute for > libreoffice. > *Language specific events can be done for localization. C-DAC is > already willing to contribute translation for languages - already > mails are there on list. > *Software Testing and Quality Management is important – Projects and > Groups like FUEL Project [8], FLTG[9], SSCG[10] can help in this > regards. > *More Dictionaries can be integrated in LibreOffice. > *India Specific artworks can be created. > > 5. Plan of Action > > This is just to start. We need to discuss more on plan of action. > These are just few task we are going to do in another 1-2 months: > > *Create success story in an educational institution: Chandrakant > Dhutadmal volunteered to conduct one event in educational institute > within a period of one month. Currently schools are having vacations. > > *Conduct “Bhasha Computer Mela”- Shubhra Joshi and Sangeeta Kumari > volunteered to coordinate and arrange the event in a school. > > Pix of the events can be browsed here: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ksangeeta/sets/72157644715122521 > > Thank you all for attending and supporting the event! > > > 1. http://slides.com/rajeshkajha/libreoffice-india > 2. http://www.cdac.in/gist > 3. http://www.redhat.com > 4. www.iitb.ac.in > 5. > http://www.spoken-tutorial.org/list_videos?view=1&foss=LibreOffice-Suite-Writer&language=all > > 6. http://bosslinux.in/ > 7. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language_Teams > 8. http://fuelproject.org > 9. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FLTG > 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SSCG > > > Regards, > Chandrakant Dhutadmal and Rajesh Ranjan > Pune, India. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
