Op vr, 26-01-2007 te 00:26 +0100, schreef Mark Van den Borre: > Ismael, > > > We are looking for some people who would like to help to set up a > > PowerPoint presentation for visitors at future dipro's. > Improvements to > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=ubuntu_dipro.odp > are always welcome. Maybe even a complete rewrite could be useful. > > > Our plan is to show them with a nice presentation that a PowerPoint > > slideshow works fine in OpenOffice.org Presentation. > A good answer on compatibility, standards and black boxes is a really > good idea. Just don't force feed it to potential new Ubuntu users. > Keep it for those who explicitly start asking about it. We do the same > thing for people asking about Kubuntu and Xubuntu. > > A good idea might be to find some public Microsoft > Word/Excel/Powerpoint documents, grab some screenshots of them > rendered in different MS Office versions and in a recent > OpenOffice.org. This would be a really nice illustration of the > problematic interoperability between Microsoft Office versions, _and_ > a nice illustration of OpenOffice.org's import/export capabilities. > > More in general, we need to be careful to keep the message simple and > consistent. One attracts potential users with familiar sounding words: > Firefox for surfing, OpenOffice.org for docs & presentations, Linux > under the hood talking to the hardware. One deflects potential users > with unnecessary complexity. > > Mark > -- > Mark Van den Borre > Noormannenstraat 113 > 3000 Leuven, België > +32 486 961726 > Indeed as Mark has already pointed out, it is better to pull poeple over the line by showing them some familiar software that can be found as both in Ubuntu/Linux as in Windows. For a thing I finally got a conversion on my hand, just because I pointed at the available software that runs on both systems and also the fact that he is a programmer and that Ubuntu/Linux provides a lot off programmingtools out off the box. Referring to that one, it was my prime reason to make the switch in the first place.
Greetings, Kevin Elaerts -- ubuntu-be mailing list ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
