[tdf-discuss] Re: Paid Developers

Hi Ian

Le 2011-05-13 05:27, Ian Lynch a écrit :

Thanks for the info on the INGOTs.

Having served on committees in charge of software acquisition, both at 
local and provincial level, I find the greatest reluctance on adopting 
is simply "networking". While many of our school districts would like to 
move to LibreOffice, the vast majority rely on recommendations from 
their IT departments which are MS certified. In order to provide greater 
acceptance of our product we need to supply solid support from the point 
of view its "network-ability". IT departments need to know that 
LibreOffice will work on their network and if there are problems that 
help is readily available. If there is no such service then the 
cost/seat is irrelevant -- MS Office is then kept.

So, in my mind, we (the LibreOffice membership) should establish 
efficient "national" network help support. That is to say, for example, 
in my case, IT departments would have support help from LibreOffice.ca. 
There should also be "for profit" support available locally should IT 
departments prefer to acquire this support.

We could easily promote both support models on a national scale if we 
were to have enough national developers attracted to our project 
alongside a certification programme. Perhaps to start off, we could 
offer free certification for dev's interested in the networking 
programming area of LibreOffice ... just to "seed" such a programme.

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As a side note -- Dev's interested in the "networking", "connectivity" 
of LibreOffice would also need access to a network "lab" of computers to 
expand/trouble-shoot network related issues. LibreOffice could maybe 
establish regional headquarters where it would fund labs where devs 
could physically work on networking issues. Research and development 
funds could be raised with this purpose in mind.
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Cheers

Marc


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