Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Paid Developers

On 05/13/2011 02:49 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
> 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.
> --------
>
> Cheers
>
> Marc
If an msi is provided network installs can be done through microsofts 
group policy.

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