LibreOffice India

• Chandrakant started a thread on libreoffice-marketing list

• Kannan, Rajesh, Chandrakant discussed on the thread with Charles

• We knew that very few activity for libreoffice promotion is happening
  

• So decided to have a meet-up - meet-up for ideation - something like how to start with libreoffice in India
  

• 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)

• SELF   workshops on LibreOffice and a to a lesser extent on Linux - being done by same group - Thanks to Kannan and team - wonderful project
• Red Hat has language team, lots are contributing in l10n work
• C-DAC has been involved in training (face-to-face) various Govt. offices and educational institutions
  

• Tamilnadu govt switching over to BOSS, some more office switching to Fedora and other - good for libreoffice
  

• Kannan 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 - awesome!

• Chandrakant request to create new teams for all those that are are not present on the Document Foundation page of language teams
  

• Dictionary & spell-checker for Libreoffice/OOo - Aspell & hunspell
  have been stagnant for quite long

• Cliparts - some Indian specific artwork/graphics/icons.

• Templates or Style guide on Indic text layout/styling in documents,
  presentations, graphics. This could also give tips on how to do DTP
  like work in Libreoffice

• Font packs - say a meta package could be defined - libreoffice-hindi-fonts , which would go ahead and pull all available
  fonts.

                                Karunakar's suggestions on Indlinux

• How do we raise brand awareness on LibreOffice in India
• Are there specific approaches we can take to promote and have people
• Download LibreOffice? Is the distribution of physical supports (cd-roms, usb keys) a better way?
• LibreOffice is meant for pretty much everyone, but do we have to target a key population at first?
• LibreOffice is a community too: can we attract volunteers, developers, localizers, QA testers, documentation writers?
• Start with small scale event somewhere in India and see who shows up. Repeat these events around the country.