[Ubuntu-be] Presentation at dipro's

[Kevin Elaerts]

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
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> 
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