[opensuse-marketing] marketing idea's for the Education project
Hello, After reading several articles on "competing with open source" I found that one of the common mistakes that we make is to forget to talk about the problem that our project solves. With that in mind I wrote these pages (see attached) in order to frame that idea and to create a basis for marketing our work this year. The world's economy is at it's near record worst and schools are still being asked to do more with less. Many of our projects can help them shift budget costs into budget surplus's , they just don't know it. please tell me what you think of the paper , and help formulate the marketing plan around this idea. -- James Tremblay Volunteer openSIS Product Specialist http://www.os4ed.com e-mail james "at" os4ed.com e-mail sleducator "at" opensuse.org CNE 3,4,5 MCSE w2k CLE in training Registered Linux user #440182 http://en.opensuse.org/education
Hi, it sounds interesting. I would like to see a comparison including SLE prices instead than openSUSE. It is something certain schools will ask for for various reasons: from extended support, to reliability and so on. Also, it would be interesting if you could add a case study on a real school here http://en.opensuse.org/Case_Studies What you write is already convincing, but a real case study would add quite a bit of value, and would also help to convince people. With kind regards, Alberto Il giorno ven, 20/03/2009 alle 01.24 -0400, James Tremblay aka SLEducator ha scritto:
Hello, After reading several articles on "competing with open source" I found that one of the common mistakes that we make is to forget to talk about the problem that our project solves. With that in mind I wrote these pages (see attached) in order to frame that idea and to create a basis for marketing our work this year. The world's economy is at it's near record worst and schools are still being asked to do more with less. Many of our projects can help them shift budget costs into budget surplus's , they just don't know it. please tell me what you think of the paper , and help formulate the marketing plan around this idea.
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Is it acceptable to use my own school as a case study? Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
Hi,
it sounds interesting. I would like to see a comparison including SLE prices instead than openSUSE. It is something certain schools will ask for for various reasons: from extended support, to reliability and so on.
Also, it would be interesting if you could add a case study on a real school here http://en.opensuse.org/Case_Studies What you write is already convincing, but a real case study would add quite a bit of value, and would also help to convince people.
With kind regards, Alberto
Il giorno ven, 20/03/2009 alle 01.24 -0400, James Tremblay aka SLEducator ha scritto:
Hello, After reading several articles on "competing with open source" I found that one of the common mistakes that we make is to forget to talk about the problem that our project solves. With that in mind I wrote these pages (see attached) in order to frame that idea and to create a basis for marketing our work this year. The world's economy is at it's near record worst and schools are still being asked to do more with less. Many of our projects can help them shift budget costs into budget surplus's , they just don't know it. please tell me what you think of the paper , and help formulate the marketing plan around this idea.
-- James Tremblay Volunteer openSIS Product Specialist http://www.os4ed.com e-mail james "at" os4ed.com e-mail sleducator "at" opensuse.org CNE 3,4,5 MCSE w2k CLE in training Registered Linux user #440182 http://en.opensuse.org/education
Hi, thanks for your reply! I think so, and actually it would be very interesting I think. Who can describe what "changed" switching to openSUSE than who did it? ;-) However probably Joe might clarify the details better than me. I put him in CC. Thanks, A. Il giorno lun, 23/03/2009 alle 15.53 -0400, James Tremblay aka SLEducator ha scritto:
Is it acceptable to use my own school as a case study?
Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
Hi,
it sounds interesting. I would like to see a comparison including SLE prices instead than openSUSE. It is something certain schools will ask for for various reasons: from extended support, to reliability and so on.
Also, it would be interesting if you could add a case study on a real school here http://en.opensuse.org/Case_Studies What you write is already convincing, but a real case study would add quite a bit of value, and would also help to convince people.
With kind regards, Alberto
Il giorno ven, 20/03/2009 alle 01.24 -0400, James Tremblay aka SLEducator ha scritto:
Hello, After reading several articles on "competing with open source" I found that one of the common mistakes that we make is to forget to talk about the problem that our project solves. With that in mind I wrote these pages (see attached) in order to frame that idea and to create a basis for marketing our work this year. The world's economy is at it's near record worst and schools are still being asked to do more with less. Many of our projects can help them shift budget costs into budget surplus's , they just don't know it. please tell me what you think of the paper , and help formulate the marketing plan around this idea.
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