Inkscape promotion in Colombia
Hi there! I apologize for using this list, found it most related to current topic.
I've got a proposal for you. Here in Colombia there is the SENAhttp://www.sena.edu.co/portal, a government service for training people -mostly youth and low income- in several trades by technical degrees and courses, graphic design among those. As far as I know, they've been using Corel and traditionals so I want to introduce Inkscape to them. I've found someone who can help pushing into the SENA office here in Cartagenahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mariedoucet/sets/72157611795508388/. A first step would be to prepare an introduction material for this person, something she finds atractive and digestible (bear in mind she's a bureaucrat). I think it would be of great help, given that SENA targets people who can't afford licensed programs, as well as a window for Inkscape with a big chance of national coverage. Would you be interested?
God bless you
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 10:58 -0500, Ocetalo wrote:
I've got a proposal for you. Here in Colombia there is the SENA, a government service for training people -mostly youth and low income- in several trades by technical degrees and courses, graphic design among those. As far as I know, they've been using Corel and traditionals so I want to introduce Inkscape to them. I've found someone who can help pushing into the SENA office here in Cartagena. A first step would be to prepare an introduction material for this person, something she finds atractive and digestible (bear in mind she's a bureaucrat). I think it would be of great help, given that SENA targets people who can't afford licensed programs, as well as a window for Inkscape with a big chance of national coverage. Would you be interested?
Wow, that sounds like a great opportunity. I think that there are probably people who would like to help. I think one of the problems is that we probably don't have that many materials in Spanish (which I'm sure would be preferred). We have some marketing materials that have been created in our SVN, you're welcome to take those and customize them for this specific situation.
http://inkscape.svn.sf.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape_marketing/trunk/
You might try on the users or translator's lists to see if there are other people in Columbia or else where that might be able to help with this.
Keep us informed!
Ted
I think it's a great opportunity!
I think that if there is interest, it would be a worthwhile effort to concentrate on getting tutorials and documentation (such as the Floss Manuals book) translated into Spanish. I'm sure the availability of good documentation will increase interest in the software's use in an academic setting.
JF
Ocetalo wrote:
Hi there! I apologize for using this list, found it most related to current topic.
I've got a proposal for you. Here in Colombia there is the SENA http://www.sena.edu.co/portal, a government service for training people -mostly youth and low income- in several trades by technical degrees and courses, graphic design among those. As far as I know, they've been using Corel and traditionals so I want to introduce Inkscape to them. I've found someone who can help pushing into the SENA office here in Cartagena http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariedoucet/sets/72157611795508388/. A first step would be to prepare an introduction material for this person, something she finds atractive and digestible (bear in mind she's a bureaucrat). I think it would be of great help, given that SENA targets people who can't afford licensed programs, as well as a window for Inkscape with a big chance of national coverage. Would you be interested?
God bless you
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