Marketing/LibreOffice In Academia

LibreOffice is playing a greater role in academia today. From its use within academic circles, through use at university and college institutions and use in research, experiment and development. How large a role the office suite plays in these circles are the result of the tools, fiability of code as well as its ease of accommodation of extensions. LibreOffice is always of interest to the valued people who are used to working at the bleeding edge of discoveries just as these same people are of interest to the LibreOffice membership who are interested in working at the bleeding edge of office suite adaptation to the tasks that are asked of it.

Tasks/Suggestions
The following are a few tasks/suggestions that have been expressed by the membership on the various mailing lists. These have been put up for discussion or action.


 * make sure that there are many educational specific templates for downloading (match these with governmental bursary/scholarship formats and with student worksheets, lists etc.)
 * make sure that there are enough clip arts/sounds in the LibO suite
 * collect data re: use of MSO TEMPLATES presently in use for College/University Staff/Office use and arrange for creation of compatible LibO version
 * collect data re: use of MSO MACROS presently in use for College/University Staff/Office use and arrange for creation of compatible LibO version
 * collect data: complimentary plugins/extensions/code that will improve the LibO suite for the Academia field
 * Bibliographic and referencing tools: See: Bibliographic and Referencing Systems in LibreOffice
 * alphabetical indexes
 * footnotes
 * table of contents
 * outline view
 * large scale documentation help

Notes from discussions on the LibreOffice lists

 * import/export from/to Latex in the as menu (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/288) (In electrical engineering and math, LaTeX is the dominant tool to write a Ph.D. thesis, at least in my experience. -- Jon Hamkins; We used to have built-in LaTeX export from within OOo Writer, with decent results; then the component (which, if I recall correctly, was named Writer2LaTeX or similar) was moved back to a stand-alone project and removed from OOo. I never tested this on math formulas, I just tested it on basic Writer documents. While we do have a formula editor and basic tools, it would be rather hard to build a LaTeX export that can work "the LaTeX way", much like the HTML export suffers from unavoidable artificial conversions. -- Andrea Pescetti))
 * Native support for the BibTeX reference organizer (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/288)
 * Good and varied templates for resumes, CVs (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/288)
 * a note-taking application of some kind within LibreOffice (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/259)

Resources

 * https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Tutorials/Targeted#Topics_to_cover_for_university_students (Jean Hollis Webber)
 * discussions on Marketing list:
 * http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/251
 * http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentation.libreoffice.marketing/298
 * https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/OOoBib_Functional_Requirements
 * https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer_enhancements_for_OOBib
 * https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@bibliographic.openoffice.org/msg00896.html
 * http://www.cambridge.org/aus/information/aca_index.htm