Subject: Fwd: Distributing OpenOffice to schools
From: Joshua J.Kugler (isd@as.uaf.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 09:18:32 AKDT
Something that might be interesting, especially in light of the recent budget
cuts for education.
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Subject: [CVALE] Distributing OpenOffice to schools
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:44:19 -0800
From: "Lincoln Peters" <lincoln_peters@hotmail.com>(by way of "Joshua J.
Kugler" <jkugler@bigfoot.com>)
To: isd@asuaf.org
Perhaps the group has already heard about this (the Linux community in
Northern California has been spreading the word much faster than I
expected), but here it is:
The OpenOffice.org team has announced to Schoolforge that it intends to
launch an education campaign in October (when OpenOffice 1.1 is released)
and put as many copies of OpenOffice in the hands of students and teachers
as possible.
Is anyone here interested in burning and distributing OpenOffice CD's to
public schools? At some time in the near future, they will release an ISO
with OpenOffice 1.1 that supports Windows auto-run, so if you are
interested, you should not start burning CD's just yet (I can notify the
group when the official ISO is available).
This project is being coordinated by "ian" (ian.lynch2@ntlworld.com), an
OpenOffice.org developer. There does not appear to be any information on
the OpenOffice.org website yet, but I can provide information (and URL's)
as soon as I receive it.
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