[NBLUG/talk] Distributing OpenOffice to schools

[Lincoln Peters]

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 have several contacts in the Cotati-Rohnert Park school district, and I 
have a few contacts in the Petaluma school district that I might be able to 
utilize.  What other parts of the North Bay would people be able to 
distribute to?

This project is being coordinated by "ian" (ian.lynch2 at ntlworld.com), an 
OpenOffice.org developer.  There does not appear to be any information on 
the OppenOffice.org website yet, but I can provide information (and URL's) 
as soon as I receive it.




Lincoln

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