[NBLUG/talk] Distributing OpenOffice to schools

[Todd Cary]

Lincoln -

My local Rotary club, Petaluma Valley Rotary Club, each year gives out a 
dictionary to every third grader in the Petaluma school districts (over 
4,000 have been given out so far).  A project of this type would 
certainly be of interest if it could be part of something with a little 
more scope e.g. providing refurbished computers with Linux that could be 
used for Internet access.

Just an idea.....

Todd

Lincoln Peters wrote:

> 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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