On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:40 +1000, Alex Fisher wrote: > On Wed, 4 May 2005 04:07, Douglas Weaver wrote: > > Hi There, > > I am wanting to make OpenOffice available to students via CD Rom. Will I > > need to by several or just one or is there a way to burn an executable > > copy for student use? > > Hi Douglas. > > The (cheeky) answer is "Any of the above" :-D > > However, a possibly better idea is to download our standard ISO image, and > get > the students to burn their own copy, possibly as a class activity.
If they do this and a few other things they can get a Silver INGOT certificate from the International Grades in Office Technology programme (www.theINGOTs.org) > Our standard ISO image is available for download from most of the > OpenOffice.org (OO.o) mirror network. Not sure which State Wichita is in (not > being located in the US), but choose a mirror from our listing on > <http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors>, find the directory > <contrib/iso/en/>, and download the .iso file from there. > > You may make as many copies as you want. I would recommend that you subscribe > to this list, as I announce the availability of new images on this list, and > you may also be interested in joining the Schools list as well (send a blank > email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and reply to the > confirmation email). Both lists are fairly low traffic, so you won't get much > email from them). Yes, please join the educ list. We want to involve as many schools as possible. -- Ian Lynch OpenOffice.org Education Lead --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
