Hi, I run a Community Interest Company in the UK - this is a government idea to promote Social Enterprises. CICs are sort of half way between a company and a charity, in that they can't make capital profits but can pay their directors. Anyway, M6-IT is focused on using and promoting Free Software solutions to charities, voluntary organisations and education - though we do work with commercial organisations as well.
We are currently developing a number of training courses and do OpenOffice training - though we hope to expand this soon. One of our projects involved getting regeneration funding to install computers and provide Internet access for socially excluded families. These boxes run Ubunutu and, of course, OpenOffice. I'm a member of the Open Document Fellowship, the Open Source Consortium, the Open Schools alliance, Chair of Schoolforge UK and various other things, and an advocate of Free Software in general. In my spare time I look after the computer systems for Birmingham Friends of the Earth, where I am at the moment, working on their entirely recycled system of LTSP on Edubuntu, running OpenOffice. Hope this isn't too much detail, oh - my username is "richardrothwell". rgds, Richard -- Richard Rothwell, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Education Consultant http://m6-it.org Web services * Back-ups * Support * Training & Certification * E-Mail M6-IT CIC ``Software Freedom for the Education and Voluntary Sector'' M6-IT is a Community Interest Company, limited by guarantee Registered in England & Wales, Registration No: 6040154 11 St Marks Road, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY9 7DT --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
