Hello Yuhan Fang,
This will not provide you a complete answer -other did-, but I'd like
to promote a project nobody mentionned, but who basically should
interest students :-) For that, I'd suggest you to have a look at
OpenOffice.org Education Project (who is an incubator project)
For example, to answer curious students, you could talk about our
website : http://education.openoffice.org ( yes we need web designers
to improve it, and more people involved)
Other information you can add is about our very active wiki page :
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project e.g. :
- to attract new developers writing code for OpenOffice.org Project,
we created dedicated effort : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/
wiki/Education_Project/Effort
- and to explain how OpenOffice.org Development works, we even
created and started ClassRoom : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/
wiki/Education_ClassRoom
Some great devs from Sun joined the effort, and did very good
lectures (like Philipp Lohmann and Mathias Bauer). Other are
scheduled (to be confirmed).
We really need help, promotion and a lot of things to become a real
project ( Education is only Incubator project today), so everybody is
warmly welcome, and if you could inform about the existence of
Education Project (what is basically intersting in Campus), I'd be
gratefull :-)
Last but not least, if you need futher information, we have a
dedicated IRC channel, for the one who have questions, or have
questions, or even are curious :
Server : irc.freenode.net
Channel : #education.openoffice.org
I Hope this will bring you further information, making your
presentation more consistent, e.g. in front of curious students :-)
Best regards,
Eric Bachard
Le 28 juil. 08 à 22:24, Yuhan Fang a écrit :
Hello everyone,
I would like to help in the promotion of OpenOffice.org,
particularly to college students. I'm currently an undergraduate
student at Yale, and I find that OpenOffice.org is well suited to
most college papers and presentations. Price is not a big factor
for most students here because the university heavily subsidizes
Microsoft products. Nevertheless, I am able to win converts via the
included PDF export functionality alone. My immediate goal is to
include OpenOffice.org in the IT introduction that is given to all
students by students at the beginning of the year; ultimately (and
this is in the very far future), I hope to convince the school to
install OpenOffice.org network-wide and promote it as recommended
software for university computing.
I'm interested in contributing, distributing, or helping out in any
way I can. So far, I've been trying to convert my immediate circle
of friends and frantically emailing various IT staff; any pointers
to work that needs to be done are welcome. Thanks!
Sincerely,
Yuhan Fang
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