On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:34:47 -0600, Austin Martin <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hello,
I guess I should start by describing myself. My name is Austin Martin, 14
yrs of age. I hope to help the open source community, and so it
logically
got me to OOo. I started getting in the community at the age of 12ish
Hi Austin, welcome to the project. I hope you have a great experience with
us.
and
at age 12 I tried OOo, but unforunately it had a bad look and overall
interface so I was turned off, and uninstalled. (As I have looked around
that seems to be a problem on alot of people's minds.) Later at the end
of
12 and beginning of 13, I started using alot of free programs, and
though I
didn't care at the moment, open source programs. Mainly I used them for
We understand and have produced some projects to make it more visibily
atractive, we are now running a project called Renaissance, the project
holds the mission on making the User interface more innovated. You can
read more abou it here: http://ux.openoffice.org
Paralell to this effort we also think a OOo for Kids is important and some
developers are working actively on it.
the
lack of money and having other interests (to spend money on) as a kid.
At
the end of 13 and beginning of 14 I began to notice open source and the
open
source community, and basicly "fell in love" with it. Now at about 14
and
1/2 I have greatly increased my use of open source and finally came and
registered with OOo.org (and a month before the OOo forums..). Hopefully
I
can be a part of the great community there is here.
Great to hear this, welcome again.
At the marketing project I hope to develop art for OOo, already I have
made
this (which is hopefully up to standards, though still in development):
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=16673 -
OOo Forum Post
http://ia331419.us.archive.org/3/items/OpenOffice.orgSpacejoinTheStarsDesktopWallpaper/Trial1.png-
Direct Link
I am very glad to se your interest in Art. We have an art community at
http://marketing.openoffice.org/art you can join in teh efforts. Althought
my advice is to help out to art projects outside of this project since
other projects do need art also.
Also I hope to get my school more involved in open source, OOo, and etc.
and
have made a presentation from this PDF (which hopefully is not
copyrighted
too strongly and doubt is):
http://drupal.org/files/issues/Open%20Source%20Software%20in%20School%202.pdf
Of course created in Open Office Impress, and Exported in Open Document
format.
Awesome please come in http://education.openoffice.org to learn about the
things we are doing with schools around the world .
Including in making art, I would love just to get involved and would like
just to mantinence the marketing and art projects.
Sounds optimistic maybe but hopefully I and anyone reading can help me,
and
along with me help you.
Thanks for reading.
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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