Thanks. Can we plan a project do boost up the awareness of OO application in Africa?
________________________________ To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:47:26 AM Subject: Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org in Africa Hi Vincent, All, There is a wealth on information on the OpenOffice.org website, documentation wiki's and Internet in general regarding the licencing and technical aspects of OpenOffice.org. Please see below for my individual comments... On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 02:52 -0700, inet.consult ltd wrote: > Dear All, > > I will like to know information regarding below question concerning Africa > countries. > > - licensing and distributing software to end-users, including agreement >From version 3 OpenOffice.org is licenced under the LGPL v3. Please read http://www.openoffice.org/license.html for details on the licence and distribution. > - capabilities with various operating systems OpenOffice.org is available on multiple platforms. Please see http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs_30.html for system requirements. > - file exchange with other office productivity suites OpenOffice.org is compatible with most commonly used file formats. > - deploying OpenOffice.org in all environments There are a number of deployment guides available on the Internet. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ has some useful information regarding installation and deployment. You can also look at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos and other documentation at http://www.oooauthors.org/ . > - promotion and marketing plan for African countries I am not able to comment much outside of South Africa. Within ZA OOo is a well known product within the FLOSS and Goverment IT organisations. Regarding the general computing public, there have been a number of articles in general computing magazines over the years dicussing OOo. Whilst there is a strategic marketing plan, in ZA marketing efforts, for various reasons, are reactive and not proactive. > - and much more... Ask away. Kindest Regards Craig A. Adams --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
