On Saturday 21 May 2005 17:31, + Jordi Massaguer i Pla wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *********************** > Hi all! My name is Jordi Massaguer Pla. I am from > Catalunya - Spain and I am the coordinator for new > technologies of the "Colegi Oficial d'Enginyeria en > Inform�tica de Catalunya". That is the oficial > organization that represents the Computer Engineers in > Catalunya - Spain. > > We have been talking about some new activities we > could organize and we thought about an office suite > competition. By now, it is no more than an idea, and > that is why I am writing to you. > > I would like to know if some of you find interesting > this idea, as a way of promoting free software as > quality software. A lot of people, when they are asked > why they use MS products instead of, for example, open > office, their answer is "I don't believe that open > office will do the same as my microsoft office". Why > don't demonstrate that with a competition? > > The competition will consist of creating some office > documents. Those documents could be created by using > any software. > > In order to check that the document is what it was > asked to do, we could get a postcript or pdf version > and make a diff. > > Then a list of winners with the suite they used will > be public. > > What do you think?
This sounds like a great idea, however as you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Saturday 21 May 2005 23:27, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Hi Jordi, my name is Alexandro Colorado, Co-Lead of the Spanish OOo group > and also member of the Marketing of OOo. > > Quoting Jordi Massaguer i Pla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi all! My name is Jordi Massaguer Pla. I am from > > Catalunya - Spain and I am the coordinator for new > > technologies of the "Colegi Oficial d'Enginyeria en > > Inform�tica de Catalunya". That is the oficial > > organization that represents the Computer Engineers in > > Catalunya - Spain. > > Maybe you know Ismael Fanlo which is also a very strong volunteer within > the spanish community. > > > We have been talking about some new activities we > > could organize and we thought about an office suite > > competition. By now, it is no more than an idea, and > > that is why I am writing to you. > > This are great news and I belive is very doable, we are looking always for > leaders to organize new initiatives. Yours trully look like a step forward. > > > I would like to know if some of you find interesting > > this idea, as a way of promoting free software as > > quality software. A lot of people, when they are asked > > why they use MS products instead of, for example, open > > office, their answer is "I don't believe that open > > office will do the same as my microsoft office". Why > > don't demonstrate that with a competition? > > > > The competition will consist of creating some office > > documents. Those documents could be created by using > > any software. > > Tell us what would you need from our part. > > > In order to check that the document is what it was > > asked to do, we could get a postcript or pdf version > > and make a diff. > > > > Then a list of winners with the suite they used will > > be public. > > > > What do you think? > > My advise is to join the [email protected] and show your > point, I am > forward this email to them. But I think this is a great idea. Please reply to [email protected] only. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
