Daniel Carrera wrote: > Alan Harris wrote: >> Logotron School Office >> >> http://www.logo.com/cat/view/logotron-school-office.html >> >> Is this officially part of Open Office? Looks like a £29 rip off of Open >> Office, Logotron say that they are only charging for the resources that >> they've created and that they've added a more friendly front end to this >> Open Office > > Looks like a rip-off. They didn't change the interface at all. It is > true that the OOo interface is not kid-friendly. This is a problem that > the company I work for has to face often. We supply schools with IT > services and try to get them using OOo, but OOo's interface and network > setup don't help at all (e.g. each kid has to go through the initial > setup every time they use OOo on a new computer - think about it, 400 > kids times 100 computers). Some schools have tried it and just gave up > and asked us to switch them back to MS Office.
Schools can use StarOffice and ask Sun for some administration tools that makes their life easier. But while we are at it, software for schools is an interesting story. If you can read German you might be interested in the following link that points to a cool application designed for primary schools: http://iug.uni-paderborn.de/Projekte/nutzware/staroffice4kids/de/ Even without understanding the text the screenshots you find here and there might be interesting. The company that createf this application (that BTW now is Open Source) presented at last years OOoCon in Berlin. They used the API to remove the complete StarOffice user interface (yes, they used SO not OOo, but that's not a requirement) and replaced it by an own one that utilizes the OOo Bean and the OOo API. Great stuff. The UI of "SO4Kids" can be configured to be absolutely minimalistic (http://iug.uni-paderborn.de/Projekte/nutzware/staroffice4kids/pic/neu/writer-tomanis.gif) or can offer more elements that allow to use more features (http://iug.uni-paderborn.de/Projekte/nutzware/staroffice4kids/pic/neu/ab-tomanis-9.gif). Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
