Please can we market OpenOffice to more educational institutions?

2013-04-20 Thread goldfish
Hi, I feel OpenOffice has much more value than competing products. I find this very sad news: AICTE Makes Microsoft Office 365 Mandatory For Technical Colleges In India! - http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=104544 Could we please educate 'educational' institutions so that they have

Re: Please can we market OpenOffice to more educational institutions?

2013-04-20 Thread Frans Thamura
i am working with education in Indonesia we use openoffice to education here. yes has been years, more than 8 years we never see ms.office the key is education material, and curriculums i love be part of this work. Frans Thamura Meruvian On Apr 20, 2013 9:06 PM, goldf...@aol.in wrote: Hi,

Re: Please can we market OpenOffice to more educational institutions?

2013-04-20 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Spain has produced a lot of courseware and educational curriculum for elementary and secundary education. As far as college, I think it can be done. OOoAthors, now ODF authors has a very good array of books that can be easily transform into textbooks (with excercises, cases and such). Althought

Re: Please can we market OpenOffice to more educational institutions?

2013-04-20 Thread Alexandro Colorado
During one of the students internship there was a lot of Phisics, and Math problems developed in Excel, on somehting called Excellets, he was able to convert 20 to calc. Original excelets http://academic.pgcc.edu/~ssinex/excelets/chem_excelets.htm Localized and converted calclets

Re: Please can we market OpenOffice to more educational institutions?

2013-04-20 Thread Frans Thamura
Hi Just think, What do u think when R lang as additional to less powerfull oo in spreadsheet calc? Here, we create apps for solve excel calc. F On Apr 20, 2013 10:29 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: During one of the students internship there was a lot of Phisics, and Math