Hi :) Did anyone else notice this announcement? I'm sure there seems to be about 1/week announcing large-scale migrations to LibreOffice. The first one i noticed recently was the Spanish State moving something like 40,000 desktops just a couple of years after moving 70,000. So they obviously thought the first migration a huge success! Then there was another on this list saying they estimated a saving of 30million euros but wanted a specific bug dealt with. So, i suggested employing a dev.
I find all these sorts of things hugely encouraging. I still feel my work-place is still trapped in MSO but these sorts of announcements suggest that it wont be for too much longer. So i have started sending my colleagues documents in ODF format, as e-letter used to suggest, and it seems to be working. My boss panicked a bit because the Bold button didn't look exactly the same as it does in MSO but he managed to click the right button anyway. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, 25 June 2013, 17:19 >Subject: Subject: Digest of [email protected] issue 140 (155) > > >Topics (messages 155 through 155): >- [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation welcomes a new member of the Advisory >Board >- 155 - Italo Vignoli <[email protected]> >- >The Document Foundation welcomes a new member of the Advisory Board: >King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) of Saudi Arabia > >Berlin, June 25, 2013 - The Document Foundation announces that King >Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) of Saudi Arabia is now >an effective member of its Advisory Board. KACST sponsors the National >Program for Free and Open Source Software Technologies (Motah: >http://HYPERLINK "http://www.motah.org.sa/"www.motah.org.sa), which has >been contributing to LibreOffice for almost one year, to enhance the >Arabic language and the RTL (right-to-left) support, and to develop new >features. > >Motah LibreOffice Project (http://motah.org.sa/en/?q=node/HYPERLINK >"http://motah.org.sa/en/?q=node/94"94) is only one of the activities of >Motah at KACST, where several software products are studied to explore >the extent of Arabic support and their suitability for Arab users. >LibreOffice was selected to be the first localization project because >most Arab users need a full feature office suite. > >"Motah software engineers have been regularly contributing to >LibreOffice since 2012, and are now one of the largest groups of full >time developers hacking LibreOffice code, together with SUSE and Red >Hat", states Michael Meeks of SUSE, a Member of TDF Board of Directors. >"Thanks to the injection of these new groups of hackers, during the last >months we have been able to increase the number of contributors, which >is now around 100 on a monthly basis and over 330 on a yearly basis". > >"It is fascinating to see The Document Foundation combining people from >different cultures, languages and geographical locations around the >development of LibreOffice, the best free office suite ever", says >Dr.Turki Alsaud, KACST VP for research institutes. “Having KACST inside >TDF Advisory Board reflects our support to the development of >LibreOffice, extending our reach from the improvement of the Arabic >language version to the development of new features and the improvement >of the user interface". > >With the addition of KACST, the Advisory Board of The Document >Foundation has now seven members: FSF, Google, Intel, KACST, MIMO, Red >Hat, SPI, Lanedo, Freies Office Deutschland e.V. and SUSE >(https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Advisory_Board). > >Short link to TDF blog post: http://wp.me/p1byPE-pu. > >About KACST > >King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) is an independent >scientific organization administratively reporting to the Prime >Minister’s Office. KACST is both the Saudi Arabian national science >agency and its national laboratories. The science agency function >involves science and technology policy making, building national >scientific database, funding of external research, and conducting >applied scientific research in varius disciplines through its own >research institutes and providing services such as the patent office, >scientific information, and scientific consultations to public and >private sector etc. KACST has currently over 2500 employees. > >Media Contact KACST > >Mohamed Alkanhal - Director of Computer Research Institute >Phone: + 966 11 4813765 - Email: [email protected] (website: >http://www.kacst.edu.sa) > >-- >Italo Vignoli - Director >[email protected] >mob +39.348.5653829 - sip [email protected] >The Document Foundation >Zimmerstraße 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany >Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts >Legal Details: www.documentfoundation.org/imprint > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/announce/ > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
