2013/6/27 Tom Davies <[email protected]> > 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 :) >
Fascinating ! Thanks for the heads-up, Tom !... Henri > >________________________________ > > 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/ 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
