On 10/08/2008 07:31 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: > John Jason Jordan wrote: >> NoOp suggested: >> >> http://marketing.openoffice.org/art/galleries/cdart/index.html >> [I'm still waiting for the 3.0 cdart...] >> >> Indeed, what I need is 3.0 art, or better, the ability to purchase OOo >> 3.0 on CD with 3.0 artwork on the CD. A problem I have is that people >> take my CD with OOo on it and are scared to install it for fear of all >> the horrible things they have heard about viruses and the net and such. >> A "official" looking CD would eliminate this problem. >> >> I could download appropriate artwork (modify the 2.0 artwork or wait >> for the 3.0 artwork), but I do not have a printer than can print on >> CDs. Even if I did, I would like to be able to distribute hundreds of >> such CDs. My university has 27,000 students and actively supports OOo. >> OOo is installed on all university computers in all student computer >> labs. The help desks would be happy to put up a cardboard display with >> OOo if only I had CDs to put in the display. I can buy CDs on eBay and >> elsewhere, but the vendors think their CDs are worth $5 and up. That is >> prohibitive for me. A blank CD costs 25 cents US or so, so I figure 50 >> cents apiece is a fair price. I wish CDs at such a price were available >> on the OOo website. In quantity OOo could produce the CDs and sell them >> at a fair profit at that price. > > I applaud your efforts in distributing CDs, and I agree it would be > great if OOo supplied them in single-to-bulk quantities. But > until/unless something is done officially, there are label-maker > programs that print on special labels designed for CDs, and they usually > come with a plastic part that attaches the labels in the right position. > You could make a nice label and stick it on, and it wouldn't be too > expensive. I haven't bought any of the label sheets in a while, but I > know they don't cost much. Making hundreds would definitely be a chore, > but if you can't find another way to get this done, this operation might > fill the gap for a while. Commercial duplication would be great if the > service doesn't cost too much for you, though.
Lightscribe CD burners are within the price range of many these days (I don't have one... I'm poor :-). Not as fast as commercial burners, but with some actual "official" cd artwork to burn to the lightscribe CD's it eliminates the need to hand stick CD labels (I do that & it's not much fun). http://www.lightscribe.com However, in addition to the artwork, you also need a proper & up-to-date OOo ISO to burn to the CD. Unfortunately, these don't get updated very often... note that the latest is: http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html#distribution http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/ http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/distributors.html http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/iso_downoad.html <quote> The standard ISO images are available for normal download through the Extended mirrors. The images are contained in a sub-directory named "/iso/en" (for English images) or "/iso/de" (for the German images). </quote> http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/index.html#extmirrors ftp://openoffice.cs.utah.edu/pub/openoffice/extended/iso/en Up to higher level directory File: md5sums 1 KB 04/03/2008 12:00:00 AM File: ooo_240_sol_20080329.iso 496036 KB 03/30/2008 12:00:00 AM File: ooo_240_win-lin-macintel_20080329.iso 618618 KB 04/02/2008 12:00:00 AM File: openoffice.org_extras_20070328.iso 460420 KB 10/09/2007 12:00:00 AM As you can see, the last time an ISO was created win/linux/mac was 04/02/2008 and considerable changes have been made to the 2.x versions since then. Than in itself wouldn't be too bad if OOo provided a method for incremental updates between versions, but unfortunately you'd have to download the entire 2.4.1/x or 3.0 again anyway to be current. Note: I'm downloading now just to see what is in the ISO. Perhaps the way to go is to do a Portable Apps (http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable) CD instead. They even have OOo3.0Beta2: http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable/test Or hand out prebuilt OOo logo'ed thumbdrives instead. Students would take those immediately as they know that they can overwrite them with whatever they want. But at least they'd have the most recent version on the drive to use rather than a 6 month old CD. Unless of course you want to spend $8.69 at the OOo lulu store for the same 6 month old CD: http://www.lulu.com/ooo Obviously the OOo marketing folks that have their gala meetings in Beijing and Paris prepare CD's etc for handouts. If they can do that, then I suspect that they can assist the education project and/or someone like JJJ with his small request. (JJJ I'd send marketing an email and ask - certainly can't hurt). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
