Bob Burdick wrote: > I am Bob Burdick and I am currently a Sr. Business Analyst working for > a company in Indianapolis. > I attend a church that builds houses in Mexico every summer. To make > a long story short, last year we built a house for a family where the > two oldest sons were out of high school but unemployed. It turns out > that there are jobs openings but they all require basic computer > skills working with MS office products. I thought our group could > organize and teach these basic skills so they could apply for these > jobs. I have found a couple of companies willing to donate some older > laptops but Microsoft declined to donate the software to pull this off > because we are a religious organization. > My question is: could we utilize your software to teach individuals > basic computer skills? These classes would be to simply provide > computer skills and giving individuals the ability to provide for > their family. Those individuals in Mexico that would like to attend > the class only need the desire to learn. There are no religious or > political requirements or considerations to attend the class. > OpenOffice can certainly be used for basic computer skills, though not MS specific. In that line, you may also want to consider using Linux, instead of Windows. It is also free and usually includes OpenOffice. Also, with Linux, there are no worries about viruses etc., and it also runs on older hardware, that's not quite adequate for Windows.
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