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.
You sure can. OpenOffice is free to download, use, distribute, sell, etc... Check the licenses on www.openoffice.org for technical info - but there is no problem with installing on many computers and providing training. In fact why not teach them some stuff using linux OS as well - same goes for that - install on many computers - without hassel. Much better than leasing software from M$. /paul -- Vista is "dramatically more secure than any other operating system released" Bill Gates Huh ?? Defender doesn't stop spyware (Webroot) ; firewall is only 50% effective (Zdnet) ; UAC can be turned off and is annoying ; SP1 (incl security reasons) due end of 2007... ----- Try Torpark; a small portable, open-source, built on Firefox browser that enables anonymous browsing. Requires no installation : http://www.torrify.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
