Hi Wayne,

Good point - go kiwis go!

- Randy

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Randy,
>
> Well there is always the WikiEducator online conversion service for those
> users who may not have MS Word 2007 and above.
>
> See: http://wikieducator.org/Special:OOoConverter
>
> This work was also supported with thanks to the New Zealand Ministry of
> Education.
>
> Cheers
> Wayne
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Randy Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> This is great news - and a sure sign of progress.
>>
>> I've checked the download, and sure enough, it's there.
>>
>> It is a bit disappointing though, that it's only for MS Word 2007 and
>> above.
>>
>> I know many people (myself included) and organizations which never made
>> the upgrade from Office / Word 2003.
>>
>> Sigh -
>>
>> Nevertheless, a big thank you to all of the partners who made this happen.
>>
>> - Randy
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> Microsoft, working alongside the Open Education Resource (OER)
>>> Foundation <http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home> at Otago 
>>> Polytechnic<http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic>and the New Zealand 
>>> Ministry of Education, has produced a new, open source
>>> extension for Microsoft Word that allows documents to be saved in a
>>> Wiki-friendly format called MediaWiki, as used by the popular online
>>> encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
>>>
>>> Read more:
>>> http://wikieducator.org/Microsoft_Launches_Open_Source_Filter_for_Mediawiki
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Wayne
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