<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Hi :) The website <a target="_blank" href="http://inpics.net">http://inpics.net</a> offers training in OpenOffice but they seem unaware that most distros will be moving to LibreOffice soon. Also their training appears to be only in English. I guess they are not an OpenSource type project but they are free. Could we use their "Contact Us" form <a target="_blank" href="http://inpics.net/contact.html">http://inpics.net/contact.html</a> to suggest that they 1. open up and use launchpad to get translations done? 2. rename their "OpenOffice" training to "Libre Office" and change "OpenOffice.org" to "The Document Foundation"? 3. create links so that people can acquire the appropriate Office suite; MicroSquish for MS Office and "The Document Foundation" for Libre. <rant> All established, well known and reputable Office training involves forcing the students to buy MicroSquish products. At job interviews they often ask if the interviewee has training in Office applications (which people can only get if they buy from MicroSquish). A lot of people are making a lot of money from training people to use MicroSquish products. So far the inpics site is the only place i can find that offers an alternative and it doesn't lead to a qualification that is recognised by employers. In the UK we have very few qualifications that are widely recognised at this sort of level. Really it is just NVQs (=National Vocational Qualification). There is some recognition of ECDL (= European Computer 'Driving' Licence) because it has been heavily marketed for about 10 or more years so some people have vaguely heard of it now. Both qualifications are quite a bit higher than the level inpics offers but not by a huge amount. If you do the inpics course then the ECDL course or an NVQ lvl1 would be fairly easy. Pitman's charge Ł700 for ECDL and expect you to have MicroSquish Office at home or work in order to be able to study. A copy of MicroSquish Office could easily be between Ł50-Ł100 but because the course includes Access/Base it would probably be one of the Ł100 versions. </rant> Please can we just give inpics a nudge to offer them help to reach a wider audience (if they stay free) by suggesting they go a bit more OpenSource? Also can we help them become less out-of-date by suggesting they advertise that their existing course OpenOffice course also covers Libre Office? Many regards from Tom :) </div> </body></html>