Converting MN Colleges to OSS

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My sister works for a local school disctrict and there are rumblings of OOo being used instead of Microsoft for cost saving reasons. This would mean little kids learing to word process on OOo instead of Word which I feel is the best way to break the Microsoft cycle.  I think people are finally starting to wake up!
 > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:37:35 -0500> From: tonyyarusso at comcast.net> To: ubuntu-us-mn at lists.ubuntu.com> Subject: Re: Converting MN Colleges to OSS> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----> Hash: SHA1> > Aaron wrote:> > Hey all,> >> > I came up with an idea for a potential project that we could maybe> > look into if people are interested.> >> > On any campus you visit in the Metro area (and I'm sure elsewhere)> > they all appear to be using Microsoft Office to do their word,> > spreadsheet, and database processing. While this isn't inherently> > an issue, as I'm sure you are aware these pieces of software cost> > LOTS of money not only for the colleges that provide computers for> > the students to use but also for the students who in part pay> > tuition fees to cover the software and pay money for the software> > for their own personal use. Why increase the cost of higher> > education unnecessarily with it can easily and effectively be> > replaced with free and open source alternatives such as Abiword and> > Open Office?> >> > Here's my idea, and if there is enough interest we can look into> > doing something with it. If I'm not mistaken colleges just like any> > other business are looking to cut expenses, why not show them an> > effective way to cut their expenses with out loosing anything?> > Normandale (where I currently go) already has Firefox installed on> > all the computers and is set as default browser, they obviously> > aren't opposed to open source software, we just need to show them> > that there are more options out there.> >> > Anyways, I thought I'd run it by you guys, if there is interest> > maybe we can make a plan, get a presentation together (made on OSS> > yay!) and maybe show these guys the future.> >> > Let me know what you think,> >> > Aaron> This would be a fantastic tack to start in on. My school (Saint Paul> College) also has Firefox on every machine, and within the computing> courses even uses Ubuntu for some things, but I haven't see OOo or> anything else of the sort in any of the labs. Also, the University of> Minnesota runs Ubuntu on all machines in the Computer Science> department, and hosts a full Ubuntu repository mirror.> > There were some folks in the Canadian team looking into university> stuff, but I don't know if anything ever came of it.> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)> > iD8DBQFG8dzuKlAIzV4ebxoRAkesAKCaaeVCzTNpATqT6meiK63/bi3lKQCfar2U> whXzv5HdyTWwxEYlJD1SGv0=> =5UQU> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----> > > -- > Ubuntu-us-mn mailing list> Ubuntu-us-mn at lists.ubuntu.com> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-mn
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