Re: [school-discuss] Need reference for OpenOffice for University

[Tom Adelstein <adelste@netscape.net>]

Damiano Verzulli wrote:
> Christian Einfeldt wrote:
>
> > > Anyone have any references to help with this?
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 17:23, Tom Adelstein wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have a major US University wanting to boot out the dominate
> > > > Office product and go 100% with Open Office.org
> >
> >
> > Yes, Golden Gate University in San Francisco has reportedly also moved 
> > to adopt FLOSS.  Not sure about the details.  More later. 
>
> If not yet mentioned, maybe the "University of Buffalo" case could be of 
> some help:
>
> http://orange.math.buffalo.edu/csc/resolution2_april2003_approved.html
>
> Quoting the title:
> -------------------------------
> RESOLUTION FOR UNIVERSITY SUPPORT OF OPEN SOFTWARE AND STANDARDS
> Approved by the Faculty Senate,
> University at Buffalo, State University of New York,
> April 1, 2003.
> -------------------------------
>
> I read it and I think it's _excellent_!
>
> M2C.
>
> Bye,
> Damiano
Thank you. Hopefully, we'll be adding another to the list within a
couple of weeks.

I'm keep you posted. This is excellent.