[seul-edu] Fwd: more school stories

[Leon Brooks <leon@brooks.fdns.net>]

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Subject: more school stories
Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 17:41:15 +0800
From: Jacqueline McNally <jacqueline@decisions-and-designs.com.au>
To: leon@brooks.fdns.net

Testimonial that is not even up on OOo yet. Would you like me to ask the
author (Gorkem) to provide his/her contact details so that you can contact
them? I don't think we editorialise testiomonials, and Gorkem said that you
can cut and paste it.

Oruc Reis Iikogretim Okulu
"Oruc Reis Ilkogretim Okulu, a K-12 school located in
Istanbul installed Openoffice.org for Linux, together with Gelecek Linux
(a modified and localized version of Red Hat Linux 7.2). Now the school
runs 24 computers in a laboratory and children work with OOo 641C. The
teachers and school administrators had some education beforehand with
Linux, so the integration was seamless. Although the software is in beta,
children find it easy to use and suit their needs.

Now the school is ready to add more computers and hardware into their
laboratory, instead of paying a lot for the licenses. The compatibility
is the key to success for deploying OpenOffice.org"
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 From 2001 OOo testimonials
Josh of Aglio is still an active contributor in the OOo community. I can
contact him if you wish, but he will probably ignore me at the moment as we
are all flat out with the imminent release of 1.0.

Not sure if Colin of Bay Area Scores is around, but I could see.
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Bay Area Scores
"We're really glad to have office software that doesn't cost us $100 to
$200 a computer," said Colin Schmidt, director of Bay Area Scores, a
non-profit after-school program in San Francisco. "The cost savings will
help us set up more Scores programs in other cities."
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Aglio Database Solutions
"As a participant in the OpenOffice.org project, I began using it for
spreadsheets and word processing six months ago," said Josh Berkus, owner
of Aglio Database Solutions, a San Francisco consulting company. "Since
Build 633, I've started exclusively using OpenOffice.org for those
functions, including maintaining some of the extremely complex
time-tracking spreadsheets required by two of my clients." Josh was also
buoyant about the potentials for OpenOffice.org in the nonprofit
organization world, "Last week I was able to tell a cash-strapped
educational nonprofit I know that they have an alternative to paying
$100-$200 a workstation for MS Office licenses. They were thrilled, and you
can expect Bay Area non-profits to start downloading OpenOffice.org in
large numbers."
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All the best
Jacqueline

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