[OPLINTECH] Open Office Software

[Steve Miller]

On the subject of public awareness, we have actually had community 
members compliment us on making OO available on our public machines.  
Something to the effect of "Low-income families in our community could 
not afford to obtain most Microsoft products - it's great that you have 
a free alternative available here, something that they can use on their 
machines at home as well as here at the library."

Matter of fact, after much resistance, suspicious sidelong glances and 
gnashing of teeth, I've actually been using Writer and Calc on my home 
computer.  The resistance was, I admit, mostly psychological and 
philosophical -- OO and MSO are very very similar.

I'm doing a workshop for our staff next week to introduce them (more) 
to  OpenOffice.  Our new fleet of public computers will have OO (as well 
as other opensource material) installed on them.

BTW, if anyone can suggest training guides for OO, please let me know!

So far the biggest point of YUCK that I'm seeing is no bloody clipart!  
I'm totally spoiled on MSGallery's offerings!

Steve

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Steve Miller, Technology Coordinator
Ashtabula County District Library
335 W. 44th Street, Ashtabula, OH 44004   
millerst at oplin.org                               
(440) 997-9341 x239 / fax (440) 998-1198   
Opinions expressed are my own.