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Freitag November 24, 2006

OpenOffice.org on 35,000 computers?!
I just found the following information:
"mEDUXa is a Free Software GNU/Linux distribution developed for educational purposes that is part of the MEDUSA project. It will be deployed in 35,000 computers distributed in 1100 schools, which represents 325,000 possible users (25,000 teachers and 300,000 students).the Canary Islands state schools. Teachers and students will be able to use it through a dual boot, accessing it by a boot loader."

I wonder if mEDUXa includes OpenOffice.org. Does anybody know?

According to the icons on this screenshot mEDUXa includes OpenOffice.org.
( Nov 24 2006, 04:33:28 PM CET ) Permalink Kommentare [6]

More information about Welsh OpenOffice.org
"Alun Pugh, the minister for culture, Welsh language and sport added: "The launch of this office software is a major advance within the IT strategy developed by the Welsh Language Board as part of the Assembly government's strategy for the language, Iaith Pawb."

Speaking at the launch, Ned Thomas, academic director of the Mercator Centre, said that Agored was the result of a convergence of opportunities allowing the funding of a translation project under the Objective 1 programme, which would mean that the Welsh public sector could consider OSS as a commercially viable alternative to proprietary software.

On that note, Gavin Beckett, Bristol city council's IT strategy manager, provided a brief overview of the migration of 5,500 users within the council from Microsoft Office to Sun Microsytems' StarOffice – a move which the council estimates will save 60% on software costs over the next five years."

Found here.
( Nov 24 2006, 02:53:45 PM CET ) Permalink

Update about OpenOffice.org at French National Assembly
I just found this article which provides additional information about the planned use of OpenOffice.org at the French National Assembly. Here is a quote:
"The project, backed by MPs Richard Cazenav and Bernard Carayon of the UMP party, will see 1,154 French parliamentary workstations running on an open source OS, with OpenOffice.org, Firefox and an open source email client."
( Nov 24 2006, 02:08:13 PM CET ) Permalink

OpenOffice.org at the French National Assembly
More great news! As can be read here and here (both articles in French) OpenOffice.org is going to be deployed at the French National Assembly. Maybe the French readers of my blog can verify my statement and provide additional insights.
( Nov 24 2006, 11:42:43 AM CET ) Permalink Kommentare [1]