SDU OpenOffice update
One of the tasks I have taken on in my position as the Sun Campus Ambassador at SDU is to advocate open standards. As mentioned earlier (here and here), I have asked SDU about their position on this issue and found out that they are working on making OpenOffice available to students. This project known as Port22 (an article about the project can be found here).
SDU is now ready to test the project and that's where you are needed. There are no requirements to you other than you have to be a student at SDU and you have to speak Danish since the project is not available in English yet. If you want to help out, it's greatly appreciated!
From my correspondence with Hans Kruse Christiansen, head of IT at SDU: (in danish)
Hej Lars
Vi skal meget snart til at pilotteste vores opsætning af OpenOffice – d.v.s. at den studerende får en tynd klient, som giver adgang til vores loadbalancer og bagvedliggende servere med skrivebordets software. Jeg vil høre, om du kunne være interesseret i at være med i pilotprojektet – piloternes opgave bliver at afprøve at det virker og at komme med kommentarer om implementering, opsætningen, performance og evt. forslag til supplerende tiltag m.m.
Hvis du har medstuderende, som kunne være interesseret i at præge denne udvikling med en beskeden indsats her i starten (og gerne senerehen), så er vi meget interesseret i deres bidrag. Kender du nogle, må du meget gerne give dem min adresse. Vi vil afprøve hele kæden fra installation af tynd klient fra en hjemmeside og til brug af softwaren, lagring af data i blackboard, flytning af filer via webdav og print her, der og alle vegne.
Håber at høre fra dig. Vi går snart i edublog.sdu.dk og på blackboard med en annoncering efter piloter, så det vil være optimalt, om vi kan starte meget snart.
Med venlig hilsen
Hans Kruse Christiansen
IT-chef, IT-service
I of course told him that I was very interested in participating in the project and offered to pass on this information to the SDU OSUG which I will do shortly. The only thing missing is the URL to the thin client, which Hans has told me that he will send me as soon as it becomes available. I will post the link here (with his permission) as soon as I get it.
In the mean time, if you want to participate, let me know - I really think this is going to be very interesting to try out! And I will of course post my experience with it as soon as I have tested it...
SDU is now ready to test the project and that's where you are needed. There are no requirements to you other than you have to be a student at SDU and you have to speak Danish since the project is not available in English yet. If you want to help out, it's greatly appreciated!
From my correspondence with Hans Kruse Christiansen, head of IT at SDU: (in danish)
Hej Lars
Vi skal meget snart til at pilotteste vores opsætning af OpenOffice – d.v.s. at den studerende får en tynd klient, som giver adgang til vores loadbalancer og bagvedliggende servere med skrivebordets software. Jeg vil høre, om du kunne være interesseret i at være med i pilotprojektet – piloternes opgave bliver at afprøve at det virker og at komme med kommentarer om implementering, opsætningen, performance og evt. forslag til supplerende tiltag m.m.
Hvis du har medstuderende, som kunne være interesseret i at præge denne udvikling med en beskeden indsats her i starten (og gerne senerehen), så er vi meget interesseret i deres bidrag. Kender du nogle, må du meget gerne give dem min adresse. Vi vil afprøve hele kæden fra installation af tynd klient fra en hjemmeside og til brug af softwaren, lagring af data i blackboard, flytning af filer via webdav og print her, der og alle vegne.
Håber at høre fra dig. Vi går snart i edublog.sdu.dk og på blackboard med en annoncering efter piloter, så det vil være optimalt, om vi kan starte meget snart.
Med venlig hilsen
Hans Kruse Christiansen
IT-chef, IT-service
I of course told him that I was very interested in participating in the project and offered to pass on this information to the SDU OSUG which I will do shortly. The only thing missing is the URL to the thin client, which Hans has told me that he will send me as soon as it becomes available. I will post the link here (with his permission) as soon as I get it.
In the mean time, if you want to participate, let me know - I really think this is going to be very interesting to try out! And I will of course post my experience with it as soon as I have tested it...
