Greetings. My name is Brad Cupp. I am an American whose only native language is English. My background is primarily academic. I have a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Pepperdine University, a M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Virginia, and I am A.B.D. in the Computation Linguistics program at Georgetown University. Currently, I live in Malibu, California and teach computer science at Pepperdine. I have taught a course in business computing at Pepperdine for the last seven years. I am currently teaching the course using OpenOffice (primarily Calc) for all of my lectures. This is the first time we have not used Microsoft Office. I am producing online lectures for the course, and I thought that the OpenOffice community might benefit from the material I am producing. I produce SWF videos that are lectures rather than how-tos, so I am unsure how they will fit into your documentation project. You can view a sample lecture at http://mccarthy.cslab.pepperdine.edu/~cupp/Lectures/Spreadsheets/If/Overtime.htm. I have produced hours of video, and I am producing more on a daily basis. I also want to investigate the possibility of our computer science majors becoming contributors to the documentation project to satisfy their university writing requirement. On a personal note, I think OpenOffice is a fantastic product. Thanks to all of you for the work you have done to make it as good as it is. -Brad.
