I am a student at Illinois State University and am trying to get all the
computers switched over to OO but what I have been hearing is that the
school has contracts with Microsoft and can not switch. Is there any
subjection for encouraging this project along?
The school has presently a CD that they hand out to any student or facility
at ISU containing programs like Mozilla products. The web site can be
located at http://www.ilstu.edu/helpdesk/downloads/. Next year they might
put open office on this CD. The below quote is from the Tec dept. after I
suggested it to them:
"Thanks for your suggestion. We actually had a student technology advisory
committee review OpenOffice for use in University Computer Labs and possible
distribution on the itools cd. Unfortunately though it was decided not to
offer OpenOffice on the next release of the Internet Tools CD or in
University labs, due to unknown conflicts with other programs. We've heard
many good things about OpenOffice though and I'm sure the use of OpenOffice
on campus will be revisited next year after more testing and research has
been done with the software. Please let us know if you have any other
suggestions. Thanks."
Is there any way to help them with these "unknown conflicts?"
Also is there any way to upgrade the OO spell checker?
How can I help the two points on you web site:
"Walking post-secondary schools through the process of including
OpenOffice.org in their portfolio of applications
Resolving questions related to using and deploying OpenOffice.org by
faculty, students, and staff”
Thanks, Daniel
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