ENIGMA CYCLES LLC wrote:
Hello, I am Erik McMillan with Enigma Cycles and we are in the process of starting a charity for underprivilged High School students that plan to further their education but are unable to afford a computer. If a student qualifies we will supply them with a computer. Of course, most of the computers will be donated and/or refurbished to standards. We would like to find a Office program to install on these computers to give added help to these students.
What would be required from us to install Open Office on these computers? What kind of donation would be required per instal? And can we install Open Office on a couple of our coputers to examine the system?
We are very impressed with what we have read about Open Office and it appears your system has more to offer than even our own Microsoft Office version. This leads us to ask...How difficult is it to program Open Office to communicate with other Office systems such as Microsoft?
Thank you for your time and consideration and we look forward to hearing back
from you......Erik McMillan @ Enigma Cycles ( we are a custom motorcycle design
and build shop in case you are wondering)
You can make whatever donation you desire, but it's not required. We
certainly wouldn't expect one from a charity, where the money could be
put to better use. Another thing you might consider is installing
Linux, as it is also available for free and generally provides better
performance on older hardware than Windows. One popular Linux
distribution is called "Ubuntu", available from http://www.ubuntu.com.
Most Linux distributions include OpenOffice.
OpenOffice is free to download, install and pass around as you wish, at
absolutely no charge. It is an excellent office suite, similar to
Microsoft Office. It can read & write Microsoft Office files, other
than the latest Office 2007 formats. It can also export PDFs. Also,
there are versions of OpenOffice available for Windows, Linux, Mac and
other operating system, so users are not forced to use Windows.
OpenOffice also, by default, supports the ISO standard ODF file formats.
So, download OpenOffice from www.openoffice.org and use it all you want,
on as many computers as you wish. There is also a portable version,
available from portableapps.com, which you can install on a USB
connected drive, which will then enable you to use OpenOffice on any
Windows computer, that's capable of running OpenOffice version 2.X.
BTW, the Grey-Bruce United Way has a project, similar to yours, where
they supply donated computers, loaded with Linux & OpenOffice, to needy
students. Perhaps they might be able to offer you some advice.
http://www.osaic.com/index.cfm?member=unitedway
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