[vox-outreach] OpenOffice 1.1 ISO has arrived; time to gear up for the schools! [from vox]

[Bill Kendrick]

BTW - Further discussion should probably go to this list, vox-outreach...


On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:01:18PM -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
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> Unfortunately, these mirrors are rather busy at the moment, and most (well, 
> PlanetMirror) are not accepting new connections.  Does anyone here have 
> access to a server that could be used to mirror the ISO?

I can't really afford the huge amount of space it's taking, but I'm
currently downloading it to my FTP site on my ISP account (at Sonic.net,
located in Santa Rosa).

If anyone's having trouble pulling from the FTP mirrors, e-mail me
privately and I'll give you an URL to download the ISO from my account.
(I don't want too many people doing it, because at some point it'll
start costing me in bandwidth, too... not just disk quota :^) )


> I can also try to distribute CD's to those who are willing to participate in 
> the campaign but have slow Internet connections (those who have CD burners 
> and slow Internet connections should be able to make copies of the CD).

Thanks!  If you can make it out to LUGOD's meeting on Tuesday (Oct 7th)
at UC Davis ( http://www.lugod.org/meeting/euii/ ), we'd be happy to help
spread them around Davis/Sacramento, too.

We'll be at the Internet Software Security Association (ISSA)'s big
conference in Sacramento in early November, so having a batch to give
out would be good.  [ http://www.issa-sac.org/conferences/2003/ ]

(PS - WE STILL NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR THIS EVENT!)


Also, local OOo Marketing guy, Paul Miller, might be able to get Sun to
give him copies, or something.  They helped us at the
Government Technology Conference (GTC) in May...


<snip>
> This is the ISO you want if you intend to burn OpenOffice CD's for 
> distribution to schools!

I should talk to folks like DCN to see if they know any schools in the
area that would be willing to accept such help.


> I have acquired 100 blank CD-R's and 100 paper CD 
> envelopes for this task, but depending on how much interest there is in 
> OpenOffice, that may not be nearly enough (my old high school has 2,000 
> students).  If you want to burn CD's, I can tell you that the best prices I 
> found for CD-R's and CD envelopes was an online shop called Cyberguys 
> (http://www.cyberguys.com/).

OSEF had literally 100s or maybe even 1000s of copies of Knoppix for Kids
professionally pressed (not burned), labelled, and enveloped (stiff paper).

I think at those kinds of quantities, prices start getting pretting
reasonable.  Definitely quicker to spend a little cash on a huge quantity,
than end up spending about as much, but tons more TIME for less professional
looking stuff.


> If you still have not talked to a school, or the school(s) you talked to 
> were still skeptical, there is an OpenOffice flyer available at 
> http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=19925
> This should give the school all of the information it needs to understand 
> the advantages of OpenOffice.  If they have additional questions that you 
> cannot answer, let me know.

Sweet! :)  Kinkos just sent LUGOD a 25% discount card (cuz we're a non-profit)
that's good through the end of the year.  Perhaps I can take advantage of
it for this...


> I live on the northern edge of the Bay Area (I'm about 7 miles south of 
> Santa Rosa), and so I cannot try to distribute CD's to any schools in the 
> Davis area.  If a LUGOD member who lives closer to the Davis area than I do 
> wants to coordinate LUGOD's participation in this campaign, that would be 
> apprreciated.

I'd like to help.  Better yet, I'd love for someone ELSE to help! :)


> The planned date for distribution is October 13th.  Since that is barely a 
> week from now, if you want to participate, please contact me NOW!
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Thanks so much, Lincoln!


-bill!

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