http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/06/15/praise-for-neooffice-openoffice-and-seashore-gimp/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:48:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/06/15/praise-for-neooffice-openoffice-and-seashore-gimp/#comment-54484 Wesley Fryer Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:38:08 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/06/15/praise-for-neooffice-openoffice-and-seashore-gimp/#comment-54484 That is awesome, Randy! I would love to support ways to amplify your experience so more technology directors can hear directly about your experiences. Have you written an article about your experiences to date for an educational technology magazine or journal? If not please consider doing so. I'm delighted to hear you all have had good success... yes, the human element often is the toughest part, isn't it?! None of us like our cheese to be moved.... even if the new cheese is better tasting and free, as is the case with many open source programs! :-) That is awesome, Randy! I would love to support ways to amplify your experience so more technology directors can hear directly about your experiences. Have you written an article about your experiences to date for an educational technology magazine or journal? If not please consider doing so. I’m delighted to hear you all have had good success… yes, the human element often is the toughest part, isn’t it?! None of us like our cheese to be moved…. even if the new cheese is better tasting and free, as is the case with many open source programs!

]]> http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/06/15/praise-for-neooffice-openoffice-and-seashore-gimp/#comment-54483 Randy Orwin Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:20:25 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/06/15/praise-for-neooffice-openoffice-and-seashore-gimp/#comment-54483 Welcome to the club Wesley! I am not a Mac user, but have used OpenOffice on Linux and Windows exclusively for the last three or four years. I have done numerous presentations with no problems what so ever. Your statement "...these programs should be ubiquitous computing staples on every school computer." is oh so true. I am the tech director in a school district and we have a large number of Open Source applications that are standard on all of our images, including OpenOffice, Gimp and Audacity. We have just finished our first full year of rolling out OpenOffice on all new machines and for the most part it has been fairly successful. We hope to finish the roll out in the next year or so. Our biggest challenges haven't been with the software but with "change" in general. Welcome to the club Wesley! I am not a Mac user, but have used OpenOffice on Linux and Windows exclusively for the last three or four years. I have done numerous presentations with no problems what so ever. Your statement “…these programs should be ubiquitous computing staples on every school computer.” is oh so true. I am the tech director in a school district and we have a large number of Open Source applications that are standard on all of our images, including OpenOffice, Gimp and Audacity. We have just finished our first full year of rolling out OpenOffice on all new machines and for the most part it has been fairly successful. We hope to finish the roll out in the next year or so. Our biggest challenges haven’t been with the software but with “change” in general.

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