I have been an avid Open Office user for over 8 years now, and an an IT
manager have been propoting it wherever I can.
I also do Archery as a hobby, and this year have written a CALC
spreadsheet to assist with running a "World Record Status" tournament.
Blank forms, target lists, highly formatted and configured data entry
sheet, plus macros to do complex calculations and leader boards.
I will be offering this to the UK governing body (www.gnas.org) for
archery, but as I have avoided Excel, they will need to distribute it
along with OpenOffice. They have a quarterly glossy magazine posted to
all members (a couple of thousand), and I could suggest that they
include a CD containing OpennOffice and the spreadsheet to all members
(or on a request basis if the costs were prohibitive).
Have you seen similar exercises in the past, and do you think it is
worth pursuing?
Regards, Tim Bonnell, Secretary, Cymric Archers (www.cymric.org.uk)
