Hi Tim,
Tim Bonnell wrote (10-6-2009 19:30)
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?
There are projects (might be business related) where OpenOffice.org is
distributed. I think it is an excellent idea.
It might be even more handy, if people do not have to install
OpenOffice.org but can use it straight away from what they get (plus
that an installer is available).
It is possible to install and run OpenOffice.org on an USB stick. I
guess, it also is possible to do the same on a CD, provided you do some
tricks to place the user profile on a OS-dependent, always good to find
location.. Probably others did this trick already?
Another idea: you might want to share your system as an extension. See
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org for examples.
Thanks for sharing your idea and good success with the tournament,
Cor
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