Dear Representative of Apache Open Office: The WiderNet Project seeks your permission to distribute "Apache Open Office" published at http://www.openoffice.org/, via the eGranary Digital Library to people lacking Internet access.
The WiderNet Project is a non-profit organization affiliated with the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill that promotes low-cost information and communication for underserved populations. You can find more information about the WiderNet Project at http://www.widernet.org<http://www.widernet.org/>/. The eGranary Digital Library, also known as "The Internet in a Box", is an off-line information storehouse that delivers educational resources to people living in underserved areas of the world. Many of our subscriber institutions have no Internet access. Even those who have an Internet connection experience slow, unreliable and very expensive service. Often, teachers, students, and practitioners must pay per minute while online and it literally takes days to search a Web site. The eGranary Digital Library delivers digital information directly to Web servers inside the institution, bypassing the problem. With the eGranary Digital Library, thousands of people can access the information over their local area networks quickly and at no cost. Some quick facts about the eGranary: * materials donated from over 2,000 organizations and authors * contains over 32 million digital resources * installed at over 1,000 universities, schools, health care centers, and libraries worldwide * available to millions of users Some of our outstanding contributors include: * Khan Academy<https://www.khanacademy.org/> * Project Gutenberg<http://www.gutenberg.org/> * Peace Corps<http://www.peacecorps.gov/> * World Health Organization<http://www.who.int/en/> * Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<http://www.cdc.gov/> You can find more information about the eGranary Digital Library, including a list of authors and organizations who have already donated materials, at http://www.widernet.org/egranary/. With your consent, your materials will appear in the eGranary Digital Library without modification, retaining all citations, copyright information, author information, and credits - exactly as they appear on the Internet now. Specifically, we would like permission to: -- Mirror (copy) the following materials for future versions of the eGranary Digital Library: http://www.openoffice.org/. -- Distribute the content you donate to participating educational institutions via off-line storage devices. -- Allow project participants to make your materials available to their community via their local intranets (but not on the Internet). -- Create an archive copy of your material on our password-protected intranet server for use in the event that your publicly-available link ceases to function. Please reply directly to this email, and tell us if you give: -- FULL PERMISSION (Donate requested materials and updates as they become available). -- PARTIAL PERMISSION (Donate only materials that you specify). -- NO PERMISSION (Prefer not to participate at this time). We hope that you will join our efforts to provide underserved communities around the world with access to educational information and resources. Sincerely, Laura Ashcraft, MSIS Digital Librarian The WiderNet Project [logo_widernet]<http://www.widernet.org/>
