Re: [ubuntu-uk] Free Me to download!

2007-05-06 Thread Chris Rowson
> This little extension that I found out about this morning is pretty > useful: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=26397 > > It's nice and simple. Clicking on a button birngs up a graphical > interface with checkboxes for three different formats - Open Ofice, > Microsoft Office and PD

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Free Me to download!

2007-05-06 Thread Benjamin Webb
On 06/05/07, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With users I've converted over, I've always ended up setting OO to > write to MS file format by default. It's a nuisance, but it helps > avoid people whinging when they can't open their latest masterpiece in > MS Word... This little extension

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Free Me to download!

2007-05-06 Thread Chris Rowson
>... When we're > asked for essays it's in 'formats compatible with the College computer > network, such as MS Word documents' (paraphrase), rather than > suggesting .odt and so on. Grr. > Yeah, that's pretty irritating. With users I've converted over, I've always ended up setting OO to write to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Free Me to download!

2007-05-05 Thread Josh Blacker
On 5/5/07, Jonathan Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Great idea and kudos to you for getting it all done! Have you thought about > > campaigning to get your union/university moving towards completely > > open-source software? I know my uni computers all have openoffice and > > fir

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Free Me to download!

2007-05-05 Thread Jonathan Roberts
> Hi, > > Great idea and kudos to you for getting it all done! Have you thought about > campaigning to get your union/university moving towards completely > open-source software? I know my uni computers all have openoffice and > firefox installed, but numerous warnings appear about the software bei

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Free Me to download!

2007-05-05 Thread Josh Blacker
Hi, Great idea and kudos to you for getting it all done! Have you thought about campaigning to get your union/university moving towards completely open-source software? I know my uni computers all have openoffice and firefox installed, but numerous warnings appear about the software being unsuppo

[ubuntu-uk] Free Me to download!

2007-05-05 Thread Jonathan Roberts
Hi all, I'm not sure I've mentioned this on the list before but the disc I've been working on to promote Free Culture (incl. free software) is available to download! It's an awesome disc (if I do say so myself!) and the plan is to distribute it to journalists and MPs (+ friends at uni) to help sp