The local sales office is just down the street at 24th St & Camelback (NW corner.) If I get an e-mail contact can someone assemble the thread for him? PS: Will Lotus stuff run on Linux? Lotus is not free, but is there any guarantee StarOffice will stay free? In any case, I have the impression that the Lotus suite is pretty mature and full featured. That seems to be more than can be said of StarOffice. > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Brian > Cluff > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:25 PM > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > Subject: Re: AZ students,MS office. Help me! > > > No kidding!!! Anyone got any contacts at Sun? That would be incredibly > helpful if we had a little of that behind out request. > > Brian Cluff > ----- Original Message ----- > > > It'd be even more impressive if we got Sun Microsystems to back > us up too. > > > > > > Quoting Brian Cluff : > > > > > I think the letter really needs a list of govt agencies and other > > > large > > > entities that are currently using StarOffice with great success. > > > Otherwise > > > these politican type with just say... what the hell is > staroffice... it > > > must > > > be crap > > > > > > Probably also need to stress a little more that it's > prefectly legal to > > > give > > > every kid in the school a copy of it to use at home, since > that seems to > > > be > > > a large part of the problem, and that it's also multiplatform so they > > > wont > > > have a bunch of computers unable to run it either. > > > > > > Brian Cluff > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > > I want to wtite a letter to as many of my district reps as well as > > > Ms. > > > Hull > > > > and anyone else I can find. Letter writing and Grammar are not my > > > strong > > > > suits! If any of the Pluggers would like to help me compose this > > > letter I > > > > would greatly appreciate it. I would like it to be a form > letter that > > > we > > > all > > > > can use. I have a vested interest in this topic as I am a father of > > > three > > > > children two of which are in school. > > > > I really want this to have substance and show the value of > > > alternative > > > > Operating systems and thinking. > > > > My thoughts so far, > > > > > > > > I am deeply concerned about what I have read at > > > > http://computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO63338,00.html > > > > Regarding implementing Microsoft Office in all schools for $172 > > > million > > > > dollars. Not to mention that this is an ongoing expense. > > > > I fail to see the benifit this will provide for my Kindergarten and > > > second > > > > grade students of Indian Bend Elementary. I have multiple > computers in > > > my > > > > home that I could to teach them to use Microsoft office. What I > > > can't > > > teach > > > > them is music, one of the programs that they (Indian Bend > students) do > > > not > > > > have on a regular basis. I think the music, art and PE programs have > > > been > > > > reduced to bi-weekly or less. I think the money used for the Office > > > rollout > > > > would have been better spent on the quality and variety of learnig > > > > experiences our students are offered. > > > > There are also alternatives to Microsoft Office that are free to > > > download > > > > and use such as Star Office offerd by Sun Systems at, > > > > http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/5.2/get/get.html > > > > Star Office also has the ability to run on the Linux operating > > > system > > > which > > > > is also free to download and use on as many computers as you like. > > > > > > > > *This is a topic I would really like to stress with the groups > > > knowledge > > > and > > > > approval.* > > > > > > > > I am a member of the Phoenix Linux User Group, PLUG, > > > > http://plug.phoenix.az.us/. Myself and other members of the group > > > would be > > > > more than happy to assist and possibly even support and administer > > > the > > > > installation, use and adaptation of the Linux operating system in > > > our > > > schools. > > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > John Wheat > > > > ________________________________________________ > > > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail > > > doesn't > > > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your > mail doesn't > > > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > ________________________________________________ > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail > doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss