OpenOffice in die Schulen

Im Internet wurde daher ein Maskottchen gesucht. Im Finale konnte sich eine Seemöwe vom Italiener Andrea Maggioni durchsetzen. Nähere Informationen finden Sie auf der Webseite OpenOffice.org.

Pressemitteilung Winner of OpenOffice.org School Mascot Competition Announced The recently established Schools Project of OpenOffice.org (OOoEdu) has a new mascot. The happy winner is Andrea Maggioni, whose cheerful drawing, of a fun-looking seagull holding a fish, plays on the "OOo" shorthand of OpenOffice.org and was chosen democratically out of dozens of submissions by students throughout the world. According to Ian Lynch, Schools Project lead, "Andrea's contribution is not only beautiful and effective but also illustrates the potential of young people to contribute importantly to real projects under the banner of Free and Open Source Software. The idea is to learn by working together on projects such as OpenOffice.org whose license allows free collaboration across borders and between schools. We invite all educators and students to consider involving themselves in OpenOffice.org." Andrea receives a great prize of a web-hosting service for one year, 200 Mb of web space on a Linux server, with 50 IMAP/POP3 mailboxes (protected from virus and spam), unlimited aliases, one IP address, PHP/MySQL/PostGreSQL support, and the registration of an .it .com .net or .org domain name. The prize is donated by E4A, a Free Software based ISP that supports the OpenOffice.org community. And what does the winner have to say? A short interview with Andrea follows, translated from the Italian by longtime OpenOffice.org contributor Gianluca Turconi, and member of the Italian Native-Language Project. OpenOffice.org and equality of opportunity. Most schools are concerned about equality of opportunity for all students and to extend the range of learning contexts related to information technology. The OpenOffice.org community supports your school by providing the best office productivity tools available, free of licensing costs. We welcome you into a community where teachers and students can learn about the new software development models of the 21st Century and support each other by sharing free resources and ideas. The best way to learn is to take part! For more on-going information, subscribe to the mailing list now! Download the OpenOffice.org 1.1 CD-ROM iso image from gwdg.de (German mirror), or Planet Mirror (Australian mirror) You can install this software on every computer in the school and on every pupil's and every teacher's computer at home without paying any license fees. Please encourage others to do so. For publicity, download a flyer and distribute it widely.