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GLUG hosts Sun Microsystems - OpenOffice migration presentation.

GLUG is hosting a presentation with Sun Microsystems on Open Source migrations focussing around OpenOffice.

The theme is Open Source migration risks, challenges and mitigation and Success stories with governments abroad and will be presented by Michael Bohn of Sun Microsystems, Hamburg.

Michael will show case some success stories from within governments around the world as well as present some techniques, funky tools and tips and tricks for migrating to OpenOffice in an organisation.

This may prove to be invlauble to those considering or attempting to migrate to OpenOffice.

Everyone is invited, both members and non-members of GLUG are free to attend.

The talk will be held on Wednesday 20 May at 18:00 at Siemens Park in Midrand.

Please RSVP by Tuesday 12:00 for catering purposes.

For more details or to RSVP, please see:

http://wiki.glug.org.za/index.php/OpenOffice_Talk_Details_and_RSVP

Captcha issues

Submitted by blindza on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 13:03.
The audio captcha doesn't make sense with regard to the actual solution, and for blind/vi guys it would be nice if the captcha target image was labelled with any alt tag since we then use webvisum.org to work around it, but would help if our screenreaders knew it was actually an image...

Vinux.org.uk

Submitted by blindza on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 13:05.
If you look at www.vinux.org.uk, you'll find a version of Ubuntu that's been fine tuned for VI/blind users, and currently testing the VMWare image/instance thereof.

I use OpenOffice all the

Submitted by baba on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 10:48.

I use OpenOffice all the time, on Linux and XP. The version on Linux is rock solid, the XP version less so. The presentation stuff has the most ground to make up - openoffice's (backup software) comprehension of powerpoint templates isn't great, and stuff like "replace fonts" or even an understanding of how a title master works seems beyond it. It does look and feel heavy and clunky. I'd prefer to see the (high speed internet service) it rewritten in the gnome toolkit; maybe that's too complex though. As for put up or shut up for the open source of (hard drive recovery) community, firefox. And for that matter, thunderbird. That argument has been successfully made. The argument now is how long it takes for an open source effort to overtake.

So does that accomplish this

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