[libreoffice-users] TDF welcomes a new member of the Advisory Board, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) of Saudi Arabia

Hi :)
Did anyone else notice this announcement?  I'm sure there seems to be about 1/week announcing 
large-scale migrations to LibreOffice.  The first one i noticed recently was the Spanish State 
moving something like 40,000 desktops just a couple of years after moving 70,000.  So they 
obviously thought the first migration a huge success!  Then there was another on this list saying 
they estimated a saving of 30million euros but wanted a specific bug dealt with.  So, i suggested 
employing a dev.  


I find all these sorts of things hugely encouraging.  I still feel my work-place is still trapped 
in MSO but these sorts of announcements suggest that it wont be for too much longer.  So i have 
started sending my colleagues documents in ODF format, as e-letter used to suggest, and it seems to 
be working.  My boss panicked a bit because the Bold button didn't look exactly the same as it does 
in MSO but he managed to click the right button anyway.  

Regards from 
Tom :)  





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> Sent: Tuesday, 25 June 2013, 17:19
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> - [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation welcomes a new member of the Advisory Board
> -       155 - Italo Vignoli <italo.vignoli@documentfoundation.org>
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> The Document Foundation welcomes a new member of the Advisory Board:
> King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) of Saudi Arabia
>
> Berlin, June 25, 2013 - The Document Foundation announces that King
> Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) of Saudi Arabia is now
> an effective member of its Advisory Board. KACST sponsors the National
> Program for Free and Open Source Software Technologies (Motah:
> http://HYPERLINK "http://www.motah.org.sa/"www.motah.org.sa), which has
> been contributing to LibreOffice for almost one year, to enhance the
> Arabic language and the RTL (right-to-left) support, and to develop new
> features.
>
> Motah LibreOffice Project (http://motah.org.sa/en/?q=node/HYPERLINK
> "http://motah.org.sa/en/?q=node/94"94) is only one of the activities of
> Motah at KACST, where several software products are studied to explore
> the extent of Arabic support and their suitability for Arab users.
> LibreOffice was selected to be the first localization project because
> most Arab users need a full feature office suite.
>
> "Motah software engineers have been regularly contributing to
> LibreOffice since 2012, and are now one of the largest groups of full
> time developers hacking LibreOffice code, together with SUSE and Red
> Hat", states Michael Meeks of SUSE, a Member of TDF Board of Directors.
> "Thanks to the injection of these new groups of hackers, during the last
> months we have been able to increase the number of contributors, which
> is now around 100 on a monthly basis and over 330 on a yearly basis".
>
> "It is fascinating to see The Document Foundation combining people from
> different cultures, languages and geographical locations around the
> development of LibreOffice, the best free office suite ever", says
> Dr.Turki Alsaud, KACST VP for research institutes. “Having KACST inside
> TDF Advisory Board reflects our support to the development of
> LibreOffice, extending our reach from the improvement of the Arabic
> language version to the development of new features and the improvement
> of the user interface".
>
> With the addition of KACST, the Advisory Board of The Document
> Foundation has now seven members: FSF, Google, Intel, KACST, MIMO, Red
> Hat, SPI, Lanedo, Freies Office Deutschland e.V. and SUSE
> (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Advisory_Board).
>
> Short link to TDF blog post: http://wp.me/p1byPE-pu.
>
> About KACST
>
> King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) is an independent
> scientific organization administratively reporting to the Prime
> Minister’s Office. KACST is both the Saudi Arabian national science
> agency and its national laboratories. The science agency function
> involves science and technology policy making, building national
> scientific database, funding of external research, and conducting
> applied scientific research in varius disciplines through its own
> research institutes and providing services such as the patent office,
> scientific information, and scientific consultations to public and
> private sector etc. KACST has currently over 2500 employees.
>
> Media Contact KACST
>
> Mohamed Alkanhal - Director of Computer Research Institute
> Phone: + 966 11 4813765 - Email: cri@kacst.edu.sa (website:
> http://www.kacst.edu.sa)
>
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> italo.vignoli@documentfoundation.org
> mob +39.348.5653829 - sip italo@libreoffice.org
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