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

2013/6/27 Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>

> 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 :)

Fascinating ! Thanks for the heads-up, Tom !...

Henri


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> > From: "announce+help@documentfoundation.org" <
> announce+help@documentfoundation.org>
> > To: tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk
> > Sent: Tuesday, 25 June 2013, 17:19
> > Subject: Subject: Digest of announce@documentfoundation.org issue 140
> (155)
> > Topics (messages 155 through 155):
> > - [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation welcomes a new member of the
> Advisory Board
> > -       155 - Italo Vignoli <italo.vignoli@documentfoundation.org>
> > -
> > 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)
> >
> > --
> > Italo Vignoli - Director
> > italo.vignoli@documentfoundation.org
> > mob +39.348.5653829 - sip italo@libreoffice.org
> > The Document Foundation
> > Zimmerstraße 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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