[olug] OO.o a threat to MS? 8)

[Will Langford]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Kelly Williams
<kellywilliams81 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yea I see why it is a leader because its free.
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I've not heavily used OO or MS Works-esque stuff since... highschool ?  I've
used OO a few times here at work to produce some documentation to send to
testing labs and stuff for our software... but ... in general... don't touch
such things.

With what limited use of I've had of OO, I'd say it's a competent product,
albeit I'll echo the bloaty concerns of some people.

What I think would would need to happen would be for there to be classes
that instruct people on how to use OO. Right now, business classes and
typing classes etc etc etc can all easily 'just teach Word and similar'
because it was/is the primary office-ish application.  Lotus, and other
tools are useful as well, but they have their own class afaik.  An OO class
would get your regular secretary or management spreadsheet jockey type
person a 'professional exposure' to OO rather than just 'download, fiddle,
read docs, etc'.  Likelihood a class will be created ? Nil ?

Has someone at OO thought about producing a few hours worth of youtube (or
other site) video that is basically an instructional whatever similar to
what might be done in a classroom ?

-Will