Visibooks publishes new illustration-based textbooks on OpenOffice.org
"Visibooks, LLC, a publisher of illustration-based computer class textbooks, has published the first school textbooks on OpenOffice.org.
An increasing number of schools worldwide are using and teaching OpenOffice.org, a free, open-source suite of word processing, presentation, spreadsheet, and database programs. To serve these schools, Visibooks has published the first series of textbooks that help students learn OpenOffice.org programs.
OpenOffice.org is both a fully-featured office suite compatible with leading office products including Microsoft Office, and a virtual community working through OpenOffice.org's numerous projects. The community comes together at www.openoffice.org to develop, support, and promote the use of OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org is an Open Source project. This means, first, that it offers not only a product but a process, and second, that it depend upon the contributions of developers and endusers to make that process happen. The easiest way for you to help Open Office is to join by registering. Once you have registered, you are entitled to join particular projects, file issues, bugs, patches, or comment on already filed issues. In a nutshell, once you join, you are a contributor.To join, go to the "Join page" at http://about.openoffice.org/index.html#joining and follow the instructions.
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