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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada

Re: volunteer

From: Russell McOrmond <russell_-at-_flora.ca>
To: flora-admin-help_-at-_flora.org
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 21:38:32 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, a wrote:

> For those of you who now like training sessions: what electronic
> publishing and communication skills are required both by other
> volunteers and by the users of the FLORA services that may use training
> sessions?

  Are you asking what FLORA.org offers in order to offer relevant 
training?

  FLORA.org primarily offers:

  a) Mailing lists and other forms of online discussion forums. As an 
     example, see list manager information for Majordomo at 
     http://www.flora.org/flora/help/listmanagers.shtml

  b) Website hosting, with the sites managed by FTP
     http://www.flora.org/flora/help/webmanagers.shtml


  Those people using FLORA.org may want to have training in tools not
directly related to their publishing on FLORA.org.  As an example, many
groups currently author documents in some office productivity package and
might be able to use some help in converting these documents to HTML
and/or PDF.

  There is documentation for the free creation of PDF files on Microsoft 
Windows at http://www.flora.ca/pdf.shtml

  Another obvious tool to offer training for is OpenOffice.org which can
be used to convert many existing office files to HTML and/or PDF. This
training may be able to be done in conjunction with PERC.ca which is a
sister-service of FLORA.org (PERC.ca and FLORA.org are both sponsored by
FLORA.ca, with PERC.ca owning their own computer co-located at our ISP).

http://www.perc.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=222

  I hope to see much more coordination between PERC.ca and FLORA.org in 
the future.  FLORA.org doesn't have a physical presence in the community 
(No place to hold social gatherings/meetings/etc), but PERC.ca does -- it 
also has an office with volunteer needs of that office.

Note: I am a volunteer member of the OpenOffice.org marketing team, and
have done a number of related presentations for government and community
groups.

> Regards,
> Anthony
---
 Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> 
 Governance software that controls ICT, automates government policy, or
 electronically counts votes, shouldn't be bought any more than 
 politicians should be bought.  -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/

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