The QA workshop that Danishka records is of note if only because it speaks to the continuing involvement by Sri Lanka in developing OOo for its use. The people involved are supported by the national government's Information adn Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), which has been formulating eGov. policy and otherwise taking steps to take advantage of the commercial and educational--and most important, cultural--potential and advantages of the Web.
The ICTA site makes for interesting reading. For instance, the site points out that local industry needs 100-0150K competent workers. I'd guess in fact they need more, and soon: Global climate change is affecting all traditional occupations, forcing a migration to the Web. And many, if not the vast majority, of those migrating to it have never worked with computers. This points to several things, the most salient being, to me, the huge importance of developing better user interfaces, ones that are predicated on real inclusive design, also known as universal design.
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